/sci/ - Science & Math

"Est autem fides credere quod nondum vides; cuius fidei merces est videre quod credis."
>Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
- St. Augustine

The above quotation is correct, the only way to believe in some things is to have faith that they exist. In this Government controlled matrix-like reality we live in, there are three main ladders or pyramids that we are forced into:

1. Knowledge. (Smart/Dumb)
2. Status. (Famous/Unknown)
3. Money. (Rich/Poor)

Most of us spend our lives trying to appear as if we're better then everyone else in each of the areas, if someone says something that makes them seem more intelligent, it's generally in our minds to shine brighter, for the self-fulfilment (same goes for money and status). With 'faith' or 'imagination' however, it's possible to feel as if you're superman, the most intelligent (intelligent already without knowledge), the richest (rich already without money) and the most famous (without the need for social acquaintances) -- and this all revolves around putting faith into those things that you do not see!

Reality is subjective -- this system we live amongst has been built, by man, the most important thing anyone must do is distinguish between those of which are concepts, generated by our own human nature and those of which are completely natural; as in the source that brought us to the stage where we could design our own concepts.

"Verum et factum convertuntur"
The true and the made are interchangeable.
>One can know with certainty only what he have created himself

Tom Lehrer, cool mathematician or coolest mathematician?

In before; Lobachevsky.

MAKE THAT 10:21
Do it at both 9 and 10

At 9 with the first picture,
At 10 with this one

ALL HAIL AETHER
2011, KING OF /SCI/ AND ALL THE PEASANTS THAT INHABIT IT

This thread is now about Harvard Mathematician, Pianist and Satirical Songwriter Tom Lehrer.

Gather round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun,
A man whose allegiance
Is ruled by expedience.
Call him a Nazi, he won't even frown.
"Ha, Nazi Schmazi," says Wernher von Braun.

Don't say that he's hypocritical,
Say rather that he's apolitical.

"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department," says Wernher von Braun.

Some have harsh words for this man of renown,
But some think our attitude
Should be one of gratitude,
Like the widows and cripples in old London town
Who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun.

You too may be a big hero,
Once you've learned to count backwards to zero.
"In German oder English I know how to count down,
Und I'm learning Chinese," says Wernher von Braun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPrAuF2f_oI