/sci/ - Science & Math

Free will? Isn't it the case that scientifically such a thing is impossible? I mean hypothetically, if we were to know all of nature's laws it would be possible to explain everything and even predict the future, thereby showing that every action is determined by natural laws with no "choice" on the part of an individual.

>>2846695
There is no purpose to life. Purpose implies design. Life reproduces because life that doesn't reproduce didn't survive this long. That does not mean it has a purpose, any more than you would say that hydrogen's purpose was to fuse into heavier elements because that's what they do in suns.

In a purposeless existence, I must decide purpose for my life. There is no true purpose but that which I make for myself.

>>2318865

>mfw i go to one of the best engineering schools in the nation

http://www.mtu.edu/

>>2099566
Just donated $50
FUCK OFF RETARD!

>>2088775
Sounds like you never took any physics classes. We know exactly what happens if we let time flow backwards, its fucking trivial....lol.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-symmetry

A more useful concept is "imaginary time".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wick_rotation

This essentially turns space-time (A 4-d object with minokowski metric), into a euclidean 4-d object. It actually allows us to calculate alot of shit in the standard model and Quantum Field theory. Shit that turns out to be experimentally right. Makes you wonder if time is actualy "imaginary" or if it is just a mathematical coincidence.

>>2059389

>>2051296
Everytime I think christians are fucking dumbasses, I hear somthing like that, SOMTHING SO FUCKING STUPID THAT IT CONFIRMS THEY ARE DUMBASSES!

>>2023260
>Thousands of peer-reviewed papers in support of evolution, each representing independent research and data

>No papers in support of Creationism, Intellegent design, or Irreducible Complexity

>little kid on /sci/ finds evolution "hard to believe", would rather believe in "magic sky king"


So why should anyone give a fuck how stupid you are?

>>2009238

Get money for going to school, doing somthing you enjoy. No boss, make your own schedule.
I see no "oppotunity cost" here bro.

All I see is sad engineers, jelly that they are stuck in industry as wage slaves, doing grunt work, and work they are "made to do", rather then work they want to do.

>>1755628
I actually do know, but your pic is fucking reatrded. You should not be in physics. I will nor help you!

Why would uncertinly imply free will? Thats juts fucking wrong. The uncertainty is only local you dumbass!

I don't understand people who say that finding out a person they dated or liked was a tranny would be horrible. I wouldn't give a fuck.

>>1449844
OP im doing this out and it looks right, wtf are you talking about i cant see anything wrong with it.

until disprove OP is a nigger

>>1420903
Yeah, I could use some D&D about now.

ITT: Samefag who created this thread, thinking he was gonna troll /sci/

And WTF should I care?

My top five sci-fi movies in no particular order:

Moon
Sunshine
Gattaca
District 9
Fifth Element

>>1260260
But what if I'm not a faggot?

>implying i'm going to read a long-ass forum post from a tinfoil-hat conspiracy site written by someone who barely knows english

>>1109440