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Remember me /sci/? I said that I did some undergraduate research in my own time but I threw an autistic fit because the professors weren't interested at all so I got disillusioned and quit pure science. I know now that my tantrum was wrong however /sci said I never came up with anything because I was just a first year student and I couldn't even give the derivation which I claimed was due to me throwing away the document.
Microsoft has decided to keep my deleted documents in the cloud against my will so consequently I just found it by chance now while trying...
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>>8104640
>an ideal gas behaves ideally
NO SHIT
>>8104640
You know why no one read it? Because setting a scientific paper in Word is a gigantic blaring alarm that you're full of shit.
99.9% of people who aren't crackpots in 2016 uses TeX.
In short it's an equation of state.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_of_state
It can predict a range of gas characteristics such as:
Critical temperature
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_point_(thermodynamics)
and Boyle temperature
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyle_temperature
from only one experimental value (the intermolecular potential energy well depth). In comparison all other equations of state such as the Van der Waals Equation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_der_Waals_equation
need at least three variables...
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Post god tier physics, math or other sciencetific textbooks
Calculus-Spivac, Undergrad level calc book
>not reading from the original limestock blocks of pythagorus from greece and deriving all of modern math
>>8111476
http://4chan-science.wikia.com/wiki//sci/_Wiki
>Evolution
>A series of random mutations
>99% of all mutations are negative
>The creature with the 1% positive mutation has to survive in order to pass on its genes
>The chances of survival are low
>Even if the creature does survive long enough to pass on its genes, there's no certainty that the positive mutation will be passed on
>The offspring have to...
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>>8123020
>Not even 6 billion years would be a long enough time line for creatures to evolve to where they are today
According to what? Can you not grasp how long 6 billion years is?
>>8123023
It's not /even/ 6 billion years. Life didn't start on this planet until billions of years after it was created.
And no, it's still not long enough for all these random "microevolution" mutations to add up. It's highly improbable.
>>8123020
You might be retarded!
Well /sci/?
Is anyone here actually at least on their masters degree?
>>8123008
Yes.
Do you have something meaningful you wanted to ask?
>>8123017
No, which is why I'm on /sci/
Yes.
What is a man?
>>8115650
The antonym of a woman
is that really it? i would think the brain had more connections to the body.
A miserable little pile of secrets.
What do you think are the three most important unresolved questions in science?
I'm a geology student, so I just know geology. But I think maybe unified field theory, dark matter, dark energy should be top 3 I guess?
In Geology it's the origin of Earth's water, the process that caused inorganic matter to become the first living cells, and ... well there's a few unanswered questions, depends on the branch of geology. I would like to know about EMORBs and porphyrys
>>8123034
ye, all that gravity related stuff.
Nuclear fusion's gotta be one of them
What kind of natural resources could one reasonably expect to find on Mars? What about on the the Moon?
Sand.
dust
Dusty sand.
>there is a 100 percent turnover of atoms in the body at least every five years.
>not one atom in your body today was there 5 years ago
>despite this, you still maintain continuity of consciousness
>therefore, it is theoretically possible to replace every atom in your body with a synthetic one which is immune to aging and aging-associated diseases while still maintaining your stream of consciousness, rendering you immortal
prove me wrong, /sci/
Don't quit your day job.
>>8123274
Ok, where's the paper proving that?
Is this even controversial?
If a mad scientist injected you with nanomachines that slowly, in real time, destroyed your brain cells and replaced them with mechanical duplicates, then there would never be a point where you could be said to suddenly stop being conscious.
I've got a question /sci/
First time visiter here and I assumed this is the best place to ask.
Is there any connection or relation between Absolute Zero and the Speed of Light?
My reasoning is movement is in a way, heat.
Yet at absolute zero, this is when things stop moving entirely if we could reach it.
So if absolute zero is when movement stops and the speed of light is the fastest that movement can go, is there a connection? I came to this question when thinking about the idea of an "absolute hot"
>>8124709
Not that we know of.
For more information get a PhD in Theoretical Physics.
I think Kelvin just extrapolated the ideal gas law back to where pressure is zero to determine absolute zero (originally). Not sure how this would relate to the speed of light though.
>>8124709
kind of like asking whether there is a connection between light and shadow.
One is the absence of the other. Absolute zero is the absence of (heat) energy
How has our understanding of evolution developed since Darwin published On the Origin of Species?
>>8121463
We still don't know much about evolution. Most of it remains hypothetical / speculative, mostly due to the fact that macroevolution cannot be reproduced in experiments.
>>8121463
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution#History_of_evolutionary_thought
Mendelian genetics, Discovery of DNA etc...
>>8121463
Where to start?
We discovered how inheritance actually works (Mendel).
We developed mathematical/statistical models how inheritance and evolution interact (Fisher et al).
We discovered the biochemical mechanics of inheritance and how it interacts with the cellular workings (all the stuff in the wake of Watson/Cricks’s discovery of DNA).
We learned that DNA isn’t so much a blue-print but some kind of baking recipe, and that the constraints of development of a fertilized egg put restraints...
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Post your arguments in favor of determinism or free will. Construct yout logic within the frames of casualty, the quantum world and the laws of physics that govern the entire universe.
>>8124182
Denying free will is like denying the earth is round
>>8124200
Not an argument.
1. If you have free will then you can control the behaviour of atoms from an outside source and you must be a god
2. You are not a god
Free will disproved
Am i the only one to believe this picture of NASA is a hoax?
How is it possible for the galaxies in the front of the picture to seem so close to each other when in reality the distance between galaxies can be 10x or even 100x a galaxy's size.
Discuss
That's a picture of space, not of NASA, idiot.
>>8123981
anyway. the picture of hubble. its the famous deep space picture of hubble. Hubble is NASA's therefore you are the idiot. Focus on the subject please.
>>8123981
>Am I the only one who is fucking retarded?
Not by a long shot.
>How is it possible for galaxies to look closer together?
Whatever that even means, there are a metric shitload of galaxies in the observable universe.
>Discuss
What, your stupid conspiritard conjecture? No thanks. Have a neat galaxy instead.
How old were you when you learned calculus?
39
Better late than never I suppose
>little sisters teacher told her she had to write a paper on Global Warming(due this Monday)
>says her teacher is very adamant that Global Warming's one of the worst things in the world and deniers are ignorant to facts
>would really love her to argue that global warming is a good thing, or that it's not caused by humans
>can't find anything legitimate that says global warming is not a real thing
>there's...
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>>/pol/
there is no such thing as global warming, it's called climate change
it occurs naturally with the influence of the sun, jupiter+saturn, the earth's tilt.
watch this for more information
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztninkgZ0ws
>MLA or APA for a paper on a scientific issue
absolutely fucking disgusting
When Portal first came out I was fucking obsessed with it. I wanted to work in a lab like Aperture, and i started getting interested in Physics (before playing that game I had wanted to be an illustrator). Now I'm getting my degree in Physics and Math. How about you, /sci/, what started your journey?
>>8121968
>I want to dedicate my entire life to a certain field of science because of a video game I played
wew lad
>>8121968
When I was younger I pulled my pee pee a lot, one day mommy caught me and said that if I did that too much I'd go blind, ever since then I've been worried about going blind (since I never stopped) so now I'm studying EE and I'm going to move into computer vision.
>>8121968
>he blogged it again
