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How does it feel to know that you will never converse with someone so intellectually superior that they might as well represent the next step in human evolution?
That you will never witness for yourself the absolute pinnacle of human intelligence?
That you will never know the feeling of talking with someone who by definition is the smartest person on the planet?
That you will never lay eyes on someone who could effortlessly outdo universal polymath geniuses such as leibniz, galileo, newton, wolfram, davinci, descartes, and so on?
Unfortunately our...
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You should know by now that it's a filthy world we live in...
Sometimes, or for the very intelligent, almost all of the time, it's best to keep to themselves what they know, what they discover and what they prove.
>>7975562
yeah, it sucks that there is no great story teller to pass time before you die
Jesus christ the level of the STEM kids...
>>7975562
Goddammit that's an awesome qoute.
That optimistic sense of progress and team work is really missing in the modern age. We've lost focus, it's all about trivial social issues today.
Was he full of shit about the "transmitting electricity through the air at barely no loss" thing?
I'm an electrician and I have my doubts
Yeah dude just excite the EM field and electricity appears wherever you want it to
I saw someone sucking his dick about this on facebook and got triggered.
>>7973966
he was Tesla, so i don't doubt he was telling a lie.
He probably knew it was possible one way or another, too bad he's dead and we dont have his creativty to bring this to light
are engineers the only people in society who deserve to be paid more than they currently earn?
>>7971906
>deserve
I don't quite think you understand how economics works, senpai. You don't "deserve" anything, you get what the market is willing to pay for your skills.
>>7971916
/thread
>>7971906
No.
>>7971916
Does the market understand the implications of the actions and choices made? I am not sure.
Most people will not care about R&D but expect new gizmos to materialize on the shelves. Except from when they get old, frail and ill, needing new medicine. by that time, however, it is way too late as medicine takes 15+ years to develop by which time they will be dead by their own decisions.
Not sure "deserve" is the right word....
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From what I can tell, all of mathematics has geometric representations. Euclidean or otherwise. Are there any mathematical objects which do not have this quality?
>>7975001
>geometric representations
what is this ?
>>7975012
My excuse if that is not a precise term. But what I mean is, for example, you can visualize the real number line by a graphical numberline. I specifically did not use the word visualize because even with things like 4D geometry, you can't truly visualize it, but it certainly has a geometric interpretation.
>>7975030
This is so vague it's unfalsifiable and therefor not really worth talking about.
Are there any actual Physicists on /sci/?
If so, How did you get there and what do you do on a daily basis.
>>7976687
i work at starbucks
>>7976687
I was an actual physicist (in the sense I worked in "the industry"). I can't actually tell you what I did, it's classified, but I can tell you it was with nuclear weapons and radiation detection.
Yes, I go on kooky adventures.
Zimbabwe
The term "quantum mechanics" sucks and we desperately need to change the name for two reasons:
1) The word "quantum" promotes all sorts of woo and shitty pseudoscience that convince retards that they understand shit.
2) IT'S NOT EVEN ACCURATE. Position is never quantized. Momentum is never quantized. Energy is only SOMETIMES quantized.
We should teach "quantum" mechanics as Matrix Mechanics as Heisenberg initially intended.
uh you dont really get why its called quantum at all do you
>>7973174
It's called quantum mechanics because of tradition, nothing else. It's a shit name that serves to only confuse people about the real physics going on.
>>7973157
so this one time I came to /sci/
... I saw this thread. Part of me wanted to help,
Can you guys convince me to appreciate math?
It's so fucking boring, we get it, x + y = z^2
Where's the fun in solving puzzles all day when the rewards are so shitty
>>7974811
The solution is it's own reward.
>>7974814
Not if you don't give two shits in the first place
>>7974811
> rewards are so shitty
> rewards are orgasms
Pick one.
Hey /sci/, I study Neuroscience.
AMA, if there are some good questions I'll reply
>>7970174
Here is my temporary trip btw
How do you explain the biological compulsion to meme ?
is pain a neural process in the brain? if so what process is it?
Why do girls use birth control pills?
Is the pleasure of bareback sex really worth the risk of blood clots and hormonal damage?
>>7976534
Why don't you ask a girl?
>>7976534
>Is the pleasure of bareback sex really worth the risk of blood clots and hormonal damage?
Yes, for women sex is the only thing that matters in their life. Women are naturally purely sexual creatures. It's their only purpose and the only reason for their existence.
>>7976539
T-thanks anon, this really cleared up stuff.
>I still use Excel for scientific data analysis and charting
I'm an engineer and I have a job
Engineers should be the only ones who are allowed to call themselves mathematicians. By definition you are not a professional if you are not paid to do something in the field. Engineers who sell their software using their algorithms, services, product patents etc. are actual professionals applying math to earn a living.
By constrast you are not paid directly to publish an academic paper. At most you are paid directly to be a faculty member. You are allowed to call yourself a TEACHER, nothing more.
>>7975485
I used Excel a few weeks ago to plot some data from a simulation that we had to do in the Programming course and when the proffesor saw that I plotted it in Excel he said "If I were the Dean, I would have expelled you right now" (he's the Pro Dean)
I know this topic has been discused at least one bazillion times.
But what are your thoughts abour IQ?
Is there any good way to measure it? Or is it just a hoax to fuck around with normies?
It's a tool to spot crying brainlets that can't deal with reality.
not that important
t. 145 IQ, tested 3 times
>>7974515
OP here, I was tested few times, apparently I'm supposed to have 156+ IQ.
I doubt it though and consider it bullshit.
What does /sci/ think of Economics? Is it an actually useful science? Or a bunch of inaccurate theories that hold no predictive power? What about its value as a piece of mathematics?
Economics is not a science. To be a science you need to be able to perform controlled experiments, which economics cannot do (artificial studies with undergrad psychology/econ students don't count).
It's the same reason why none of the social sciences are actually science.
>>7970072
Wait, /sci/ has tripfags?
Not strict science, but still incredibly useful. Same as most other humanities/social sciences, save for things like critical theory.
How true is this comic?
Where is Philosophy ?
somebody post the /sci/ edits
>>7962110
It's on top, saying "You need to think outside the box", because science and math people are stuck in their science and math ideology, similar to a box
Are there any valid reasons whatsoever why we, as a species, SHOULDN'T be able to make "designer babies?" as long as they're not intentionally making defective children like the fucking dwarves it should be fine, right?
No, and we will pretty soon.
It'll take off big in East Asia, then eventually make its way to kike-controlled countries.
Because human life is not a toy.
>>7969820
/thread
Could someone skydive from the ISS like that Redbull dude?
>>7968422
I wish you'd skydive into ur grave, faggot.
>>7968425
If you donate enough money for me to buy a weather balloon I'll jump from it without a parachute.
>you will never splatter into a city at mach 1
redbull dude wasn't orbiting; he had negligible velocity relative to the ground
ISS is going crazy-fuck fast relative to the ground
