/sci/ - Science & Math

>>8105413
Do you have the ability to go to the nail salon wearing a pink tutu and riding a tie dye skateboard? Yes, you do. Therefore, you have free will. Stop circle-jerking over the nature of determinism and do some real science.

Didn't get much discourse last time I posted this, so trying once again:

Are there any Priest/seminarians on /sci/ by any chance? How has the church helped fund your research? Are you studying Astrophysics? How hard is it for a Priest who is a physicist to get to spend time at the Vatican Observatory if he is a non-diocesan Priest (ie: has taken a vow of poverty and can't fund his own trip) or is it actually easier because their Orders sponsor them? Have you been able to go to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences?

Were you able to continue your science studies in seminary or did you have to do internships/other things on the side? Does it depend on the seminary?

Or just in general has anyone on /sci/ been able to visit the PAS or Vatican Observatory?

I know this thread is going to get shit on most likely, but it's worth a try. Contributing with some good videos that anyone on /sci/ would enjoy regardless of beliefs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L15e2sNZsU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXKEI_G7jjQ

Are there any Priest/seminarians on /sci/ by any chance? How has the church helped fund your research? Are you studying Astrophysics? How hard is it for a Priest who is a physicist to get to spend time at the Vatican Observatory if he is a non-diocesan Priest (ie: has taken a vow of poverty and can't fund his own trip) or is it actually easier because their Orders sponsor them? Have you been able to go to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences?

Were you able to continue your science studies in seminary or did you have to do internships/other things on the side? Does it depend on the seminary?

Or just in general has anyone on /sci/ been able to visit the PAS or Vatican Observatory?

I know this thread is going to get shit on most likely, but it's worth a try. Contributing with some good videos that anyone on /sci/ would enjoy regardless of beliefs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L15e2sNZsU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXKEI_G7jjQ

>heliocentrism
>genetics
>big bang theory

no need to say thanks.

Does the second law of thermodynamics negate the possibility of a static universe?

Because that's what I've heard.

And if that's the case, then why was Lemaître's theory of the expanding universe met with such skepticism? Shouldn't scientists have known that the universe was dynamic even before Lemaître worked out the math to prove it?

Doesn't the second law of thermodynamics negate the possibility of a static universe?

If it does, then why was Lemaître's theory of the expanding universe so controversial? Shouldn't everyone have known that the universe was dynamic before Lemaître proved it with red shift or whatever?

scientists can also be priests, proving that God exists

checkmate atheists

Why doesn't Lemaître get credit for his discovery of the accelerating universe?

Who decided to give all of the credit to Hubble for copying Lemaître's work years later?

Also why isn't Lemaître's "hypothesis of the primeval atom" referred to as the "primeval atom theory," instead of the "big bang theory," which was a condescending nickname given to the idea by one of its detractors?

Scientists can also be priests, proving that God exists.

Checkmate atheists.

Do you know who this scientist is?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble%27s_law

Georges Lemaître's great discovery was named after the guy who copied his research two years later. And his "hypothesis of the primeval atom" was given the incredibly stupid nickname of "the big bang theory" by one of the idea's detractors, and for some reason it stuck.

>Although widely attributed to Edwin Hubble, the law was first derived from the General Relativity equations by Georges Lemaître in a 1927 article where he proposed that the Universe is expanding and suggested an estimated value of the rate of expansion, now called the Hubble constant.[2][3][4][5][6]

So why's it called Hubble's Law and not Lemaître's law?