/sci/ - Science & Math

Some of my professors say that academia has the tendency to appear that it's nothing but about egos. Is this true, /sci/?

Pic related, it's me just before doing my thesis.

Well if you consider an empty abyss itself as a form of energy, it could have started with it one time accumulating and converting itself into matter (since energy can convert itself into matter and vice versa), then after what probably is an insufferable amount of time, another matter accumulated, and after time another one, and then another, until it collected and built up into what we have now. Not only this, but it could also result in instabilities over time, since a universe begins and ends with a big bang. This is all speculating of course.

Look! A kitty!

This thread needs kittens.

>>3047902
But I am a cat.

>>2976242
But I am a cat.

I hate snake-oil salesmen, and I hate even more the stupid people who never bothered to learn shit from Shinola(tm) when they were twelve, like the rest of us.

But what I REALLY hate is the fact that the advertising studios, the factory workers, etc. are compelled to bring this product to market. I'd hate to be in advertising, knowing i'm writing copy for pushing nonsense into the world.

But the pinnacle of my hate goes to the fact that these bullshit artists will make a ton of money imposing their "stupidity tax" on easily-impressed idiots. If I got 1 million stupid people to give me a dollar, I'd be a millionaire. Would I show my face at the country club? "Yeah, I got rich selling nonsense to stupid people."

And THAT is what's sad. Spending your life NOT earning other's respect or doing anything productive.

Did time ever start? Can it just always have existed or something?

Hell, does it even exist? What if there is no past or future, and just a continuous present we all just move into, and whatever event or action or anything that happens is gone as soon as it occurs? Educate me /sci/, this is not a troll but a dilemma that's confusing the fuck out of me.

Bad news /sci/, looks like being a genius won't make you happy (shocker I know).

>http://www.cracked.com/article_17061_5-things-you-think-will-make-you-happy-but-wont.html

^Check number two, too much for me to copypasta here, enjoy the harsh reality of it (they cite their shit btw).

ITT: Things in science and mathematics you wish you could do.

I wish I could scientifically prove that it's wrong to be French.

Do my homework for me /sci/:

- If I plop limes on each my toes, do a handstand a very specific (but undetermined) amount of time by x, how long until the goose arrives to chop of my dick and feed it to starving kittens?

This is for Algebra 2.

Every day of my life I am in this paranoid or cautious state where I purposely keep myself on my toes in case anything bad (and I mean really bad) happens. Everyone I knows tells me to relax and not worry as much, but it seems that every time I do relax a bit and not let my paranoia gets to me, something bad happens to bring it all up.

Examples from my life include:
>Get first girlfriend at 16
>Constantly worry about coming off as creepy or scaring her away
>Everyone, including her, tells me to relax about it
>A month and a half later I do and finally come around to enjoy being with her
>A couple weeks later I catch her cheating on me with my best friend
>Age 14: Hypochondriac dad gets sick
>Worry about him constantly in the hospital since this feels different than usual
>Family and friends tell me to relax since he's a hypochondriac or that he's dealt with worse sickness
>Finally relax after a few days and think he'll make it
>Next day we get a call saying that he's passed away
>Age 20: Get married to childhood friend whom I believed was the woman of my dreams all the time
>Never been so happy, actually never felt uneasy or paranoid about her
>One day, while she was away at New Mexico to be with family, I get this sudden uneasy and nervous feeling about her. I checked IM to see her on, but she wouldn't respond, but I figured she just left it on (it was night after all), and that what I was feeling was all just my paranoia.
>A month later she finally admits to be seeing someone else for about six weeks

>mfw I get most of my information from here, am in college, but not (yet) pursuing a degree in science or taking any classes of such

I kill slugs in the name of science. I just thought you all should know.

On a serious note, it is still fascinating the affects of pouring a cup full of salt on the slimy bastards. Try it some time if you're French.