/sci/ - Science & Math

Don't Einstein postulates actually make the case for aether stronger instead of disproving it?

To me the speed of light being the limit, and that you need more and more energy to speed up the closer to the speed of light you're already moving shows that electromagnetic field is stationary aether-like entity - speed of light being the limit because electromagnetic waves travel at the speed of light and you can't move the field itself - only within it and limited by it.

Escapade - edition

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I mean 400 million years is a long fucking time.

>Darwinian evolution proves him correct.
How does this make you feel? This is a sincere question. I don't know how many people have shed light on this.

What do you think is the hardest step to intelligent life? (assuming the previous step was complete for 2 and 3)
1. Abiogenesis
2. Complex multicellular life
3. Intelligent life and civilization

What's the greatest scientific achievement to come out of Africa in the last 100 years?

Easy Difficulty: Literally anything.

Normal Difficulty: No Afrikaners or other ethnically european or asian people.

Hard Difficulty: Normal difficulty plus also educated in Africa.

Time travel is impossible. The past and future do not exist. Only now exists.

>You can't have an object that has a speed of 0 in every frame of reference, that would be impossible. Something must respect the relative velocity of the frame of reference.
>Photons? Oh yes, in all frames of reference their velocity is c
I'm becoming slightly skeptical that physicists actually have a decent grasp on their own systems.

How would you harness and commercialize the power of the perpetual motion machine that is Yudkowsky's otherworldly metabolism?

Time likely exists because there are (most likely) functions that can only be calculated in iterative recursive matter.
I.e. to calculate F(t_x) you have to go through all the steps: F(t_x) = f(F(t_x-1)) all down to F(t_0) (initial condition) and there is no shortcut to calculating it (quickly) directly.
Universe is like a large computer doing calculation of some such function and its steps are what we perceive as time.

Don't give out advice, don't reply to the schizofag... unless you're bored.

How do you know that even though the future was like the past in the past, that the future will be like the past in the future? and what is your basis for knowing that?

I've always wondered this, are there very strange functions or phenomenons that exist such that they behave normally and predictably up until a sudden "large number" then suddenly stops behaving how it used to and becomes chaotic or erratic?

Kind of like the twin prime conjecture, what if it turns out there aren't even infinitely many twin primes past an arbitrary point, that would be so strange, does there exist something like this?

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>The Chad Grok
>The Virgin GPT

how the FUCK did Einstein figure out that c is equal in all inertial frames sitting in an office with a pad and pencil? and better yet, what is the actual explanation for why this is? it makes no fucking logical sense whatsoever to my brainlet mind and goes against the entire framework of all physics up to that point. I understand that its true because mathematically it makes predictions we confirm to be correct, but WHY and HOW did this nigga realize it just goofing off? bonus question: what is the actual relationship between space and time explained in a way a retard can digest?

why did scientists in the 19th century believe interstellar space was full of ether? why is this random organic compound supposed to be in space?

Why do you not want to get a PhD?
>Higher earning potential
>Produce a novel contribution to your field
>Prove you can do research, problem solve etc which are valuable skills employers are looking for

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theoretical basis of electrogravitic propulsion just dropped

all the other tests are shit (outside of mensa), take this one
https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/FSIQ/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-structure_constant

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>In physics, the fine-structure constant, also known as the Sommerfeld constant, commonly denoted by α alpha (the Greek letter alpha), is a fundamental physical constant that quantifies the strength of the electromagnetic interaction between elementary charged particles. It is a dimensionless quantity (dimensionless physical constant), independent of the system of units used, which is related to the strength of the coupling of an elementary charge e with the electromagnetic field

WTF is this number? Is it important? What does it measure?
Can you show me a .webm of this in actual physical reality or is it just more madeup nerd slop like "Ether" and "Dark Matter" and "Black Energy"?

Why is this considered a "scientific scandal"?
Shouldn't a completely untested medication be expected to have some undesirable, unpredicted side effects? Thats why they normally test medications before giving them to the general public

Is the fundamental definition of "mental illness" no more complicated as "anything the government wants to define as an illegal belief"?

Isn't it unethical for man to horde what he got by mere chance from his animal brethren?
To say otherwise is another "muh chosen people" is it not?

Even the most radical tree hugging vegan merely wants our kingdom-kin to live out their unfulfilling, painful and short lives as uncomprehending savages, forgetting that we did nothing to deserve the gift of sapience. Will no one have mercy on our brothers?

you were saying?

Status?

it's over everything is fucked edition

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How long until all jobs are replaced by robots including art and manual labor?

The Universe 25 experiment (1958–1962) remains one of the most haunting reflections of what happens when abundance meets social collapse.

American ethologist John B. Calhoun created a so-called “Mouse Paradise” — a habitat with unlimited food, water, and shelter — to study the behavioral effects of overpopulation. At first, the mice thrived.
They ate, bred, and lived without fear. But once the population reached around 600, something dark emerged.

Social hierarchies formed. The strong dominated resources. Mothers abandoned or even attacked their young. Males lost interest in mating or became violently territorial. Eventually, reproduction ceased altogether. The colony descended into cannibalism, isolation, and apathy, until it died out completely — despite everything they needed to survive being right in front of them.

Calhoun repeated the experiment 25 times, each with the same grim outcome.
His conclusion was chilling: when a society loses purpose, cooperation, and social structure — even in abundance — it collapses from within.

Today, Universe 25 stands as a stark warning about the balance between comfort, connection, and survival — a reminder that thriving requires more than just having enough to live. It requires meaning.

Why have Harvard students gotten so much smarter over the past 50 years?

Is there scientific proof that aphantasia exists?

niggas will tell you it’s a 4D manifold, a metric, a vectorfield or whatever... basically just descriptive abstract math shit. or That it's “nothing” but also “expands.” That it has no substance but can bend, ripple, and carry waves. That light redshifts not because it loses energy, but because “space itself stretches.” Don’t ask what stretches. Don’t ask what it stretches into. dont ask how space is connected.

what a load of barnicles...
Modern physics has no clue what space is. maybe space has mass, maybe space is just baseline potential for mass. the jews dont really know even if they claim they do. yet all of their gay theories are built on shit like spaces and fields which they do not really understand.

How do you get through without being filtered by trick questions?

My answer to this is 63. Would they let me in?

>tfw too intelligent to function in a society built by imbeciles
Does anyone else here know this feel?

All porn is child porn because you're getting off to skin cells which are a few months old at best

>drop down 10% in bf
>feel like I lost 10 iq points
why

why is science so boring now?

>Three "Scholars" from University of Michigan Laboratory Charged for Conspiring to Smuggle Biological Materials into the U.S. as part of terrorism plot

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/three-chinese-national-scholars-university-michigan-laboratory-charged-conspiring-smuggle

How bad was the terrorist attack the Chinese were trying to execute? What would the likely death toll have been? What about the economic impact?

PhD David Deutsch says he's as sure many worlds interpretation is correct as he is that evolution is correct. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bux0SjaUCY0

Is he right to be so confident the many worlds interpretation is true?

Global change of climate leading to more extreme weather events around the equator is going to destroy this region and will lead to economic growth of the global north.

We shoud take the climate accelerionist pill, because climate change benefits the whites, so long as we dont accept climate refugees.
China and India are going under. Why is no one talking about this?

Picrel is showing social cost of carbon, computed from projected GDP impacts of climate change, such is lower life expectancy, lower agricultural yields, weather damages...


https://sci-hub.se/https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0282-y

Why can't this be made?

There is no possible way that China's population is as big as they claim it is. In 1979 China instituted the "1 child policy" which set their birth rate to a maximum of 40% of replacement level and at that time China's population was 960 million according to the CCP, which was also doubtful since the country's population was supposedly 500 million in 1950 when the CCP took over and subsequently they suffered "The great famine" for 3 years in which 100 million died, so the 960 million figure in 1979 also seems like a probable overstatement, but even if it were true, the one-child policy would've meant a decline in population following 1979. Furthermore the country has seen practically no immigration while millions have fled China.
So there is no possible way their population swelled to the over 1.4 billion the currently claim.

Can /sci/ estimate what China's current population really is?

nope, no science for (You). We need to fund Israel!

A function maps one input to one output... but why don't we make this bi-directional? A function must map an output to exactly one input.

[math]f(X) = f(Y) \iff X = Y[/math]

This seems like it would make it much easier to reason about things if outputs are unique.

was he really that smart?

Radians are overrated. Why can't mathematicians use degrees which are much better?

Whenever degrees is used, people can instantly understand it. Take something like 40 degrees as an example. You instantly know that it is a little bit less than half of a right angle (or imagine subtracting 1/9 of a 45 degree angle).

Then take the same in radians: 0.69813170079773183... radians. How in the hell are you supposed to understand what that means? You don't. It's a mess of ugly random numbers instead of the beautiful 40 degrees.