/sci/ - Science & Math

Physicists usually build their theories based on arguments like:
[math] y=kx [/math] and [math] y= k \frac{1}{x} [/math]
I agree that any process looks linear on a sufficiently small time frame or distance but why don´t professors take time to explicitly phrase this for their students, maybe even give some kind of proof. I bet it would help steer physics in the right direction again, starting from simple arguments like that to build up new and interesting models for physical happenings.

How do I stop? I always feel like I'm not taking enough air. Help me bros

What thing did you prove to be true on a hunch only to find out it had been proven before?
Here are some of mine I can remember:

>General Taylor expansions via integration by parts and induction
>Induction method for positive rationals
>A set isn´t bounded if it cointains a function which isn´t bounded aswell
>My father never loved me
>The n-th integral of a function over a finite domain converges if the function is always less than 1 in said interval (I think, might've been something similar)
>Model of how traffic flows while noticing that car's almost never pass through a street alone, they are more likely to come in pairs or threes

>>12497400
Puff up your fur and make your eyes big, they hate that.