/sci/ - Science & Math

>>6654107

Don't. There are a whole lot of different types of birthmarks and different therapies that will and won't work based off of the specific dermatology going on there.

>>6645414

I highly doubt that you are a neurosurgeon based off of your answer to this question. "Minimally invasive surgery" is the obvious choice for any brain surgery; this is about as much of a nonanswer as telling a woman you can use plastic surgery to make her look better when she asks for advice or saying that you would prescribe medicine to treat a bacterial infection.

Source: I plan, consult and supervise treatments for the entire "minimally invasive surgeries" field you mentioned.

>>6654021

Echo chambers, they only are willing to acknowledge his opinions and will only enter "honest discussion" with those who agree with them entirely.

Telling these sorts that you are working on a PhD in physics is like telling them you have less of an idea about physics than they do, it's just a scared and perverse line of reasoning.

>>6644558
Schrodinger famously never really told anyone how he came up with his equation. It would seem that he predominately constructed it to satisfy three important criteria:

1) The de Broglie hypothesis;

2) Conservation of energy;

3) Classical wave propagation.

>>6642169
> It's almost as if NDEs are just very vivid dreams/hallucinations generated by a brain on the brink of shutting down.

I have always wondered if there is a reasoning as to why this is a good idea, like if it confers some manner of evolutionary advantage. The only thing I could think of would be it prevents a dying person from freaking out badly and thus endangering nearby people

>>6640887

Unless he were to come up with some manner of system to logically test his ideas that in no way relied upon quantitative analyses he would either be relying on math to discuss his ideas or be unable to have them verified.

>>6640062
The Catholic Church was one of the greatest scientific funding sources of all time. A handful of historically misinterpreted disputes between the Church and the scientific community doesn't change that.

You're free to think what you will of religion but the fact of the matter is that for centuries people studied science to understand the way in which the god or gods they believed in created our universe.

>>6640864
>Why does this board put so much emphasis on mathematics

Mathematics is the grounds upon which all scientific development has been made.

>and usually degrades any other science besides physics?

I don't specifically agree with doing so, but we are entering an age where the massive breakthroughs in other scientific fields can be loosely seen as applications of physics. My field, radiology, could not exist without the input of physicists who are as educated in radiation physics as doctors are in radiobiology. Medical imaging of every sort is also applied physics.

>We are just humans looking at a universe that we BARELY understand?

Yes, but we have also devised a system of axioms from which we can construct systems that both explain and predict phenomena we observe all the while being founded in valid logic deduction.

>What if you're wrong?

I might be.

> and popping 2 hits of some strong acid and reading people's minds is really what its all about?

You can have all of the enlightening experiences and "genius realizations" you would like on acid, some might even be true, but without the aforementioned rigor and precision that math has given the scientific method you are left unable to meaningfully discuss these ideas.

Math and physics double major in undergrad.

Currently working on PhD in medical physics.

>>6632037
>unfortunately for you, we know how life forms

We have a tenuous and widely debated understanding of how life formed one time.

>>6632028
>If we find certain chemicals, we find life

We absolutely do not.

Yes, the entire electromagnetic spectrum is just photon radiation of different frequencies.

>>6631253

How on earth could this man have a way to predict when an alien will just pop up with any certainty?

>>6629796
Insufficient data for meaningful answer.

Undergraduate research is a big deal if you mean to go on to graduate school.

Honestly a thesis isn't the biggest deal in the world though.

>>6628128
1/50ish odds with a pleurectomy and effectively unheard of in pleurodesis.

I have heard anecdotal reports from people who have had pleurodesis that they have reduced lung capacity though the medical expectation is that normal function will be regained.

>>6628022
>>6628001

You're really going to hate college if this is your idea of "meaningful scientific discourse."

So when you multiply a vector by a matrix you get a new vector that (generally speaking) points in a different direction and has a different length.

Square matrices will leave a handful of vectors' direction unchanged when the are multiplied against them and only scale their length. That vector is called an eigenvector and the numerical factor it is scaled by is known as its eigenvalue.

>>6627467

Mathematical objects do not exist, they are categorized and precise tools coupled with axioms used to make logically consistent conclusions about them.

Even the most basic mathematical idea, a number, doesn't exist. You can show me six apples no problem, but you can't show me a six in and of itself. This is the reason I don't get the qualms over complex numbers people seem to have.

>>6614966

The drinking outside of getting drunk I'm talking about is really just like one or two with dinner if I'm eating with a friend or something like that.

Does /sci/ drink, alcohol specifically?

>Yup. I'll usually go out and drink to the point of being drunk once a week. Usually another night or two where I'll have a couple beers with some friends.

>What are your thoughts on alcohol? ex: Is it okay in moderation?

It's fun and I have no trouble exhibiting self control. I don't know how someone can function daily as an alcoholic or would want to but it clearly can be a hazardous habit for many people. I have a family history of alcoholism and have kept that in mind throughout my adult life.

>Should it be avoided altogether?

Some people are apparently incapable of self moderation and the best alternative is not drinking.


>Does it kill possible gains (muscle/strength gains)?

My understanding is that those with informed opinions on the matter believe it inhibits protein synthesis though I am not adequately familiar with the research.

He seems to have a firm knowledge of an introductory quantum mechanics course.

>>6612674
Going to agree with this. You're trying to become the top of a field, you're trying to get to the point where it is impossible for someone else to tell you how to do your job. If you're asking 4chan how to study you aren't made for medicine.

>>6611082
That is a pretty common thing to have happen in theoretical physics.

Even if the physics isn't right, the math still is. Other people get ideas from it and apply it to their own work.