/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.11402456]

If you are never going to be top 5% of what you are doing, be it Math or Physics or whatever, what's the point? You will probably never discover anything as big as the ones from Paul Erdos, Pierre Deligne and the likes.

[Anonymous No.11402485]

Because I enjoy my work and what I do. Sure, I might not be the next Robert Goddard or Wernher von Braun, but I'll be the master of my craft in my own corner of the industry and that's still something to be proud of.

[Anonymous No.11402632]

Why arbitrarily draw the line at 5%? Why not 10% or 2% or 0.0001%? Why not just have two or three top researchers in every sub-discipline? Why not just one?

Scientific advancement is a cumulative process, driven largely (in the modern era at least) by networks of teams of researchers. Anyone who has interest and competence in a subject should be free to pursue that subject.

[Anonymous No.11402648]

>>11402456
Thats bc. its actually top 1%. And you should reach at least in one other area top 5%. Or you are genetically trash.

[Anonymous No.11402649]

>>11402456
And even if you are, and you discover something, you can count the vicious political class to steal it and leave you with nothing.

[Anonymous No.11402833]

>>11402456
I'm a physics teaching professor at my state school. I don't have to do research and my job isn't hard. Don't have tenure (work on contract) but it'd be too hard for the department to find someone else and it isn't like they have a reason to fire me. Summers off, too.

[Anonymous No.11402847]

>>11402485
This guy gets it

[Anonymous No.11402849]

>>11402456
>what's the point?
there is far more math and science to investigate than any single human could possibly do in 100 lifetimes

[Anonymous No.11402859]

This board's obsession with other peoples' achievements will always make me chuckle.

You are a nobody and will die one. Legitimately cope with this.

[Anonymous No.11402874]

>>11402859
And who the fuck are you?

[Anonymous No.11402875]

Being one of the greats in the only way to reach immortality. For me, it's Caesar or nothing. If I'm not a famous researcher or writer by the time I'm 35 I'll just kill myself haha
>>11402648
this
>t. genetic trash

[Anonymous No.11402878]

>>11402859
pure slave morality lmao

[Anonymous No.11402961]

>>11402456
Deligne is a hack and a thief, don't believe him.
t. Grothendieck

[Anonymous No.11403026]

>>11402859
Same as you dude.

[Anonymous No.11403057]

>>11402456
I learn for myself, and to understand reality a bit better before i die. Not for recognition.

[Anonymous No.11403140]

>>11402632
Wrong wrong wrong. Read Thomas Kuhn.

[Anonymous No.11403144]

>>11402456
I do it for myself, and not for other people

[Anonymous No.11403158]

>>11402456

This is why robots are so important
So that the top 5% can do everything that matters along with their horde of robot drones and everybody else can just go off and be the waste of space they truly are

[Anonymous No.11403398]

>>11402456
Doing physics or mathematics at any serious level easily puts you at the top 0.5 % of overall humanity by intellect.

[Anonymous No.11403400]

>>11402456
Not with that attitude faggot.

[Anonymous No.11403468]

>>11402875
There is no way to reach immortality. You will die and be utterly forgotten within only a few generations, at best. Come to terms with it so that you can attain freedom.

[Anonymous No.11404039]

>>11403400
Then with what attitude? You tell me.

[Anonymous No.11404187]

>>11403140
Why? That's the paradigm dude with his paradigm book, right? So things accumulate within the paradigms, but whole paradigms might be thrown away? Is that the point?

[Anonymous No.11404197]

>>11403144
3pi ?

[Anonymous No.11404209]

>>11402875
> haha
You joke about suicide you should really consider getting some help, that's not normal. You might be depressed and not even know about it.

One way to look at life is as an optimization problem - you are given certain parameters and you have to get the best from them. 'The Best' is vague as shit because it it up to you to define what that means. Start a business, contribute to a social or environmental cause, contribute to research and help move humanity forward.

Fame also comes and goes m8. I think there are plenty of examples of folks who became famous after they died.

Look, do the best you can and toss this nonsense about suicide to the trash where it belongs.

[Anonymous No.11404214]

>>11404197
Ok fuck me, I first tried to do it on my head using my intuition and got 3pi, now I did the integral using the shell method and got 2pi.

Can someone tell me the correct answer pls?

[Anonymous No.11404218]

>>11404214
>>11404197
Please ignore this posts I am retarded.

[Anonymous No.11404222]

>>11404218
Ok, I got it the answer is pi. I thought the function was 3x when it was actually -3x+3

[Anonymous No.11404228]

>>11404222
>>11403144

Ok, but I am still curious, the loli in the image says that you can do it without calculus or the formula. Who does one solve it like that? That's what I tried frist but evidently I don't know how to.

[Anonymous No.11404236]

>>11402456
Why do you care about how other people perform when you're doing what you love?

[Anonymous No.11404246]

OP we know you are really good as sucking cock and are eager to show us why you are in the top 5%

[Anonymous No.11404340]

>>11404228
Are you dumb
V=πr2h/3

[Anonymous No.11404341]

Eaay to be in the top 5% when youre 100% of it because yoy created the field

[Anonymous No.11404355]

>>11404340
What part of the restriction where we cannot use the formula everyone learns in high school you don't understand?

[Anonymous No.11404366]

>>11404209
>shitty normie-tier life advice
>reddit spacing
yep, you need to go back nigger

[Anonymous No.11404655]

I’m too 1% in Wealth, so I’m good.

[Anonymous No.11405189]

>>11402878
Delusional

[Anonymous No.11405191]

>>11402875
have fun killing yourself
>>11404209
reddit

[Anonymous No.11405577]

>>11404655
You mean bottom 1%? Shit. Do you need me to send you some bucks over paypal?