/sci/ - Science & Math

Tell me /sci/, how does it feel to be real?

inb4 feels fuck them, some /mu/six here:
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpVOmFF6UhU

We are fucking real, science is the analysing of reality but only lifeforms as ourself can actually know.

what, no fucking way, can't believe no one has put this shit together before

Do you sometimes wish you weren´t smart ?
How many thoughts do you consider a waste ?
I know i ask myself to many questions.
This is why i can´t enjoy life.

>>4069781
>"actual truth"
>talking of a place and time where space and time doesn't even make sense
>Thinks science can ever bring the objective truth of the universe nature down to humans
> mfw

For those not in the know:
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/

Free online courses from MIT. Lecture notes, assignments, exams, study groups. this should be included in the sticky.

What is the purpose of the lazarus reflex?

Astrophysics. Fuck yeah.

Anyway: >>3959118
Not sure if troll. Do you really think you can achieve that ? I mean, if you are some kind of genius that's great, we need multidisciplinary people like that, but it seems a bit hard if you never really studied science...

Newton's Principia to Thales. 2011: human kind already settled on 4 exoplanets.

INTJ

This is your daily reminder that one day, you will die. You will not "pass on", nor will you "rest in peace", your conscious mind will be annihilated and you will cease to exist entirely, in any shape, form or kind.

Everyone should spent a minute every day contemplating this fact and evaluating their life priorities accordingly.

Science isn't a quest for truth. Science is building models. I believe we will never be able to construct a model complete enough to understand the underlying mechanisms of the universe. It's really a matter of belief : can we end science ?

Was in an engineering school ( french system ) last two years, I'm doing an internship in astrophysics and I'll study astrophysics next year too. Begining a PhD after that. ( but with a engineer diploma -> back up plan )

>mfw when I think of what I will learn in the next 4 years

>High school
Math is useless shit, why the fuck are we being forced to learn this, no practical application

>Parents force me to study pure mathematics, the fuck is this shit

>linear algebra
Hey, this is kinda neat, so this is how you represent spatial relationships mathematically. Also, Gauss elimination makes seemingly complex systems easy to understand and solve.

>Discrete structures
Oh shit, all of logic is really mathematics! Also, you can run a von Neumann computer in your brain if you ever get bored.

>Calculus
Oh, so this is what happens when I tell my calculator to plot a function? And field theory suddenly makes sense. Also, those non-linear equations I spent days linearizing to solve with Gauss elimination can now neatly be described as systems of differential equations.

>Mathematical primus movens, Lambda calculus
I am a God amongst men, the secrets of the universes have been revealed to me and I no longer need consider myself with puny physics and engineering.

>PhD in mathematics
>No job openings, stuck teaching on my university, shitty pay
>Inspire hundreds of students every year to take interest and pleasure in the purest form of knowledge
>Smoke weed and quietly contemplate the mathematical underpinnings of the natural order

> mfw when i'm the Universe and humans think they can understand how I work.

>>2868556

>yfw this universe is a simulation run by future humans to study their own history
>yfw we will eventually reach that point as well and create an offspring universe of our own to study
>yfw infinite recursion

>>2848128
imagine that when bismuth people knock each other, they don't feel pain as we would if they knocked into us, since their bismuth bodies aren't damaged by their own species, and so bismuth people experience intense pleasure from the vibrations caused by knocking each other.

imagine sex between two bismuth people. it would appear more violent than any sex act humans have ever seen, but for them it would be normal and immensely pleasurable.

>mfw Inurdaes hijacks threads for the TRS and has to battle the haters constantly

>>2756618

Good work trooper! Carry on!

>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle
>mfw

>>2729860
I said it would be hard. Pay attention.

>unrestricted cyber warfare

What the fuck does that even mean? Civilian internet infrastructure is thousands of times larger than anything directly operated by any government. The Chinese government might be able to DDoS a few hundred websites by itself but against the internet at large it's like trying to keep the rain off the ground with a firehose.

>>2705412

be·lief
   [bih-leef] Show IPA
–noun
1.
something believed; an opinion or conviction: a belief that the earth is flat.
2.
confidence in the truth or existence of something not immediately susceptible to rigorous proof: a statement unworthy of belief.
3.
confidence; faith; trust: a child's belief in his parents.
4.
a religious tenet or tenets; religious creed or faith: the Christian belief.

We dont fucking believe in science. The way we interact with it is universal. Everything proven scientifically will happen regardless of our interaction. Therefore its not a fucking belief - its a cold hard fact.

>>2668493
Already been posted. Read the thread.

>Phd in astrophysics
>FUCK YEAH

cool sciency shit images