/sci/ - Science & Math

Definitely singularity

Not much of a scientific breakthrough guy, more interested in technological breakthroughs, particularly anything that'll help with space exploration and extraterrestrial space colonization. Antimatter drives are a bit far fetched but practically viable fusion reactors and fusion rockets would be a good start.

>>9180983
I told you not to pick that dumb frog

>>9180989
>more interested in technological breakthroughs
those are just a subsection of scientific breakthroughs ya dip

>>9180962

A proof that P = NP. Or even P != NP

>>9180962
Excitation of the higgs boson field to study the effects it has on mass and gravity.

>>9181027
Applied science. For most technological breakthroughs you don't need new scientific principles, you just need to find the correct way to apply the existing ones. Antimatter has been pretty well defined, but we've only recently managed to produce antimatter, can't capture it and can't use it for a practical purpose in the foreseeable future.

Chemical vapor deposition machines for personal home use to make your own microprocessors.

Anti-aging.I guess that implies a lot of innovation, so I'll just say success of crispr.

>>9180962
Nootropic gland implants

string theory

>>9181069
>1. We are reasonably confident is physically possible

>>9180962
Cheap cold fusion

>>9181162
>>9181137

>>9180962

Death Ray.

>>9180962
I want a zombie virus already. It's reasonably physically possible.

room temperature (or close to that) superconducting magnets pls.

Riemann Hypothesis proved, or disproved.

>>9180962
Biological immortality or substantial life extention. It is technically possible if we crack like 12 reasons why we get old and get age related illnesses. We are currently close to the point when a scientist learns enough to make breakthrough when they get age related brain issues. And if we double or triple human lifespan we'll probbaly crack another radical life extension Before anyone dies.

>>9181213
It's however very unlikely to be a major threat.

>>9180962
Nerve gear like in SAO would be cool. Something that can tap into the brains controls to the body.

>>9181322
Hopefully with less shitty games than in its home universe

>>9181330
Yeah. I was thinking more like the movie "gamer" than the SAO anime.

>>9181342
Have you saved up enough money to retire into it? I'm building a reserve for eventualities like a vr mmo or eternal youth

>>9180962
curing death

We'll solve everything else in time, but I want to live to see it.

>>9181403
That's pretty abstract. Do you mean immortality, eternal youth, or resurrection?

>>9181414
immortality from "natural causes"

holy crap there's still so much

There are just so many "problems" with nutrition, psychiatry, even simply treating the body. It's still a fucking crap shoot that kills people or can ruin QOL. I always kek when i see immortality threads and the such because it's so obvious medicine is somewhere in the bronze age. Obviously i can't label a "breakthrough" point, but that is kind of the point, we dont know the breakthrough(s) required. To me "modeling the entire biological process" is too broad.

Along the same lines but different, is the connection between computer and brain. I dont know if it would even be possible to interface any/all "sense" or "neural circut" with a computer, but if it is possible we cyberpunk now. VR could become a daily part of people's lives. Forget "teleportation paradox", you just jack in to a temporary body, and while this would be limited by latency, you could still "teleport" small distance.

Another would be psychology.It's not very hard science right now, but the possibilities for what it could become are possibly endless. We dont have a reliable, informative way to categorize the components of consciousness and the interactions they have.
For example I like to think some day we might be able to use psychology to enhance education on all levels and suppress aberrant behavior, because we will know all about the systems that govern thought and can better manipulate them.

i dunno, im kinda stoned

>>9180962
It just magically happens, or I get to be the person that makes the breakthrough?

>>9180962
A way to significantly increase the fluid intelligence of an individual.

>>9180962
Something drug-related. I guess either a foolproof treatment for bipolar disorder, or a true scientific analysis of LSD.

>>9181162
This

Double jumping

>>9181219
Do you think Joe Eck is a crank?
http://superconductors.org/News.htm

A universal, transition metal free catalyst for organic chemistry. Would make the current palladium heavy field a lot cheaper.

scientific reason to live

>>9180962
Large area growth of monolayer hBN.

>>9180962
AI Singularity

>>9180962
teleportation
a long way to go but would be awesome
>>9181033
if P=NP gets proven ALL cryptography and therefore encrypted communication could get broken immediatly. No banking or transfer of secret/private information could happen over the internet.
That would be really shit anon

>>9181062
/thread

>>9183699
wouldn't those lead to other innovation?

>>9181294
RSA would blow up. It may or may not be a good thing; but O think it would be bad. Non-prime based crypto would be fine, tough.

How isefull would it be, btw ?

>>9181456
>For example I like to think some day we might be able to use psychology to enhance education on all levels and suppress aberrant behavior, because we will know all about the systems that govern thought and can better manipulate them.

t. Socialist scum

>>9183660
n^20 is P complexity but any problem that isnt really small is gonna be close to impossible to ever answer

>>9183660
>if P=NP gets proven ALL cryptography and therefore encrypted communication could get broken immediately.
yeah and if riemann hypothesis is true then we immediately can determine factors of prime numbers right?
fucking hell, you still need to come up with a way to break it. If true, P=NP before and after it's proved. If false, P!=NP before and after it's proved. Gravity still existed before Newton [citation needed].

>>9184730
>determine factors of prime numbers
fuck
i mean determine prime factors of numbers

>>9184732
Kek
I'VE FINALLY DONE IT!
It was so simple all along!

int factors[2] = {1, prime};

Increase life expectancy by 50 years, and not an extra 50 years of being decrepit.

>>9184833
>int factors[2] = {1, prime};
who knew "prime" was a native integer?

>>9180962
Finally figuring out that the power of friendship is the most unlimited and easily processed raw energy.

>>9181456
Do you think there would be a skill potential curve with VR jacks? Very different experiences with the tech for different people?

>>9184474
proof of RH will have no impact on factoring. if it could, you could just assume RH is true then get your algorithm. the most a proof of RH could do is to imply that an algorithm is always correct or something like that.

>>9184937
Geez fine,
int prime;
cin >> prime;

>>9180962
Replicator

Fusion engines.

>>9181039
Engineer detected

>>9181301

>>9180962
>open thread
>nobody admits to their secret catgirl fantasies

>>9186120
Dude I would have sex with anything that's sanitary enough and doesn't damage my diugh.

>>9186120
>girl

>>9180962
what a faggot lol

>>9186022
You realize the reason for human existence is art, right? Not technological accomplishments. It was always about elevating the human spirit, technological process was simply a facilitator. Make no mistake that when you stand in the louvre appreciating mona lisa, she's not there for you, you're there for her. When we colonize space and transcend, it will be to spread and elevate our aesthetic(as in spiritual beauty, not visual appeal) sensibility. Post scarcity can't come soon enough

A cure for Coeliac disease, I just want beer and bread again.

>>9181033
>P=NP
wouldn't that basically be pre-deterministic math?
I mean, I see how it could be possible, maybe even how it could be done
damn you, now I'm going to have to look into this. And I'll be off from the lab the whole weekend.

Sapient AI.

I'm so ready for the book to close on our retarded species.

plz cure my herpes

>>9180962
Figuring out how gravity fits in with the other forces so we can finally get dat sweet anti-gravity and start full-scale space expansion.
Alternatively, figure out how to get net-positive fusion so endless energy supplies get ensured and a new round of middle east wars start
>t./syria general/

Too lazy to check if this has been mentioned, but:

Superconductivity at a room temp.

That shit would start a third industrial revolution and would have a significant effect on this entire fucking world.

>>9186501
This

>>9188401
Nvm i just realised that ctrl+f

>>9180962
Designer babies.

Being able to put my consciousness in a machine. I don't need advanced AI. I just want to live forever.

>>9181039
You should probably actually research antimatter because even suggesting it as an option.
It physically acts the same way as regular matter does.
It's "seen" by using powerful electromagnets to pull regular matter away from an area and form a "tub shape" for antimatter to safely sit in without touching regular matter. If it touches regular matter it just kind of vanishes.

Tl;Dr: antimatter is not a viable energy source and star trek or whatever theorized wrongly

>>9186021
Underage detected

>>9183660
quantum cryptography

>>9186574
>muh art
you take cuckoldry to then next level

>>9188401
It'd be nice, but honestly it wouldn't be that big a deal. It'd allow most electrical systems to go from ~90% efficient to 99.9999999...% efficient. They're already pretty darn good.