So what's the point of proving an object you can't actually construct?

Pusi

If there are an infinite number of natural numbers, and an infinite number of fractions in between any two natural numbers, and an infinite number of fractions in between any two of those fractions, and an infinite number of fractions in between any two of those fractions, and an infinite number of fractions in between any two of those fractions, and… then that must mean that there are not only infinite infinities, but an infinite number of those infinities. and an infinite number of those infinities. and an infinite number of those infinities. and an infinite number of those infinities, and… (infinitely times. and that infinitely times. and that infinitely times. and that infinitely times. and that infinitely times. and…) continues forever. and that continues forever. and that continues forever. and that continues forever. and that continues forever. and…..(…)…

>if we find one intelligent species out there then they are probably everywhere

But we have found it, us.

>oh we need one more tho

I think it boils down to midwits not being able to grasp the size and age of everything really.

Scientifically speaking, what is the most scientifically painful torture method that can be inflicted on the human body? I'm talking so painful, the person's heart may just give out and they die anyways. Explain scientifically why this method would be the most painful if you will.

I am taking up botany as my retirement "thing" and have some experiments I want to try. before I do them, I want to find literature on previous work and I simply do not have the background to know how to phrase what I want to do. I have these ideas I want to try these:

1- kudzu has overtaken a large section of my neighborhood. I have an idea to harvest the growth hormones from it to feed my vining plants, such as mulberries, strawberries, and grapes. my rationale is how rooting hormone is either synthetic or extracted from a plant with a high root growth habit, though I am familiar with other approaches like capsacin. would harvesting and juicing those leaves in the morning to maximize yield make any noticable difference, as in, is this a common practice to cross hormones between plants for some advantage?

2- I want to grow some large amount of basil (for example), and harvest the leaves for their growth hormones in a grow room environment in a more or less hydroponic/kratky setup. I can reliably induce the temperature and light patterns to induce hormone production on the leaves, which I would then harvest, juice, extract, and then feed to a batch of other basil plants in a sort of cannibal farm for plants.

3- forcing lignification. from what I read about it, there appears to be some simple hormonal pathway to induce it, though I cannot locate literature as to how.

I think you can gather what I intend to do here. I suspect that it is possible to harvest the hormones responsible for the higher growth rate of something like kudzu, and feed it to a genetically similar plant. I am also interested in extracting saps/sugars/chlorophyll from donor plants to feed to experiment plants. what is this overall practice called, the efficacy of it, and if possible, some literature I can study on it?

TIA.

I generally enjoy Axler's prose, so I am thinking about learning measure theory and the basics of functional analysis from this book. Anyone have any opinions on it?

normally i like to make up silly stories and larp as insane racists when i'm on 4chan, but this time i'm serious. autism researchers seriously need to look into the physiological effects of intoeing in certain subgroups of autists.

my hypothesis is that intoeing (inward rotation of the legs, which makes the toes point inward) can reduce certain fine and gross motor deficits in autism. other things need to be looked at like eye contact. my hypothesis is that eye contact, when measured in seconds of in-person conversation, will be positively correlated with the use of intoeing in either a standing or seated position.

other possible things to look for are:

(i'm just gonna copy and paste what i found.)

>Primary outcomes (mechanistic + high signal)

>Breathing mechanics

>Diaphragmatic excursion (mm): M-mode ultrasound during quiet/forced breathing.

>Thoracoabdominal contribution (% ribcage vs abdomen): optoelectronic plethysmography (OEP) or respiratory inductance plethysmography (RIP).

>Chest wall kinematics: 3D motion capture/OEP of pump-handle (AP) and bucket-handle (ML) rib motions.

>Spirometry: VC, FVC, FEV1, FEV1/FVC, inspiratory capacity at fixed postures.

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Behavioural economics literally claims that supply and demand is not 100% correct how humans work.

Pusy

PIC RELATED

Is modern science just a convoluted game of "Finders Keepers"?

I would like to propose that we stonewall all scientific awards related to any data that is withheld from an entire discipline for 30 days or more.
It does not matter what is in the HiRise data, this is too long. There will be NO Nobel for ANY finding in that data. The harm of withholding it from the rest of the astronomers on the planet, reduces the discovery impact potential.

Quick, justify the withholding of the HiRise imagery.
Hard mode, do not blame any of the following, as these reasons have NOTHING to do with the advancement of science or the scientific method, from a social human perspective:

1. Politics.
2. Money.
3. Ego.

This is all you need to know that AI datacenter buildup is a bubble

Successful thorium-to-uranium conversion in China's new molten salt reactor

Without bullshit analogies or schizobabble about symmetries

I think everybody in this board knows math is pretty awesome. So, I thought I would dedicate the many hours of free time I have to learning math through textbooks.

This is my current reading list:

- AoPS Introduction to Algebra
- AoPS Introduction to Geometry
- AoPS Intermediate Algebra
- AoPS Precalculus
- AoPS Calculus
- Spivak – Calculus
- Axler – Linear Algebra Done Right
- Hubbard & Hubbard – Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Forms
- Arnold – Ordinary Differential Equations
- Bertsekas & Tsitsiklis – Introduction to Probability
- Wasserman – All of Statistics

Is this good enough until I want to move into something specific?

If matter isn't created or destroyed, and simply changes form. Doesn't that mean reincarnation is the true nature of the afterlife?

How fucked is it to find a job in this field, im going to a state school and so far classes are very easy, i guess it should be one of the hardest majors and it probably is but like i thought id be fucked, hwo hard is it to get a job as one though. Whar if i wanna be an rf engineer

>It is impossible to conceive of mathematics without geometric and chronological intuition

Was he right?

So what is the actual, non /pol/ autism reason blacks commit so much crime compared to everyone else?

All I ever see smart people do is argue. One person thinks he's right, the other person thinks he's wrong. Seems very exhausting. Better to just sit in the sun and enjoy the breeze. I don't think about much beyond my daily life, and that makes me happy.

So, I see a lot of people complaining online about electronic harassment.

Obviously, that's just a common psychiatric symptom, although with some of the patents in the books, there is clearly the physics potential for electronic harassment to be real.

I could even electronically harass people for a few hundred dollars...

As Scientists, how do we address these overlaps between insane people's delusions and rare actual events of criminal conspiracy and illegal black budget operations?

Too many, well meaning, highly intelligent "Scientists" just close off their mind to complicated things that seem crazy, but imagine how limiting that perspective really is.

There are actually professionals who have to think about this stuff for national security, but yet, 100% of the people claiming to be electronically harassed are simply disregarded as crazy. Think about it. Some of them really could be telling the truth.

why do many people say evaporative cooler (swamp cooler) does nothing it went from 35c to 25c in my living room thats at 45% humidity midday and cost virtually nothing compared to air conditioning maybe people arent installing them correctly or using them in appropriate conditions

Will rapists always exist as long as animalistic instincts remain encoded in human nature? Should we seek to remove or edit the genes in people that are responsible for their base urges?

Pusy!

The GATE program and other similar programs were created to deal with the overflow of gifted children. This is one of the few books that deals openly with this subject, because it is only happening among European and Asian populations. As you can imagine this is a slightly sensitive topic in a country built in the lie that all men are created equal. Do you have migraines, myopia and asthma? So most of the gifted children. The phenomenon looks genetic except that it violates Mendelian genetics because the kids are almost always 1st born. If you have ever been put in the gifted category you need to read this book. The book is on Anna's archive.

Intelligence and Giftedness: The Contributions of Heredity and Early Environment, Storfer, Miles D

i think that IQ estimations past 125 and below 75 is unreliable and IQ estimations past 130 and below 70 are complete bullshit. any objections?

Why is psychology easily dismissed by /sci/?

HLS infodump - edition

previous >>16825075

Tell me about vestigial tails. I learnt that a significant minority of people are born with literal tails . How do they live thier life with a tail?

>be indiafag
>Studying for jee
>Coaching takes jee format test
>Score 42 OUT OF 480

What books should I read to learn biology and gene engineering from the ground up with no prior knowledge?

>everything that exists, consist of information
>information is just series of bits, true or false
>any information is meaningless without an interpreter
What is the interpreter? There has to be _something_ that interprets something else, information by itself is static, it does not do or mean anything, it can contain an interpreter in any form but such interpreter would be static too. Therefore I conclude a duality: reality consists of an interpreter acting on raw information. What is the interpreter?

Hi everybody im new to maths and am starting from elementary principles to build a strong foundation and am reading "Rational Numbers to Linear Equations" by Hung Hsi Wu yet cant wrap my head around this proof. Not only does he not exhaustively prove all cases for x and y, but he seems to just arbitrarily mess with one side of the equation and not the other to get it to do the thing he wants it to do.

e.g.

Case 1: If x,y > 0, then we resort to this theorem to prove that there exists a rational number z such that x =zy.

"Theorem 1.8. Given fractions A and B (B is nonzero), there is a unique fraction C, so that A = CB"

Now, if x is negative and y is positive, then Wu tries to rewrite the equation to conform with case 1, which will, by Theorem 1.8, give him a "z". Therefore, he says that if x < 0, then -x > 0. Then

(***) -x = z'y

Multiply both sides by -1

x = -z'y

Viola! z = -z'

However, I don't understand why Wu arbitrarily flips only the x and not the y in the step denoted by (***) above. That, among other things, confuses me.

As a student at the University of Melbourne and a member of a local math club, Julian Assange in 2004 organised a quest similar to the games of the mysterious Cicada 3301 community.
https://wondrousnet.blogspot.com/2022/11/cicada-3301-solution.html

>Me: “Mathfag, Did you eat up all the cookies?”
>Mathfag: “Hmph. Preposterous. No, of course not. Absurd.”

Meanwhile, there are half-eaten cookies everywhere, crumbs on the floor, empty boxes (intermediates, lemmas, scratch work)
In the formal write-up, it looks like no cookies were consumed at all—magical!

>Me "CS Chad, did Mathfag eat eat up all the cookies?"
>CS Chad: “Yes, he ate several cookies.”
>CS Chad: "Here’s the footage" (step-by-step workspace updates)
>CS Chad: "Here are the boxes" (memory, intermediate states)
>CS Chad: "Everything is tracked, documented, and measurable"

Math friends, why y'all like this?
>inb4 y'all'st've
(I'm from Kentucky y'all be patient)

Zamn
Really makes you think

University education should simply be a service you pay for. You pay, you get in. Passing the courses is not guaranteed.

more ice in the arctic now than there was in 2012

Source: https://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~motizuki/IUT-report-2025-10.pdf#page=21 (page 21)

https://x.com/i/grok?conversation=1978987515974500716

Here's the scariest thing about this: Everything I wrote there is independently verifiable. We've pumped hundreds of billions if not trillions into these test ranges out in the desert since world war 2 and 90% of what goes on there even if it gets declassified will still not make its way into public discourse. This isn't tinfoil hattery, people *really* need to start demanding answers as to what we've been getting up to for nearly a century now at these installations.

Why is eugenics considered by many to be evil, while gene editing is not?

How much does diet and nutrition actually play a role in development while growing up? I used to be an extremely picky eater and wouldn’t eat anything but junk food. I could down a whole bag of Cheetos and a 2-liter Coke like it was nothing. I eat everything now, but the way I ate before doesn’t really seem to have affected my development growing up. I look completely normal. I’m not overweight, don’t have bad skin or hair loss, and I assume I’m mentally fine since I graduated from college.

How come when I read about shit like this it gives me a massive anxiety attack?