/sci/ - Science & Math

Is the pattern on the moon actually this much of an accurate representation of the continents?
Can someone help me understand how we go from picture 3 to 4 and 5?

literally, that's me, so go ahead, get your science doubts cleared out, before you say anything, I escaped legal psychiatric supervision, and I flew to the moon, and landed nicely in a pile of cash, yes that is literally my story
as I told my downie lead psychiatrist "all I needed was a job"

Be Creative

How scientific is tabula rasa as an ideological cornerstone in sociology?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O06u2Ct3XcI

How do anti-determinists justify something coming from nothing, which is essentially what they believe when they support quantum uncertainty

Can things receding from each other faster than 1c exchange information?

Where did he go?

My psychiatrist has me on five different medications. They work, but damn, five different meds...

how wide is the universe
>93.016 billion light years
how old is the universe
>13.8 billion years

how does this work?

https://www.quatism.com/lottery.htm

Summary:
Following the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, quantum measurements result in a sample of all possible measurements, so mapping these to bits will necessarily diverge worldlines. Typically, these worldlines would converge naturally because those quantum measurements get aggregated out (to outside observers they're effectively the same,) but if you do something like map the results to big things then the divergences can persist and split off new worldlines. This is described in depth in https://www.quatism.com/theory.htm - however this has some additional advantages in the context of the lottery. It won't cover all worldlines, but it will potentially provide the ability to travel to the worldlines wherein you won via morphic travel if you can figure out how to master it.

This is /x/, so likely everyone knows "the lottery is rigged." But what if there's a way to un-rig it? That's what this is aimed at primarily. A rigged lottery relies upon having someone to rig it on behalf of, perhaps multiple someones, perhaps a great many someones in their own VIP lottery pool. What this does is provide a sort of multiversal DDoS attack against a rigged lottery: when the number of people playing quantum tickets exceeds the number of tickets available to parties rigging the lottery the absolute best-case scenario for a rigged jackpot would be a split pot, wherein everyone playing quantum tickets still has a worldline wherein they won.

>Drop known material and unknown material of similar size into water.
>Whatever sinks the fastest has the highest density.
>Determine identity of unknown material with periodic table.
Scientists are hiding circular reasoning, aren't they?

why hasn't there been a man made mission to Mars done yet?

Why has science stagnated?

>IQ is +6 standard deviations
>cranial circumference is +6 standard deviations
>could speak clearly at six months old
>a psychometrician tested him for a news program and said he was lightyears beyond anyone he's measured
>mother is the ne'er-do-well daughter of a rich shipping magnate, father is an obscure Jewish WW2 veteran who died in Mexico
>went from dirt-poor to a winner of game shows, a successful farmer, and a widely read schizo blogger without even trying
>also a professional bodybuilder
>has a grand unified theory

How do people like this even exist?

Sometimes on X, as in real life, a discussion arises about Ashkenazi Jewish IQ. Such discussions usually involve claims (such as the one made by Grok above) that Ashkenazi Jewish IQ is superior to that of whites, which explains their observed over-representation in positions of power such as academia and politics. These claims are hotly disputed. As a psychological scientist, I thought I’d investigate, so that you don’t have to.

The 2005 Cochran paper referenced by Grok can be found here. In the section titled ‘The Psychometric Evidence about Ashkenazi IQ’, it states: “Ashkenazi Jews have the highest average IQ of any ethnic group for which there are reliable data. They score 0.75 to 1.0 standard deviations above the general European average, corresponding to an IQ [of] 112-115. This has been seen in many studies (Backman, 1972; Levinson, 1959; Romanoff, 1976).”

However, these claims, as well as the other claims from this section, cannot be verified.

Backman’s study can be found here. The most important table from it is reproduced below.

>struggling with calc 2
>can’t even recall most trig rules/methods

I hate being retarded

-Calculus: Stewart, Apostol.
-Linear Algebra: Lay, Friedberg.
-Vectorial calculus: Marsden-Tromba.
-Differential equations: Zill, Tenenbaum.
-Complex variable: Ahlfors.
-Probability and Statistics: Evans.
-Topology: Munkres.
-Analysis: Sherbert, Apostol.
-Physics: Sears.
-Thermodynamics: Callen.
-Programming Language: C, by Ivor Horton and Herbert Schildt.
-Mechanics: Landau-Lifshitz.
-Abstract Algebra: Fraleigh.
-Differential geometry: Do Carmo.
-Galois theory: Rotman.
-Electromagnetism: Reitz.
-Optics: Hecht.
-Quantum Physics: Eisberg.
-Electric circuits: Nilsson.

Discuss (other better books, opinions, experiences, etc).

I hate it, it's too "dry", too "mathematical", he barely explains anything intuitively or didactically. He just throws definitions and theorems at you and calls it a day. It's the Rudin of Differential Geometry.

>All matter is condensed light.
Can anyone dispute this?

I was helping my nephew with his math homework and realized I'm completely fucking retarded. What are some good ways to get good at math as an adult to at least a basic level? I try reading it and it may as well be Mandarin to me. Looks like indecipherable gibberish. Pic related. It's how I felt failing at middle school math.

He was the guy who created the Price equation for altruism. His work was built on William Hamilton's theories about genetics controlling human decision making. From what I understand, animals (including human beings) who 'selflessly' help each other, are in fact behaving selfishly, as their sacrifice for the sake of other individuals helps in furthering their own genes. In animals, this helps explain behaviour like sacrificing for herd members that are genetically related. Thus, genetically similar individuals may live on and reproduce. In human beings social factors interact with genetics. Human beings will help out and sacrifice for people that they know over strangers, because that act is beneficial for at least one of them or maybe even both in the long run. I think in humans the social aspect trumps the genetic one. Our society is built on give and take, social structures are comprised of groups of people with different genetic backgrounds working together. Therefore the Price equation in humans would imply that humans would behave altruistically for people they know well rather than strangers. This would explain in-group preferences and implies that behaving altruistically towards strangers is a bad strategy, genetically.
Price was so disturbed by the implications of his theory (true selflessness doesn't exist) that he spent the rest of his life selflessly giving away his possessions to random people in London, in an attempt to prove himself wrong. He started off by giving his clothes, watches, furniture, money to homeless hobos. Then he invited homeless hobos that he never knew to live in his house. He began doing charity work such as cleaning the streets and whatnot. His objective was to prove that behaving altruistically with strangers is truly selfless and a good strategy genetically. Eventually, he himself ended up homeless because the hobos he invited kicked him out of his own house. His health declined considerably and eventually he committed suicide.

A real life Mary's room happened in mathematics in the 1980's when the availability of high speed computers allowed complex fractal structures which had previously been studied entirely through non-visual abstract calculations to be visualized readily and immediately. So, did the most knowledgable experts learn something new? In particular, did the experts on Julia sets suddenly have a "wow" when they saw Julia sets for the first time?

To some extent, the answer is yes. The computer calculations revealed some new things. But in regards to this thought experiment, that would be like Mary having incomplete knowledge about red. The more surprising result is to what an extent the answer was no. The computer calculations in their gross features mostly reflected visualizations that were already present in the heads of the experts. When they saw the pictures, they would say, "oh yes, that's about right. That's what I thought it would look like".

The greatest impact was on mathematicians that didn't have the visualization in their heads already. One person said that he heard a talk by Julia about these things, but couldn't understand what he was on about until he saw the first pictures. Similar comments can be made regarding simulations of other complex mathematical structures. The Mary's room business is actually a commonplace thing in mathematics.

Time travel is never going to happen, is it?

How does a microphone work? With materials listed

Provided without commentary.

what are some of the wildest studies youve heard of?

They had bad grades in school, are unhygienic and yet have so much knowledge it's almost alien to the observer. For example, I know how UFOs work, know how to hack NSA, know how to build an untraceable smartphone, can tie science with scripture, know a lot about theology and the Bible (I believe in Eclectic Gnosticism + Hermeticism + Kabbalah - Lurianic/Zoharic), quantum physics is painfully simple for me to understand (I understand it like 2+2=4) – something most ACCREDITED physicists are struggling at, and my conclusions, discoveries and understanding of physics is aeons ahead of material science (because I'm of the Tesla/Nazi line of physics, in that I believe fields are fundamental - not matter). I study psychoneuroimmunology and how the placebo effect, and have developed custom cosmological models to rival Einstein. But yet I have no teeth, rarely bathe, don't clean my room, and I'm constantly caught up in deep philosophical/ontological thought. I hace schizoaffective disorder (manic type), clinical depression, ADHD, anxiety disorder, autism, schizotypal PD, avoidant PD and paranoid PD - I'm constantly having racing thoughts and my brain can think a mile a minute. Isn't it weird how this works?

What is the science behind milk, containing all amino acids and energy, having a lower nutri-score(tm) than 20 grams of almond mixed with water?

Probably a small brain question but with LIGO experiments, how do they know exactly the source of the gravitational wave? One of the first results was a black hole merger 1.3 billion light-years from Earth, but I would assume that there is a lot of noise between that and us.

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 infinites. 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 men aren't supposed to have sex with teens then why are they so much more sexually attractive than adult women?
How does science explain the above paradox?

What if you like took around a thousand people of all kinds 50% male 50% women beetwen 18-25 brought them on a island from which they cant escape and there is this giant computer that randomly assigns out meaningless tasks and plans out their daily routine and if anyone tries to form a hoerarchy or socialize more than the minimum there are drones with cattle prodes that shock them so if someone raises their voice, talks bad about others, tries to be violent or even helpfull he gets zapped.
And they have to socialize beetwen random groups and mate accordingly and everyone receives the same resources regardless if that day they had to write poetry or mine in the coal mines so there is no way they can better or worsen their situation, no hierarchy everyone gets the same treatment and the computer decides who mates with whom and who rhey socialize with and all the other stuff

>our equations keep exploding into infinity
>we can't get any meaningful information out of them
>let's invent a new infinity!
>we'll divide the problem infinity by the new infinity so the infinities cancel out!
Surely Dirac was taking the piss, no?

Do lesbians exist?

how does something like this even work? most of the time i can find the trick (it usually amounts to looking at a special line), but i'm never sure of my answer 100% of the time

is there a more surefire but boring way to solve this?

esmGFP is an artificial green fluorescent protein designed using the AI model ESM3, developed by EvolutionaryScale. The protein does not exist in nature and was generated through a simulation of 500 million years of molecular evolution.

Thoughts on this oaper? Is gravity a zero point fluctuation? And does this mean energy can be created then

What's Witty on about now? Is there really some sense in which a line and a circle always intersect each other, sometimes in real points or else in complex points? I've never heard of that but also I've had barely any schooling in complex numbers beyond "it's sqrt(-1) lmao".

>let's just forget about Brouwer and focus on the pragmatic side of mathematics, surely nothing wrong can come from that
>

Here's a fun geometry problem for you. Think you can handle it?

The disks are sliding along a path defined by the top and bottom walls, they transition from a double file to a single file. What's the equation f(x) for the curve such that α stays constant but β is allowed to change.

Why are some things easier with your non dominant hand?
Like fretting a guitar

Are we literally eating and drinking each other’s excreted salt and minerals that are being filtered through nature constantly and over and over again?

I won’t be verbose, sentimental, circular, or emotionally cluttered.

I’ll only lay down the core axis here.

I’ll drop a single link — a "turning point". Leading to a place (obviously not spam or meaningless promotion).

Whether you enter or not is up to you. Or more accurately — up to your essence, your cognitive limits, your biases, your beliefs.

But if you still have the capacity to recognize these words — for what they are. Without reacting through unconscious emotional-social reflexes…

Then you’ve already glimpsed a part of what that link contains.

(If you "have nowhere else left for your core system to go", then that link may well be the last road of hope.)

https://test05-veiled-under-the-shell-of-the-common-system.vercel.app/

why aren't you becoming smarter by practicing it for 10 minutes a day?

if science kills animals to study them, then fuck science

How do we prove that zeta(5) is irrational? We know zeta(3) is irrational by Apéry's beautiful proof, but how do we extend these two other integers?

Many mathematicians all of zeta(3), zeta(5), zeta(7), .... to be transcendental.

Btw by zeta (n) I mean the Riemann zeta function of n, e.g. zeta(-1)=-1/12, zeta(2) = pi^2\6, zeta(4)=pi^4/90, etc...

seems like it would be difficult

-Learn picrel. All 13 books.
-Brain develops a fantastic, intuitive understanding on axiomatic systems, how to navigate them
-Treat everything else I learn as an axiomatic systems of sort
-Everything becomes easy
-???
-Profit

I can only image what life is like for those who receive an actually good education, including The Trivium and Quadrivium. Must feel good...

This social move to make IQ tests theoretically accessible to anyone and strip it of all cultural, linguistic, historical and whatever else biases made them SO BORING.

It's always these dreadful questions about shapes and predicting which one comes next. It's so joyless. Official IQ tests are devoid of any stimulation for the curious and inquisitive. It's like they introduced DEI measures so that even Aliens would be able to take our IQ tests and not be discriminated against. All that because they can't handle Human bio-diversity.

Are there any websites, where you can take old IQ tests? Not to IQ-fag, but just for fun? I don't want to fold a paper into a cube over and over again in my head and predict where the dots are.