/sci/ - Science & Math

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15791236

Lol you relativity fags need to stop sucking Einstein dick. His theory was bloody wrong and finally it has been disproven.

Einstein himself that it only took one piece of evidence for him to be wrong. This is it.

Einstein was a hack and his theory has so much holes in it. This is the final nail in the coffin. Einstein stole his ideas anyway of a Mathematician who did most of the calculations.

'The smooth continuous change in alpha may also imply the Universe is much larger than our observable part of it, possibly infinite.'


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2056018/Laws-physics-change-depending-universe.html#i
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8857154/Worlds-most-powerful-laser-to-tear-apart-the
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I personally have witnessed such an experiment on a much smaller scale. My wife and her lawyer turned up the heat and within a mere fraction of a second burned a hole in my wallet so deep it took almost a decade to recover. Powerful stuff indeed! Be very careful and very afraid of such heat.

in nearly every case mathematics is purely a tool

however the field of advanced mathematics is its own body of knowledge as worthy of study as the sciences

still though, applications of mathematics occur everywhere, and pure math is pretty much a purely academic feature in the absence of applications

i remember once back in high school, it was senior year IB further math and wed already done BC calc so the course was basically 2 months of 3d vectors and then random ass fucking shit that was like intro-level stuff from all over real math, there was a geometry problem he gave us, i think it was making some shape out of matchsticks or something, and I managed to nigger rig it to get the right shape without doing it mathematically, and he said "Well, I guess you're thinking like an engineer not a mathematician," idk really hit home I guess, I'm a math major now but I haven't taken any upper division applied shit just number theory, lin alg and some abstract analysis, and proofs are fucking difficult for me whereas the odd applied problem on the homework is always a relief because it's easy, however I'm pretty sure that's just because the problems like that you get in a mostly proofs class are really easy and I'm not good at math.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_Methods_of_Rationality

I think you might enjoy this.

Pic unrelated.

OK so obviously, the more applied a field is, the more useful it is, because if you cant apply something, its worthless, and if you apply something youre by definition using to create value

so the tier chart for non engineers should go, from shittiest to best

math
physics
chemistry
biology
psychology
sociology
economics (applied sociology w/ math)
finance (economics applied to actual businesses)
business (when you apply finance to the real world you are doing business)
english (the larger application of the world of business is the use of language)
philosophy (because the only direct use of speech is to ask questions and reason)

prove me wrong /sci/