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The onus of proof is on you. How would you prove that magic exists?

>>9000044
science belongs to the realm of falsifiable experiments, magic doesn't
there is no way to scientifically prove that magic doesn't exist because magic isn't falsifiable

Let's say there's a wizard who can recite an incantation and levitate. Well, there is no way to reproduce that event in a lab or anywhere else for that matter so it's impossible to replicate and study under the scientific method.
Furthermore, nothing about physics says that the laws of physics cannot locally break around a wizard, assuming there is one. It is just that without evidence to the contrary, it is assumed that it doesn't happen.

If somebody believes that there are beings capable of breaking or changing the laws of physics and use magic, you cannot prove them wrong, because it's not falsifiable and therefore not something that science can deal with.

>>9000055
They will literally just show you a book and say, that settles it

>How do you feel about the fact that humans will never leave the solar system?
Says who?
>Does it make you depressed?
Nope. We already have the universe here, it's called the periodic table of elements.
>it's like our own mini-universe that's still so huge that we might never fully explore it and we don't have to worry about ayy lmaos bigger than bacteria
But I partially agree on that one, we are grossly underestimating our own system

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>you will never be god
Literalyl why live?

Why you think we will never leave solar system? it's highly unlikely that future societies won't invest greatly on interstellar travel. We are already working out the basic physics for them

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No, 0 is not ?. 0 is zero.

What these dubs are made from

>>8999323
>So how common is fraud in science?
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0005738

>A pooled weighted average of 1.97% (N=7, 95%CI: 0.86–4.45) of scientists admitted to have fabricated, falsified or modified data or results at least once –a serious form of misconduct by any standard– and up to 33.7% admitted other questionable research practices. In surveys asking about the behaviour of colleagues, admission rates were 14.12% (N=12, 95% CI: 9.91–19.72) for falsification, and up to 72% for other questionable research practices.

>>8999342
>>8999334
/mlpol/ pls go

why does /sci/ let /pol/ rape them?

I study better when not in my comfort zone, so go somewhere other then your house. If your campus is open, just go find a new corner every few days. Plenty of study spaces all over campus. Dont bring a laptop or phone or technology, because thats easier to distract yourself with.

Or try pomodoro technique. Has worked for me in the past.

>>8997690

I mean, are you just lazy as fuck? Are you scared of finding out you're not as smart as you thought you were? I'm not trying to be a dick. I think you could best address this if you knew why it was happening.

Gimme some more details

>>8997690
I'm literally the same as you. But I don't really mind, since when push comes to shove and I knoew that in a few days I'm having an exam I really start cramming hard. Most of the time it works and I pass with a good grade.

Physics senior in a top school btw

>he's not done studying for life
i REALLY like your post OP

>>8996731
>Don't tell me you don't actually study science.

The people who do global warming and flat earth threads don't study science.

Everyone else does science.

>>8996741
Then stop posting in them.

can you imagine experiencing the experiences you have for another person?

>>8996358
I don't understand the question.

>>8996355
I think it is more than once the neural density reaches a certain threshold, conciousness arises. What the threshold density is we do not know, but it must be somewhere between chimpanzees and humans (or whatever the next most dense brain structure is compared to humans). How it arises/occurs from a biochemistry mechanism, that will probably take a while to answer.

But one thing is clear. Conciousness is an enormous evolutionary advantage, so far it is the most advantageous, where humans can completely alter their environment to suit themselves, can subjugate every other species to their will, ect.

>>8995138
What happens when the Amerifats want to escape the hell they created? Is Canada boned? It's not like they could defend their border by force if the US decided they needed the now prime land Canada occupies

>>8995138
>No ice in Alaska or Greenland
......sure

>>8995162
That's right no ice in Alaska, Greenland... or Siberia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DFbeio-POA

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Harvard Math
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZgHOeJBfMKOZ5PMlZysy8Q

https://www.youtube.com/user/JordanPetersonVideos

Nikolaj-K
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcrSMnEYhIPX_p127jI23qw

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just search for Feynman and watch them all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRxAn2DRzgI

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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXl0Zbk8_rvjyLwAR-Xh9pQ

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>DO ANDROIDS PROVE THEOREMS IN THEIR
SLEEP?
https://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~michael.harris/androids.pdf

>>8988527
So i've been looking for lecture series on modern/abstract algebra

I haven't found any but a series from Harvard ... and but 1/3rd of those are seriously subpar (the prof lets some undergrad do the lecture so...)

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>>8988533
:DDDDD
>>8988667
Try READING

>cont
Tomorrow comes and you ask Charlie for help. He responds with very curt, unhelpful answers such as "read the documentation" or "check out this article" or "I think Bill knows something about that, but he works remotely" almost as if he's saying "screw off newbie, don't bother me." You're a bit lost as how to progress so you start reading the aforementioned documentation. It's pages upon pages of useless (to you) information with possibly what you're looking for buried somewhere in there. You shoot Bill an email asking for help.

Days and weeks pass. You've read the documentation and you're more confused than ever. You sit through some meetings and say nothing. You also have no idea what they're talking about. Bill never responds in any meaningful way. Maybe he attached a PDF of the document you already read. Charlie is similarly useless.

One day at a meeting they ask you how your project is going. You're a bit startled because in the many meetings you've been to thus far you've never been asked for input. You stumble through an answer that sounds like you're making solid progress and Charlie chimes in making it sound like he's been helping you the whole way. But it's clear that you're not as far as you should be.

After the meeting your boss pulls you aside and asks you what's the hold up. You're new and don't want to make enemies so you're reluctant to throw Charlie and Bill under the bus. Never mind that they won't hesitate a second to do so to you. Your boss tells you that you need to get it done by X because so and so is waiting on it.

You spend countless days fumbling around with this tool and finally realize to simulate the processor you will be basically modifying some input that's passed to the tool. You won't be solving any interesting problems, you just update some parameter and record the results in Excel. Rinse and repeat for the entire day.

pretty big wall of text

tl;dr?

Eventually one of the simulations crashes. Your boss tells you whoever developed the tool is long gone and you have to fix it yourself. You once again ask Bill and Charlie for assistance and are promptly ignored. You poke through the code and eventually find some bug in it. You correct it and you continue running your simulations. You compile a lengthy list of performance metrics and send it off to your boss.

Youre back to having nothing to do. You hope that the next project will be a bit more engaging. And you hope that you'll be able to work with some better people. Finally your boss tells you he has a new project for you - more of the same. Great.

All those differential equations you solved in college? Electromagnetic fields? Doing interesting, efficient things in assembly? Working with actual hardware? Forget all that, you're the next Excel God. This sucks.

You stick with it for a while and keep smiling. Your bosses think you're happy. They keep commenting about how hard it is to retain new employees. They ask you for advice and to maybe help solve the problem. You're afraid of telling the truth that the system and your coworkers suck so you just go through the motions and make "safe" recommendations like hosting happy hours.

Around a year you say screw this and start looking for a new job. Maybe the next one will be a lot more interesting. Maybe not. You finally find something and give your two weeks notice. Your boss is shocked! You clearly loved recording performance metrics in Excel and occasionally bug hunting in some C code. You can hardly wait to get out of there.

Start reading about linear algebra and calculus at an undergraduate level.
Have fun

Most people going into uni for math will be starting at Calc II

>>9000535
So I should study up before taking my first calculus class? Or will I be fine if I take one-hitters and jack off to my dojins all summer?

>>9000406
cont.

So I would really like to know, if this is in any way possible to be actualy true

It's obvious it might burn the house, but lets assume that's not a problem for some reason.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed_size#Table_of_common_sizes

so let's just assume that the size it's something between 20cmx70cmx170cm and 30cmx100cmx200cm

I have no goddamn idea how much metal might be contained inside, but since it's usually carryable by two people, who have to strain a lot, I'd assume something like 60 to 80kg

the voltage should also be assumed to be the standard stuff going through the cables used to power the villages. I thought there is but one standard. Maybe any of you anons kow the numbers?

I would like to know how much energy could be sucked this way. And whether the metal would melt or not.Again, Idon't know what kind of metal is used, but I guess it's the cheapest iron.
You know, even if it could be dissmissed as bullshit from the very beggining, I'm really curious to see the 'what if'

>>9000409
no
at the low voltages that would have been supplied for consumer use it would be impossible to use 40 houses worth of electricity like that without melting the cables and blowing circuit breakers

>>9000430
no circuit breakers. They just connected it to the cables that are on those wooden poles, that go directly from the power plant. I've no idea how is it called in english

>>8998991
>evolution requires organisms to gain genetic information overtime

lol no, stay in school kid.

>>8998991
>>evolution requires organisms to gain genetic information overtime
Source or GTFO.
>>we only observe organisms losing genetic information overtime
Source or GTFO.

hello is this the genetic entropy meme?

>>8998750
It's the logarithm of number of meaningfully different arrangements that give the same physical properties.

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Things want to seperate n shit.

>>8998761
so is there like a force that drives them towards this?