/sci/ - Science & Math

>>14807999
Surely there is a list of the 50 greatest STEM Academic achievements in the last 20 years, someone will post it, and mark my words you will eat yours

>>14808105
This kinda proves that they've done fuck all since you can't remember one yourself.

People are still kind of waiting for the next savant like newton to unlock better mathematics for engineers to use to build shit

We've maximised what we can build with the math we have available to us.

>>14807999
Its almost like the education system just clones information and mindlessly plants it into everyone who passes through with no priority over innovation...

>>14807999
education has become an industry, almost right from the 60's (moreso past the 80's)
the science circlejerk of having dozens of grad students and professors signed onto papers is due to research minimums at public universities, requiring professors to have (usually 3, but varies) research papers published during a given school year for one to maintain their jobs/achieve tenure. Why risk publishing your own paper when you can tack your name on a student's paper, or some other faculty?

Science journals then have to publish their findings. Because this research is borne from pressure to maintain appearances instead of genuine intellectual curiosity, the findings are usually incomprehensibly inane to the actual science (papers are usually titled 'analysis of the harmonium string theory of Papelstuderbaker's Antithesis Theorem and it's relevance to Subcritical Spheroidal Superstructures' or some bullshit like that)

This bolsters the university's public image (Look! We have top tier researchers! We're a bastion of science! Come to our school and pay us lots of tuition!)

It's all a scam. Academia should be divorced from the University structure, but they're intimately entangled now.

>>14807999
Czeched.
OP, I absolutely agree with you.
I have a thread discussing some possible answers to questions currently left unanswered, or are claimed to be "impossible" according to current theories/models of physics.

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>>14808862
>People are still kind of waiting for the next savant like newton
The problem isn't that we're out of smart people. The problem is that the midwits occupying the positions of power won't publish anything that challenges the status quo.

>>14807999
You are right. It is a huge waste of money proliferating a bunch of lies with the purpose of buttering up the egos of those at the “top” who are just glorified teachers with closed minds who become defensive and nasty if anyone points out any of the stupid mistakes that have become institutionalized.

>>14811686
The problem isn't the midwits in academia, the problem is we're all midwits. For most people genius is recognized after the fact, sometimes centuries later. Only a few have the luck of catching the attention of the media the way Einstein did.

>>14812008
Yes, and Einstein was not the genius we all imagine because his work is wrong because he suffered the same mistake as has been made by every physicist that ever existed and remains institutionalized because the truth is too hard to face.

>>14808248
You just want to be amazed
>>14808862
If i weren't a midwit mathlet i would work on the binary code for common math. I had homework in a basic course on computing and basic equations in binary felt really amazing...even now my brain shuts down under stress and choke doing division or substraction.
Maybe even replacing binary code because some parts felt odd and very repetitive (like a theorem)

>>14812023
Let me guess, he thought angular momentum is conserved?

>>14812071
That there's no interstellar medium which light is propagated through.

>>14811668
why are you posting as frenaon now tooker?

>>14812071
That, as well as the fact that light has mass along with the product rule misapplied to the cross product and the fact that Newton’s second law is wrong.

>>14811987
Yup, seems like the start of circle jerking.

>>14807999
STEM is a dead end.

Only dorks who are ugly use it now to try and look and sound cool to make up for their failed image.

I had a runt friend who did astrophysics and admitted it would sound cool to a girl in a bar. Of course he didn't need to tell me this, I knew he was the sort of thing to do a course for such reasons.

>>14807999
>These people didn't come up with anything important since the 60's.
Idk, if I was the government I’d say it’s pretty important and money we’ll spend to be able to spy on every single digital device in the world, know the position of 99,9% of the humans in western countries, be able to recognize every single face, have enough data on basically any habits citizens might have and use that for targeted advertisement as well as early identification of possible extremists
The powers that be in the 60s tried to conquer the world and control every human. The powers that be of today want to not only control you, but every part you’re made of
Read postscripts on the societies of control by Deleuze to look at where we’re heading and decide for yourself if you would cut budget if your were in power

>>14812008
Einstein had lots of Jewish marketing dollars

>>14807999
so is welfare. so is existing
the more free cashy everyone has the more addicted to brain rotting pleasures they get and the fewer kids they have

>>14812097
>why are you posting as frenaon now tooker?
I didn't think I hit Time-Traveler-Tooker-Tiers of schizo quite yet...