/sci/ - Science & Math

Blackholes are Wormholes

You can enter a Wormhole but your body matter will be disintegrated and ejected as disordered energy somewhere else

Quick question about mathematics.

What is the sequence or mathematical concept called of the number of triangles between a certain number of points?

For example:
1P = 0
2P = 0
3P = 1
4P = 4
5P = 8

And so on.

Only triangles between points, not new ones created by those triangles.

>>8296936
>>8296998
Physics is a art

Science PhD is a Doctor of Philosophy

>>8249362

Read an article a while back which talked about radio signals being picked up by things like orthodontic braces, tooth fillings and other metallic implants.

Do you have any implants or braces?

>>8221024

>Averages are cool and all but individual case basis is the only moral way of judging.

Because everyone deserves a fair chance to be successful, right? If not for material benefit then because success is a point-of-pride.

In an ideal world, I don't think it's even right to be framing the debate in terms of what people deserve. Generally speaking, people can be said to "deserve" an extremely small subset of their life outcomes (generally a larger share in developed societies than undeveloped ones, but tending to be quite a bit of determinism in any case). We're born into almost every circumstance we endure.

Why did some of our distant ancestors decide to migrate to one place while others chose a different strategy? There's no reason to think there was any particular merit to either, the outcome and manifestation of their choices upon our ancestry was almost certainly completely random for all practical purposes.

It's more nonsensical to think in terms of fortunate / unfortunate than deserved undeserved. But there's more to discrimination than being fair, of course. Having a meritocratic society tends to benefit everyone that lives within it for its own sake. That, and we're afraid many folks will be complacent and unmotivated if they're convinced they've done their best.

>Are you stupid? Genetics work won't help against unnecessary discrimination from utilitarian point of view.

If you discriminate against race A because they have higher frequency incidence of some phenotype, "them blacks are violent, can't have 'em in our neighborhood" or what-have-you, and then some means to tease apart which individuals posses the corresponding genotype gains prevalence, any merit that could be argued for racial discrimination would be debased.

>>8191809
no you can't conclude it's due to racism like that. Consider:

>black people tend to be clustered in shittier neighborhoods
>better cop have better offers for neighborhoods they can survey and will obviously choose the nicer part of town
so really shit quality of cops with poor trigger discipline get sent to more troubled neighborhoods and since the distribution of race happens to be this way we act surprised.

>>8180026

I already did here >>8178587

>>8091297
Ok you wannabe-Grothendieck, consider the following:

1+1/2+1/3+1/4+... >
1+1/2+1/4+1/4+1/6+1/6+1/6+... =
1+1/2+(1/4+1/4)+(1/6+1/6+1/6)+... =
1+1/2+1/2+1/2+... = infinity

So,

1+1/2+1/3+1/4+... > Infinity

So the sequence diverge

>buy some shares worth $100
>as soon as it's worth $101 (possibly a few seconds later), sell and win $1
>if it becomes worth less than $99.90, sell and only lose $0.10
>do this 10,000 times

Tell me why this wouldn't work

> The fact that we haven't seen any time travelers means humans go extinct before developing time travel.

> Artificial intelligence will one day be advanced enough to threaten humanity, but then someone unplugs it.

> It will be proven that P != NP.

> There are other civilizations in the universe, but Earth is the only one in the Milky Way.

People often come with the claim "aliens must exist since the universe is so big, so life forms must have been formed somewhere else", but we have no idea how small are the chances of life to be formed to begin with.

as far as we know, life might be just rare enough that earth is the only place in the universe that evolved them.

On a side note, i think its absolutely astounding that the universe managed to create something that could give it a meaning. something that can understand anything, at all.

Our very existence is nothing short of amazing

Is it worth it to go to a university and study there?

They are very expensive, and even if i will get a degree it will still not ensure me a job.

I need more money in order to accomplish my true dreams, which is living in a different country and releasing albums as a musician. i know going to a university will increase my chances to get a higher paying jobs, but the time and money that is being invested into a university makes me think twice whether it really worth it or not.

What do you guys think?

Conjecture: There is not a single person on /sci/ who can solve this.

if X, Y and Z are randomly placed in [0,1], what is the probability that they are at least a apart form each other
|X-Y|>a and |Y-Z|>a and |X-Z|>a

The answer is (1-2a)^3, I solved this with monte carlo simulation, and I am not bad at probability. So, any of you fuckers can solve this question properly?

Why is science vehemently anti-religion? Is there political motivation behind this? God and science can coexist. God made science.

how do you stop yourself from laughing when the lecturer says "69" or something like that?

What an interesting concept. How socially conditioned people are...
How can a person be made to feel bad for cheating. It is beyond my understanding.
I have never cheated in an exam, but only because I was afraid that I would be caught.

You ever think that a big ass just gives the illusion of wide, childbearing hips? Males were more attracted to women who appeared to have wide pelvises, so the female body responded by depositing fat around that area of the body, which was far "simpler" than actually redefining skeletal structure?