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My high school physics teacher once said that the mark of a good scientist is being able to simplify advanced scientific concepts so that even a child could understand.

Prove your worth /sci/. Boil down the most complicated piece of scientific knowledge you know.

Hard mode: make it analagous to some common everyday occurance

>> No.3376463

He's paraphrasing Einstein.

>> No.3376460

and that's why he was a high school physics teacher

>> No.3376465

quantum physics is like brushing your teeth.

>> No.3376469

Your high school physics teacher was a dumbass. Sometimes things don't have analogues in our everyday world.

>> No.3376471

Statistical mechanics: Billions and billions of Lilliputians get together and do something that's noticeable to Gulliver.

>> No.3376472

>>3376465
No matter how hard you try you'll never overcome decay?

>> No.3376474

all of nature take the path of least resistance towards equilibrium where possible.

>> No.3376485

Astronomy is sort of like billiards, but with balls that are millions of kilometers wide.

>> No.3376487

Software: Your computer "knows" how to run Call of Duty the same way those old-timey piano playing machines "knows" how to play a piano.

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3376489

for great justice

>> No.3376498

Conservation of archaeological resources: you are Cyclops from the X-Men. Unless you're really, really careful, everything you look at is incinerated.

>> No.3376499

>>3376472
it involves calculus

>> No.3376508

>My high school physics teacher once said that the mark of a good scientist is being able to simplify advanced scientific concepts so that even a child could understand.

He's wrong, and that's a re-worded Jewish salesman technique.

>> No.3376514

oxidative phosphorylation of adenosine diphosphate into adenosine triphosphate is like breaking apart a candy bar and sharing it so that more than one worker has enough energy to mill wheat.

in truth, a series of redox reactions starting with nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide and flavin adenine dinucleotide and ending with oxygen systematically give energy to proton pumps creating a concentration gradient on the outside of the mitochondrial plasmolemma. these protons then move down the gradient through ATP synthase; 3 protons phosphorylate 1 adp molecule into atp. rinse, repeat.

success?

>> No.3376509

>>3376452
>high school

Stopped reading there.

>> No.3376516

>>3376514
babby's first biochemistry

>> No.3376519

The deeper theories of physics are like a beautiful woman. No matter how many times OP comes across one, he will never grasp it.

>> No.3376524

String theory is like a large invertebrate, possibly one with a flagellum.

>> No.3376528

>>3376516
yeah it was the only shit i could think of off the top of my head
oh well.

>> No.3376540

Quantum mechanics: Matter doesn't exist unless you think it does.

>> No.3376542

>>3376528
just bustin balls, it was pretty good

>> No.3376549

>>3376524
No, because large invertebrates exist, relative to to the majority of invertebrates, and most creatures with a digestive tract have flagella. There are multiple forms of independent observable evidence that this is true.

String theory depends on observable evidence that proves -other- theories for it's proofs, but nothing independently proves string-theory.

>> No.3376555

>>3376549
you seem to have trouble understanding the finer points of absurdist humor

>> No.3376566

>>3376555
>points
>absurdist humor

everybody knows absurd humor is pointless.

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>>3376566

I likes dis guys.

>> No.3378759

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMFPe-DwULM

That is all.

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3378763

So explain this to me like I'm a 6 year old

>> No.3378764

Drone like a madman till 5.00, defend, get a third base drone like a madman till 7.00, defend, go mass roach and dont let him get a third.

>> No.3378771

Entropy is kind of like an orgasm. Once it's over, the the universe collapses and takes a nap.

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3378773

pic relate

>> No.3378774

>>3376474
Except humans which try to operate infinite growth systems in a finite universe.

>> No.3378777

you're an idiot and your teacher is an idiot and you're even more idiot to listen to him

>> No.3378789

Calculus instructor use to make entities called "Mr. X" and "Mrs. X" when describing limits from both sides.

For a silly example, (X^2 - 9)/(X - 3) as X -> 3

Him:
Now watch closely as Mr. X and Mrs. X follow this curve toward each other. Where are they going? Can you tell me. Will they ever meet? Are they meant for each other? Tell me class.

Seriously.

>> No.3378792

>>3378789
that's what happens when you go to community college

>> No.3378796

That's what makes you a good TEACHER, not necessarily a good SCIENTIST.

>> No.3378799

>>3378792
High School Calculus, but in your defense, he does also teach at, you guessed it, community tech.

>> No.3378801

Complex concepts are kinda like not complex concepts, except more complex.
This is pseudoscience.
Science is wrong.
hurr.
durr.
/every post
/thread

>> No.3378809

>>3378796
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>> No.3378812

>>3378811
NO but I'd suck a dick if it was hard enough

>> No.3378811

>>3378809
nigga u gay?

>> No.3378810

>>3378796
>>3378809
samefag. trust me, I'm him as well.

>> No.3378813

>>3378773
>not using that stick to beat the living shit out of the student for picking at a visual representation of a concept

I'm disappoint.

>> No.3378814

>>3376452


1 + 1 = 2

1 + 1 + 1 = 3

etc

If you and I were in a room alone and I were to count people (besides myself) I would count 1 person

If I were to count people again and you were getting fucked in the ass by your teacher because you're a flaming faggot I would count you and your teacher and that would be two people

If your dad joined in and fucked your teacher while he fucks you and you all did the homo train I would count 3 people

If my dog were to show up and shove it's dick in your mouth I would still count 3 people because my dog isn't a person and OP is a faggot

>> No.3378815

>>3378812
fair enough

>> No.3378817

>>3378813
i have one of those sticks, its an extendable

But I'll never be a teacher :(

>> No.3378820

>>3378812
What engineering?

>> No.3378824

ITT Autistic manchildren refuse to believe that scientific concepts can be simplified in fear that neurotypicalfags will join their sekrt klub

stay classy bros

>> No.3378828

>>3378820
No, theoretical physics.

All you faggots do is whore yourself around the conference circuit - never actually contributing anything meaningful to society. That''s why you're faggots.

>> No.3378833

>>3378824
scientific concepts CAN be simplified by analogy but never precisely.

>> No.3378847

>>3378828
u mad i have a job and u don't?

>> No.3378852

>>3378824
>ITT Autistic manchildren refuse to believe that scientific concepts can be simplified in fear that neurotypicalfags will join their sekrt klub
>in fear that neurotypicalfags will join their sekrt klub
>neurotypicalfags will join their sekrt klub
>their sekrt klub
>sekrt klub

This is why no one takes you serious.

>> No.3378964

Human biology is like lots of different Lego pieces, floating around in liquid and bumping into eachother.

>> No.3379092

Don't feel like using metaphors to help science? Do what Oliver Heaviside did and try reformulating complex math.