/sci/ - Science & Math

The ultimate form of Consecration for a scientist is to get your name to design a unit of measurement.

If at the end of your live there isn't some sort of quantification system using your name as a unit, then you have failed your scientific career.

>>3601385
He did answer your question you sniveling little shitstain.

>>2929873

\"Sir Isaac according to your theory of gravity that you have just invented you state that the orbit of the planets is elliptical.. why is it?"

"hmm let me get back to you"

few months later

"iv come up with this new form of mathematics called calculus to explain my answer to your question, but i will explain it to you after i i blow out my 26 birthday candles."

Who, in your opnion /sci/, has had the most impact in all of world history? Science/math/medicine etc. related of course.

Any specific reason why?

"Atheism is so senseless & odious to mankind that it never had many professors."

In the science and the philosophy of science "reductions" of one theory or law on an other are often topic of discussion.

For example it is said that Keppler's laws of planetary motion can be reduced to Newton's law of Gravity.

What is the logical structure of such a reduction?

Here is one possiblity:

"A can be reduced to B if B -> A."

This is problematic because it allows the following reduction:
Let A=Newton's law of Gravity. Let B=A & First Law of Thermodynamics.

A can be reduced to B.

What do you think should be considered the logical structure of such a reduction?

>>2238222

Come now. There's plenty of vanity in the field

>Pierce the veil of nature
>Die a virgin

if newton invented gravity can't we uninvent it?
maybe travel back in time and kill him before he invents it?

Hey Atheist

Newton was a Christian

Deal with it

"This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being."

Isaac Newton

Yeah? Well, just remember OP, A white man invented Calculus, twice.

>>1885317
Original in the "Arrived at an insight without previous exposure to it" and not in the "First person to have ever conceived of it", right?
You know, Newton and Leibniz come to mind.

U mad engineers?

Hey guys, Newton here.

I'm gonna go spend a summer inventing a whole new branch of Mathematics..lolololol

CALCULUS.

What have you done asshole?

Get at me.

/sci/ do you think Newton stole his ideas from Leibniz?

Can /sci/ explain the difference between Newtonian Mechanics and Quantum Mechanics?

Do you see this man?

This man one of the greatest scientific minds ever to live, made groundbreaking contributions in the fields he researched, and he believed in God.

Yet, I've known atheists and agnostics with their heads so far up thee own asses that they don't realize how stupid they really are.

Can we agree that belief doesn't correlate directly with intelligence, and that it's just mostly assholes rising assholes on both sides?

Whites invented science.
Other people contributed, but science as we know it today is a purely white invention.

Why is Einstein universely considered to be the greatest scientist of all time?

Clearly Newton is.

"I see great dangers for the human race," begins noted theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. As a human myself, that's exactly the sort of thing I don't like to hear.
Perhaps they are words I , or more accurately we need to hear, however. As part of website Big Think's Dangerous Ideas series, Hawking suggests that humanity's best chances at avoiding extinction lay beyond the bounds of Mother Earth.
"I believe that the long-term future of the human race must be in space," Hawking tells Big Think. "It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster on planet Earth in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand, or million. The human race shouldn't have all its eggs in one basket, or on one planet. Let's hope we can avoid dropping the basket until we have spread the load."
Humanity hasn't done a stellar job of keeping itself alive in the past, with relatively regular incidents threatening to end life as we know it on the planet. Hawking notes the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1963 as one such event.
While he calls himself an optimist, Hawking notes the frequency of such events is increasing, and as they do, the chances of humanity living to see the Sun die in roughly 7.6 billion years decrease.

Hawking suggests we start looking to the stars before it's too late. One minute we think we have all the time in the world, and the next minute the world is gone.
And worse, folks like University of Sussex astrophysicist Dr. Robert Smith say that we don't even have the full 7.6 billion years.

"The nearest star [to Earth] is Proxima Centauri which is 4.2 light years away," says University of Michigan astrophysicist Katherine Freese,

Discuss

Link to the vid: http://bigthink.com/ideas/21691

NEWTON
Are you guys retarded?

“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of niggers."

-Isaac Newton

“ Law I: Every Engineer persists in its state of being at rest or of moving uniformly straight to fagotry, except insofar as it is compelled to change its state by becoming scientists."

“ Lex I: Corpus omne enginerium perseverare in statu suo quiescendi fagotto vel movendi uniformiter in directum, nisi quatenus a viribus impressis cogitur statum illum mutare siendo scientista. ”

I'm starting physics next school year. It's going to be basic, high-school physics. Any sites I can go to / books I can read so I can get a head start on things?