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How does the most important physicist of the last 30 years not have a nobel prize?
Not high enough IQ
>>7782889
seriously why doesn't he have a nobel? he has more cultural significance than any other scientist alive. so he must at least be on the shortlist.
He's a meme who think ayy lmaos want our resources.
How does anyone with a basic grasp of space and scale come to that conclusion?
The answer is they wouldn't.
He's a living lie.
DUDE COOKING IS SCIENCE LMAO
>>7782758
i like that guy
he knows a lot about food
its an art for sure
I've often wondered if he understands 100% of what he's saying when he describes the chemistry of cooking or if it's just a script he's reading off of and he isn't really interested in fully comprehending absolutely everything in there.
How important is university choice?
>>7782727
If you don't make it to Harvard, ur a failure
Depends on your major
Try your country's best and most famous for undergrad, and the world's bests for grad.
I'm a drunk genius ask me anything
why are you such a cunt?
>>7782522
why do you use a potty word to insult me?
>>7782525
Are you familiar with G.K. Batchelor's work on sedimentation? If so, perhaps you can help me.
So consciousness is just a byproduct of perception, right?
Or is consciousness that which perceives?
That's a philosophy question, not a science question, since it depends so much on such nebulous ideas like consciousness and perception. go ask /his/
>>7782491
Whats the scientific model for how we are self aware and think?
Is this enough to major in math?
el mucho auisto
>>7782471
wut
>>7782466
Holy fuck, I understand that this is complete bait, but Jesus fucking Christ on a bicycle. How high you score on some online IQ test has no bearing on how good you are at math. If you have some mathematical intuition with the drive and desire to do math, then yes that is good enough. If you don't have that drive and intuition, you could have an IQ much higher, but it wouldn't be relevant to being a math major. For fucks sake just go die, and take this shit with you.
Is the main limit on these not the energy that can be delivered (since hydraulics and muscles seem volumetric rather than cross-sectional in terms of power) but the cross-sectional structural strength?
In which case, is there any way to make something that actually gains the strength necessary to move and support itself as it increases in size?
For example: It seems that putting holes in things is seen as a way of reducing the weight of things without interfering with its structural integrity. Would something simular to a Kleinan fractal (but with finite iterations)...
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Bones need to be flexible to an extent.
But the actual limit, on Earth anyway, is due to the surface area to volume ratio problem.
Volume of blood/gases increases substantially compared to surface area of cardiovascular tissue when size increases.
Whales which are buoyant and don't need to support themselves are the upper limit because of this.
>>7782470
I dunno, getting oxygen into blood seems like it'd be the lesser issue than structural strength.
If one could survive having air mix directly into their blood, it'd go away altogether.
Although there's probably much more reasonable ways of handling it.
![surface_area_to_volume_ratio[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/pAdIkgN.png "surface_area_to_volume_ratio[1].png")
>>7782476
You misunderstand, it's the surface area that limits the amount of oxygen that can transfer from the blood into the rest of the body.
This pic should clarify what's going on.
Do you "belive" in the axiom of choice?
I think we can get an ice cream with infinite flavors. xD
>>7782374
No, the axiom of V=L is the only logical one.
>>7782374
You're basically forced to believe in it if you want the WOP to be true, and if you aren't pants-on-head retarded you should intuitively expect that it is
why would you ever have to believe in AoC?
you accept it as valid or you don't. belief doesnt enter the picture
So guys, I have been accepted to some high tier US graduate schools for chemistry. I've done inorganic chemistry research for the past 2 years but I find myself hesitant to sign on to a PhD program because it's like being a slave to my PI for 5 years. There's no guarantee I'll even do any research that is cool or useful.
How did you guys justify getting your PhD?
shit how do you know you've been accepted? it's only January.
>>7782308
I applied to 8 and have heard back from 6. I've heard that the longer it takes for schools to get back to you the less likely it is you get in because they wait to flat out deny people in case people reject offers of admission.
>>7782312
Was your deadline Dec 15th? Because it was for mine (physics phd programs) and most of the places said wait until march to hear back.
>the ITER is now running 11 years behind schedule
The fuck are they doing?
>>7782210
How many trees did those tags cut down to build their ting, could they not have built it in desert?
>>7782210
>what are they doing
Successfully covering up what they found.
>>7782210
watching each other for suicide
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/10/bizarre-reactor-might-save-nuclear-fusion
Was this guy actually anything special at Chemistry? I'm not far enough in my Chemistry education to tell, but most of what he seemed to do or talk about was a bunch of High School/Undergrad Chemistry concepts. How good do you actually think he was?
>>7782126
well, he was excellent not because he knew about reactions, but because he could improvise them and make them terribly efficient
>>7782126
I PREFERRED IT WHEN CHEMISTRY GIVE PEOPLE THOUGHTS OF EXPLOSION AND NOT THIS MEME
>>7782133
I believe this is what makes a good anything. Not the knowledge, but the skill, the spark of inventiveness and uniqueness.
tl;dr: he's a movie character
Magie ist Physik durch wollen
Hört hört
Sieg Heil!
>>7782098
Muss man wissen.
Heres a fun one, shouldnt take you long. Bonus points for recognising the guy in the picture without using google.
>>7782039
paul erdos
there's two people to each hand shake to the total number of handshakes must be even. the sum of the handshakes of people with an even number must be even. the difference between the total handshake and the total handshakes of people with even number of handshake must be even since both are even. therefore the number of people with odd handshake which is equal to the difference must also be even.
now gtfo you pleb, this isn't science or maths.
>>7782039
Total handshakes H is even because each handshake involves two people. The number of handshakes by people with an even number of handshakes is even since it is the sum of even numbers. The number of handshakes by people with an odd number of handshakes O must also be even since
H = E + O
Since O is even yet it is the sum of odd numbers, it must be the sum of an even number of odd numbers.
>>7782058
nice!
here is the next one. the question is poorly worded but i wasnt sure how to explain it, so ask if its not clear
i didn't know philip
i hadnt heard of him until 2 days ago
but i dont think its right someone so hard done by can just disappear into the aether, i want someone to see this and maybe remember his name
RIP elliott
his facebook page wasnt updated last year
five hundred and eighty stinking pounds for a human life
this was 6 years before his death
What are some good scientific fields not spoken of often on /sci/?
>>7781932
*STEM, not scientific
>>7781932
math
>>7781932
conciousness
