I have discovered the cure for obesity.
>Step 1: Infect an obese person with a tapeworm that would reside in his/her stomach.
>Step 2: The patient would be directed to low carb diet, he or she could still eat all the fatty foods regardless, because the tapeworm would consume the nutrients.
>Step 3: Wait until the tapeworm matures and starts having an impact on the patients eating habits.
>Step 4: Observe the obese person in a time period and take notes how he or she complains about being hungry all the time.
>Step 5: Wait for the patient's body to consume his or her fat due to being constant lack of energy, because the tapeworm consumes the nutrients.
>Step 6: Wait a few months for the obese person to get thinner and thinner.
>Step 7: Announce your concerns that the patient may have a tapeworm and remove once he or she has lost a significant amount of weight.
Now, who is willing to be the first few test subjects?
Weren't tape worms already used for that purpose a few decades ago ?
>>7987897
or put limits on refined sugars in food
>>7987905
The point is that the person would still be able to enjoy the food he/she loves to eat and without limiting him/herself.
Quick question, would it be possible to make sulphuric acid out of grinded sulphur or something similar? I am having some trouble finding sulphuric acid in my country
>>7990927
It needs to be an oxidized form of sulfur. Coal ash mixed with water would form sulfuric acid, but the purity would be really low unless you distilled the acid out of solution.
>>7990942
>Coal ash mixed with water
Would it be pure enough to make nitrocellulose?
burn shit and you get gaseous sulfur anhydrid
+ water = asid
How can you define reality?
>>7990916
>rigorous argument
>>7990916
>rigourous
shit thread
>>7990926
go back jerking off to your calculus II proofs.
Why was J.J. Thomson's model of the atom wrong, /sci/?
because experiment shows that almost all the mass of the atom is in a tiny positively charged volume at the centre of the atom, and that the large majority of the volume is actually just empty space. The borders of the atom keep negative change keeping the overall system neutrally charged (unless the atom is becomes an ion)
>>7988739
Because the electrons aren't stuck to a blob of positive charge.
It predicts a single emission frequency for hydrogen (and everything else I think).
This is contradicted by experiment.
Oxford University is pretty cool. It almost feel magical.
>>7988480
>It almost feel magical.
in what way
>>7988942
harry potter way
>>7988952
Lol. Gay.
If energy cannot be created or destroyed, and the parts that make up me will exist for eternity, are pieces of me bound to eventually make up somebodies shit?
Probably
>>7987618
What's with all the gorilla and bear images? Is this some new meme that I've missed? Some /an/ shit?
>>7987720
/an/ is way too slow and devoid of life to get any sort of memery going
I think
Anyone here published in a peer-reviewed journal?
What was the process like?
What field?
>>7986394
>linguistics / speech science
slow and awful
>>7986394
>figure out something neat
>guy who is at the top of the field also working on your neat project
>send out papers for review
>guy at the top of the field sees your paper and figures out the problem in an instant
>takes just long enough to go over your paper back to have his peer reviewed and published
>you seem like an idiot and cheater now
>wow anon it seems like you copied the guy at the top of the field
Words cannot describe how shitty it is. Also unless you're publishing something ground breaking, like you actually understand what causes gravity, nobody is going to thoroughly scrutinize your work. This is why science sucks dick.
You suck the reader's dick for hours end
So, let's settle this once and for all:
Are viruses living or non-living organisms? My Biology textbook hasn't a clue.
>>7989293
That's actually extremely difficult to say. They are the midpoint between things like proteins and things like bacteria.
>>7989293
They're an elegant demonstration of how biochemical systems can develop the ability to self-perpetuate despite not being particularly complex. The sort of systems that evetually developed into more complex life.
But no, conventionally their inability to reproduce with their own machinery denies them that label.
>>7989293
They're typically considered non living because they don't reproduce in their own and they don't have a metabolism.
/sci/, is it really that hard to remove the salt from salt water?
>>7986895
As far as I understand it's not so much a problem of how to do it, it's that boiling/ filtering the water is so energy intensive that it costs a fuck load of money to do so.
>>7986895
Not hard, just expensive
>>7986895
Yes. Phase changes are very energy intensive, presuming you want to boil it out. I don't know about the energy or infrastructure costs of other filtering methods. Something using osmosis probably works better.
Does our inability to decide (by any meaningful procedure) which state an electron emits in prove that the nature is essentially non-computable?
Also what is the actual trick with the Stern-Gerlach experiment?
I mean, can you prepare a system such that it won't be possible to measure spin or down regardless of how precise your measuring device is?
>>7975673
>system such that it won't be possible to measure spin or down r
yes. take a spin up in the z direction, put it into a stern-gerlach measuring the x-direction, now, in whatever branch out of the apparatus, you know nothing now about the spin in the z-direction.
>>7975701
Erm, that's not quite what I meant. Also, I don't know QM that well, is it a kinda of what's described in the OP-pic?
Anyone think that /sci/ is full of SpaceX shills? I remember not long ago when they were trying out their rocket landings most of /sci/ was dismissive of Musk as they are to everything in general, yet now you can't say a bad word against the guy without 10 other posters attacking you. NASA is routinely trashed, the Russians, Chinese and Japanese are barely ever mentioned, this place is just "SPACEX SPACEX SPACEX!"
>>7985711
Musk is single handedly saving humanity
>>7985711
I think /sci/ is full of retarded people who think companies would actually pay for people to shill on 4chan because where they shitpost and masturbate to anime is just oh so important, and they can't imagine someone legitimately disagreeing with their retarded opinions.
>>7985773
/thread
Are we all going to die or what /sci/?
http://nypost.com/2016/04/06/newly-discovered-planet-could-destroy-earth-any-day-now/
i wouldn't mind honestly
>>7985297
post a pastebin you fagt
>>7985297
return to /pol/ please, and when you get there go back to /x/
>you will never understand the brilliance underlying the proof of the ABC conjecture and iuteich
>I will understand iuteich or die trying
Its the only way to live, lads
>>7989930
You have a ten-year odyssey to embark on,my friend.
You will scream in agony as the frobenoids tear through the p-adric confines of your as yet Euclidean asshole, and feel the fabric of all possible systems of math expanding in a network of interlocking value systems and alien topologies, but if you ride upon the crest of the infinite wave of Teichmuller possibilities and remain,in some sense, whole, then you too will look upon the clam, beaming face of the End of Math, and feel the geodesic tears of enlightenment fall and expand into swirling universes of mutating, interlocking mathematical dances.
>>7989930
>spend entire life to understand
>even more brilliant mathematician finds its wrong
>now 90 years old
Wat do?
>tfw the antibiotic apocalypse will happen in our lifetime
idgaf stupid ass nigga
>>7989250
I've just had three courses of three different antibiotics and my chesty cough still isn't gone. Should I be worried?
>>7989250
what can we do. Just let it happen
Help /sci/
>>7988904
Be White male and 4.0 STEM gpa.
That's pretty much it dude.
If you're old enough to type that sentence it's probably too late desu
>>7988914
Why white male? And also get a degree in astronomy or physics or some science OP