Whats the hardest STEM major in your opinion sci?
Lets disregard med and go STEM as we all know that would take the cake otherwise. Of course fields within specific majors could be counted too
INB4
>The one Im in
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>Board rules
Already in university, not looking advice
OP is going to go with anything in Mathematics
Chemistry
>undergrad
>hard
EE, especially RF
>tfw never became a paleontologist
>paleontologist
Not a science
>>9005511
A paleontologist is a person. What is wrong with you? Do you have Turrets? It is like you said, "paleontologist are not circus!"
>>9005490
You don't want to be one. You'd just get stuck doing paper work or at the very best, etching away stone from the same most boring of fossils in a museum for years on end.
>>9005490
https://youtu.be/B7zo2zY1Zqg
I hypothesize things shouldn't exist, because one thing causes another, so what caused the first thing? The given answer is usually "the first thing came out of nothing", but how can something come out of nothing? It can't. So the conclusion is... the Universe shouldn't exist. Yet it does.
Why?
>>9005451
Gorilla anon I respect your work but you really need to read a book or two before asking stupid questions.
The tricky question is: Why is there something instead of nothing?
Hey /sci/ help me out please
I caught two spiders with a plastic bottle while trying to sleep few days ago
Turned out the black one killed the other and fed on it
I planned on releasing it the oncoming morning but I'm curious
What's its name and how can I feed this bitch until the next fight approaches?
Pic related it's the spider
Thanks for your time
>>9004960
your local pet shop probably stocks cheap live insect feed
critters like crickets and cockroaches
The thing is that i live countryside and there isn't any shop of that sort around
Also i tried putting a piece of ham in the bottle but i dont hope much results
>>9004966
>>9004972
perfect pic for the situation
I am confused. I keep reading about EMdrive, some say it works, others that it violate the very laws of nature.
Is it real?
Why has it not been rigorously tested?
IS anyone going to perform THE definitive non controversial test to either prove or disprove it?
WHEN will we know?
>>9004920
No.
It has been.
Already did.
We know already.
>>9004934
wrong on all counts
50 - 50
either it works or it doesn't
Got into electrical engineering, what Im in for? Can some anons share their experiences about their first year or two
>"Almost" fluked math and electricity in physics
Is it bad?
you will be engineering electricity like a badass
>>9004889
I'm in the same boat, anon. Prepare your anus to be get wrecked and also forget about any social life for the next 4 to 5 years. Also, you will be studying a fuckton of Calculus and Physics, that is unlike for all other majors, for engineering majors Physics is Calculus based as well. I highly suggest you to go over the basics of Math, the PreCalc stuff, because you will need a lot of it. Also, repeat the main ideas of the high school Physics class because a lot of what is to be covered will be based off of those basics, just deeper with more complex calculations. I am also about to enter my Freshman year but am already preparing my "rear entrance".
> countless sleepless nights
> Environment of compulsion and hierarchy
> Lots of entitlement and autism
> Lots of penis
> Academia is so rediculously intelecually depleted people will argue about underlines and chart line widths
> Real life jobs will make you regret ever leaving uni
Honestly, unless you need reliable money or like being told what to do, don't.
Will this ever be possible? Will we ever be able to, for example, let some MMA fighters bludegeon each other half to death and then just administer them a pill after that restores their cognitive function? If somebody came up to you and said that it was their life goal to solve this problem, what subjects would you encourage them to learn? Neuroscience, biology, medicine?
>short circuit, wat do
>>9004868
Some nootropics, while waaaay oversold as "brain boosters", have some research backing to suggest they can have neuroregenerative effects. There's no research that I'm aware of that says whether they're effective in the acute stage of a brain injury, or if they can rehabilitate someone in a chronic phase.
Anyone in a neuroscience program, or anyone who wants to be a research MD has some opportunities for some good studies.
>>9004881
I read in one study that highly potent (I think potent was the word) multivitamins helped improve cognitive function in American football players.
Sci must have at least some inventor-types who are wondering how to make money out of their ideas. It can be very hard to profit from ideas because patents cost thousands of dollars (or tens of thousands for multiple years and countries covered) and creating a business out of an idea often requires capital or expertise.
So I suggest a system of "ultralight patents" that would complement the current patent system. It would consist of a website where anyone can submit their ideas for free. No one checks the idea before it's accepted on the site, therefore no patent officers or associated costs. Anyone can also use or pursue any idea for free and choose to not pay anything to the inventor. This means no court cases or expensive lawyers at any point.
Site users could rate ideas, mostly to make finding good ideas easier since people would submit lots of crappy ideas (because submitting is free and there's a potential payoff).
Inventors could gain profit out of their ideas from two sources. First, any company using an idea would have a moral incentive (also equalling a public relations incentive) to grant some reasonable amount of the profits to the inventor whose idea helped their business. Second, there would be a public/private fund that would reward good ideas (maybe partially based on user ratings, or ratings from experts).
I suspect the website wouldn't need a huge budget. Something between 10-100 million dollars per year would probably be incentive enough for a few thousand best ideas per year. There's a public entity called TEKES here in Finland that invests 300 million per year on startups and I wouldn't be surprised if other western countries had similar entities and funds, and they'd probably have a thousand times more money to spend consider how small my country is.
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The result would optimally be a huge number of publicized ideas that currently don't benefit anyone. Obviously huge ideas would still be patented just like before but a great number of other ideas exist that are not going to make a huge profit for the inventor currently but could make a huge impact if the ideas were widely adopted.
For example, recently there was a news item about this invention that uses multiple ultrasounds concentrated to a focal point inside a person that could be revolutionary to medicine (you could kill a brain tumour without even opening up the skull etc). I invented that years ago but I didn't pursue it. Mostly because I know nothing about building ultrasound devices and I don't have the money to patent every idea I get or hire people to do R&D for me.
But if there was a website where I could have described the idea and have some probability of a monetary reward, I probably would have publicized it. Same goes for dozen of other ideas I currently have and I get millions of other people have ideas all the time as well. Even small ideas could evolve into huge ideas or just make a huge impact if adopted widely.
>It would consist of a website where anyone can submit their ideas for free.
>Site users could rate ideas, mostly to make finding good ideas easier since people would submit lots of crappy ideas (because submitting is free and there's a potential payoff).
>a public/private fund that would reward good ideas (maybe partially based on user ratings, or ratings from experts).
That's so crazy it just might work.
>>9003252
I'm a farmer. I invent shit nearly every fucking day. I don't think for once any of it will make me money beyond the specific application it was intended.
All your idea does is ensure the good stuff everyone submits gets ripped off ASAP and patented legitly by a law firm for whatever Jew is employing them.
I propose we send a sequence of resources to mars to develop a magnetic field to reflect sun rays from mars, and then sustain life.
> The first being a nuke from 7 angles to cause plate shifts that will cause volcanic eruptions for the magnetic field to form. The second
> The second being large shipments of ice, cabbage, and sulfur to give mars water from melted ice and sweat from the condensation of lettuce
> The third shipment will be various bacteria cells to adapt to the biomes created on mars
Based on this plan, what do you think will happen? What changes would you make? What will the creatures be like? I predict large Norsemen due to the temperature and gravity.
>>9002116
>The first being a nuke from 7 angles to cause plate shifts that will cause volcanic eruptions for the magnetic field to form.
Somewhere in a secret research facility deep under the Nevada desert...
"Dr. Smith, how do you propose we go about introducing a magnetic field to the martian planet?"
"Nuke the shit out of it and hope for the best"
Your entire thread reads like a bad joke.
>>9002127
Well how else are we going to wake up the magma and create a magnetic field? Unless you can drill a hole deep enough and spit something that will piss the magma off enough to shoot the only option I see working is a nuke
>>9002116
I think you'll make 7 craters on the planets crust
I think there'd be one broken crate of old lettuce, ice cubes and the gas will float away, looking like a van dropped a shipment on the way to the supermarket
And then you'll create terraformars ready to rape you when you go to check on the planet
All in all; good idea, you should invest your life in it
Let's not bother other /sci/entists here and concentrate all computer science discussion here. Both theoretical and applied CS discussion is welcomed here. Discuss algorithms, implementations, programming, operating systems and more.
AI researcher here. My field is lonely. The closest I get to a conversation with people is when I talk to someone in the NLP community and then they only correct my grammar.
>>9001376
lol 7/8 story
Why are there not many black scientists?
They mostly choose sports and enterainment.
Even the most famous black "scientist", Neil Tyson, is not even a scientist, he is more like some popsci star. Again, an entertainer.
Do people not let black people become high ranking scientists and invent stuff?
>>8999344
They invent new ways to get more moneyz from the gubermant.
because in africa science is decolonized
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9SiRNibD14
>>8999344
not smart enough, 85 IQ
If the multiverse exists, couldn't that mean there's a universe which was created with concrete laws of nature and mathematical constants, but would be destined to break any one of them in time?
Out of sheer possibility there could be a universe just like ours with the same strength of gravity and mathematical constants, but was designed from its inception to eventually throw all these rules out the window in a certain specific time. Could that universe be ours? Maybe in the entire time our universe has existed, it has waited for a single moment to have gravity become twice as strong and make electrons disappear, throwing out every single scientific discovery humans had ever made.
This could happen right now.
>>8999168
>Could that universe be ours?
I guess. If it's true that we're in a meta-stable state, if the false vacuum collapses then literally anything could happen.
>>8999168
Yes, you're basically describing the problem of induction. Basically we can only assume that the laws that have held so far will continue to hold in the future. Quite simply, for all we know, the next time you step on the gas you might end up exceeding the speed of light. Any sort of consistence in the universe is only something we assume, we have no way of knowing it. If we see an obvious inconsistency in the laws of physics, then we know then and there that our universe has inconsistencies. On the other hand, we can't at any point know 100% for sure that our universe is consistent - it could merely be seeming to be consistent up until now, only for that to suddenly change. The idea is that a consistent universe must be consistently consistent, but an inconsistent universe need not be consistently inconsistent. It could, most of the time, behave in a consistent manner, but that only has to change once for it to be an inconsistent universe.
Anyways though, this is really more of a philosophy question than a science one, since the assumption of consistency is the basis of scientific reasoning. If we had to accept that there was no absolute guarantee of consistency, we could not trust our scientific knowledge to be valid.
It's kind of already happened, from the human POV. We thought the expansion of the universe might slow to a stop or even reverse, now we think it might keep accelerating to the point it'll rip atoms apart.
Academic Journal: Newtonian Physics Is ‘Oppressive’ to Marginalized People
Culture and gender-studies researcher Whitney Stark argues that Newtonian physics is oppressive. A feminist scholar has published a paper claiming that Newtonian physics is oppressive and that we must use “quantum feminisms” to make the science more intersectional. In a paper for The Minnesota Review, culture and gender-studies researcher Whitney Stark argues that Newton’s understanding of physics is oppressive because it has “separated beings” based on their “binary and absolute differences” — a structure that she calls “hierarchical and exploitative” — and the same kind of system is “embedded in many structures of classification,” making it “part of the apparatus that enables oppression.”
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/448102/academic-journal-quantum-physics-oppressive-marginalized-people
>>8997956
>feminist launches some retarded protest against a random thing she has used mental gymnastics to see as oppressive in some deluded way
Interesting news op
>>8997956
If I remember rightly she uses Quantum mechanics as a metaphor.
>Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/448102/academic-journal-quantum-physics-oppressive-marginalized-people
>Being this much of a shill.
>>8997960
It is important no matter what you think about it.
It is the future. Like how they talked about lowering standards for women in the police/military back in the days.
Discuss
https://thetab.com/uk/norwich/2016/02/27/doing-a-ba-degree-is-harder-than-a-bsc-22118?utm_source=oldgold&utm_medium=university&utm_campaign=xpost
>>8992989
t. BA
lmao retarded people acting retarded, what's new?
>>8992989
lolololololololololololol
>>8992989
she's not wrong
ITT post badass-looking rocks
>>8990581
> walking around the park
> find a dank rock
> it's probably a diamond
> put it in my pokemon fanny pack
> it's actually quartz
everytime
Bismuth is pretty fucking cool.
I want to create bismuth crystals but i'm not a chemfag so I don't know how.
>>8990608
I thought about making some crystas too. looks really easy, plus you can make some neat magnets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8KYZHMkTHw