/sci/ - Science & Math

Hey /sci/, so right now I'm just getting done finishing my high school degree and will be attending college next year. I am thinking I want to be a Chem major (and eventually pursue a PhD) but I am a little unsure.

I want to study a lot of things is the problem. I love chemistry but I also love physics, philosophy, mathematics, etc. And I know in a lot of ways those things are interrelated but I don't want to just end up doing bitch work in a lab or something.

I want to dive into the real challenges that science is looking at now concerning the nature of our reality, and really make a difference in some way. I know that probably sounds terribly idealist but I desire it a lot.

Am I headed in the right direction at least; is there perhaps a branch of science that has what I am looking for?

Here's Carl Sagan for your trouble

Evolution: the cause of, and the solution to, all of life's problems.

>>3957945
maybe because its the fourth body in the pluto system (including pluto). It makes more sense to name the numerous ice chunks of the kuiper belt with letters and numbers rather than proper noun.

>>3949750
"The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world."

~Carl Sagan

If I were the creator of this universe, mister Sagan, I would create a special heaven for people like you, who work to promote public knowledge and scientific passion.

And, in keeping with your philosophies, I would maintain a strict policy of non-intervention with sapient species and their planets; the whole of science would be theirs to explore, free of the stain of miracles and hocus-pocus.

The cosmos is full beyond measure.

The brain does more than recollect. It intercompares and synthesizes and analyzes. It generates abstractions.

The brain has its own language for testing the structure and consistency of the world.

>>2452166

>Also: Carl Sagan is really fucking dead. REPLACE HIM.

Hey screw you buddy.

Sagan lives in both our hearts and memories, well as the cosmos itself.

>>2434537
>>2434552

My work here is done.

Hey /sci/, it's been a while. Come watch some Cosmos, if you'd like.

http://www.livestream.com/funthings

Streaming parts 11 & 12

>>2256632
see
>>2255007

"Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist" - Carl Sagan

Now that should be clear language.

>Watch Cosmos
>So proud of the human race im not even sad that i will never be able to witness all of its greatest achievements

Come hang and watch some Cosmos, if you'd like.

http://www.livestream.com/funthings

Streaming parts 9 & 10

Follow the Twatter for updates and scheduling stuff:

http://twitter.com/#!/methknk

Is it cold in here, or is it just me?

>write some popscience books and make some documentary about stars and shit

>be called a great scientist

talk about overrated

>>1870121
>I would construct a cafe for her out of scratch
ehem...

Watch Cosmos

Get bitches.

Thank you OP. I now know what i want to do with my life.


I am going to be the best space ambassador there ever was or will be.

Pic realted, he would have been the best one though

Brb, feeling a little chilly.

> future of humanity.

biggest challanges for humanity that we will eventually overcome, but it won`t be without a fight.
- international capitalism
- islam
- china

By the time we solved these problems singularity will arive. And then we`re besically done. humanity as a whole can enoy his pension, traveling the universe in large space ships filled whit all facilitys we need.

saganbump

ITT: sciencefags explain themselves!

determining age of objects based on radioactive decay may not be accurate after all

http://kottke.org/10/08/sun-may-affect-radioactive-decay-rates