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Is there a possible way to neutralize radiation?
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>>8635607
You mean shielding or what? The answer is likely yes regardless, but that doesn't mean it's easy or even good enough.
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>>8635611
I mean if an entire area is heavily radiated, is there a way to get rid of this radiation in a meaningful amount of time? Just shooting ideas out there but spraying liquid nitrogen over everything to try and lower the energy levels of the particles.
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>>8635615
Liquid nitrogen wouldn't do anything.

They remove the topsoil when it gets irradiated.

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Anyone here a member?
I am thinking of taking the test in my country to see if I can join
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Is it worth putting it in the resume?
When I did the pre-test, I got a positive result, but I do wonder if it is worth to pay 50 bucks just to belong to this circlejerk.
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>>8635451
>Is it worth putting it in the resume?
>Is it worth saying to a possible employer that you are smarter than %98 of people alive today
yes
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>>8635470
"smarter"

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Is Thermodynamics a branch of Physics or Chemistry?
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>>8635444
Physics, it's just statistical mechanics in the large N limit. Thermo just finds a lot of uses in chemistry.
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>>8635444
chemistry
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>>8635444
Engineering

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what's up with cloned meat?why is the public having such negative opinions about it?
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>>8635442
cloning is expensive
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>>8635442
See bananas for why this is a terrible idea
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>>8635442
>what's up with cloned meat?
It's difficult to do. Give the people working on it time.

>why is the public having such negative opinions about it?
No idea. I've not actually encountered anyone with strongly negative views about it.

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Why don't you do aerobic exercises when we know for a fact after loads of studies that it has extremely positive effects on the brain?

>A large body of research in humans has demonstrated that consistent aerobic exercise (e.g., 30 minutes every day) induces persistent improvements in certain cognitive functions, healthy alterations in gene expression in the brain, and beneficial forms of neuroplasticity and behavioral plasticity; some of these long-term effects include: increased neuron growth, increased neurological activity (e.g., c-Fos and BDNF signaling), improved stress coping, enhanced cognitive control of behavior, improved declarative, spatial, and working memory, and structural and functional improvements in brain structures and pathways associated with cognitive control and memory.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] The effects of exercise on cognition have important implications for improving academic performance in children and college students, improving adult productivity, preserving cognitive function in old age, preventing or treating certain neurological disorders, and improving overall quality of life

>People who regularly perform aerobic exercise (e.g., running, jogging, brisk walking, swimming, and cycling) have greater scores on neuropsychological function and performance tests that measure certain cognitive functions, such as attentional control, inhibitory control, cognitive flexibility, working memory updating and capacity, declarative memory, spatial memory, and information processing speed.[1][5][7][9][10] Aerobic exercise is also a potent antidepressant and euphoriant;[13][14][15][16] as a result, consistent exercise produces general improvements in mood and self-esteem.[17][18]

Do you really want to be a brainlet?
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>>8635408
I do, though
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>>8635408
because i'm lazy, duh
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>>8635408
I do.

Why do you jog using your poorly evolved knees and foot arches instead of cycling or biking?

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>"Some scientist argue you can classify air as a solid, because if you're moving really fast, you can feel it as if it was solid"
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>>8635344
What's wrong with that statement? Maybe you are the retard.
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>he can't tell when people are just having a giggle on a transexual image sharing netforum
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>>8635359
NO U
You can measure bonding, phase transitions etc, how it feels it irrelevant

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>you chose maths instead of a social life or trying to find a girl
>you love it so much
>there will always be somebody better at it than you
>you will never prove a groundbreaking theorem, and stare into the great abyss alone, knowing you are the only one who understands it before you share it with the world

There is no winning. I either get cucked by chad or cucked by the unabomber.
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>>8634863

Or you could just do something cool. Life doesn't only have to be about one thing.
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>There is no winning. I either get cucked by chad or cucked by the unabomber.

Well you're in good company anon.
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>>8634863
>>you chose maths instead of a social life or trying to find a girl

Fun story happened to me

>Got qt gf but be finishing high school.
>Decide I want to major in pure mathematics and become a logic monk, proving theorems a la Perelman
>Even before high school ends I am already reading advanced calculus and linear algebra text books to get introduced to learning through proofs instead of the usual memorization methods taught in school
>Get so into it
>Buy a whiteboard for my room and use it every day to solve new problems
>But my girlfriend stays at my house every weekend
>Everytime she is here I get distracted hanging out with her and I am too ashamed to just tell her to shut up so I can continue doing whiteboard shit
>When we have sex I unironically think about the current theorems I am trying to prove.
>As the year was coming to an end I decided that it was better to just end the relationship and focus on my mathematics.
>Remember that before her I thought women are inferior subhumans and that needing women is actually a trap made for them to divorce and take half your shit. I used to watch a lot of MGTOW philosophers on youtube.
>Accept that and break up with her. Continue with my adventure.
>University year starts and I do great but by my second semester start feeling really lonely
>Start using tinder and then after a while find a match with whom I had sex with.
>That afternoon, I still remember, I felt so empty inside after cumming. My chest almost hurt. I wanted to cry. How could sex be so meaningless? That reminded me of the passionate sex I had with my gf
>Contact her
>Take her out
>Get her back
>Now learning how to healthily balance pussy and mathematics. Maybe pussy = mathematics.
>Right now she is downstairs making me dinner.

If I could give anyone advice I'd say that at least if you already have a gf then DO NOT break up with her to focus on mathematics. It gets lonely.

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Can a black hol be used as a gravitational slingshot for interstellar travel?
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Hole*
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No. Gravity doesn't just give you free energy. As you fly from the black hole, you start to decelerate.
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>>8634811
Prob yeah, picture it like slamming your fist on a table spoon to sent it flying.

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Anyone disturbed by the disproportionate number of foreign faculty in science and engineering departments within the US?

This isn't to say they are bad professors or I have a personal problem with them(many are great) but I find it disturbing that essentially large swaths of intellectual development in the US is being controlled by what amounts to foreign people. It cant be healthy for the country.
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>>8634450
>This isn't to say they are bad professors or I have a personal problem with them(many are great) but I find it disturbing that essentially large swaths of intellectual development in the US is being controlled by what amounts to foreign people. It cant be healthy for the country.

I was for a little bit, but now I am not. That is a big part of how the US thrives.
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>>8634457

The other question is, why are there so many? Is it AA?
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>>8634463
Because the smart people from other countries want to work at faculties with means and the US faculties with means want smart people.

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I've been learning about capacitance. The equation relating potential energy stored in a capacitor is
[math] E=frac{1}{2}QV [/math] whereas the energy in a circuit is usually given by [math] E=QV [/math].
Intuitively this makes sense to me: the charge difference [math] \Delta Q [/math] between the capacitor plates is due to a +q charge on one plate and a -q charge on the other, where [math] q=\frac{1}{2} \Delta Q [/math]. To charge the capacitor, the power source moved a charge q from one plate to the other using p.d. V. The energy required to do thisis given by [math] E=qV=\frac{1}{2} \Delta Q V [/math]. I can't see how this fails to explain the observed formula. However a Google search "½QV vs QV" gives many results that talk about exactly half of the energy being lost as heat in the wires regardless of p.d., "which can be proven using limits".
What makes more sense?
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Every circuit item either consumes energy or generates it. Capacitors consume it

That 1/2 of energy being lost is not because of the wires, in theory wire resistance is negligible. It has to do with the fact that capacitors store energy and don't just spend it. I'm not really sure while since I haven't had electrical engineering as a subject for a year, but any book about electrical engineering should have that proof
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You have the equation wrong it should be 1/2 Q V^2

And it comes from an integral, obviously more complicated than that but the 1/2 and ^2 terms from from an integration taking place.

It is clear you arent taking a rigorous calc based course, so just accept it and focus on the concepts.
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Here's a proper link:

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/capeng2.html#c2

Ultimately it arises from something similar to this. Imagine filling a suitcase with clothes. It takes little energy to toss your socks into an empty suitcase, sure. But now imagine you have a completely full suitcase, you flip on the news and oh shit it will be raining where you go. So, you open up the suitcase and put in your coat. But it takes a lot of energy to close that sucker since it is so packed full. Meaning to say it gets increasingly tough to pack clothes in a suitcase the more you pack. This is a loose analogy.

Equally it takes more energy to store the last electron than it does the first electron and that is defined by an exponential relationship.

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Well /sci/?
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>>8633854
None because you have to take the marbles out to remove the labels and you can't go back in time to do that
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>>8633854
Thought its gonna be some derivations or functions limit:
Actually its just wrong written riddle that has nothing to do with math.
t{0, .5, .7, 1}? Or what are the t values?
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>>8633854

10-1+10-2+10-3 = 24

24 marbles

Removing labels doesn't affect amount of marbles

24 marbles

What's your favorite pathway to fusion, /sci/?

I'm really liking Helion Energy's approach. They seem to be making good progress.
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>>8633611
An ignition event will never occur on earth (outside of a bomb). Fusion power is a meme.
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>>8635518
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>>8633611
What's their approach.

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dear /sci/

antivaxxer family member of mine won't give up on the "MMR vaccine = autism" because of some information supposedly omitted from a CDC study last decade.

Help me break this down (sources welcomed), how I should explain why this is wrong
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shitty bait, but...

vaccines do cause autism, and probably other issues as well. at the very least, the side effects have been greatly downplayed in the interest of "common good" or some other nonsense like that
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>>8632436
Well, the CDC a decade ago was literally /pol/ conspiracy theorists so it's just wrong, tell them
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and by "common good' i mean them not getting sued very far out the ass

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http://www.nature.com/news/physicists-doubt-bold-report-of-metallic-hydrogen-1.21379

did they do it /sci/, or are they misinterpreting the results?
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How can hydrogen be a metal?
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>>8631476
I hope it is true. If they did it then all manner of cool things can be done from there.
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>>8631517
If you cool it and compress it enough, it takes on the characteristics of a metal. A lot of things we don't normally think of as metals are like this.

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Post all your stupid questions that don't deserve their own thread here.

Will science and Math become better when the wall is built?
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I go to cal poly pomona and after a semester after transferring from a CC I decided that I want to change my major. I need to do some pre-requisites to change my major, so I am still a CompE major. I have a hold on my account where I have to talk to my CompE advisor. What do I say my advisor? I'm currently taking business classes.
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>>8630251
What number am I thinking of?
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what the fuck is this slashed zero sign?
Here's a definition in which it is used, statistics

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