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How right is he?
>>7691080
not at all
Right that the solution accepted to get things over with is ugly?
Yes.
But he has no alternative for anything close to research level mathematics, and moreover it appears he thinks he knows more about the proposals and alternatives than he does.
And don't get started now with the ontological stance on mathematics, this has no right or wrong answer, almost by definition.
>>7691080
100%
![popefrancis[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/CMEiTkU.jpg "popefrancis[1].jpg")
>The urgent call is nothing new for Francis. In June, he laid out the case, in a 192-page paper, for a collaboration between science and religion to combat climate change.
>"I am not sure, but I can say to you 'now or never'," he told a group of reporters aboard the papal plane, en route home from Africa, according to Reuters. "Every year the problems are getting worse. We are at the limits. If I may use a strong word I would say that we are at the limits of suicide."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/11/30/pope-francis-the-world-is-near-suicide-on-climate-change-its-now-or-never/
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No. The oil industry backs the conservatives and pretty much every environmental issue is influenced by our consumption of fossil fuels. It may sway some of the conservatives, but in the end, money talks and the oil industry has plenty of money to throw around
Nope. The conservative right wing hates catholics.
Catholic masterrace is already well aware of climate change.
>>7690911
SO, lets get right to it.
In the next ~20 or so years, it is clear that new technologies will emerge and impact the world.
Any ideas towards the next generation?
Currently, my thoughts towards new outcomes of next generation of technology are as follows:
Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
Deep Space Exploration
Machine Automation
Thoughts/comments/concerns/rebuttals on the listed topics?
Thoughts on other world changing technologies?
>>7690686
I think you should add a few more things to your list
Genetic engineering
Designer babies
Quantum consciousness
Meme Pop-sci topic #1
Faster than light
Meme Pop-sci topic #2
Meme Pop-sci topic #3
EM drive
Meme Pop-sci topic #4
Riemann hypothesis solved
Meme Pop-sci topic #5
Meme Pop-sci topic #6
Meme Pop-sci topic #7
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Meme Pop-sci topic #9999999999.999...
>>7690686
you need to prepare your anus and erect your penis.
Automation is going the be next big thing, and will ultimately be seen as a transformative technology more significant than the Internet.
I'm struggling with trying to understand how encryption works the way it does.
I remember an apology where myself and Lucy want to exchange an encrypted message.
We both have private keys and one shared public key.
I use my message and encrypt it using a private key, then use my public key on it and send it to Lucy. She does the same. Then somehow we can decrypt the message??? I don't understand how this works.
At the end of the day, how is it possible that someone monitoring the network can't decrypt the message?
>>7690487
An analogy*
The public key is used to encrypt a message.
Only the private key in that public/private key pair can decrypt messages encrypted with its public key.
You and Lucy would each have your own keypair and keep your private keys secret. You would each use the other's public key to encrypt messages and use your own private key to decrypt messages sent to you.
Over the course of my life I want to piece together a laboratory just for the hell of it.
What should I include?
me employed there
>tfw physics
>tfw no jobs
I'm thinking an organic chemistry fractional distillation set.
Beakers, flasks, test tubs
Cleaning equipment for everything.
A microscope.
I also want an astronomers telescope.
How critical is a centrifuge?
>>7690485
You don't need a centrifuge if you live near a park.
ITT: God-tier physicists
Pic related. The author of A Universe from Nothing, in the words of also all time greatest scientist Richard Dawkins:
>Even the last remaining trump card of the theologian, ‘Why is there something rather than nothing?,’ shrivels up before your eyes as you read these pages. If ‘On the Origin of Species’ was biology’s deadliest blow to supernaturalism, we may come to see ‘A Universe From Nothing’ as the equivalent from cosmology. The title means exactly what it says. And what it says is devastating.
>pop science celebrities
>god-tier
>all time greatest scientist
4chan is 18+
>>7690284
But i'm 22...
>>7690300
With the mental maturity of an edgy 16 year old.
Bunch of fucking moles edition
Looking for a good starter book for chem. Taking chemistry fundamentals next semester and want to feel comfortable in the material.
>>7690235
What does /chem/ study other than chemistry? Do you read about disciplines other than your own? We are one of the most applicable sciences, and it's sad to see people rot away in their labs
>>7690248
It would be nice to see hybrid chemists. Working in both environmental issues and the renewable energy sector.
>sad to see people rot away in their labs
debatable. Sometimes we need this.
If nothing can go faster than light, shouldn't we be able to see the entire universe? But we can't, we only see the observable universe, from where light has had time to reach us. But if big bang is correct, everything was "in one place" once, so, that can only mean that the universe has expanded faster than the speed of light.
Is this right?
Yes.
>>7689988
You can't accelerate beyond the speed of light from any given reference. However the universe's expansion is different, it's expanding everywhere at once. Space itself is expanding, which is different from objects moving through space.
Pretty weird.
>>7689988
if at 1e-32s the observ.universe was grapefruit-size that is an expansion speed of 33000c
What is the Master Plan of science?
crashing this irrationality
with no survivors
The production of an increasingly accurate predictive model of the universe?
>>7689764
Solving a triple integral.
Is there a point in scientific discovery where the subject matter ceases to be purely empirical?
Is it possible to get to metaphysics through natural physics?
If the big bang truly was the beginning of contingent reality and not some other strange phenomenon governed by physical laws, then wouldn't we have already reached that point?
There are of course unstable quantum vacuum states but they are still physical and thus contingent, and no, they are not a case of "something from nothing."
>Is it possible to get to metaphysics through natural physics?
At that point it'd prolly just amount to the specific metaphors you used to describe natural physics. It'd be valid as long as there was an isomorphism between your metaphors and the natural physics.
Language games and all that... good old wittgenstein
>>7689734
Actually metaphysics is just the branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of reality. So it would encompass physical as well as (hypothetical) non-physical entities.
>>7689734
>are still physical
top lel
next, you will tell me that the number 3 is physical.
i would tell myself to not give up on my dreams of space, and time. to take the time to learn advanced math while i was still in school.
>>7689188
Judging by the quality of threads on /sci/, I'm sure most /sci/ users would have nothing to tell their future selves
"Smart but lazy" is a dumb meme and you're only putting yourself behind. Coasting through classes isn't cool and is only gonna come back and bite you in the ass once you actually have to put in work because you're not as smart as you think you are.
What does /sci/ think about graph theory?
very beautiful theory in its own right that happens to have myriad applications
it's a meme
Very useful.
Just finished calc II.
How would you find the area bounded between these two curves? Is it possible without the aid of a computer?
>>7686538
You haven't finished calc 2 yet, go back and study
>>7686540
But these integrals don't exist in terms of elementary functions.
>>7686545
just make up some new functions to express their integrals and compute them
What happens?
My vote goes to A.
Neither, portals can't be placed on moving surfaces
Depends on how rigid the surface of what the portal is colliding with.
How does a pole change into a hill?
I don't understand the picture at all.
HELP
I study physics in the first semester.
I spent the first 6 weeks of university doing almost nothing. I severly underestimated how hard it really is. Is there hope for me? I have already started studying but I feel like Ive passed the point of no return. Do you guys have any tips?
The best advice I could give a first term physics student is to practice doodling.
Which physics class will you be taking? Intro, physics 1, physics 1 w/calc, or what?
>>7683951
analysis, linear algebra, physik 1 and something called rechenmethoden, I am studying in Germany
