/sci/ - Science & Math

>>6507052
The zygote contains a unique genetic code, it is an individual organism. How "nah"?

>>6507016
The fact is that the fetus will one day have such rudimentary consciousness and basic emotions. Any attempts to pinpoint the beginning of what we would consider "alive" are arbitrary definitions based on semantics and self serving rationalisations. What we can say with absolute certainty is that when fertilisation occurs, a new individual is brought into existence.

Daily reminder that those opposed to unnecessary abortion are on the right side of history and that abortion is a basic human rights issue; in that the right to not be killed in the womb trumps the right to kill someone in your womb.
>"The unborn are not granted the same rights as the born, therefore abortion is ok."
Exactly, that's the human rights issue we speak of.
>"It's not a person, it's a collection of unthinking cells."
Legally it's not a person but biologically it is human. It is a biological set of conditioned reactions just like you. It's fundamental right to not be killed unjustly is on par with yours.
>inb4 this is not science
Let's discuss the science of abortion and fetus sentience.

Why do human bodies experience themselves as human bodies? I know it's the brain and all, but why does that actually experience itself whilst coldly reacting to stimuli? I'm not trying to be profound or shit, just curious.

I don't get how the universe is aware of itself. I don't get the relation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jog5VZde70&list=PLKaMVzmGcqBJmNWlBMAw9hjsfyL11vwEE&index=2

Psychonaut thread:
All psychonauts, organic chemists, philosophers, psychopharmacologists and interested people come on in.

>what is a psychonaut?
A psychonaut is a person who explores the human mind in its different states of conciousness, usually through their own experiences. Commonly, drugs and/or meditation are used to enter different states of conciousness.

>picture of yourself(optional)
>age/sex/location(optional)
>drugs you've experimented with
>drug of choice
>how long have you been interested in psychonautics

Also sort of an ask me anything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSbdQncOAq0&index=58&list=PLKaMVzmGcqBIxU1cT3-BnRB8IIjsPtwoS

>>6449364
It's the US manned space launch system, it has no competitors, there is no market. It's a crude analogy.

>>6449272
That analogy is very thin indeed simply because it was only 20 years later that the age of the wide body aircraft began with the 747 which revolutionised air transport not just air travel.

Bigness is needed from time to time and it's not like small launchers have disappeared.

You're argument is retarded.

>>6447034
Nope. The electromagnetic repulsion of the protons would be orders of magnitude higher than from the electrons. Elections could not hold nuclei together.

>>6370951
That's a pretty fucking enormous error in some contexts. Not that definition was scraped in favour of the bar just a few years later, proof it was a failure.

>>6370946
No, read carefully. The meridional definition failed, it was replaced by the bar. The bar was the definition up until the modern definitions. The meter was a success it's original definitions was not due to differences in the measured distance along the great circle, not the bar's manufacture.

Also please not the discussion is moot because it was based on the latitude of Paris. Once again the Egyptians did not use this system.

>>6370908
Nope.
If you actually read those articles you'd see the definition based on latitude was wrong and it lasted just years. The prototype bar was not the fraction it was intended to be. For 200 years the meter was simply the length of the prototype bar in Paris.

>>6368690
I don't know how magnetic reconnection works but that isn't what I study. It is however the standard model of the solar flare. It doesn't matter to my research what the mechanism is.

>Isn't is simpler to suppose that the solar flare was the endpoint of a current flow?
How would this model explain the geometry of hard and soft x-ray flares (footprints, the coronal source) and their evolution? How does it explain the hard x-ray spectrum? How does it explain the observed shocks? How does it explain the connection to CME's and big flare syndrome? What is the energy source? How does it explain particle escape? How does it explain radio bursts and their as association with flares? What about microwave emission?... I could go on and on.

Your guess is not on a level playing field with the leading theory.

>>6368657
EU was started by crackpots. They didn't ask questions they proposed there own solution with no real theorist all or observational basis. It's just a string of thoughts that shrugs at the sight of a testable hypothesis. I don't object to questions I object to guesses which are announced as theory.

> If the electrostatic forces were taken into account in the original formulations of modern cosmology why are we just now asking this very basic question? Why has it taken so long to begin asking these questions?
This is not cosmology and the fact it is a field of study does not mean it was never considered anywhere in astronomy. That's a total fallacy.
Planetary formation is a hot topic at the moment, the fact it has new frontiers does not indicate ideas were ignored.

>Tesla's death ray was relativistically accelerated mecury ions.
There is no evidence of it ever existing.

>>6368621
Emitted from solar flares. A solar flare happens, boom magnetic reconnection, lots of accelerated particles, huge fluxes of electrons. If the magnetic configuration is right some escape upwards away from the Sun. Some of these produce solar radio bursts. If they happen in a well connected region the particles can reach us at 1 AU. Or more correctly a spacecraft.

>>6368116
Nonsense as always from the EU crowd. The research in question is proof enough that astronomy doesn't ignore everything by gravity.

>>6311855
Very true

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XFQUPDonP7U&list=PLKaMVzmGcqBJmNWlBMAw9hjsfyL11vwEE&feature=plpp

http://youtube.com/watch?list=PLKaMVzmGcqBLTFRtN6hqHGSeopfF3KUGU&v=ZIIz3-5zQNk&feature=plpp

Not for homework btw just curious how u would do something like this

Thanks for the help

Also what is the relationship between statistics, math, and (models) of reality? Why does this stuff work and have actual predictable values?

>>6214634