/sci/ - Science & Math

Hey /sci/, made this thread a couple of days ago but never got to see any of the responses so thought I would ask again...

What are the scientific journals with the best reputation and why? Any reputable ones specifically for chemistry?

What would you answer/say someone who says: "You can't find something that doesn't exist" ?

Also, it's a known rule that a finite partially ordered set must have at least one minimal element, but is the opposite also true? If a partially ordered set has a minimal element, does it necessarily mean it's finite?

Why does anything exist?

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if you don't give fucks, then why argue to defend yourself?

Is there such thing as repetition?

Where did space come from?

Dear /sci/,

if a=b and b=c, does a=c?

I've seen people who say yes, and other who say no, and I would like to see your side of it, and why.

isn't it better to know where you came from?

we came from monkeys,
we became what we are now,
(what about the bits in-between)

what are you doing?

If you notice, at the end of the day the guy doesn't have any evidence. He just goes
I HAVE FAITH I HAVE FAITH I HAVE FAITH

This is what I've been trying to tell atheists for years now. You CAN'T fight religion with logic. It has nothing to do with logic. It's just a belief, locked in by fear.

The fear goes: "But if I stop believing in god then life is meaningless and I might as well rape people or kill myself because there is no morality and also how would I be able to have an ultimate authority on knowledge...."

The reason they're stubborn isn't because they don't follow your arguments, it's because they have a learned reaction of panic whenever they find themselves doubting.

Hello /sci/. This thread is vaguely religion-related, but it's more to do with psychology, so please try not to shit it up.

I was Christian until about four years ago. I no longer have supernatural beliefs (but I'm not going to use the word "atheist", since that would just cause 500 replies arguing about its meaning).

While I was a Christian, there was a very strange thing going on in my head. I want to know if any /sci/ducks recognise what I'm talking about or know a name for it.

Here's how it went: it was very important to me to believe that Jesus performed miracles and rose from the dead. That's the important bit! That's how we're supposed to know that the claims of Christianity are correct.

Well, I investigated the origins of Christianity and talked to fellow Christians about it, and came to the conclusion that the events did not in fact happen. Christianity was clearly a manmade mishmash of various local ideas, and wasn't at all unique.

So here's when the weird thing happened: I continued being a Christian. When someone asked, I would tell them that I believed that Jesus rose from the dead. And I WASN'T LYING. I genuinely "believed" it, while at the same time I "knew" it wasn't true.

This went on for like two years, and it worked fine. I didn't lose any sleep over it. I had separated knowledge and belief in my brain.

If we've been arguing with a troll this whole time.... was it really a waste? It's good training I guess.

I feel like I've gained 3567 atheist experience points from this thread. I might level up soon!

In the past there were scientists who understood as much of the universe as you and I, and progressively they recieved inbalance in their creative and normal blueprint of tomorrow, so to speak – those who took the normal route would always require laws and those who took the creative route would always try to find their way around them, based on no laws and just creativity. At first creativity was not the kind type, it would often get out of hand because the laws used were unfit to serve, or the numbers were too great to defend. Over time normallity and creativity take over the land in a constant battle of cunning and art, the love and the revenge of life – however, it got a bit one sided; the numbers wouldn’t stop growing, and the chances wouldn’t stop rising. As the days passed and the wars waged, limits were enforced on peoples creativity for its influence was too strong against the system, we just weren’t allowed to think like that any more for the betterment of our leaders and their numbers. Yet the creativity did not stay weak, it charged and absorbed, refeshed and composed; people still weren’t completely normal, some actually did shit whilst in normality and were cultured. These ones created slang and jokes against the chains in their minds, different ways of expressing themselves whilst not being too twatish (this got a bit out of hand at points).

'philoso' rapter hahaahahaha