/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.10103403]

Is picture related an example of what humans do when lacking a real scientific breakthrough to help them ascend to the next scientific age?

They just take their current technology to its absolute maximum? Eg. this absolutely giant, incredibly intricate construction shows absolute dominance of ancient technology. This today would be possible to recreate, but it would take a fuck load of cranes, computer imaging, modern technology etc. They did this shit with ropes and stones.

[Anonymous No.10103418]

>>10103403
Pic related is Sacsayhuamán Citadel in Peru, btw. This isn't ancient europeans.

[Anonymous No.10103434]

>>10103403
Yes. It's called compensation. While you must admit, building a really tall wall is almost nothing like spendong 20 years researching life extension technology to become eternal they bear a semblance of similarity due to the sheer effort and time you must input to the result. Also the cranes make it much faster to build.

[Anonymous No.10103439]

>>10103434
Compensation - is that its scientific term for this phenomenon? I'd like to read more about it.

But yes, essentially this is the smartest minds of the time (would be equivalence of our modern geniuses), doing extremely difficult tasks. So what we look back at as being really primitive, is actually incorrect.

[Anonymous No.10103465]

Bump

[Anonymous No.10103472]

>>10103465
it takes literal days for a thread to fall off of /sci/ dude you don't need to bump your own thread like that
go back to /b/

[Anonymous No.10103496]

>>10103439
The construction of a wall is not perfect.

Chaos theory has a monkeys writing on typewriters thought experiment that says if a continuous stream of literature arose from a perpetual supply of monkeys on typewriters, the entire random string of letters would, at some point in time, achieve the full works of Charles Dickens and beyond in some shape or form.

A wall in itself, is not perfect, the patterns differentiate slightly and each rock used has at least a pico difference in its mass.

Thus, a permanently in progress wall, with these random differences present, would, according to the monkey experiment, eventually lead to a pattern in its entirety that could mathematically be interpereted as everything from the structure of a life extension DNA sequence in a telomere, to the very human genome itself.

In conclusion, to the question of "How is a raven like a writing desk?", it becomes evident, if this is true, that they both contain an element (or more) of mathematical variety.

To the point where taking a little of column A or B and transferring them between themselves in a closed system, will in fact make them identical.

Thinking along the lines of "A raven shaped desk" or "A desk shaped raven", it is obvious that something has to be present that unifies the old genius and the younger disciple, if not the universe itself, and beyond.

[Anonymous No.10103512]

>>10103496
Holy shit- a-anon...
That question was never supposed to have a definable answer.

[Anonymous No.10103513]

>>10103496
>mfw when desk shaped raven

[Anonymous No.10103525]

>>10103496
thas is it
that's enough /sci/ for one day...

[Anonymous No.10103533]

>>10103403
>This today would be possible to recreate, but it would take a fuck load of cranes, computer imaging, modern technology etc.
Not really. It doesn't take a genius to cut some stones and put them together. One big crane and some power tools is all you need to do this today.

[Anonymous No.10103545]

>>10103496
What you just did there. That was wrong. I don't know how it was wrong, but it just is. Never post again.

[Anonymous No.10103549]

>>10103418
there is similar masonry all across the world, also in Europe

[Anonymous No.10103564]

>>10103496
>Answering quite possibly the hardest literary question with logic.

Finally I can die in peace.

[Anonymous No.10103573]

>>10103564
>>10103512
You realise there are multiple answers on Wikipedia... Are you both retarded?

[Anonymous No.10103574]

>>10103533
They didn't have power tools and big cranes. Some of the walls are so accurate you would need imaging.

[Anonymous No.10103581]

>>10103549
What feature of the wall are you talking about? Which part could encode data? And how?

[Anonymous No.10103745]

>>10103574
Today we would have to make one that will be well made.
In past they created hundreds of thousands of walls and just few of them happened to be good enough to withstand all this time.

[Anonymous No.10103754]

There's a stone cutting/moving technology that's been kept secret for centuries. In the past, it would have let a half dozen or less people construct an entire town with walls made of stone. So it was pretty powerful stuff at the time. Nowadays we can mail order an entire town with walls if we wanted to so the secret isn't worth keeping anymore.

pro-tip: it has to do with sound and resonance
pic related

[Anonymous No.10103763]

>>10103754
The weirding way

[Anonymous No.10103771]

>>10103549
these walls are really everywhere

[Anonymous No.10103772]

>>10103763
Not even joking, but there's a story about King Solomon sending his knights out to find a worm that can cut holes in solid stone so they could study it and learn it's secrets. Supposedly after he learned the secrets he used them to build King Solomon's temple.

It sound like a plausible origin since even today we're borrowing technology that's developed by nature.

[Anonymous No.10103795]

>>10103403
>>10103574
They had cranes back then, just made of wood and stone and rope.

>>10103754
Sand, rope, and boards isn't really super secret.

[Anonymous No.10103832]

>>10103496
based manic poster