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I'm still trying to wrap my head around how the laws of physics exist because of the single largest example of them being violated.

The laws of thermodynamics have got to be the equivalent of Newtonian physics in relation to relativity, that's the only way our universe can exist as it does unless I'm missing something big.
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Can we get an IP ban on this OP? Like, I don't care what he's saying, but constantly making threads is just retarded and I'm pretty sure violates some sort of board rule. I won't report because I know that counts as "abuse of the report system" if the mods don't agree with me, but this is just ridiculous at this rate.
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>>9092918
This is the first thread I've ever made on this sub
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>>9092919
Well there's like three up right now, and they've only seemed to be a thing as of yesterday.

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I've been trying to get an idea down on paper for ages now, and I'm finally taking a legit shot at it (pardon the shit handwriting, English was not my first language).
The issue is, I feel like I can't find any legitimate evidence for what I'm looking at. The patterns are obvious and out there though, I just can't put my finger on it.

Ignoring the retarded labels I've put on them, do you guys agree that there is some sort of pattern to levels of complexity in zoo-psychology? I feel like this could be big, allowing us to make better breakthroughs in dietary studies and the meat industry, but I feel like I can't properly put it all together. I'm just asking for some help regarding properly labelling, getting better examples in nature, and overall just improving this theory and finding ways to test it.
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>>9092898
Nope. You're mad
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>>9092901
Damn. Well, at least I tried.
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>>9092898
What are you even saying ?
What patterns ?
What is your endgame ?

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Hey /Sci/, please suggest a good biostatistics book that can help me learn basic statistics in 1 week.

I would be grateful if you give me a pdf
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>>9092895
Just get a regular statistics book.
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>>9092895

Harvey Motulsky: Intuitive Biostatistics

http://www.intuitivebiostatistics.com/contents/

http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=51E6A324E611D0FAAAAB789D2BA916BE
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wait what's the actual difference between statistics and biostats?

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I was wondering how would one explain the math/physics behind a theoretical monopole (I know that maxwell's equations amongst others says otherwise) Would someone who is quite informative on the physics behind why this setup of bar magnets would not create a monopole? Diagrams of the field lines would help, also an explanation on showing how to add/cancel the field lines would be appreciated. Also a slight explanation on the law's and some documents/links that may assist in my understanding.
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>>9092880
A magnetic monopole would have magnetic field lines that only point towards (or away from) the monopole.

Your diagram fails to take into account 3D space.

Now I know you are thinking about doing the same idea only with a sphere of magnets. I'm curious about it too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_force

F=qE+ vq x B
qE is just the force on the charge q in an electric field E.

vq x B is the force on a moving charge q in the presence of the magnetic field B (note: x is the cross product). This part is analogous to my 3rd link. If v is zero, there is no contribution here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferromagnetism#Explanation

Shit gets complicated. I think this is where the spherical arrangement might be broken. Internal cancellations and such.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnet#Physics

Moving charges create magnetic fields.
Basically, linearly moving charges create a spiraling magnetic field around the line of motion.

It's really hard to visualize adding field lines.
You really need vector calculus, vector valued functions, curl, gradient, divergence.

The gradient of a potential gets you the field.
This works for gravitational potential as well as electric potential.
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Yeah I was thinking about the 3D just was difficult to illustrate without complicating things as much and the 2D should give a good idea to begin with, I know there has to be some mathematical approach to show that it doesn't work using Maxwell's equations (Magnetic Flux) but even then I can't seem to find an explanation as to why it happens. Understanding the mathematics behind it would be ideal but at the moment I am just trying to gain an understanding in explaining why this doesn't work without just saying "it just does".
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>>9093032
The mathematical explanation is quite literally "it doesn't". Link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%27s_law_for_magnetism#Integral_form
Let S be a sphere around the center of your construction, and it says that the flux is 0.

I think what "actually happens" is something like the attached picture. When you put magnets together the field strength is a superposition of individual magnets' fields, so it sums to zero.
Obviously the external field is more spread out than internal, so it would only slightly reduce in the middle in the picture. However, if you have infinitely many magnets in a row like pictured, it would sum to zero, and a sphere is more or less an equivalent situation.

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What should I do if I go to community college and want to get a 4 year degree in physics and want to get a graduate degree after that?
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>>9092874
If your school offers it, take it if you really want to but make sure you have good grades.
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Take a physics class, 100 level. Study had. Get an A. (take it second semester) Get A's or B's in English & everything else. Transfer to a good school and find a mentor professor...etc...
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>>9092936
Sorry, study hard!! Late nite, no school tomorrow.

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help required can someone please show me how to do this, I messed up
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Why is it so hard for toy retarded fucks to use the stulid question threads? Ffs, do you nees to make a whole thread on a problem a highschooler in a shit country can solve?
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U substitution
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>>9092736
Notice
(x^2 - 4sqrt (x)) / x = x - 4/x^2

And next time ask this in the stupid questions thread you ass

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Any smarter people out there willing to share their thoughts?

Could there be a recurring pattern of "big bangs" in the universe? In which the universe explodes, expands, contracts, repeat....

I'm not that smart. So lemme know!
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The Universe is a hyper cube desu
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The consensis is that it's hypothetically possible but there's no evidence whatsoever that it has ever happened before or that it will happen in the future. Right now it looks like the universe will continue expanding forever and never collapse.
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Im pretty drunk right now so don't take my word as gospel. It's was theorised as possible due to some gravitational factor however recent studies show that the universe is set to expand forever. Again I could be completely wrong, hopefully someone more informed will come along and explain in more detail soon

The other day I was hanging with my gf, and then, out of thin air we started to talk about the fundamental bricks of matter...and we reached the electron, was nearly impossible to me pull out a descent definition of the electron, so, how do you describe the electron in a clear way?

P.S:sorry for the brocken english.
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>>9092262
Subatomic particle with a negative charge, duh
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the negatively charged part of the atom
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>>9092339
yeah, but:

it is a little billiard ball?
it is a wake-like particle?
it is a little field who possesses mass?

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Books, videos, lectures, lecture notes et caetera. Which one do you use or prefer and why?
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videos/MOOCs > books
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only brainlets use anything but books
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Books. They let you easily go back and forth between pages and you can re-read stuff you didn't understand.

Lets Assume the following:

1. You are riding a ship, and there is a lighthouse away from you exactly 1 km.

2. You decided to go around that light house at a speed of 60 km for 10 min while keeping the same distance (1 km)

3. Now you want to know how far you end up away from the initial point you were at...
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You are too smart for hints...
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Circle diameter is 2 km

Distance for a complete lap around to your starting spot is 2pi (lets say 6.2km)

You're going 60 km per hour for 10 minutes so you travel 10 km total

the rest is left as an exercise for the reader
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That was the hint part...
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If someone were to solve one of the millenium prize problems using an end-to-end automated theorem prover, would they still win the prize?

The rules state that a prize will not be awarded if the person has not "made a major personal contribution to the understanding of the field of the problem". Simply generating a proof that may be too complex to be understood by humans would not really contribute to any understanding.

http://www.claymath.org/millennium-problems
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None of the millennium prize problems could be brute forced by a computer. You're barking up the wrong tree.
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>>9092038
Wouldn't the theorem prover be a contribution?
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>>9092049
>None of the millennium prize problems could be brute forced by a computer.
Based on the current state of the art sure, but you don't know what kind of related theorems might be known in the future.

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Is Bertrand Russell's "Principles of Mathematics" a good way to approach math as an amateurish enthusiast?
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>>9091927

No, absolutely not. Use a modern textbook instead.

But if you're still generally curious about Russell you would be perhaps also be better served by reading Russell's Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, a later text which is not to be confused with the earlier one which you've just cited. Russell explains the ideas in a more conversational prose fashion, after having actually spent time with them. In particular, Russell actually understands what a number is.
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>>9091927
nope. it's only important in a historical sense to see what was going to be btfo'd by godel and wittgenstein
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>>9092670

Wittgenstein was a mere philosopher, and so with his vagaries had no meaningful part in "blowing the fuck out" of Russell. That work was done decisively by Gödel, who employed the method of a /proof/.

We should also couch Russell's major mathematical works in their right historical periods, for clarity. the text that the OP had referred to, "Principles of Mathematics" (1903) is a quasi-autistic thing which yet comprises a single volume, and is a bit tedious. When it became clear that its ideas would need expansion, Whitehead and Russell joined forced to produce the Principia Mathematica (1910-1913), a three-volume, two-thousand page work of unparalleled and focused autism in the history of the world, outside maybe of whatever it is that computer programmers and web designers do these days which permeate our lives. The second and final edition came out in 1927, with a small list of error corrections and about a hundred pages of appendix-notes. This was the last edition of the Great Meme to have been produced while both men were still alive.

Russell wrote the more useful Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy while imprisoned for his anti-war activities. Russell thus joined a great tradition of significant literary works being written while the author was in prison.

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>did engineering degree a few years ago and am comfortable with high school maths
>want to study (hopefully useful) maths in my spare time to give myself mental tools or whatever the benefits are
>have a large book with maths for engineering and physics university students
>feels like a mixture of various discrete things I will easily forget
>look at the exercises I did months ago from the book and can't remember how to do them (weird integrals as an example)

Is this really the best method? Is the autistic and useless in the real world proof stuff worth looking at? I just want to feel like I'm gaining something conceptually and in my intuitions, not just doing shit I'll forget a day later.
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wikihow my dude
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>>9091869
felt the same way after calc 2
calc 1 was interesting and had a bunch of applied applications and so I remember a decent chunk of it thats relevant
calc 2 was nothing but weird ass integrals and I forgot most that crap after the exam
Highly doubt I will ever in nature run into a formula where I'll need to know what the integral of sec^58csc^4 is equal to
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>>9091923

that sec 58 csc 4 is probably data points along whatever the fuck the scientist or engineer was studying at a job. he will use numberical methods instead of the dumb trig sub to get the area under the curve

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusarium_oxysporum_f.sp._cubense
>It is considered inevitable that this susceptibility will spread to the Western Hemisphere, and this poses a significant threat to production because there are currently no acceptable replacement cultivars.
*kills literally all of your bananas*
Haha whoops sorry guys!
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>mod fungus genes so it looks and tastes like banana

Problem solved.
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banananas must evolve or face the consequences of natural selection

if us humans intervene it could have catastrophic consequesnes, like how helping a butterfly out of its cocoon kills it
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>>9091783
Humans have already interfered by controlled breeding the Banana until it doesn't have seeds any more and can only "reproduce" by having a human cut off a shoot from the base and replant it. Modern bananas literally can not reproduce at all without human intervention.

I finished my freshman year of pure math and physics at a top 100 public university, and realized that I have to change if i want a job at the end of this. Just so you get an idea of what level I'm at I've done, I got a B+ in Diffyques and a B+ in complex variables because the professors were assholes with the grading IMO:
Calc I - Calc III, Intro to Lin Alg, Diffyques
Phy I - Phy III
Complex Variables, Intro to proofs and higher math

I was thinking I could switch to applied math where I only have to take 6 more classes to satisfy the major requirements then spend the last few years going ham on CS courses (I've never taken a CS course but could probably test out of the first one which is just "write a function that adds two integers doi") and a few more grad level math courses maybe. Please tell me this is a wise decision. I don't want to be poor.
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How does your criteria fit into any engineering mod? I don't know where you are but in the US a straight math BS or BA degree doesn't get you past a high school teaching position...
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>>9091673
>freshman
>pure maths
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>>9091673
That's actually a pretty good plan. Job prospects for applied math are pretty good since you can work in either an engineering-related field or something unrelated like meteorology. Applied math + programming skills = wizard status.

>t. mechanical engineer going back to grad school for applied math

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