/sci/ - Science & Math

P != NP

inb4 moon landing is a hoax etc

Internets

>>2147381
Has that been proved O.o? Isn't it still a Millennium prize Problem?

Transistor

Graphene if we ever get large scale producton.

<span class="math">E=hf=\phi mv^2max[/spoiler]

In no significant order:

General/Special Relativity (Einstein)
Form and function of DNA (Multiple people)
Computers/Internet (Multiple people)
Big Bang Theory (Fr Lemaitre)
Capability to reach outer space (USSR and USA)

>>2147386
this
nobody seems to appreciate how ingenious the internet is

>>2147431
><span class="math">\phi mv^2max[/spoiler]
><span class="math">\phi+\frac{1}{2}mv^2max[/spoiler]
Though it looked wrong.

>>2147453
>Though
Thought*

>>2147453
>implying that was Einstein's greatest achievement.

>>2147464
>Implying <span class="math">E=mc^2[/spoiler] has done the world good.

1. Discover of As-using bacteria

2. Discovery of baby black hole

3. Computers

4. Relativity

5. Ph.D. in Mathematics, any job I want, 300k starting

>>2147481

>Doesn't know it has.

>>2147484
The whole arsenic bacteria thing just verifies what most people with IQs over 12 have been saying for a while now. Life is not restricted to life "as we know it"

>>2147486

>>2147489
saying not the same thing as proving

>dipshit detected

>>2147489
>fizixfag
Stopped reading.

>>2147494
Obviously they aren't the same thing, but I would hardly call the discovery of an arsenic based lifeform one of the top 5 discoveries in the past century.

Paul Dirac's prediction of anti-matter with his beautiful equations
Einstein's General and Special theories of relativity
Quantum Revolution
Internet and computer, let's call it a revolution as well
Polio vacine? that was 1950's right... can't really think of a 5th

nuclear energy
information technology
heavier than air powered sustained controlled flight
dna
standard model

>>2147567
can't believe i forgot about fucking airplanes

maybe put aerospace tech in one big bahooey

>>2147541
smallpox vaccine is best vaccine

total eradication

iPod, iPhone, iPad, Mac. Nothing else worth mentionting tbh

>>2147489

You clearly do not understand biology or chemistry.

Ok. So, DNA, has a shit tonne of phosphorous in it normally. It makes up the backbone that keeps the nucleotides together. Now Arsenic is in the same group as Phosphorous so youd think it would have similar properties, but it really doesnt - its down a period meaning its got a full shell of d-electrons and its outer shell is much further from the nucleus. Just its increased size makes its fitting into DNA sterically mindblowing, but couple the very different properties (semi-metal vs. non-metal) the fact that they live and thrive with such a major change is astounding.

I think video games, and the industry it began, is worth mentioning. Look at where we are. Less than 30 years ago, we went from sprites that if you squinted enough and applied a healthy dose of imagination, resembled a person to the beautiful, lifelike renders of today's systems.

>>2147623
well obviously he doesnt know anything about science cause his name is "fizix" fag, which shows he more than likely doesnt know anything about physics either. My guess is a 12 year old who did simple circuits in clas and was like "OMG FISIX LOLOLOLO"

>>2147523

Actually, an arsenic-based life form would probably be the biggest scientific discovery in history, since its DNA would be so radically different than ours that it wouldn't even be anything remotely approaching what DNA is. You see, unlike the relationship between Phosphorous and Arsenic, you can't just replace Carbon with Arsenic in any molecule and/or reaction.

In other words, the microbes AREN'T FUCKING ARSENIC-BASED YOU BRAINDEAD FUCK-WITS! IF YOU WANT TO TALK SCIENCE THEN LEARN SOME GRADE 10 CHEMISTRY AND BIOLOGY!

"lol ur just butthurt" No I'm not. People that don't understand what they are talking about, yet pollute every thread with the bullshit that they don't understand compromises any actual interesting discussion about the subject.

>>2147623
>>2147661
>>2147687
So we have successfully concluded that
>>2147523
Is a huge faggot.

In no particular order: Electric refrigeration, transistors, plastic, artificial fertilizer, and radar.

>>2147733

>>2147733
>electricity
>1900

implying

>>2147785
Electricity and refrigeration were both 19th century inventions. The combinations of the two that allowed much of what we understand as 20th century life to exist: the "fridge" in your kitchen, and "air conditioning" were developed in the last hundred years.

relativity (Poincare)
space (von Braun)
computers (Pascal through Turing, and beyond)
internet (numerous people)
harnessing nuclear energy (numerous people)

>>2147806
>relativity (Poincare)
lrn2Galileo if your gonna try and sound smart.

1. Craig Venter decoding human genome.

>>2147992

>he didn't do shit. he lost to the NIH.

gubmint outdid the private sector!

I would put quantum theory ahead of special relativity. Even classical QM provides semiconductor physics ..

The structure of DNA - Watson & Crick via data from Franklin
The Taq PCR DNA replication protocol - Kary Mullis

Still thinking, but they're all going to be biology related since, of course, it's the most important and relevant science.