/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15969737
Evolutionary psychology is unfalsifiable conjecture.

>>15969737
Quantum physics is actually pretty useful. It's used in microprocessor design and other kinds of electronics and things like microscopy etc. High energy physics is starting to become more cringe, and stuff like string theory has been cringe for decades. The study of animal behaviours, which I believe is called Ethology, is cringe. Like sure study a few animals, important or different ones, but these days they seem to study the most useless animals ever, ones that have basically zero impact on anything, like some random beetle species deep in the amazon that doesn't even do anything unique or have any kind of unique physiology. Seems like a waste of money and one of the lowest priority fields in terms of things that improve the human condition

>>15969910
You know that research is done by rich people as a hobby, right?

>>15970052
no it isn't

>>15969856
so it cosmology, so is most of astronomy, so is a lot of geology and pretty much all of paleontology. climate science is constantly claiming the ability to predict the future and those predictions are all inherently unfalsifiable unless you're willing to wait 100 years to find out if they were correct. when they make shorter term predictions they're always wrong, but for whatever reason that doesn't prevent them from making longer term projections.

>>15969737
all the subatomic shit is definitely real, but its so weird no one fully knows whats going on yet which is why there are a lot of strange and sometimes competing interpretations and abstractions. It will hopefully get better when more is understood

>>15969856
Except it is not. There are bone remains, there are cultural artifacts, there are ritualistic religious artifacts.
If you see a tibia bone broken that was regrown incorrectly you know that old ancestor had to suffer and had a lot of relatives and tribal people taking care of them. Simple inference and deduction. Same goes with number of obsidian knives in neanderthal tribal sites compared to cro magnon, I'll give you that homework to do on your own so you get that inference muscle some training.

I bet you're the type of person that shouts for "source" every time they get a chance.

>>15969737
>>15969737
Ahhh yes the virtual particle!
It can, oops sorry, THEY(always in pairs) can manifest from the energy fabric of the universe in any form they want, as many times as they want as long as they happen before they can be measured, so there ya go! One photon may create a position electron pair that annihilate each other then disappear before they can be measured...
Why? Well, instead of working out the maths, let's just make the physics bend to our equations!

>>15971800
I mean, yes?
>What is the Schwinger Critical Field Limit
Wait until you find out that photons are merely the physical manifestation of energy exchanges from VP pair to VP pair like Cooper Pairs in a superconductor.

>>15971800
>Why? Well, instead of working out the maths, let's just make the physics bend to our equations!
Have you ever considered that maybe perhaps you are the one who doesn't understand virtual particles? You know after all, you haven't actually studied QFT so maybe there is something you are misunderstanding. Wouldn't that be more plausible than tens (hundreds?) of thousands of people working on this since around 1950 being wrong? The people that work on this tend to be pretty smart too.

>>15969737
Quantum physics is like a magnet for overly image conscious narcissistic schizos and whole reason for that is the way that sphere of science is portrayed in the goyslop media.

>>15972054
could you imagine if all of the priests were just wrong?!

>>15971611
That's a history thing, not a science thing. Science requires an experimentally falsifiable hypothesis. When you synthesize various historical artifacts to understna the past, that is called the study of history.
Evopsych tries to use historical stories to explain modern psychology, but since these cannot be experimented with these stories are literally "Just-So" myth tier on the level of a folk tale about how the bean got its seam

>>15972054
>there is something you are misunderstanding. Wouldn't that be more plausible than tens (hundreds?) of thousands of people working on this since [a long time ago] being wrong?
>t. dumb shit that was said by the prosecution at galilleo's trial
sorry kid, but a consensus of morons isn't what defines reality

>>15972941
You aren't fucking Galileo, lmao. You are just some moron (in consensus with the other morons in this thread) who doesn't understand modern physics, and who thinks that their misconception of modern physics sounds stupid. Well, yeah, your misconception of virtual particles sounds stupid, but if you could actually reflect on yourself you would realize it is more plausible that it sounds stupid because you have a misconception (considering you haven't actually studied it) rather than that everyone who has studied it is wrong.

Category theory, if you consider mathematics science.

>>15973182
>reeeeeeeeee u r dum!!!!!!
nice emotional outbust, but your out of control trigger reactions are neither rational nor convincing.

>>15969737
Pretty much anything to do with theoretical physics is hot trash. Don't get me wrong, there's some brilliant mathematics that gets developed in the name of solving physics problems, but deterministic theoretical physics is not particularly "scientific" and tends to attract turbo autists with little self awareness and even less humility.

>>15969737
This meme reeks of facebook

>>15973236
you seem like you must be quite an expert on facebook memes, how much time do you spend on that website?

>>15969737
>What other parts of science are so cringe that they should just be holocausted and completely forgotten about?
All of science is like this.
Delete science.

>>15971579
>all the subatomic shit is definitely real,
Prove that.
How do they even detect anything smaller then an atom?

And another lie got exposed.

>>15969737
Climate hysteria, and it's not even close.
Adjusting your apocalyse prediction every two weeks when it didn't happen two weeks ago is not science.
The fact that none of these frauds show the least bit of concern that none of their models are ever even remotely correct means that even they know they're full of shit.

>>15974236
good toss

>>15974203
Not a lot. It's not difficult to spot one of those low IQ Boomer-made memes.

>>15972728
I always think about this, like damn people were writing very seriously about theology for a long time

social sciences

>>15975449
what memes have you made, show me some of your high iq content, blow me away with your superiority

>>15971364
Your point being?

>>15973200
shut the fuck up lol

>>15969737
>stringing buzzwords together?
There you go, the string theory

It's just funny how when niggers can't wrap their mind around one subject they act like religious loons and try to deny the existence of the subject.

The universe couldn't care less if you don't believe in the rules that made it be what it is, it just is, you can accept it and try to harness its power or you can stay behind like the apes that didn't evolve, now either in our zoos or getting killed in deforestation lmao

See you faggots the next quantum fluctuation

>>15969737
“Quantum mechanics is cringe,” “all they say is nonsense.”
>posted through a computer.

>>15978258
this is yet another one of these posts where total losers who've never accomplished anything on their own worth mentioning try to credit themselves with other people's accomplishments in order to justify their own existence, which is something that they cannot do on the merits of their own activities.
computers are an invention of the lyonnaise fashion industry, there isn't any branch of science or academia that had anything to do with it.

>>15978536
>the arts invented computer
science pwnd

>>15979133
the arts also invented electronic data networks

>>15969737
>still grifting with ivermectin in 2024
No one is buying your poo-contaminated drugs Rakesh

>>15980311
>horSe DeWoRmEr

most cringe are biomedical and evopsych
most based are lepidopterology and population genetics

>>15969737
In general, the more expensive the experiments are, the cringier and more worthless the field of science is. So that would make astronomy, physics and medicine the lamest of the lame.

>>15982619
right, the stupider the experiment is, the more the scientist feels the need to justify it with the "it must be important, look how expensive it is" excuse

>>15974225
>i don't understand thing therefore it fake!
the true sign of a midwit

>>15980868
yes, horse dewormer. someone should have told this fella

>>15981784
evopsych is the gift that keeps on giving

Biomedical is actually sad though

>>15972728
Yes, because they never tested for anything, not a single experiment, ever

>>15975449
It's not difficult to spot one of those low IQ Facebook addicts either, such as yourself

>>15969737
I mean, it's a dewormer. Isn't that a fact? And since it's a prescription drug, people bought the ones for horses. "Horse dewormer" is factually correct.
Don't get me wrong, it's a great dewormer. It just doesn't do anything for the coof.

>>15985154
>horSe DeWoRmEr!!!!

>>15971364
> those predictions are all inherently unfalsifiable unless you're willing to wait 100 years to find out if they were correct.
sometimes you don't need to wait 100 years

>>15969737
nutritional science is mostly just paid advertising

>>15969737
Quantum physics is also dominated by Redditors who just likes talking about it
They do not contribute to the science
The only thing they do is talking about Schrödinger's cat at every chance they get

>>15969737
>how did that end up turning into a ridiculous sideshow dominated by people who have no apparent skills or abilities other than stringing buzzwords together?
the sideshow you're talking about is not academic physics but popular science writing, which is necessarily like that because the intended audience can't do math and so can't understand how any of the things being talked about actually work
classical mechanics and things easily analogizable to classical mechanics like special relativity can be taught in basic form to a popular audience, but quantum mechanics covers things that have no analogy in our everyday experience and so the only way to talk about them is using math to model their behavior
you can't meaningfully talk about quantum mechanics without doing math, so you should generally ignore people who don't talk about the math, and if you can't understand the math yourself, you're not qualified to evaluate the claims being made

>>15989323
they're attracted to talking about it at every possible opportunity because they're massively image conscious narcissists and quantum kikery has been memed by the popular media as "this thing is for super smart people" which of course attracts massively image conscious narcissists like flies to shit.
>this topic is for genuses therefore it is for me

>>15969856
pretty much all soiyence is unfalsifiable conjecture these days. the scientific method is just a meme, nobody abides by it. peer review is the standard of truth in modern soiyence.

>>15989323
spouting buzzwords makes people feel smart or feel like other people will think they're smart.

>>15992587
Doing that is also a symptom of mental illness called "glossolalia"

>>15971364
>paleontology

>>15984214
the last time I ran into something science related I couldn't understand from reading about it was when I decided to see what string theory was about. I did some reading and watched some lectures and nothing really made any sense. lo and behold it's a funding scam.

it's equally dim witted to presume something is true or false because a perceived authority on the subject says it is true or false, when you are not capable of understanding the subject yourself.

>>15994846
I don't want to seem antisemitic, but all you had to do to realize string theory is a fraud is familiarize yourself with it's ethnic origins and the racial background of it's most famous proponents

>>15984212