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What are some great scientists who were ruined by politics?
Pic related.
>pioneer of our understanding of DNA and molecular biology
>he sold off his nobel because he dared to tell the truth and retards got triggered
>>8097457
Matt Taylor, Tim Hunt, Einstein, Oppenheimer, Boltzmann, Galileo, etc come to mind.
>>8097470
I guess Einstein wasn't ruined but he did flee a witch hunt. Today though the witchhunt doesn't kill outright but it ruins lives, not sure how long it'll last.
Hey /sci/
I love math, geochemistry, biochemistry, condensed matter physics, astronomy, and ciphers, encryption algorithms, machine learning and all that.
I know these are way too many interests and I need to narrow what I enjoy, but I just can't pick what to study and ultimately make a career out of it. I want to innovate and create something new in this world and leave my mark on it.
Suggestions on what to pursue? How should I narrow down my interests.
Thanks fellow /sci/entists
Physics. /thread
>>8083800
Nice dubs, where do I go from there as a career? Why is it better than a Math major?
>>8083788
Narrow down your interests by inquiring after the type of work the people in these fields do. If you really can't narrow it down, do something like EE which covers a lot of subjects. Do not do this >>8083800 under any circumstances, cause you'll end up a CS monkey if you don't have a vested interest strong enough to get you to academia. Same for Chem and Bio.
>physicists can't even reverse calculate the diffusion of a drop of ink in a glass of water but they think they know what happened right after the big bang
![WMAP_2010[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/ep08UT3.jpg "WMAP_2010[1].png")
>>8091506
>>8091507
>cmb
doesn't go 'all the way back' to the putative bg though, right?
>>8091514
no it doesn't.
It might also help to know that physicists don't think they know what happened right after the big bang. They hypothesize.
> I do
> I want to be part of scientific history
>>8099260
I wish I was smart enough to be part of this. I'm too poor and White trash.
>>8099260
What happened to /sci/s hyperloop team?
>>8099278
Who knows
When is it too late to start trying in life?
Is there any point trying if you won't be the best there is at something?
If you come from a shit, poor background are you doomed to waste the rest of your days in that same shitty poor background?
what's the point of trying to be the best if you're not already?
I mean what's the point of being the best anyway?
>>8096948
When you die
Being written down in some book means nothing to you after you die, live to experience
No, but you need to try really hard or be really lucky to break free
>>8096948
You're probably like 24 or some shit.
Can we agree that, generally speaking, scientists who respect philosophy are better than those who don't?
no.
and quote mining shit doesn't help your point.
>m-muh fallacious positivism
>>8095213
>comparing real scientists vs popsci shills
if you're going to cherry pick quotes, at least choose working scientists, not talking heads who spout their nonsense (but package it as if they represent all scientists) all over the media
>Friend has a master's degree in mathematics
>We get to talking, I call philosophy useless
>He insists that mathematics and philosophy have a lot in common and eventually become the same thing at a high enough level and that he has total respect for it as a discipline
>I can't contradict him because I don't have a master's in math
Was he right?
>>8094262
>eventually become the same thing at a high enough level
I don't think "high enough level" would be a correct way to put it. I think "fundamental level" would be better. i.e. When you are talking about Axiomatic systems, Logic, etc.
>>8094262
I have a master degree in math and I can tell your friend is a reddit tier pseudo-intellectual. Math doesn't need and doesn't involve philosophy. Of course you can jerk off over philosophy, but that's just your own decision to waste your time.
>>8094262
all academic disciplines are subsets of philosophy dumbass
How is category theory useful in programming?
>>8096874
it's not. computers deal with finite objects from countable families. they're all sets under even very strict definitions.
>>8096875
categories are used in haskell.
>>8096874
It's not. It's a meme from Haskell programmers because they wanted to feel smug.
Do you cube? I heard smart guys cube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq5xjsvRBpI
>mfw waterman with gans
>mfw 13 average over 3 solves
What cubes does everybody use? I lost a corner of my Guhong a while ago and it's been bugging me since, so I've ordered a Zhanchi last week. It's due tomorrow hopefully.
>>8094130
Just buy a fucking YJ guanlong.
>$3 on amazon
>>8094133
What's the difference?
If we dropped a Neanderthal into modern society, would it adapt, and if so to what extent?
Where does this Neanderthal come from? WormHole Quantum Mechanical Time Manipulator Engine Drive or is it cloned?
yes, president
Don't you mean TRUMP? Hahaha!
What are some non-science books every scientist and engineer should read? Pic related.
>>8089400
Bump for internet
>>8089400
I smell a good bread
48 Laws of Power, Mastery, 33 Strategies of War, The Art of Seduction, 50th Law, The Prince, The Art of War, Telling Lies, Emotions Revealed
inb4: insecure cucks sperging out fedora meme
Let's talk about the Flat Earth. Don't send me to /x/.
I want to talk about the flaws with the theory and how to counter-argument them. Also for people who actually believe this theory that are now present on /sci/, tell me why you believe in this theory.
1 ) Where are the edges of the earth and why has nobody documented them with photos and videos ?
2 ) How do you explain the day/night cycle if the earth isn't a globe ? (and no circuar hovering sun doesn't explain it)
3 ) Where is the source of gravity and how does it effect everyone as if it's a spherical force ?
I know flat earthers are just satire but these 3 questions are never ever answered. You gotta step your game up if you wanna adapt to modern day tinfoiling
>>8072950
forget about that
assuming the earth is in fact flat how come south america, south africa and australia have the same constellations yet diferent from the ones that can be viewed from the "center"
>>8072941
>Let's talk about the Flat Earth.
Let's not.
For the longest time, I thought UFOs were total bullshit, and most "sightings" probably have completely rational, conventional explanations.
Then I read about the 1976 Tehran UFO.
https://youtu.be/PeNrsSVlKdY
This is a well-documented Iranian military interception by fighter pilots. As a fighter was trying to get a lock on the thing, it disappeared and reappeared behind him, sent out some "orbs", and somehow remotely jammed his fighter's equipment (even the ejector seat) before speeding off and un-jamming the poor fighter pilot's jet controls. To this day everybody involved maintains it was "not of terrestrial origin".
Is it totally implausible that some far-advanced alien civilization with FTL travel and super-science we can't even comprehend would send out regular spy probes over a habitable-zone planet like Earth?
I'm not so sure anymore. Can you explain selective EMP like that?
>>8098504No. This is stupid. No aliens have visited earth. There is literally no way an alien civilisation even knows we exist. It is also incredibly pompous and arrogant to believe they would waste their resources on us.
>>8098504
And what evidence do you even have that this happened? A youtube video? Some asshat's eye witness testimony? The eye witness testimony of half a dozen asshats?
>>8098504
So a single person reported seeing some weird shit while alone and stressed, and you think that the presence of highly advanced alien observers is the most reasonable explanation for that?
Either you're a complete moron, or you actually started out with the conclusion of "aliens are here!" and are just looking for anything that agrees with your beliefs.
Is there any logic in thinking that sentient lifeforms must have a humanoid shape?
Most scifi probably makes aliens humanlike or literally just differently colored humans to make them more relatable to the reader/audience.
Bipedalism, however, opens ourselves up to possibilities that other animals cannot take advantage of. Standing upright exposes less of your body's surface area to the sun, making thermoregulation easier. It also allows the hands to be more dexterous, because you dont need to use them in regular movement (the knuckle walking that other primates do).
>>8085887
To build and advance technology, you need hands.. you can't build a computer with your mouth bra
>>8085887
You need to be able to create and use tools, which means the possible forms are limited. You often hear that dolphins or elephants could be sentient or some shit, but as long as they are inherently incapable of creating and using tools they will be condemned to mediocrity.
Is /r9k/ right, /sci/?
Does helium really kill without pain?
What are the underlying mechanisms here?
Discuss.
>>8093113
you don't sense a lack of oxygen in your blood, only a build up of CO2
CO2 goes out
no O2 goes in
cells start to die without you feeling it
>>8093133
Oh you feel it alright, you feel it like a drug.
Hypoxic hypoxia is a hell of a way to go.
![main-qimg-8f8c3d8df709f6026236cbc90c11c09f[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/dRzyXBS.jpg "main-qimg-8f8c3d8df709f6026236cbc90c11c09f[1].jpg")
>>8093113
>What are the underlying mechanisms here?
your consciousness is instantly transferred to another branch of the universal wavefunction with no remembrance of what happened in this one
