/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.15002647]

Tfw this board is full of low IQ “study at home” types (meaning watch youtube videos share memes that are like “TORQUE WHEN YOU APPLY A FORCE AT A RIGHT ANGLE!!!” Or otherwise skim wikipedia articles about buzzword topics like quantum and black holes while not even knowing what a lagrangian or entropy is) or otherwise schizos or pol users.


This thread is ONLY for those PURSUING OR WHO HAVE OBTAINED : a bachelors in physics (no chemistry fuck off retards) or GREATER

finally a thread for us who have BRAINS. I WORK IN PHOTONICS, I AM AN ACTUAL RESEARCH SCIENTIST, FUCK OFF SCHIZOS AND LOSERS

[Anonymous No.15002651]

Entropy is when life sucks and things get worse

[Anonymous No.15002654]

>>15002647
>tfw only an engineering pleb

[bodhi No.15002655]

>I study photons!
you are still a midwit and will never have the knowledge, IQ, sex appeal or wealth that I do

[Anonymous No.15002659]

>>15002655
If thats what you think photonics is you are revealing your ignorance i REALLY hope you FUCK OFF back to another thread, REAL PHYSICISTS WILL BACK ME UP HERE!!

[Anonymous No.15002673]

Can someone explain to me wtf a Brillouin zone is and do I literally just get it by drawing lines and then drawing lines halfway along those lines

[Anonymous No.15002676]

>>15002647
you got me
but i have too much anxiety to go to college

[Anonymous No.15002680]

>>15002647
>no chemistry fuck off retards
Funny, it's always physishits asking the chemchads to make them compounds and never the other way around.

[Anonymous No.15002683]

>>15002673
Hi OP here

It is in phase (k) space, so units are 1/x (1/a), this is why it is midway.

From what i recall it is the zone which you can uniquely define k values, since k is periodic on 2pi

[Anonymous No.15002688]

>>15002673
are you doing ss physics or crystallography?

[bodhi No.15002689]

>>15002659
that is called being facetious for the sake of humor, something quite common on this website. As I said you are a REAL midwit

[Anonymous No.15002694]

>>15002683
Thanks mate. I hate solid state I really hope they just ask me some shit about packing fractions on the exam otherwise I'm fucked.

[Anonymous No.15002709]

>>15002688
SS physics module. It actually suck it's like all the shit parts of quantum and thermo and I have to draw all these shitty cubes.

[Anonymous No.15002720]

>>15002709
Hi OP here

Fuck you midwit this “shit” is the interesting part of quantum and thermo retard

Look up order parameters and see beautiful symmetry come from thermo

Why do you think you learn quantum? You think anyone cares about a single “state”??! You learn it to solve problems and guess what everything is made of atoms with electrons which NEED QUANTUM!!!!!

LOOK UP GRAPHENE,, WHY CAN THE ELECTRONS FLOW FREELY? ITS FUCKING AMAZING IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT STOP CRYING AND STUDY AND ENJOY IT

[Anonymous No.15002737]

lasers disprove Einstein's explanation of the photoelectric effect. Photons don't exist

[Anonymous No.15002741]

>>15002720
>Fuck you midwit this “shit” is the interesting part of quantum
alot of truth in this statement
such as quantum states of crystals giving rise to properties such as transparency

[Anonymous No.15002784]

>>15002647
>a bachelors in physics
Seriously? A fucking bachelors?
Sure you're setting that bar low enough?

[Anonymous No.15002787]

>>15002784
These days that's a pretty high bar for sci and I'd be happy if at least 75% of users here had a bachelor's in physics or math. Alas, 75% of the users here today are still in high school.

[Anonymous No.15002798]

>>15002651
It's not. It's microstructural with no realtime application to macrostructures that would have other issues first particularly life supporting structures.

[Anonymous No.15002806]

>>15002647
>Claim to have bachelors
>Illiterate
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[Anonymous No.15002821]

>>15002787
>These days that's a pretty high bar for sci
OK, I admit you have a point.
Shit, being able to read and write above a third-grade level is a pretty high bar here these days.

[Anonymous No.15002824]

>>15002647
>full of low IQ “study at home”
I'm torn, because if you have a high IQ, you legitimately can learn and understand almost anything from the internet these days. However, physics is probably one of the hardest subjects to grasp without extensive coursework and practice. (In contrast to the dozens of subjects which are largely memorization mills.)

>>15002680
Well, I would certainly hope the chemshits don't have to ask physicists to do their chemistry for them

[Anonymous No.15002889]

>>15002824
Hi OP here

You can learn on your own, but wikipedia and youtube are not enough. You need to challenge yourself with the theory and attempt problems to understand physics. Many people believe they are self studying when really they are really just watching TV or looking at snapple facts from their ice tea

[Anonymous No.15002896]

>>15002889
You know reading and solving books is also "studying at home" right?

[Anonymous No.15002918]

>>15002737
I thought the photoelectric effect is what explains LEDs, I could be wrong though (I'm a filthy engineer).

[Anonymous No.15003166]

>>15002647
>bachelors in physics or GREATER
>Greater
It's for the EEs to shine

[Anonymous No.15003168]

>>15002918
>I'm a filthy engineer
Engineers are not this dumb, you faggot. LED and photodetectors are literally course material for EE and ME (and related) majors.

[Anonymous No.15003224]

Do you guys enjoy the schizo threads? I was reading the one about muh aether before. It's kinda funny but I also don't understand how schizos even come up with this shit. It often has a sprinkling of actual physics but they totally misinterpret it. Sometimes I think it's some kind of "/sci/-op"

[Anonymous No.15003237]

reminder that the most groundbreaking discoveries and inventions made by home learners and the academia midwitters always tried to shut them down

[Anonymous No.15003244]

>>15003237
so what have you been homelearning?

[Anonymous No.15003272]

>>15003244
i've started learning addition of single digit numbers yesterday

[Anonymous No.15003275]

>>15003272
very nice anon
it must be tough being a homelearner

[Anonymous No.15003281]

>>15002889
This is true, but this board has a terminal midwit infestation and these dunning kruger retards legitimately think they're on the same level as a university degree holder. They are delusional losers.

[Anonymous No.15003359]

>>15003244
>>15003272
>>15003275

[Anonymous No.15003363]

>>15003359

[Anonymous No.15003446]

>>15003168
Well geez, not my fault we skimmed over the material. We've mostly focused on cicuit analysis for the first year.

[Anonymous No.15003494]

>>15002647
>a bachelors in physics (no chemistry fuck off retards) or GREATER
>implying physics isn't bottom of the barrel of STEM

[Anonymous No.15003515]

>>15002647
>Or otherwise skim wikipedia articles about buzzword topics like quantum and black holes while not even knowing what a lagrangian or entropy is) or otherwise schizos or pol users.
I have a master's in computer science. I do know what Shannon entropy and Lagrange multiplier are. And I've seen videos about black holes narrated by the black science guy. I am also a /pol/ schizo.
>This thread is ONLY for those
Fuck off, bigot. Diversity is /sci/'s greatest strength.

[Anonymous No.15003768]

>>15003281
There's a reason uni and college are going out of fashion. Being seen as useless, and mostly filled with women now.
Structured learning will always provide better progression and learning from people with years and years of experience will always be better; but, your "university degree holder" is people with no real world experience who do nothing outside of school. In my experience.

[Anonymous No.15003781]

>>15002647
Fax.

[Anonymous No.15003860]

>>15002896
Hi OP here,

Yes i am, thats why I said you need to challenge yourself with the material. I literally said what you are saying, you are fucking retarded and honestly come across as a little insecure.

[Anonymous No.15003865]

>>15002647
Most of the posters here have at least a bachelor's degree in some stem field

[Anonymous No.15003946]

>>15002918
>I thought the photoelectric effect is what explains LEDs
No. LEDs didn't exist back then. Lasers debunk the existence of photons.

[bodhi No.15003959]

>>15003224
I was smart enough to figure out Einstein was wrong and you weren't so there's that. Don't give two shits what bullshit was in your 101 level textbooks and have zero use for it

[Anonymous No.15003973]

>>15002647
>degree
sorry OP but that's as useless as studying at home if you haven't produced any actual scholarship of your own

[bodhi No.15003988]

>>15003224
btw I am not the person you are referring too here anyway but I am not pretentious and wont try to act like
I am some great physicist talking about shit I dont understand. However, when it comes to aether physics and vortex math etc I do know what I am talking about and it is you doing what you accuse others of thinking while sucking your own dick over some basic bitch shit from your intro courses which is quite typical of pseuds.

[Anonymous No.15004012]

>>15003781
Interesting.

Can you explain the energy bands splitting, especially in the context of Silicon atoms, where the end result is a band gap between "conducting" and "valence" bands? How does the lattice parameter of distance between the atoms decide, whether or not some energy levels (band) will be far lower than other energy band?

[Anonymous No.15004393]

>>15003959
>>15003988
You're pretentious enough to come and tell us you totally know Einstein is wrong. Maybe you could offer us some kind of proof with reference to an equation or other physical quantity?

[Anonymous No.15005224]

>>15003973
Hi OP here,

Physics as a whole needs to be inclusive. Science grows when we have more people pushing eachother, plus we (assuming you are of an equal status to me and not a poltard schizo reject) need to pay it forward. You probably got a lot of help along the way.

I think a degree is an important distinction because at the very least it signifies an approach to learn hard sciences . Yes bachelors physics is baby tier but you have ti start somewhere.

Useless retard dunning kruger retards will say things blindly, good students and scientist will be explicit on what they know and the limits of their knowledge, and are welcomed here in my figurative garden of eden (this thread.)

[Anonymous No.15005232]

If scientists/intellectuals are so smart, why did most of them pump their veins full of mysterious science juice?

[Anonymous No.15005312]

>>15005232
Hi OP here

Dont care. Biology isnt real science. GTFO to another thread bye bye (vaxxed and got my dick sucked by a new girl last week)

[Anonymous No.15005317]

>>15005312
>vaxxed
Smart goy