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Why would I need to hire a private tutor? Self-learning is the best

>>8023304
how is that the best when some1 who is better than you can help you at any given moment/>?

bring up my post

>>8023240
100% of scientists agree that meat is tasty.

its good in moderation just like everything else on this planet

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>>8023240
It's delicious

>[citation needed]

No.

Yes.

daily polVSsjw thread ?
daily polVSsjw thread

I don't know looks like the physicists have it easy. I remember being taught about a basis in high school

Tell me that's not the kind of problem sets you get
7 weeks in the spring semester. It's pitiful.

>>8022810

>the basis of your comparison is literally babby's first linear algebra

increasing the rate of axial spin doesn't make the gravity stronger.

venus rotates super slow but has nearly the same gravity as earth

>>8022815
>increasing the rate of axial spin doesn't make the gravity stronger.

I know. But wouldn't the rotation have some sort of effect on centrifugal force or something? Like the whole theory of creating artifical gravity by having a rotating craft?

>>8022817
>sort of effect on centrifugal force or something? Like the whole theory of creating artifical gravity by having a rotating craft?
Centrifugal force pulls outward.
What board are you from, Anon?

Looking at things far away

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Big round rocks

>>8022777
It's the science about everything physical there is (along with astrophysics and cosmology which are really just more specialized subdisciplines of astronomy). Hard for an intelligent person not to revere it.

The sad thing is that so far every known place in the Universe (besides most areas of the Earth's surface region) are both entirely void of life as well as utterly and completely hostile to it. But then again, it's just our own problem, not the Universe's. It couldn't care less.

>>8022733
Is bearposting dead? Bearposters seem to have surrendered completely, since we don't see any of them anymore.

>>8022733
yeah there is, its called ignorance

>>8022743
Yeah but why are people this ignorant?

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Well I actually got convinced by /sci/ that there are disturbingly strong indications that the laws of physics act like computer simulations. The only thing that isn't quantized is time itself as there is no framerate or smallest indivisible unit that makes up time. But aside from that I'm sold on the idea that it might be easily a simulated reality that we're living in.

>>8022713
>tyson, too

woah a meme TV celebrity """"scientist"""" is convinced. that will surely change my perception of reality.

the only reason black science man ever got semi-famous is because he kinda resembles a black einstein.

What does it even change if we are living in a simulation? I get the curiosity but it won't change much at all.

It's also pretty depressing

At least they're not as retarded as "analytic philosophers"

>>8022585
Most modern-day philosophers and sociologists delve into the realm of culture (dealing with ideologies and power-structures, etc.) while science delves into the realm of studying nature. There needs to be a dichotomy when discussing these things.

Sartre simply says that there is no pre-set meaning to existence and that life is absurd by nature. Sartre believed that since we were not bound to any theological deity, we were free. Foucault then came along and said that people weren't free because they were situated in oppressive power systems of control, which are ultimately ruled by a elite sector of society (See C. Wright Mills book The Power Elite for more). Heidegger took an Taoist approach and said that (in the realm of modern-day society into which people are thrown into) we loose sight of what it is to actual "Be". We confuse our culture with reality, falling victim to the latest trends and fashions, etc. Debord later talked about this from a Marxist perspective, showing how society was nothing more than a spectacle mediated by Images (i.e., appearances). If you want more on how people use images to portray their so-called "self," read Goffman's Presentation of Self in Everyday Life.

I will leave a short summation of Derrida in the next post for you since I'm running out of space. Just remember, Derrida's philosophy works well in cultural systems since words can have multiple definitions, where people defer meaning between them, thus constructing something similar to a Wittgensteinian "language game." To be brief, according to Wittgenstein, since people come from different cultures, they will always misinterpret each other even if they speak the same language and use the same words (since those words have varying meanings due to the contextual difference in setting). Hence his statement: "If a lion could speak, we could not understand him."

>>8022735
Here is a short summation of Derrida for you:

You Can (Not) Interpret

Structuralism sought to explain what the elements of human culture were by analyzing the structures surrounding those cultures. Ultimately, language is the structure of culture (i.e., culture is socially-constructed by language). However, Post-Structuralism argues that language, in and of itself, has a dichotomous contradiction. Simply stated, words can be "ambivalent," as Derrida pointed out, showing how meaning could be deferred by these embedded differences (i.e., "differance"). In other words, we can't understand cultures by interpreting their language since the language itself is (1) open to interpretation and (2) contradictory to itself by nature. Like combining matter and anti-matter (or like mixing yin with yang), words nullify their own existence. This is "deconstructionism." Each word is like this. You can interpret a word as being matter or you can interpret it as anti-matter. But this would only be a result of you seeing one side of a two-sided coin. You can interpret the text anyway you want. However, you must also understand that when you see both sides of the same coin (the matter and anti-mater), they conflict with each other. Thus, you will have two different interpretations that are each other's exact opposite. This makes interpretation rather pointless and futile since the different interpretations cancel each other out, destroying and quashing the concept of interpretation altogether. Restated: interpretation is only an end result of seeing one side of a two-sided word. Furthermore, the ambivalence of a word nullifies our ability to interpret anything.

because the world got stupid people in it

>muh waving flag
>muh no wind on the moon

what if the flag was not made of cloth

OOOH

>>8022545
Lol they forgot to add his shadow

>>8022273
They are very smart, you are just too much of a brainlet to understand them.

>>8022273
Are sane people smart? My question makes as much sense as yours

Are stupid people insane?

wrong my dick is hard af and it ain't breakin anytime soon nigga #swag

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The more things change, the more things stay the same.

>>8022176
It will shatter rather than elastically or plastically deform when a large stress is exerted on it.

That said, do not conflate this with "weak" or "fragile."

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>>8022139

>>8022139
The "human electrical system" is not a circuit, but a series of maintained ion gradients which are allowed to diffuse in set patterns to send signals.

Magnetic fields are not nearly as likely to have a pronounced effect as on a classical electrical circuit.

>>8022149
do you mean non-classical?

>>8022116
Because we are the actual smart ones that learn not to subject ourselves to year of toil for nothing, and use our knowledge to fulfil our material wellbeing to a larger extent, aka, move into the industry where the money's at

>>8022125
> not going to a top 10 global school
> not publishing in your undergrad years

> Smart

kek, ISHYGDDT

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>>8022132
Not giving a NASA talk on astrophysics when you're 11
>Smart

> doesn't know about quantum computers
Your days are numbered human scum bitch

>>8021978
What happens when we start building computers out of neurons?

>>8021982
Too complex to replicate. Before then we'd probably have to master how it all works, which we dont know.

>>8021980
Explain?