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>what do you study?
>chemistry
>so you gonna make drugs?

>>7755848
>what do you study?
>aerospace engineering
>so you're a popular and successful person who's going to have a lovely wife and kids someday?

>what do you study
>computer science
>can you make apps

>>7751735
>Mechanical engineer
>I want to make spaceships!!
(wait, I can't tell if the fact that this is basically my job is a good thing or bad thing)

>Biology
I don't want to work for minimum wage!

>>7751735
>Mechanical engineer
>I want to build robots!

I don't see the problem.

If you wade through all the insults to science, there are some interesting ideas in philosophy

>>7747437
>>7747445
Someone should understand physics and cosmology before spouting shit.

you can probably specialize in quantum mechanics if that is your area of interest but I think most people who major in physics deal with kinematics/mechanics and shit

>>7758929
Yeah, sadly most of the pre-reqs surround kinematics/mechanics (and magnetic/eletric fields, unless that's already contained in kinematics/mechanics)

I do really want to study quantum mechanics, though. As seems to be the norm here, the double slit experiment actually blows my mind. I just want to know more about it; and the idea of time as a dimension also blows me away.

>>7758899
>My interests in physics are:
>- (the implications of) The double slit experiment (obviously)
>- (the implications of) The delayed quantum choice experiment
>- String theory
>- Physical Dimensions / Spacetime

Just learn more math.

>>7758874
Philosophy is not just unnecessary, it is even harmful to science and math. Philosophical dogma leads to rejection and suppression of certain ways of thinking. Philosophers and their followers in general are close-minded and refuse to ever accept the possibility of being wrong. This sentiment is diametrically opposed to the scientific method which demands that we critically question everything.

Could we just like try to be a little more specific about what type of philosophy we're talking about? Philosophy can be pretty much anything and there's very little similarity between stuff like positivism and postmodernism.

>>7758884
>. Philosophical dogma leads to rejection and suppression of certain ways of thinking. Philosophers and their followers in general are close-minded and refuse to ever accept the possibility of being wrong.

Why do you think that? Have you read at least one philosophy book?
It is a constant fight between different ways of thinking.

>>7758518
is that science topic according to you

>>7758527
Yes, analysis of environmental influences on vastly different segments of human life sounds scientific to me.

>>7758527

Just because the thread isn't about interuniversal teichmüller or neil tyson doesn't mean it isn't science you meme loving fuck

>did you just scientifically explain soulmates?
>no

>>7758500
Is the part about atoms coming back together true?

>140 728 notes
Man the world is shit.

Yes.

For the low price of 19.99 I'll tell you why everybody wins online IQ tests.

If you can improve your IQ(and there are studies that have done this) in what sense is it a measurement of intelligence?

Or do IQ proponents say it can change?

>>7753342
It's essentially the perfect storm of snake-oil, pseudoscience, conspiracy theory, and various other lunacies.

Nutritional quackery + corporate conspiracies + genetics illiteracy = anti-GMO

>>7753342

It walks hand in hand with Global Warming Alarmism.

>>7753342
There are legit reasons against GMOs. However they're never mentioned by pro-GMO companies. Instead they only ever mention the retarded "GMOs are poison" argument. So in a way they've sort of created their own worst enemy because this has given those lunatics way more traction than they should have.

As far as legit arguments against GMOs.

>GMOs are tied up in all sorts of fucked up patent and copyright issues.
>GMOs hurt genetic diversity. For instance, many countries ban the importation of GMOs because they have up to hundreds of varieties of a crop (like corn in Mexico) and if any fields get contaminated with GMO crops then legally the entire field must be burned down and all seedlots destroyed.

On a sidenote, that rat tumor research that became really controversial. All it was was a long term version of an experiment carried out by Monsanto that concluded rats wouldn't develop tumors. Of course it requires further research but this isn't controversial except to retards.

>>7750433

There isn't any save level of radiation. Every gamma ray can kill.

Nuke shills plz leave

It just needs a lot of streamlining.

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>>7750442

You do realize there are more types of radiation than just gamma rays, right?

man idk why i randomly decide to come on this site and look at a thread shortly before going to sleep

oh well, one more round for the night won't hurt.

No. I choose instead to spread my maymays.

>>7744789
>Choose

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>>7756801
>online EE

>4.33 GPA
>online EE

ohohohoho

>>7756838
>>7756868

Its legit guys, no where will your degree mention online. Seriously, after I finish undergrad I am going to do my masters in EE online as well.

Circles are just edgy triangles.

Mathematical existence is independent from physical existence. We don’t know for sure if circles exist physically (given that the Plank length being the smallest distance possible is merely a popsci meme). As for infinity, there are many different forms of it:

A set is infinite if and only if there exists a bijection between it and itself with one element added. For instance, [math]\mathbf N^*[/math] is infinite because [math]\varphi:n \longmapsto n\,-\,1[/math] is a bijection between [math]\mathbf N^*[/math] and [math]\mathbf N[/math] (which is the same with 0 added).
A real sequence diverges towards positive infinity if and only if for any real number, the sequence eventually goes higher than it and always stays that way ([math]\forall A\in\mathbf R,\; \exists n_0\in\mathbf N,\; \forall n\in\mathbf N,\quad \mathrm{if}\,n\geq n_0,\,\mathrm{then}\,u_n \geq A[/math]).

Both these infinities are different and the symbol [math]\infty[/math] does not refer to any mathematical object. Saying infinity without referring to anything particular means jack shit.

>>7756245
of course they aren't "real". they are an abstraction, just like negative numbers, zero and essentially all of math.
saying perfect circles and infinity aren't "real" because you can't physically construct them and thinking your statement has any value makes you a simpleton retard

Intelligent as yourself??

Intelligent as yourself??

>>7759286
>>7759287

Well yes, I have an IQ of 134.

>>7759240
Considering we're currently overpopulated, very little

Eh. I'm gonna post some humanities BS and say that the human life is pretty important.

There's not really not much logic behind for me other than...just basic morality I was raised to have, I guess.

>>7759240
Every time you post that pic I know your thread is shit automatically.