/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.14985694]

What were some scientific realizations in your life where you really had to let that sink in?

[Anonymous No.14985951]

>>14985694

[Anonymous No.14985969]

>>14985694
the gravitational force basically means I'm bi. I attract (and am attracted by) both men and women.

[Anonymous No.14985980]

>>14985694
That I wasn't going to make any progress in understanding scientific concepts until I had a solid grasp of higher level mathematics (to the point where solving/setting up the math is instinct).

[Anonymous No.14985984]

My beliefs are firm and I ignore all evidence to the contrary.

I never let that sink in. I never will.

[Anonymous No.14986019]

Making the connection between the structure of the Periodic Table of Elements and electron shells. As simple as the connection is, it was never explicitly taught so when I noticed it myself, a little lightbulb went on.

[Anonymous No.14986044]

>>14985980
how do you plan to grasp higher level math?

[Anonymous No.14986076]

>>14985694
that genders are not binary

[Anonymous No.14986158]

Test statistics. It finally clicked when I had a PhD course with a guy whose research specialized in those. I "knew" how hypothesis testing worked but it was mostly mindlessly following a script before.

[Anonymous No.14986269]

The "reals" just aren't real.

[Anonymous No.14986278]

Higher education is dead because liberals cannot handle basic reality

[Anonymous No.14986297]

>>14985694
That information requires difference in measurements. This then entails that the amount of information a system can get from another system is determined by the ability of the receiver to discern between different states in the observed object. So, while "objective information," the maximal amount needed to describe a system might not increase, system to system information absolutely can increase as asymmetries result in more discernible states.

Information theoretic models of complexity never made sense to me before that. But they make sense when you realize that, in complex systems, more states are discernable from one another due to asymmetry.

Extremely ordered and extremely disordered states can both be models to high degrees of accuracy much more easily than complex states for this reason.

[Anonymous No.14986382]

>>14985951
What the fuck is wrong with seven reps

[Anonymous No.14986455]

That nothing really noble or truly informative is happening here. Measurement and formulae will never tell me the why of anything. I may as well be an NFL enthusiast. Its just as useful. We're not special, we're just jerking around like anyone else.

[Anonymous No.14986471]

>>14986382
you loose all gains if you stop there

[Anonymous No.14986499]

>>14985694
Things are made out of stuff and this stuff interacts according to some framework of rules.

Everything beyond that is pure subjectivity that arises from human delusion.

[Anonymous No.14986539]

>>14985694
that 50% of the people in the west have an IQ below 50.

[Anonymous No.14988118]

>>14985951
Hello fellow /fit/ anon. Now tell me you're also /k/.

[Anonymous No.14990886]

musk shill thread

[Anonymous No.14990888]

>>14988118
euroid tier post

[Jealous No.14991081]

sometimes the homework wants you to use the small angle approximation without saying that clearly

[Anonymous No.14991102]

>>14985694
This was both a good joke and a good way of showing off your flexed muscles.

[Anonymous No.14991107]

>>14985980
shill
>>14985984
In other words a normal scientist.

[Anonymous No.14991119]

>>14991102
well cocksucked
unfortunately, you will never go to space

[Anonymous No.14991284]

>>14991102
What do you think the joke is?
Also, its not a joke, its a gag.

[Anonymous No.14991287]

>>14985694
my corp and inv banking prof took a 30 sec detour talking about what a powerful metaphore this was

[Anonymous No.14991705]

>>14985951
>7 reps = negative gainz
Say it ain't so, /sci/bros. Sauce?

[Anonymous No.14991722]

>>14985694
That consciousness is fundamental and cannot be reduced to a physical description, if quantum mechanics is to be believed.

[Anonymous No.14991726]

>>14985951
paper?
link?

[Anonymous No.14991826]

>>14991722
>That consciousness is fundamental and cannot be reduced to a physical description
This is true, though QM has nothing to do with consciousness

[Anonymous No.14991878]

>>14985694
That science sacrificed everything for bootlicking the one in power. That no lie is to gross and no thesis too idiotic just to support the current thing. That they betrayed every ideal and even common sense.

[Anonymous No.14991917]

>>14991826
Proof?

[Anonymous No.14991920]

>>14991917
Burden of proof lies on you, my amigo

[Anonymous No.14991944]

>>14991920
Not how it works. You made a positivist claim that quantum mechanics has nothing to do with consciousness. This is different from the null hypothesis; you need to back your claim up or reject it and make a new claim.

[Anonymous No.14992007]

>>14991726
>>14991705
It's bs.

[Anonymous No.14992422]

>>14985694
that 1/0 = ∞

[Anonymous No.14992444]

>>14991944
>You made a positivist claim that quantum mechanics has nothing to do with consciousness.
You made the claim that QM indicates a truth about consciousness.

[Anonymous No.14992536]

>>14992444
I didn't claim anything, fag.

[Anonymous No.14992851]

A single cell can be conscious. Consciousness doesn't require neurons. Consciousness may just be part of the fabric of existence. We don't know.

I am confused about consciousness, and it still hasn't sunk in.

Also, it still has taken awhile to accept that there might not be free will.

[Anonymous No.14992866]

>>14986382
The dataplot stops at 6.5 reps; look harder

[Anonymous No.14992877]

>>14992851
There is free will, but not to the degree that you imagine is possible

[Anonymous No.14992885]

>>14986278
Pretty much this; once I started listening and reading to Sowell, I realized that the original conservative ethos was based on tested hypotheses and facts, not religious fundamentalism and reactionary traditionalism.

[Anonymous No.14992933]

>>14985951
>>14992007
Searching for authors cited is not turning anything up either

Is this a /fit/ meme I missed?

[Anonymous No.14992969]

That science is just an institution that hides behind a method that is not even practiced in the way they pretend it is. I always thought I could find a place in the world being good at science but it is just a big fraudulent thing. Oh well time to just grow up and live as an "adult" in the most "advanced" society we have had.

[Anonymous No.14992972]

>>14985694

The world is not material. It is consciousness.

[Anonymous No.14992979]

>>14992972
When it really hit me, I realized that what we are living in currently is just a prelude to an infinite life within universal consciousness.

All the problems I go through in this life don't have the punch they used to anymore. Because I realize there is infinity ahead of me, and it doesn't end with the death of my human headset.

[Anonymous No.14992985]

>>14985694
Laws or facts are descriptions of invariences. Holding meaning constant is useful for building structure with perscriptavisms, but ultimately what we call reality is structure of tags or markings that we combine and seperate as we measure the economics of our guiding risk and reward system.

[Anonymous No.14994029]

>>14992877
There are not degrees of freedom, placing any restriction on freedom by definition means it is no longer freedom, it is restricted and restricted freedom is an oxymoron.

[Anonymous No.14994034]

>>14992972
If reality is all just imagination, then you could just imagine it is actually material and you will be correct.

[Anonymous No.14994059]

>>14985694