/sci/ - Science & Math

Classical physics, yes.

Anything after Planck, nope.

I think SUNY Albany has a pretty good program.

salvia, that's all...

>>3821061
Josef, you're in the States now?

Eh I like to think of it as "job security" for when I graduate

Blowing shit up with your mind would be a huge advantage too OP. As would having your eyes fire out .50cals....see where this is going?

>>3455550
yeah sorry, i went a little overboard lol

just having some fun :P

>>3455522
you know you liked it, also quints get

>>3455421

i made that massive triforce script that lagged the board a week or so back...mfw i just got unbanned

1+1=3 would turn a few heads im sure.

Yes...I never really "bombed" a test though, I got a few like 64-ish marks.

Wait, I just remembered. In my middle school, you chose between band and music. In music you learned stuff about music history and theory. Regardless, if you took band you had to take the music final without ever going to the class (I've always wanted to like find my old principal and ask why lol).

Anyway, I really like music theory so I thought I'd be set--at that age "music theory" was just naming notes in a scale anyway--and since they couldn't hold me back for music anyway I just didn't care.

The test had 50 questions. Each worth two points, no multiple choice.

There was only one theory question which was to write out some kind of obscure scale and I was the only one who got it right.

That being said, I got a 6 on the test. (Yes out of 100)

Quite frequently, things are named after scientists by other scientists in honor of them. I'm sure the "big" things named after people (Gauss's Law, Newton's Laws) were not named as such by their discoverer.

Im invested mostly in a mutual fund not much, but it's a five figure number. It's familial money, I didn't put it in I inherited it as is.

Personally I put about 2 grand into the market a year or two back. Not much change, what I have had is some small growth, I thought long term. I've picked a few companies I really like. They're very low price right now and I transferred most of my mutual fund out of higher risk options into low risk dividend centered opportunities. I use the dividends to buy more stocks in those companies I've bought into. Thinking of putting one or two grand into some high risk shares mostly for fun.

In general, telling a chick to expose herself to a few million anonymous people is not the way to go OP...

idk, never took it.

That being said, my little cousin did and I helped him out. I'd say it seemed challenging but certainly doable.

Word of warning: There's something about an extended essay or something like that. He always complained about how tough it was going to be. I googled it wondering how hard a high school math essay could be. Shit was real. Some of the ones I saw looked like they could have been submitted for publication lol

>>3386756
I've often thought that linear algebra is more important to understanding quantum then calc is. At least at an introductory level.

9 * 10 * 10 * 10 * 50

Assuming the first number can't be zero..if it can than the first number is ten also. If they can't be the same numbers it's 10 9 8 7 46

>>3386580
No, no, no, no

OVIOUSLY:

War
Death
Famine
Conquest (seriously, he stole war's name pretty much)

>>3386576
>There are certainly no gaps in neuroscience where a soul is suggested or required or even possible. But no, this alone does not prove conclusively yes or no on the question of a soul.

Yea, that's what I was getting at but for both sides of the argument: No gap in neurosci saying we need a soul and no real discovery (that I can imagine) that would let you say "Yea, that's why we certainly don't have souls."
I think the concept of a soul is too vague for any scientist to bother thinking about during any data analysis anyway really.

>>3386584
Don't worry about it. Like Josef said, there has never been a proven case of someone getting HIV via saliva (I think some family in Europe claimed to have all gotten it from sharing a toothbrush but that sounds really really dumb)

To ease your mind, even if you'd taken it in the pooper from him I think I saw on wikipedia once that it'd still only be like 1/100 odds you'd get HIV. (Pretty depressing that so many people have it with those odds when you think about it)

You can't just ask someone to explain an entire subject to you. Most people understand that "Explain (biology, Spanish, history, even just regular ol' physics) to me" is a dumb question. I don't know why this doesn't make sense to people when it comes to quantum. It's one of the newest disciplines, is an entire field unto itself and still surprises us frequently with some experimental results.

Secondly, you cannot explain quantum physics to someone "really simple." It's a field based off of immensely complicated mathematical equations that we came up with because nothing made any fucking sense in physics in the early 1900's. It is, by it's very nature, not simple. There's a reason chemists study over 100 elements and in quantum we still jerk off to the hydrogen atom...

Honestly, there are a few things that if you were to even conceptually understand you'd be *lightyears* ahead of most people (What the uncertainty principle means and why it's true, what the quantum numbers mean and why they're important, most importantly- why quantum physics is even called quantum physics). Those are very important concepts of quantum physics that require very little formal training to understand.

>>3383605
Just out of curiosity, what neurobiological discoveries pose a problem for the concept of a soul? I'm not saying I could think of a single study to support the existence of a soul but I can't imagine someone looking at some data and saying "this is why we don't have souls."

Why what? Most things with computers aren't something where you just go "why" and people know what you mean.

Your major & main interest:
>Physics. Mostly solid state and more on the theoretical side.

Favorite modern intellectuals/scientists:
Feynman
Planck
Future You:

Get my PhD and hopefully get a professorship somewhere. I went to a school with a small physics department. It was good but small. I loved it, really knowing the profs and all...I'd like something like that.