Post a fact.

[Anonymous No.5176422]

ITT post a fact that blew your mind when you first heard it. Doesn't matter what field of science it's from or how basic it is. Go /sci/entists.

[Anonymous No.5176429]

Electrons orbit atoms in discrete levels, there's no sliding scale for the fuckers, they're either on one level or another.

[Anonymous No.5176427]

I remember being amazed when I was told how close the moon really is as a kid. All I can think of Op

[Anonymous No.5176436]

>>5176429
energy is discontinuous!!
science rules
b-b-b-bill nye

[Anonymous No.5176437]

I'm still surprised that every electron is exactly the same as every other electron

[Anonymous No.5176438]

More than one in five of American blacks have IQs below 75. Around one in twenty whites are below 75. An IQ in the 70-75 range, is "borderline retarded."

[Anonymous No.5176441]

Black holes aren’t black, consider your mind blown

[Op No.5176442]

>>5176438
God that's distressing.

[Anonymous No.5176440]

Matter is neither created or destroyed.

Energy is never created or destroyed.

Electrons travel in orbitals.

[Anonymous No.5176443]

>>5176441

[Anonymous No.5176445]

Traveling back in time is impossible but travelling forward through time IS possible.

[Anonymous No.5176450]

General relativity and shit

[Anonymous No.5176451]

virus-infection lead to cancer

[Anonymous No.5176455]

A sigma algebra with union and disjoint union is a ring.

[Anonymous No.5176456]

Massive objects fucking bend light what the fuck

Also the concept of enternity blew my shit when I first actually realized what it meant. I was pic related for a day or so.

[Anonymous No.5176458]

The information-entropy equivalence is pretty mind blowing.
As in, do a logical operation with two inputs and one input, you will create heat. Do two inputs, two outputs, and it's ok.
What?

[Anonymous No.5176460]

We only use 10% of our brain.

[Heath !E1kzGzIKV6 No.5176462]

>>5176460
That's actually incorrect.

[Anonymous No.5176463]

>>5176460
You certainly only use 10% of yours

I think all the cool shit you can do with e

[Op No.5176464]

>>5176456
I remember this feel.
>>5176458
what?

[Op No.5176470]

>>5176460
I said facts, not myths.

[Anonymous No.5176471]

It is not possible to assign a volume for every subset of R^3.

[Anonymous No.5176469]

The Casimir Effect.

Pair production at the Compton wavelength.

The existence of ground state density functionals.

Maxwell's equations are already Lorentz invariant.

Analogy between simple harmonic oscillators in space and a quantum field.

Electric fields can store energy in vacuum.

Superconductivity.

Quantum tunneling effects.

Gyroscopes.

Lots of shit.

[Anonymous No.5176472]

The are just as many natural numbers as there are finite subsets of rational numbers.

[Anonymous No.5176473]

This distance between the earth and the sun changes over the year. This is why there are seasons.

[Anonymous No.5176476]

>>5176471

Is that true? What's an example?

[Op No.5176477]

>>5176472
>>5176471
>>5176469
thread keeps getting better thanks anons.

[Anonymous No.5176480]

No way of determining if there is an objective reality

[Anonymous No.5176482]

>>5176476
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-measurable_set#Example

[Anonymous No.5176483]

>>5176481
what?

[Anonymous No.5176481]

>>5176429
Excuse my ignorance, but how many discrete levels does it "teleport" to in one cycle then?

[Anonymous No.5176485]

>>5176473
you are retarded?

>>5176440
E=mc^2

[Anonymous No.5176487]

>>5176481

Electrons are not point particles. They don't "teleport." They are excitations of a quantum field.

[Anonymous No.5176488]

>>5176473
Not sure if trolling or just stupid.jpg,

the earths tilt in axis is what primarily causes seasons.

[Anonymous No.5176489]

The fact that all chemical reactions happen simply because it increases the disorder of the universe.

[Anonymous No.5176490]

>>5176481
Electrons don't "cycle" around their atoms. They exist in fixed spatial configurations (=confined in defined volumes, most of the time illimitate), each of which has fixed energy.
At any time, you have some chance to find the electron in any of the point of such volume. There are orbitals that are not even spherical, and some that are not even connected (1p is such an example).

[Anonymous No.5176491]

>>5176473
Nnnnnnnno. Australia is in summer while you're in winter. Doesn't make sense.

[Anonymous No.5176494]

>>5176482

Holy shit. I always assumed all subsets of R^n were Lebesgue measurable.

Thanks anon.

[Anonymous No.5176497]

>>5176489

[citation needed]

[Anonymous No.5176498]

>>5176471
the more you know

[Anonymous No.5176499]

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091022234249AAepWyh Here's a "fact" for you Op. According to these people EVERYTHING is made of atoms.

[Anonymous No.5176500]

>>5176445
According to Einsteins special relativity theory and formula it is.

[Anonymous No.5176502]

>>5176500
How so? Can you explain?

[Anonymous No.5176505]

"We're made of star stuff"

[Heath !E1kzGzIKV6 No.5176507]

>>5176499
All dem incorrect answers. And they're all so sure that they're right. Rustled/10

[Anonymous No.5176508]

>>5176505

[Anonymous No.5176506]

>>5176502

Well you can use time dilation from near light speed speeds. You don't really create any parallel universes or clones, you really just fast forward yourself, from a viewers perspective. From your perspective basically you don't age, for a few minute and years pass for the people who aren't travelling with you.

[Anonymous No.5176509]

>>5176500

Special Relativity implies a way to "age faster" relative to another inertial frame. It doesnt say you can travel backwards in time.

There is some solution to Einstein's field equations (GENERAL relativity) that admits backwards time propagation but they appear to just be mathematical artifacts not to be taken literally.

[Anonymous No.5176510]

Evolution is a hoax.

[Anonymous No.5176512]

You only live once.

[Anonymous No.5176513]

<span class="math">A(g_{g_64},g_{g_64})^{A(g_{g_64},g_{g_64})} < \infty[/spoiler]

increase <span class="math">g_{64}[/spoiler] for <span class="math">g_{65}[/spoiler] or <span class="math">g_{n}[/spoiler], you get the idea.

[Anonymous No.5176514]

>>5176509
>>5176509
Ok thankyou anon

[Anonymous No.5176515]

>>5176512

Sean Connery can live twice.

[Heath !E1kzGzIKV6 No.5176517]

>>5176510
. . . . . .. .
also dinosaurs don't exist

[Op No.5176518]

>>5176515
Oh Lawd.

[Anonymous No.5176519]

>>5176422
That matter is largely space.
That objects don't really touch, they repel.
That objects don't 'have' colour, they reflect certain wavelengths.

[Anonymous No.5176520]

The Baker-Hausdorf formula.

I get giddy everytime I have an opportunity to use it.

[Anonymous No.5176526]

Light has momentum

Our lecturer derived Conservation of Energy, Conservation of Angular Momentum, and all 3 of Kepler's laws in minutes using nothing more than Newton's Laws of motion. That was pretty fuckin' badass.

[Anonymous No.5176527]

Materialism is a failed proposition.

[Anonymous No.5176523]

>>5176518

YOLT

[Op No.5176528]

>>5176519
>That objects don't 'have' colour, they reflect certain wavelengths
This one always got me.

[Anonymous No.5176530]

>>5176526

Conservation of energy and momentum are not consequences of Newton's laws...

[Anonymous No.5176533]

>>5176530
Newton's third law IS conservation of momentum.

[Anonymous No.5176534]

>>5176469

Virtual particles. Just because something can happen it does.

The fact that virtual particles actually exist. When they pop into existence as a pair, (pair for conservation of charge/spin/momentum whatever) if one of them is over the event horizon of a black hole they can never get back to each other to annihilate so that's the reason black holes emit radiation. The virtual particles 'borrowed' energy to create themselves, and this energy deficit needs to be made up because they can't annihilate and re-release it, so to preserve the conservation of energy the universe takes some energy from the blackhole which is why blackholes "evaporate" over time.

The fact that we know all this about blackholes despite never seeing one, and have deduced it using nothing but the power of our minds.

[Anonymous No.5176535]

>>5176519
>That objects don't 'have' colour, they reflect certain wavelengths.
Let's not argue semantics here, shall we?

[Anonymous No.5176539]

We can invent a number that doesn't exist [ i = sqrt (-1) ], do maths with it, then we get results that are applicable to real things in the real world you can see with your eyes.

Mindfuck

[Anonymous No.5176544]

I'm old. I remember when diverse ecosystems were discovered at hydrothermal vents...that blew my mind. I did not actually believe it at first and had to double-check that I was not reading a tabloid.

[Anonymous No.5176550]

Euler's equation.
The first time I looked at it I was about 16, didn't know much about maths. It absolutely amazed me that e^(ixpi) + 1 could equal zero.

[Anonymous No.5176546]

>>5176519
>That objects don't really touch, they repel.

Fucking this right here, really blew my mind when I was first learning chemistry.

[Anonymous No.5176552]

>>5176533

Conservation of energy and momentum are inherent facts of nature that cannot be derived.

F=0=dp/dt is a special case.

Newton's third law establishes the existence of force pairs in the classical world.

Hamiltonian dynamics is more fundamental.

[Anonymous No.5176556]

>>5176530

Maybe derived was the wrong word. He didn't assume conservation of Energy for an orbiting body it just fell out nicely as one of the results of the manipulations. Was just pretty neat how it all comes out.

[Anonymous No.5176560]

>>5176464
I shit you not.
Pic related : a non reversible gate.
Notice the output entropy is lower. (Since deltaS = k * deltaH)

[Anonymous No.5176563]

The Law of Attraction blew my fucking mind when I first heard about it.

[Anonymous No.5176564]

Elements are made in stars and supernovas.

[Anonymous No.5176566]

That there is a bijection between R and R^n for any n.
Bijecting a line with a square seems so odd.

[Anonymous No.5176567]

Spin precession in a magnetic field in QM.

The fact that there exist points in time (integrally spaced) where you can absolutely say what the spin orientation in one direction will be, for say an electron.

I love using that one when people say QM is all randomness and non-determinism.

[Anonymous No.5176572]

Euler's equation, because it combines the basics of maths.

If you are an only child, and male, then your mother is the last in an unbroken line of females going back to the emergence of gender itself. Reverse if only child and female.

[Anonymous No.5176588]

Plato's idealism and realism are childish.
Rene Descarte's mind-body duality is just an unprovable theological position.

[Anonymous No.5176599]

>>5176572

>If you are an only child, and mal..........

HOOOOOREEEEEEY SHEEEEEEEEET

[Anonymous No.5176626]

>>5176572
i dont get this, could you aware me.

[Anonymous No.5176633]

>>5176626
If you are the only offspring of your parents, and you are male, your mother has not had a female child.

However, your mother is someone's female child. And your mother's mother is someone's female child. And so on and so on until the point in our evolution when gender evolved from a-gender.

[Anonymous No.5176634]

Boltzmann/Shannon/Akaike information entropy.

[Anonymous No.5176636]

I was sitting in class and I realized the number 1.99 had a greater value than 1.9. So, by that logic, 1.999 was bigger than 1.99. I then realized there are an infinite amount of numbers between 1.9 and 2. I was 12 at the time so I was pic related for a bit.

[Anonymous No.5176639]

>>5176636
what happened when you found out 1.999... = 2

[Anonymous No.5176641]

>>5176634
Well thank god I feel less alone now.

[Anonymous No.5176645]

>>5176639
>He started a thread here, obviously.

[Anonymous No.5176646]

>>5176633
does this exist, all female childs to that point where a gender evolves in that specific blood line (other bloodlines would have evolved the gender earlier cus the women got impregnated)

[Anonymous No.5176647]

>>5176639

[Anonymous No.5176660]

Learning about the 'second sound' and 'third sound' of superfluid Helium II blew my mind.
...and pretty much the whole macroscopic quantum state of the stuff.

[Anonymous No.5176669]

>>5176442

It is also wildly untrue, or at least incredibly inaccurate. In either case it should be totally disregarded.

[Anonymous No.5176675]

>>5176646
answer this please. Still confused about it.

[Anonymous No.5176677]

>>5176485
>E=mc^2

bored to see this incomplet eone

[Anonymous No.5176679]

Consider the time translation operator U(t)

<span class="math"> \hat{U}(t+\delta t) = \hat{U}(\delta t) \hat{U}(t) [/spoiler]

<span class="math"> \frac{\hat{U}(t+\delta t) - \hat{U}(t)}{\delta t} = \frac{d}{dt}\hat{U}(t) [/spoiler]

<span class="math"> \frac{\hat{U}(\delta t) - 1}{\delta t} \hat{U}(t)= \frac{d}{dt}\hat{U}(t) [/spoiler]

But, since <span class="math"> \delta t [/spoiler] is small

<span class="math"> \hat{U}(\delta t) = 1 + \frac{i}{\hbar} \hat{H} \delta t [/spoiler]

Thus

<span class="math"> \frac{i}{\hbar} \hat{H} \hat{U}(t)= \frac{d}{dt}\hat{U}(t) [/spoiler]

Shroedinger's equation

[Anonymous No.5176692]

How Runge, Kutta, Chebyshev, and all these other guys do so much work in numerical analysis before computers? Was their work all theoretical (with no applications) or was it used during there life times for practical purposes?

[Anonymous No.5176697]

>>5176692
Every algorithm, which can be used by a computer, can also be used by hand, retard.

[Anonymous No.5176707]

>>5176692
grad students slavery.

[Anonymous No.5176714]

>>5176544

[Anonymous No.5176761]

>>5176675
I have no idea what that post is saying. But yes, it is true - although people would be evolved from countless other organisms before gender comes into it - sex/asex would have evolved at a single cell stage.

[Anonymous No.5176766]

>>5176513
what's so special about this?

[Anonymous No.5176788]

Most real numbers can't be written down in any form.

[Anonymous No.5176798]

1 + 2 + 34 - 5 + 67 - 8 + 9 = 100
12 + 3 - 4 + 5 + 67 + 8 + 9 = 100
123 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 + 8 - 9 = 100
123 + 4 - 5 + 67 - 89 = 100
123 + 45 - 67 + 8 - 9 = 100
123 - 45 - 67 + 89 = 100
12 - 3 - 4 + 5 - 6 + 7 + 89 = 100
12 + 3 + 4 + 5 - 6 - 7 + 89 = 100
1 + 23 - 4 + 5 + 6 + 78 - 9 = 100
1 + 23 - 4 + 56 + 7 + 8 + 9 = 100
1 + 2 + 3 - 4 + 5 + 6 + 78 + 9 = 100

[Anonymous No.5176804]

The last digit of pi is 0.

[Anonymous No.5176830]

>>5176422

The fact that our ears hear using Fourier transforms. It's kind of ironic that most people couldn't actually perform a Fourier transform on anything, yet all of our bodies have learned to do it mechanically and they do it every time we hear anything.

[Anonymous No.5176834]

>>5176798
now do it with 1000.

[Anonymous No.5176841]

>>5176761

Not necessarily true since the first sexual reproduction probably occured long before there was an absolute distinction between a male and female individual (hermaphroditism).

There exists lots of hermaphrodite vertebrae species today, so, the distinction must have taken place later than this distinction. The only true distinction I can think of would be the evolving of mammals some 150-200 mya.

Sexual reproduction has been found to occur among pretty much every animal that has ever lived.

[Anonymous No.5176842]

>>5176804
The last digit of any decimal can be 0.

[seraphnb No.5176857]

>>5176473
Incorrect. Seasons happen because of the Earth's tilt. For instance, summer in the Northern Hemisphere is actually when the Earth is farthest away from the Sun.

[seraphnb No.5176865]

That we are made of quantum particles, too.

Common sense, I know, but it made me shit my pants (figuratively) when I realized that.

[Anonymous No.5176877]

>>5176857
But we also need the eliptical orbit of the Earth and its distance from the Sun to account for Autumn and Spring.

[Anonymous No.5176879]

>>5176639


But it's not equal to 2. For all intense and purposes it is set equal to 2, as an infintely number of 9's lead to an incredibly small change.

You wouldn't say 1.00000000000000000000001 = 1 because it's only kind of close, you still know the last digit changes the number so you wouldn't round down. Same for this.

Take this for granite though, I'm not a STEM major I do biology

[Anonymous No.5176884]

The fact that inanimate matter has over billions of years produced complex sentient beings like us through chemical processes.

[Anonymous No.5176888]

>>5176879
Don't trust your intuition on this one. 1.999... is an infinite sequence converging towards 2, which is essentially the definition of every number in R.

[Anonymous No.5176895]

>>5176445
>travelling forward through time IS possible.
I'm doing it right now!

[Anonymous No.5176901]

>>5176469
>The Casimir Effect.
this. this. this.

I don't know why pop/sci/diots haven't started blathering about it yet.

[Anonymous No.5176902]

>>5176445
>>5176895
Time moving forward (at a steady rate) is an illusion of our perception. There is necessary "forward" or "backward" when talking about time.

[Anonymous No.5176903]

>>5176804
I was so shocked when I learned this. Blew my mind.

[Anonymous No.5176905]

>>5176469
>>5176901
Was that the one with the metal plates being pushed together because of quantum effects not "fitting longer wave-lengths" between them (don't remember that one very well)?

[Anonymous No.5176909]

>>5176857
>Incorrect. Seasons happen because of the Earth's tilt. For instance, summer in the Northern Hemisphere is actually when the Earth is farthest away from the Sun.

That doesn't make sense. The earth moves in an eliptical orbit, and the difference between being tilted slightly away from earth is way less than the difference cause by being at the apogee or perigee of orbit.

Elliptical orbits don't make sense as a reason either, because seasons are opposite in Australia.

SCIENCE CAN'T EXPLAIN SEASONS

[Anonymous No.5176910]

There are more real numbers between 0 and 1 than there are rational numbers total.

[Anonymous No.5176914]

you can use a paper cup to boil water over an open flame, whereas the cup would immediately catch fire if there was no water inside.

also this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY3LYQv22qY

[Anonymous No.5176920]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLwaPP9cxT4

[Anonymous No.5176928]

Under incompressible fluid flow, the velocity increases as the cross sectional area decreases. Under compressible flow, velocity increases as the area increases. I was like wtf.

[Anonymous No.5176932]

The Double Slit Experiment blew my mind.

[Anonymous No.5176933]

>>5176909

The seasons are a product of eliptical orbit AND non-perpendicular rotation.

When the Earth is close to the sun, we get Summer and Winter. Summer for the side with the pole facing toward the sun, Winter for the pole facing away. Yes, that means Summer in the North hemisphere happens when Winter happens in the South hemisphere.
If our Earth's rotation was at 90 degrees to the plane of our orbit, we wouldn't have four seasons, we'd have two - near the Sun, and far from it, but we'd have each season twice a year. There might be differences between the first and the second ones, but it likely wouldn't be noticeable.


We get Autumn and Spring when neither pole is directed towards the Sun - because of the Earth's constant rotational speed, each part of the planet would get (at the furthest point from the Sun along the orbital pathway) twelve hours of sun, and twelve hours of dark.
The build up and down to this point is what gives us Autumn and Spring.

If you don't get it, go back and see if you can understand basic time keeping skills, how the Sun works, and, failing that, shoot yourself.

[Anonymous No.5176936]

>>5176530
In a newtonian world they are.

[Anonymous No.5176938]

>>5176539
Who's to say it doesn't exist, even if we never really came to understand it?

[Anonymous No.5176939]

>>5176539
No numbers exist.

[Anonymous No.5176941]

>>5176552
>Conservation of energy and momentum are inherent facts of nature that cannot be derived.
This isn't true.

[Anonymous No.5176944]

>>5176645
10/10

[Anonymous No.5176949]

>>5176804
Elaborate

[Anonymous No.5176951]

>>5176910
An infinite set can contain infinite, infinite subsets.

[Anonymous No.5176955]

>>5176902
There's a clear "forward," it's the direction we perceive time to progress in. It's also the direction along which entropy increases.

[Anonymous No.5176956]

>>5176905
Yes. Sort of.

but it ACTUALLY HAPPENS. and you can even use it to RAISE THE SPEED OF LIGHT BEYOND C. Too cool.

[Anonymous No.5176959]

>>5176949
Based on an assumption that pi has a finite number of significant figures, the last digit HAS to be zero:

If we say the last non-zero digits of pi are ...76439, we could also write that as ...764390, or ...76439000000, and so forth.

Therefore, pi ends in an infinite amount of zeroes.

[Anonymous No.5176965]

>>5176959
>Based on an assumption that pi has a finite number of significant figures

How is that in any way a valid assumption?

[Anonymous No.5176968]

>>5176959
>Based on an assumption that pi has a finite number of significant figures,
oh, so asking you to elaborate was a waste of time. Got it.

[Anonymous No.5176971]

>>5176956
It's to do with a thing called anti-energy and particles poping in and out of existence and it does indeed raise the speed of light beyond c!

[Anonymous No.5176972]

>>5176933
>Earth's constant rotational speed
Almost, it speeds up during northern summer (pic)

also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Season
change of insolation due to variable distance is ~7%

>>5176909
you probably never, ever left your basement, else you would have noticed that in summer days are longer and nights are shorter

[Anonymous No.5176973]

>>5176949
Pi is an irrational number. That is, it is not the ratio of two integers. It's an infinite series of numbers with in a completely random order.

Apply yourself.

[Anonymous No.5176977]

>>5176539
Doesn't the same kinda go for negative numbers? You can't have negative three apples, but if you pretend you do (when you actually owe three apples) and add that to the eight apples you've got in the trunk, you have a total of five apples. Mindfuck.

[Anonymous No.5176980]

>>5176460

You use all your brain, just different parts at different time were required. If you used "100%" of your brain you would start having seizures, and whatever intense stuck your body would do if your brain were shriveling up.

[Anonymous No.5176981]

In the past 5 years, Ive driven a total distance of 2x the circumference of the earth.

[Anonymous No.5176995]

>you will likely not have children, ending a genetic lineage that goes back thousands of generations

[Anonymous No.5176997]

>>5176981
No you haven't.

[Anonymous No.5176998]

All the lights in the sky are stars...

[Anonymous No.5177004]

>>5176998
Nope.

[Anonymous No.5177006]

>>5176997
that's actually not that hard to do. 10k miles a year= 50k miles in 5 years, that just about twice the circumference of the planet.

[Anonymous No.5177012]

>>5177006
incorrect.

[Anonymous No.5177019]

We live in a between universe where things change alright, but according to patterns, rules, or as we call them, the Laws of Nature.

[Anonymous No.5177024]

whats really strange to me is that there is "pixilation" of reality. energy comes in minimum values. theres also a minimum distance. nothing can be smaller.

[Anonymous No.5177029]

>>5176997

He could've. Given that the Earth's circumference is about 40,000 km, that's 8,000 km a year, or about 5,000 miles/year, a completely reasonable rate for someone to drive. Hell, it's way below the average 100,000 miles/year a trucker drives on average.

>>5177012

No it isn't? Stop posting, please

[Anonymous No.5177057]

>>5177024
There's also a maximum heat.

[Anonymous No.5177061]

>>5177024
>>5177057
This has been popularized through pop /sci/ but isn't *really* correct. What's more accurate to say is that our equations break down beyond the point of even renormalization's utility so we can't *currently* say anything about the state of the world under such conditions.

[Anonymous No.5177062]

There are an equal amount of numbers as there are odd numbers.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10...
1, 3, 5, 7, 9,11,13,15,17,19...

As the sets are infinite either way.

[Anonymous No.5177068]

>>5176572
>>5176995
mind = blown

[Anonymous No.5177074]

>>5177061
I know, I just wanted to sound cool :(

[Anonymous No.5177094]

>>5176959
What if pi ends in a repeating decimal?

[Anonymous No.5177093]

Time is only what we can observe. At the point that you move faster than light, you move before time happens.

[Anonymous No.5177110]

Infinity-Infinity=Infinity.
Also, what >>5177062 said, there are an Infinite amount of numbers, so every part of it is also infinite.

[Anonymous No.5177109]

>>5176804
where am i going wrong when i say pi doesn't have a last digit?

[Anonymous No.5177116]

>>5176932
Damn. Beat me to it.

[Anonymous No.5177117]

>>5177110
sorry to burst you bubble
but infinity-infinity is undefined

[Anonymous No.5177119]

That anything has the possibility of becoming a black hole....

that and quantum mechanics.... just.... wtf...

[Anonymous No.5177121]

The multiplicative identity added to Euler's number raised to the power of the ratio of the circumference of a circle to it's diameter times the square root of negative one is equivalent to the additive identity.

[Anonymous No.5177122]

>the richest people in town were the ones who owned and traded real estate, and not the ones who run the companies.

>money is created out of thin air, and mostly as debt nowadays

>we had cheap nuclear power since the 60s but instead of trying to improve that we go back to burning things for energy even using a large part of our arable land to produce fuel

>genetic research showed that while during most of our history over 80% of woman was able to reproduce less than 40% of man did, take away the constrains of conservative society and you'll end up with the modern equivalent of harems

[Anonymous No.5177128]

>modern equivalent of harems

twenty-five whores in the room next door
twenty-five floors and I need more

[Anonymous No.5177129]

Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
She was also from a Greek family and refused to speak Egyptian.

[Anonymous No.5177133]

>>5177129
That first fact, wow.

[Anonymous No.5177140]

>>5176422
>we can change reality with only our thoughts
>our thoughts = our reality

I left stunned thinking about it for next 4 days

[Anonymous No.5177147]

>>5177122

>we had cheap nuclear power since the 60s but instead of trying to improve that we go back to burning things for energy even using a large part of our arable land to produce fuel

strictly speaking, this isn't true. yes, we would be much better off if we'd developed nuclear power and the corresponding infrastructure from the 60's instead of abandoning it, much like how France did. curiously, this seems to be the only thing they're good at aside from making wine and cheese, read into that what you will. the idea that there's a safety rick of nuclear power is a ridiculous media-fueled delusion. done properly, nuclear power is completely safe, but like anything if your'e stupid about it, it can be dangerous. just look at chernobyl vs fukushima.

however, that being said, today constructing enough nuclear plants to meet power demands would be incredibly cost-prohibitive and cannot plausibly meet projected world energy demands. according to the department of energy, even if a new plant was brought online each day for the next fifty years, the power demands would outstrip production by a large margin.

so, yes, stupid paranoia over the almost non-existent risk of meltdown did fuck us over, but also it couldn't save us now anyway. fingers crossed for a breakthrough that makes fusion or solar efficient, i guess

[Anonymous No.5177151]

Three to the power of three is twenty seven.
My lucky number has always been twenty seven and aliens prefer triangle shapes to the human preference for quadrangles.
This is when I knew my dreams were actually memories.

[Anonymous No.5177152]

>>5177116
>>5177119
ITT: highschool

[Anonymous No.5177148]

>>5177110
subtraction isn't defined for inf-inf under most groups

[Anonymous No.5177156]

>>5177129
>Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
oh wow that is amazing

[Anonymous No.5177167]

3↑3 = 27

>just one more arrow
3↑↑3 = ~7.6 trillion

3↑↑↑3 = I don't even

and then Graham's number, the number that is too big to be contained within the observable universe

[Anonymous No.5177181]

>>5177152

Get over yourself. This thread is about things that amazed us when we first heard about them, not things that blow our minds now. Don't give into the force of the fags posting about stuff that blew their minds recently just to sound smart. Hell, I could just have easily posted that my mind was blown when I first noticed I had hands. Because it was.

[Anonymous No.5177182]

>>5177167
you're a long shot from Graham's number still

G1 = 3↑↑↑↑3
Gn = 3(Gn-1times a ↑)3

Graham's number is G64

and mathematicians can with a serious face say that the solution to a problem is smaller than Graham's number but bigger than 12, that's the closest they can approach it.

[Anonymous No.5177187]

>>5177182
I know, jesus christ what a big number

[Anonymous No.5177195]

>>5177181
You know what, that was actually a fair response. I guess I let my normal dislike for people bringing up HURRR, DOUBLE SLIT in threads where it isn't relevant bleed into my feelings for this thread, and it paired with the /sci/ one-upsmanship and led me to be a needless dick here. This board's environment for the past few months is having an effect on me I guess.

You were right, I was wrong. Sorry.

[Anonymous No.5177202]

>>5176513
the biggest number i ever saw
ib4: adding !!!!!!!! to every number

[Anonymous No.5177203]

>>5177195
haha look at this fag

[Anonymous No.5177210]

>>5177203
:<

[Anonymous No.5177246]

<span class="math">i^i = e^{-\frac{\pi}{2}} =0.2078...[/spoiler]

you can boil water in a paper cup

there are bacteria on the bottom of the ocean, which recieve one photon per minute and utilise 99% of its energy

every country in the world is several billions in debt

economy students cant do basic math, yet they will later decide about the world economy

[Anonymous No.5177267]

whether coal or nuclear power. Every power station is just a big steam engine.

[Anonymous No.5177299]

Fish eggs were so lightweight that they actually went up into the atmosphere, the eggs hatched, and it rained fish. This happened in Denmark.

[Anonymous No.5177300]

>>5176804
It's not.

If you're saying it as 3.14, you're stating pi to 2 decimal places. When you say it as 3.140 you are stating it to 3 decimal places, which is incorrect. This continues with every other decimal place in pi.

[Anonymous No.5177302]

>>5177147
>thorium
and there are maybe others but thorium isn't even controversial it's better than uranium in almost every way, you just can't make bombs of it.

[Anonymous No.5177306]

>>5177246
>there are bacteria on the bottom of the ocean, which recieve one photon per minute and utilise 99% of its energy
source

>economy students cant do basic math, yet they will later decide about the world economy
source

[Anonymous No.5177308]

>>5177299
you mean
>the eggs hatched, spent 2 weeks in the atmosphere hunting birds for food until they grew up to full sized fish which then rained down
rather: it rained fisheggs

[Anonymous No.5177321]

Since this thread seems to be full of smart people, can anyone explain Cherenkov radiation to me in simple terms?

[Anonymous No.5177324]

>>5176941
I derived conservation of mechanical energy while taking a piss.

[Anonymous No.5177325]

>>5177182

Clearly, there is room for some improvement here.

Also, a while ago I tried to grasp the magnitude of this number. I could not. Instead I get a cold sweat and some kind of panic-like agony everytime I see an upper-arrow.

[Anonymous No.5177330]

>>5176972
10/10, epic win to the troll.

[Anonymous No.5177334]

Don't know if anyone said it already but

Euler's identity

[Anonymous No.5177353]

>>5177321
its like a sonic boom but with light
During nuclear decay lots of electrons are shot everywhere at high speeds, close to the speed of light
If this happens in a medium, like water or glass, where the speed of light is slower than in vacuum (around 60-80%) the particle will trail a cone of visible light behind it

[Anonymous No.5177356]

>>5177321
Meidums other than vacuum have a lower lightspeed limit.
The lightspeed limit in these mediums are however possible to violate. An electron or other particle moving faster than the speed of light in a different medium(such as, a neutron escaping a reactor vessel into the surrounding pool of water) will emit photons while slowing down as it travels in the medium.(hence the blue glow around reactors in water)

picrelated

[Anonymous No.5177361]

I still get all excited that an integral shows the area under a line, and that a derivative is so simple yet so useful.

Organic chemistry in general is the absolute coolest thing to ever exist, almost every but of it, except that cis-trans is still used instead of E/Z, that's kinda gay.

[Anonymous No.5177367]

The fact that aging is a causal, pathological process that can be understood and treated.

Before I read about this, I had never really thought about it. It blew my mind and drastically changed my outlook and goals in life for the better (I had no goals or passions before that).

[Anonymous No.5177368]

>>5176456
nigger what, big objects bend the space which light travels through.
a photon must always travel in a straight line.

[Anonymous No.5177378]

>>5176920
smoke and mirrors, or rather, LED and stuff

[Anonymous No.5177379]

>>5176437
Every electron could just be one electron at different points in time.

Also for things that amazed me see: Memories/thought, Wolff's law, neutrinos.

[Anonymous No.5177380]

>>5176422
Seasons are not caused by the Earth being closer to the Sun in the summer than in the winter. In fact, the Earth is farthest from the Sun when it is summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Seasons are caused by Earth's 23.4-degree axial tilt. As the Earth orbits the Sun, different parts of the world receive different amounts of direct sunlight. When an area of the Earth's surface is oriented perpendicular to the incoming sunlight, it receives more radiation than when it is oriented at an oblique angle. In July, the Northern Hemisphere is tilted towards the Sun resulting in longer days and more direct sunlight; in January, it is tilted away. The seasons are reversed in the Southern Hemisphere, which is tilted towards the Sun in January and away from the Sun in July.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions#Astronomy

[Anonymous No.5177384]

>>5177306
1 - biophysics lecture. it might have been the Green Sulfur Bacteria, but im not sure whether there are others
2 - i realize my faulty generalization. The ones that cant do basic math probably (hopefully!) wont get far in their career, but i saw third years who cant solve an equation for x or add fractions, and the test results are always terrible when it comes to math.

[Anonymous No.5177385]

>>5177334
>Euler's identity

Here's something more mindblowing:

Let f(x)= (-1)^x.
Differentiate it normally. f'(x)=[(-1)^x](log(-1))
Now differentiate it another way:

(-1)^x=(i sinPI+icosPI)^x=i sin(xPI)+cos(xPI)
Thus f'(x)=PI(i cos(xPI)-sin(xPI)

Equate them.
(-1)^x[log(-1)]=PI(i cos(xPI) - sin(xPI)
Put x=0,
log(-1)=i*PI
Euler's identity!!!

[Anonymous No.5177401]

>>5177353
>>5177356

Awesome, that's very clear, thank you.

[Anonymous No.5177402]

>>5176460
>>5176460
According to some articles I've read, this is an outdated belief because it was originally thought that the Glial cells that made some 90% of the brain were "glue" cells that held the important pieces together. It's not even that recent but they found more activity in the Glial cells than the rest...so we use 90% of our brain?

[Anonymous No.5177408]

Electric fences aren't circuits. This guy who was a Physics major at Brown was putting up an electric fence with me, opened a gate and said this should break the circuit. He meant that it should be safe to the touch. He got shocked. I had to experiment with fencing, see a fence changer and ask a few questions to get some understanding.

[Anonymous No.5177415]

Plants actually evolved from bacteria, and we share an ancestor with them

we will never be able to prove with a 100% certainty that 1 + 1 = 2

the universe is here because nothingness is fundamentally unstable

[Anonymous No.5177420]

I really liked it when I understood the concept that there are bigger infinities than the countable infinity.

[Anonymous No.5177425]

>>5177408
That's hilarious.

[Anonymous No.5177435]

>>5177415
"okay now I have two fingers. Now I have four fingers."

[Anonymous No.5177500]

>>5177379
>>>5176437
Is this superposition?

[Anonymous No.5177518]

1=2, in a certain quantum mechanical aspect.

[Anonymous No.5177525]

Adding a point at infinity turns the complex numbers into a sphere.

[Anonymous No.5177536]

I seriously still can't believe it's not butter.

I mean, all that taste from a margarine spread? Fuck you, science.

[Anonymous No.5177545]

>Blew my mind

... loopholes in the US regulatory system governing Superfund toxic waste allowed the systematic and widespread dumping of heavy metals on prime FARMLAND across the US, a practice that has been occurring since at least World War II, and only publicly exposed since the late 90s... and continues to this day!

... Fossil water supplies being polluted systematically by energy-sector regulators who have interests in companies drilling for natural gas (fracking)...

... the global drawdown of easily obtainable cheap liquid hydrocarbons and the manifold ways in which first world economic and social norms depend on those cheap and accessible resources...

... The melting of the polar icecaps, habitat destruction, one billion people starving globally- and rising- an area the size of new york state deforested every single year- the widespread slash and burning of Brazilian and sub saharan Africa- the fact that in 2011, 25,000 elephants were slaughtered for their tusks, mostly to be made into Chinese "medicine" or religious artifacts... methane hydrates... US unemployment... people getting fatter and fatter at the same time dumber and dumber...

Thats just off the top of my head...

[Anonymous No.5177554]

The atoms in our bodies were formed in the guts of stars billion of years ago.

Life on Earth arose purely by chance.
>inb4 creationshit

No-one understands how the brain works, why and how it is self-conscious, or even what consciousness is.

Many basic questions have remained unanswered, like what existence is,what time is, consciousness, reality and non-reality, the difference between deterministic chaos and practical unpredictability, the origin of the universe, infinity, why classical logic contradicts quantum mechanics, why stuff is quantised...

The big daddy of them all:

When you look into space, you are seeing the past. I can't believe how this has not been mentioned before. I mean think of it. Time travel may not be possible, but in order to travel back in time, all one has to do is look at Jupiter through a telescope. The image you see is several hours old. When you look at a star, you see it as it was hundreds or thousands of yeas ago. What you see isn't now. It's the past.

[Anonymous No.5177565]

>>5177182
Can anyone link me to an article that describes how Graham actually thought up the number? It just seems so absurdly large that I can't imagine how it would show up in a proof, considering they had to invent notation to express it.

[Anonymous No.5177578]

If you took all the DNA in your body out and line it up end by end it would be able to go from earth to Pluto and back 15 times

[Anonymous No.5177584]

if p=np all cryptography might need to be reworked.

if p=/=np one way functions exist and np-intermediate problems exist

[Anonymous No.5177596]

Life can be described as a system constantly lowering its entropy by spreading it to its surroundings.

[Anonymous No.5177598]

>>5177584
>one way functons exists

How about F(x) = 0?

[Anonymous No.5177602]

>>5177408
Oh and about electric fences. I thought all the electrons would take the path of least resistance to the ground if the fence in one area had a link to the ground by a plant or something. The current leaks and the fence loses a charge, but it doesn't all go away at one spot. It's kind of like water rushing through a pipe with holes in it. This kind of basic stuff got me.

[Anonymous No.5177607]

>>5177554
>When you look into space, you are seeing the past. I can't believe how this has not been mentioned before. I mean think of it. Time travel may not be possible, but in order to travel back in time, all one has to do is look at Jupiter through a telescope. The image you see is several hours old. When you look at a star, you see it as it was hundreds or thousands of yeas ago. What you see isn't now. It's the past.

wat. do you even high school?

[Anonymous No.5177619]

>>5177602
The funny thing is it probably wouldn't have puzzled you if you hadn't learn electric circuits theory beforehand.

[Anonymous No.5177630]

>>5177607
what's wrong with what he said?

[Anonymous No.5177632]

>>5177607
Die pls kthxbai.

[Anonymous No.5177636]

>>5177607

[Anonymous No.5177639]

>>5177630
How can you see something that doesnt exist? Are you fucking retarded or trolling?
>>>/x/ is that way

[Anonymous No.5177645]

>>5177639
Babby's first troll, I see

[Anonymous No.5177651]

When I realized that e arose from <span class="math"> \pi [/spoiler]

how easy latex is compared to actually embedding it.

[Anonymous No.5177652]

>>5177639
This is just a shitty troll attempt, right?

[Anonymous No.5177653]

>>5177639
why are you on /sci/ excactly?

[Anonymous No.5177685]

>>5177584
Can someone explain the whole P and NP thing?

[Carl No.5177695]

>>5177584
>if p=np all cryptography might need to be reworked.

Wrong.

[Anonymous No.5177721]

>>5177695
Do you have a job, or school, or responsibilities? I just don't understand how you can spend so much time on here

[Anonymous No.5177742]

>>5177685

P is all problems solvable in polynomial time determinstically (easy problems)

NP is all problems solvable in polynomial time nondeterministically (hard problems)

<span class="math">P \subset NP[/spoiler] for sure, but if P = NP then a bunch of "hard" problems actually have "easy" solutions that aren't known yet. Most people think it's unlikely that P = NP though.

[Anonymous No.5177762]

>>5177742
What do deterministically and nondeterministically mean in this context? What does \subset mean?

[Anonymous No.5177778]

>>5177742
Not every polynomial algorithm is fast. An exponential algoritm can be much faster for all relevant inputs.

[Anonymous No.5177832]

I remember being like 9 when I heard that there is an infinite amount of numbers between 1 and 2, for example. Sure blew my mind then

[Anonymous No.5177835]

The fourier transform and fourier series are simply vectors in a vector space spanned by complex exponentials

[Anonymous No.5177876]

>>5177368
black holes

or is that w-w-wro-wrong?

[Anonymous No.5177890]

>>5176506
You are a faget.

[Anonymous No.5177951]

If you hair grows 0.5 inches per month, that is approximately 5 nanometers per seconds, known as a beard-second

[Anonymous No.5177954]

>>5177384
for what it's worth- I believed you about the bacteria, I was just curious because I wanted to learn more. I couldn't tell if the economics thing was a joke or not, because sadly it actually did seem plausible and the phrasing sounded like it might come from some actual survey done.

[Anonymous No.5177959]

>>5177361
>Organic chemistry in general is the absolute coolest thing to ever exist, almost every but of it, except that cis-trans is still used instead of E/Z, that's kinda gay.

E/Z? I'm a physics major but I took one semester of orgo out of curiosity and to tell premeds to go fuck themselves, can you explain a little more?

[Anonymous No.5177960]

>>5177695

Yeaaah probably shouldn't have said "all cryptography" more like " A lot of security systems are based on NP-Complete problems that would become obsolete with a Polynomial time algorithm"

[Anonymous No.5177963]

>>5177385
this is more mindblowing.

[Anonymous No.5177966]

>>5177415
>we will never be able to prove with a 100% certainty that 1 + 1 = 2

Incorrect under modern interpretations of what mathematics is.

>the universe is here because nothingness is fundamentally unstable

Poor philosophy done by brilliant physicists who were wrongly represented by incompetent journalists. Vacuums aren't stable, but by that very property it becomes clear that a "vacuum" isn't really the non-existence we want to talk about.

[Anonymous No.5177968]

>>5177500
No, not at all.

[Anonymous No.5177974]

>>5177554
>why classical logic contradicts quantum mechanics, why stuff is quantised..
These two are just blatant results of you not understanding the subject matter.

[Anonymous No.5177979]

>>5177960
wat
you cannot into compsci
if they're NP-complete, that by definition means they cannot be solved in polynomial time- because it has been proven so.
there are no popular cryptosystems based on NP-complete problems that i can think of.
problems like discrete logarithm( so asymmetric key algorithms) are doable in BQP- i.e. more or less polynomial time on a quantum computer.

[Anonymous No.5177986]

>>5177979

If they couldn't be solvied in polynomial time then p=/= np

P=np is still unsolved so a polynomial time algorithm could still exist.

[Anonymous No.5178004]

>>5177762
its not really easy to understand what's meant by deterministic and nondeterministic unless you take a class on automata theory
go google PDAs and NPDAs if you're curious

[Anonymous No.5178005]

>>5177182
>>5177187
>>5177202

You can measure maximum entropy in a volume by calculating how much entropy a black hole core that takes that volume can have.

To represent Graham's number, you'd need so much information and so much entropy, that if you were to fully comprehend it, the amount of accumulated entropy in the volume of your head would be larger than the maximum allowed entropy of a black hole taking that volume.

Your head would LITERALLY implode

[Anonymous No.5178010]

>>5177685
I mean this in a nice, courteous manner-
Probably not. Actually understanding what P=NP requires enough knowledge of computability theory to understand what the problem is even *talking about,* any explanation you're given before you have a good grounding in what polynomial-time computability capacities are is going to bastardize the explanation the the point of meaninglessness. Tip: if they talk about how P is "easy" and NP is "difficult," they're not giving you an accurate description.

[Anonymous No.5178011]

Solving the Schrodinger Equation for different potentials was a mind-fucking experience for being a layman in the topic. I had only known some multi-var and very little linear algebra at the time.

[Anonymous No.5178015]

>>5177695
No, he's correct. Most cryptography is based in some way on NP problems like factoring large numbers, if a polynomial-time algorithm exists for such a task then large computer clusters can break them extremely quickly.

[Anonymous No.5178030]

>>5178015
discrete logarithm hasn't been proven to be NP, and i dont think it's really suspected to be either.
it's hard in the sense it takes forever and there are no polynomial time algorithms on a deterministic machine for it, but that's all.

[Anonymous No.5178032]

>>5178005
there isn't enough volume in the known universe to contain graham's number in base 10 form

[Anonymous No.5178038]

>>5178005
Bullshit. Source.

(Bullshit in an amazed, credulous sense)

[Anonymous No.5178043]

>>5178038
That actual quote is from this guy from Numberphile, I think. He's a professor at U. Nottingham.

You can calculate it yourself if you wish, tho

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTeJ64KD5cg

[Anonymous No.5178046]

>>5178038
A maths guy says it in this video explaining the concept

Really interesting stuff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTeJ64KD5cg

[Anonymous No.5178059]

If you add the eigenvalues of a matrix, you get the trace of the matrix
If you multiply them, you get the determinant

[Anonymous No.5178099]

>>5178015
>if a polynomial-time algorithm exists for such a task then large computer clusters can break them extremely quickly.

This just isnt true. What if the P algorithm takes something like (Gram's number) * n to complete? Then, the algorithms we have to factor numbers (all of which are NP) will execute faster than our P algorithm for practical numbers.

[Anonymous No.5178167]

>>5178099
Sorry, through a "it might be the case that" in there.

[Anonymous No.5178170]

>>5178099
that's still smaller than infinity.
go look at any book on computational complexity; you're comparing apples to oranges. asymptotic classes exist and are important for a reason.

[Anonymous No.5178264]

From my babbys understanding of cryptography, you can make an arbitrarily complex code that you -think- is unbreakable, but you have no way to know. Someone may find an easy solution and render your security obsolete overnight.

Is that essentially connected to the P=NP problem?

[Anonymous No.5178268]

>>5178264

Yes, you put it pretty simply though.

[Anonymous No.5178409]

>>5177596
>Fire is a form of life

[Anonymous No.5178414]

>>5178264
Sort of. There are unbreakable code. See one time pads.

[Anonymous No.5178423]

>>5178409
>described
>implying I said "defined"

[Anonymous No.5178427]

As obviously even light takes a certain amount of time to travel from point A to B, when you're looking in the mirror, you're actually seeing an image of your past-self.

[Anonymous No.5178443]

>>5176438
The traders at the slave breeding plantations used the time tested laws of Animal Husbandry quite effectively. Everybody wanted slaves with broad sholders, strong backs, and weak minds; they were not disappointed. To be fair, eugenics was not the only determinant; the breed stock was homogeneous in that they all were dumb enough back in Africa to be captured in the first place. They never read General Johnny Stark.

[Anonymous No.5178455]

>>5178423
But fire IS a form of life, whichever sensible definition for "life" we decide to use.

[Anonymous No.5178511]

>>5176546
Weirdly, I used to think about this as a kid. Knowing little about physics I imagined there would be some infintesimal distance between objects. Even if it was really like that, would it matter?

It wasn't until many years later I learned that was actually true. Infintesimals too.

[Anonymous No.5178560]

Graham's number is infinitely smaller than ininity.
But why I find it harder to grasp graham's number than infinity?

[Anonymous No.5178845]

>>5178560

Because you're grasping infinity wrong

[Anonymous No.5178857]

>>5178455
it's stupid to worry about whether our definitions of life happen to include fire or not

because face it: fire is not alive

it doesn't matter if it's alive or not, because that doesn't change what we know about fire. What matters is how we describe something, and since we can describe fire perfectly fine without worrying about whether it's "alive" then we don't need to worry about that.

it's pointless and unscientific

[Anonymous No.5178863]

>>5178845
FIRMLY GRASP IT.
sage for spam/shitposting/offtopic

[Anonymous No.5178873]

Light would travel from point A to point B instantly if there wasn't this weird property of our universe that limits its speed of everything in it to the constant C.

[Anonymous No.5178907]

>>5176563
...that's not a real law...

[Anonymous No.5178913]

>>5176572
It is pretty mind numbing to think that, if you don't have kids, you will be the first of all your ancestors (of one shape or another) to fail to reproduce since life first emerged 4 billion years ago.

[Anonymous No.5178919]

>>5176646
>>5176675
...what the fuck are you saying?

[Anonymous No.5178920]

>>5176456

please help me anon. I'm taking a philosophy class this year as a gpa counterbalance. they asked me to define eternity without reference to any time or duration. I lived alone in the country with both parents working so I didn't start talking more than <10 a day till first grade. still have problems putting my thoughts to words.

[Anonymous No.5178923]

>>5176901
I blather about it all the time!

[Anonymous No.5178940]

>>5177122
>>genetic research showed that while during most of our history over 80% of woman was able to reproduce less than 40% of man did, take away the constrains of conservative society and you'll end up with the modern equivalent of harems

That's not because the men didn't choose to reproduce, it's because they killed each other and the survivors celebrated with a lot of raping various women. It's not so much the constraints of 'conservative' society, it's just a lower incidence of warfare and conflict in the modern world

[Anonymous No.5178948]

Just looking at pictured of the Hubble Deep Field blows my mind. The universe is fucking gigantic beyond my comprehension.

[Anonymous No.5178983]

that mitochondria and chloroplasts started as parasites
that the mitochondria have only your mother's DNA

[Anonymous No.5179004]

>>5176437
three is only one electron in the universe it permiates time and space.

[Anonymous No.5179008]

>>5176572
What if you are a male, but you have brothers? This is still true then, right?

[Anonymous No.5179026]

Time Dilation

This one was crazy to me. It made sense, but it was too grand of an idea to accept easily.

Because the rate of time is dependent on velocity, the universe we live in contains the past and future. What appears to be present is decided by the difference in speed between the objects you're comparing.

Therefore, the objects far out in the universe, whose light we see is from the past, are at a certain time in their history relative to ours based on the difference in speed.

If the earth had been travelling at a different speed throughout it's history, it would have developed at a different rate in relation to the "rest" of the universe. Therefore, at this point in history on earth, if you looked out you would have a different view than you do currently, while the earth is travelling at its present speed.

[Anonymous No.5179031]

>>5177578
....>>5177959
also the whole S/P vs L/R convention makes me sad.

[Anonymous No.5179036]

-There are an infinite number of primes.
-If you draw lines connecting the midpoints of any quadrilateral, you'll always get a parallelogram.
- a^n + b^n =! c^n for n>2
- You can define a ton of shapes as the intersection between a certain plane and a cone.

[Anonymous No.5179039]

>>5176932
NEIN NEIN NEIN! YOU'RE THEORY IS INCOMPLETE!

[Anonymous No.5179074]

>>5178940
>That's not because the men didn't choose to reproduce, it's because they killed each other and the survivors celebrated with a lot of raping various women.
Bullshit. It's because women are cheating whores and men are indiscriminate horndogs.

Which has vastly improved the gene pool.

What women want sexually is the best man around. Unless she's the best woman around, she won't get him in a monogamous relationship. But she also wants an ostensibly monogamous relationship, for security. So she bonds with one man openly and sleeps with others secretly. And thus, her children have higher genetic quality.

In polygynous societies, it's a little easier for a woman to get hooked up with a high-quality man. But women still cheat, especially since their husbands have other wives to keep track of.

[Anonymous No.5179077]

>>5178857
It doesnt change what we know about fire, but it does change what we know about "life."

If you do not understand the boundaries of a concept, you do not fully understand the concept.

[Anonymous No.5179091]

>>5179077
Fire is as much lifelike as a virus.

[Anonymous No.5179096]

>>5179091
Fire is much less lifelike than viruses. Viruses specifically depend on life, while fire isn't even particularly associated with life.

Fire is about as lifelike as crystals, or nuclear reactions, or clouds.

[Anonymous No.5179101]

-You can construct the real numbers from series of rational numbers
- Collatz Conjecture
- Ring and field theory

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>>5179096
Fire reproduces itself, consumes it's surroundings to generate energy. it has a form of metabolism and reproduces. more than can be said of a virus.

[Anonymous No.5179109]

monitors don't show yellow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3unPcJDbCc

[Anonymous No.5179138]

>In 1990, First Gulf War. Kuwait was drilling oil underneath Iraq's land.
>U.S. goes in to drive the Iraqis out of Kuwait.
>U.S. pulls together a coalition of other countries to help with the war, but congress did not allow for a declaration of war.
>A woman refugee nurse from Kuwait gets on the news in the U.S. saying Iraqi's did horrible things, among the most news-catchy and newspaper worthy was when this woman nurse said the Iraqi's took babies out of incubators and left them to die.
>Then war is declared just after this is heard, being cited as a deciding factor for us to go to the war.

years later. The nurse was revealed as not a nurse at all. She was, infact, the niece of the Kuwait ambassador to the United States. A public relations firm paid for by the U.S. government for her to make up the story to get us into the War with a 92% approval rate AFTER this woman made this lie.

This is pseudo-speciation on a massive fucking level. And the second direct evidence of the United States making up lies (Gulf of Tonkin being the first, at least that I know of) to get to War. Biologically manipulated the public into believing we should go to war. Blew my MOTHERFUCKING MINDDD.

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>>5176539
This is true not only for i, but for irrational numbers.

[Anonymous No.5179216]

For me, it's the idea of a virus.
A plasmid is a short strand of DNA that operates outside the chromosome. It replicates independently of mitosis and can code for proteins just like any other DNA. At some point, a plasmid happened to split off from a cell with a little chunk of membrane. By random chance and natural selection, that plasmid was able to fuse with cells it encountered and hijack the cell's machinery, replicating itself and sending off more little copies. Because it doesn't have a whole chromosome to deal with, just a short DNA program, it can mutate quickly and adapt to 'outsmart' any opposing biological processes. We call this a virus.

It isn't much of a living thing, it's just a self-replicating program that must hijack a cell to survive. Every medical symptom of a viral infection is some trick the virus learned (without thinking) to increase its survival. Coughing germs on to people, flooding your nasal cavity with mucus to make you sneeze, etc.

[Anonymous No.5179272]

If you masturbate too often you grow hair on your palms and can go blind.

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>>5179104
Like crystals do?

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>>5179216
>>5179216

sorta related,

friend was saying how terrifying some fungus was that "mind controlled" snails to make them climb to high places so they could be eaten by birds

i then asked him "so do viruses mind control us to make humans sneeze to spread themselves"

sorry we arent science majors :(

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