/sci/ - Science & Math

Anyone here start from scratch before they went to a college/university to study Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Engineering?

I've only went as far as Algebra in high school, the requirements for anything /sci/ related is obviously higher.

How do you not feel overwhelmed by something like that?

>>3277312
Actually come to think of it, even publishing the idea of a legitimate "experiment" that could be done would be a fucking feat in itself.

Maybe I should just focus on that for now. I'll give the engineers some vacation time or something...lol

But then again, what if someone beats me too it?!!! Science is a fucking race!

>>3148476
Not my ideas buddy. The idea of time as imaginary space is pretty common. It can be found in most QFT books, and most books that use Minoskski metric. It is embedded in the choice of your metric tensor.

>if a symmetry exists, we consider its "norm" only

I never said that, nor did I imply that? What symmetery are you even refering to?

What I said was, "the only way to observe an imaginary quantity is to take a norm". You seem to be confusing this with the whole symmetry discussion? why? The symmetry discussion was on the generation of time from a fundamental level (using lie groups), not the observation of time.

I think you are confusing concepts guy.

>>2967995
I did't mean to imply all news sources are shit.
Some actually did cover this story, and ignored the shitty rumor. Actually, there were a few thread on /sci/ about it too, so that makes us at least better the Faux (not really hard to beat Faux though).

>Ny times article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/science/06particle.html?_r=1&ref=science

>Fermilab article:
http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/archive_2011/today11-04-07_CDFpeakresult.html

>Fermilab presentation:
http://theory.fnal.gov/jetp/talks/Viviana.pdf

>Publication:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.0699

There have probbaly been at least 20 additional papers, all publsihed in the last month trying to explain this shit, everyone and the fucking moms is trying to say what this could be. No concensus on what it actually is (what the new partcile is or even if it is a new partcile) has been established. We really need more data to figure this shit out, so it may take a while (6months at least).

A supernova destroys Romulus and all its inhabitants.In the 21st century, we can already know millions of years in advance when a star might die. A supernova is not a surprise. If Romulians were not retarded, they would not have been caught by surprise by something that announces it's arrival millions of years in advance.

Never got a good answer to this question:

What is the difference between cathode rays and beta rays since both are basically electrons?

Bonus question: Can beta particles become electricity?

>>1006374
Borhium