/sci/ - Science & Math

>Understands that science has proven the existence of variations in intelligence between races
>Understands that these variations are derived from averages of these races
>Understands that since these variations are derived from averages, there will always be more intelligent individuals than him who are of differing race than himself
>Doesn't feel superior to other races at all, in any form whatsoever, even after having understood all this

Is there anything wrong with this? Or am I still a fucking racist?

This is exactly like a scientist explaining that some races have varying average heights. It's accepted that an individual from China will be, STATISTICALLY speaking, shorter than an individual of the same age and gender from the Netherlands.

This isn't racist, is it? So why is the observation that intelligence differs between races somehow racist?

What the fuck is the difference?

Is there really such a thing as true randomness?

Question: Do you guys think that humanity as a whole advances itself? Or does it need certain individuals such as Einstein, Newton, Copernicus, etc. to guide it along??? I'm doing calc 2 now and was told that it was being worked on by both Newton and Leibniz seperately.

I've been assigned the task to find out for myself what the displacement of a wave is in physics, I thought of you guys straight away :), so in layman's terms, what is the displacement of a wave?

Hey /sci/. I know theres a theory out there about the big crunch, pretty much the opposite of the big bang. Also, some people say that our big bang came after a previous crunch before it, and that it will eventually happen again. However, this doesn't make sense to me because when the big bang happened, only hydrogen was present, and for something like 17 minutes (theorized) afterwards, no element heavier than beryllium was formed. Wouldnt this mean that the big crunch which is coming in our universes future contain all known elements and the next big bang, if it happens, would be totally different? Or am I missing something? Is it possible that a reverse fusion type process could happen, in which heavy elements are stripped back down to hydrogen?