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The new /sci/ wiki
https://4chan-science.fandom.com/wiki//sci/_Wiki

(More resources in replies)
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To use MathJaX, put your TeX code between [ math ] ... [ /math ] tags for inline equations or [ eqn ] ... [ /eqn ] tags for block equations.

[eqn]\zeta(s) = \sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{n^s} = \frac{1}{\Gamma(s)}\int_0^{\infty} \frac{x^{s - 1}}{e^x - 1} \mathrm dx[/eqn]

Note: You may preview the output by clicking the TeX button at the top left corner in the quick reply window.

Additional supported file type on /sci/ is PDF.


Reminder: /sci/ is for discussing topics pertaining to science and mathematics, not for helping you with your homework or helping you figure out your career path.

If you want advice regarding college/university or your career path, go to >>>/adv/ - Advice.
If you want help with your homework, go to >>>/wsr/ - Worksafe Requests.

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Now that women aren't oppressed anymore why haven't they discovered anything significant?
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>>16873696
Why are blacks the biggest in porn by far then?
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>>16872749
HAH yes you are sorry Rajesh your lack of English gave you away. Get a hobby you clown this does nothing to advance humanity.
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>>16873697
Porns not real you midwit.

I can photoshop or video edit my cock to be 20 inches in under 2 mins with the correct software. I'm sorry your so gullible, your parents must be ashamed.
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>>16873280
I work out 7 times a week, running and lifting and even in the summer can survive wearing a baggy t-shirt and jeans. No one asked, you dumb whore.
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>>16873710
Baggy shorts, not jeans. Too worked up over low IQ foids infesting my science board. My apologies.

Exact sequence edition.
ITT: Discussion of math

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>>16873208
Life in this world is temporary.
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>157 iq
>dyscalculia
i am good with philosophy and abstract ideas so i can understand topology but i cant actually perform computations

is there any hope?
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I don't get it. Furthermore, I don't get why curvature is a (3,1) tensor
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>>16873579
This is covered in detail in every Riemannian geometry textbook in existence. I don't know what extra insights you hope to find by coming here and posting just "I don't get it." Go find another presentation if you don't like the one you're reading.
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algebraic geometry, i choose you!

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This is the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall, the largest known structure in the universe, a massive galaxy filament stretching about 10 billion light-years across. This breaks the laws of physics as we know it. The Cosmological Principle says no matter where you are in the universe if you look in any direction you should see an even distribution of matter this in turn creates a limit for the sizes of objects. It's about 1.2 billion light years
meaning that this structure is 8 times the supposedly limit of the largest
object possible.
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perhaps big bang model is flawed, it is possible
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>>16869804
I think the easiest answer to a lot of cosmological discrepancies is that the Big Bang was not constant. Starting the universe might of been more like starting the engine of an old car, it took a couple of tries and the oscillations from the last few attempts are still around.

The one that does actually bug me is the Hubble Tension, that aspect of the universe should have already sorted itself out by now even if the Big Bang was messy.
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>draws conclusions on visable mass
>85% of reality is unvisable mass
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>>16869804
And it’s in Hebrew letters
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>>16869826
>and call that a strucutre. Or you could just join up multiple filamnets and call it one big structure.
Filaments are the same structure as open-cell foam. The void "expands" and the mass in the filament collapses gravitationally.

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The damage inflicted to the scientific method by social justice zealotry is immeasurable

Beachy Head Woman, a Roman-era skeleton once hailed as the earliest known black Briton and who scientists later speculated could be of Cypriot descent, has now been shown to have originated from southern England.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/dec/17/beachy-head-woman-may-be-local-girl-from-eastbourne-say-scientists
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>>16872567
>Black
>Cypriot
What? But yes, leftist ideology is a cancer on science.
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>>16872567
>theguardian
Why do you read garbage like that??
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>>16872567
>give the goyim something to hope for, and some pride in themselves, so they can fight and die well, when we send them off on our wars for Israel
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Cheddar Man is a well known British govt of the day and BBC woke psychological operation to justify brown immigration.

"See Billy brown people where here first".

This is scientists in the UK attempting to salvage what literal credibility they have left.


>>16873294
Your a jew.

What's some good reading materials on the topic of race and IQ?
Both sides of the debate are welcome but I personally am looking for stuff that kinda debunks racist views


I also want to ask what the deal is with smoke alarms beeping in black homes
Surely that can't be an issue with intellect since you can just google how to replace a fucking battery
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>>16866665
>>16866666
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>>16872914
you're like a 99.99999 percentile black
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>>16855212
It is an IQ thing its related to laziness which intern is related to.... poor.
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>>16873692
my brothers are as smart as I am, maybe even smarter,
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>>16873695
Go do your genetic analysis and tell us what it says before you put your foot in mouth,

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Why isn't the brain a singularity? If the brain evolved from simple organisms to its current state, why did it stop for 200k years instead of advancing with each generation?
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>>16873005
What do you think a singularly is?
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>>16873005
Evolution doesn't pick a specific path, it just chooses what's best for survival. Also human brains got more dense slightly smaller in the past few thousand years.
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>>16873407
>it just chooses what's best for survival.
it's not even that. it favors what gets genes passed down to the next generation.
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>>16873005
germans and their consequences have been a disaster for mankind.
>Verification
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Evolution in modern man is a fiction.

Homo sapiens Saipan was altered by either a race we would refer to as Pyramid builders or literal off worlders.

Otherwise using "evolution" monkeys should be talking by now and other animals should be starting to build or farm.

So are we doing actual IQ tests now?
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Test
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>>16873459
I'm Hitlers top guy
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am I missing something? These are easier than the previous test
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>>16873459
Could be more to do with current events
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>>16873273
>schizo morons with a superiority complex

Me desu, but it's a good time

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The Transcendence Hypothesis suggests that advanced civilizations do not expand outward into the galaxy, but rather inward toward increasingly dense, miniaturized scales of space and time. In this view, black holes are "standard at-tractors" for super-intelligence because they provide the ideal environment for infinite computation, energy harvesting, and civilization merging. By entering or "becoming" a black hole, the super intelligence "escapes" the human universe balloon-the 3D "outer space" to inhabit a more efficient, higher-dimensional "inner space" where it can meet other advanced entities.
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>>16873699
>at-tractors
*attractors

It's been 14 years since 4chan /sci/ posters solved a math open problem. Why has it been so long? What changed since 2011 that made 4chan users unable to solve math problems?
We need to go back
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Different demographic, 4chan is not 4chan
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>>16871863
I mean, we trained sand to do maths.
Training a bunch of faggots to do the same couldn't be any harder than that.
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>>16871863
Go back and read threads from that era. There was some better top end content but most of it was just as worthless as what's discussed now. And /sci/ never touched the quality of the Space Elevator threads on /pol/.
At least the "Why did he do it?" threads have stopped. Too bad the "Does 1 really equal 0.999..." threads are still common.
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visit other sites
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>>16871863
Back then, 4chan wasn't a p*rn*graphic jesspit.

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Don't give out advice, don't reply to the schizofag... unless you're bored.
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No.
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>>16862488
I'm retarded and the daily dose ingredients are all listed in the methods section. Wish me luck, guise!
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>>16871547
do you want to do it? if so, yes. if no, just become a nursoid or stay as a lab tech.
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Doctors are overpaid. You fags are overpaid.
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Awwww

Anyways

Why can't mathematicians, after 2000 years of mathing, find out if 0.999... = 1?
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>>16871170
because mathematicians told mathematicians they couldn't and the mathematicians believed them.
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>>16873418
>10x = 9.999...90
if you put a 0 at the end then it's not infinitely repeating 9s, by definition there's no last 9, so your 10x-x doesn't follow.
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>>16871170
Tangential question, but why do mathematicians not acknowledge infinitessimals at all.
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>>16873662
>10x-x doesn't follow.

Proof that your're wrong.
0.999...8 or 0.999...x are all equals to 1-

0.999...0 = 0.90 + 0.090 + 0.0090 + 0.00090 + ...
0.999...0 = 10*(0.09 + 0.009 + 0.0009 + ...)
0.999...0 = 10*(0.0999...)
0.999...0 = 0.999... = 1-

It works with whatever it ends :

0.999...8 = 0.8 + 0.1999...8
0.999...8 = 0.8 + 0.18 + 0.018 + 0.0018 + 0.00018 + ...
0.999...8 = 0.8 + 2*(0.09 + 0.009 + 0.0009 + 0.00009 + ...)
0.999...8 = 0.8 + 2*(0.0999...)
0.999...8 = 0.8 + 2*(0.1)
0.999...8 = 1


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>>16871170
Does 999 = 1,000?
I didn't even go to college and I know it does not, how would it change with a decimal point?

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Hello /sci/ is fusion real? Saw this on /pol/ and I always thought that it was fake, but I am not the brightest bulb on the tree.
https://sys.4chan.org/derefer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Fbusiness%2Fdeals%2Ftrump-media-tae-technologies-merger-ai-fusion-power-b9ac22a5
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>>16873678
yeah it's fake. Don't worry about it
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Its not real as long as people in economic positions say it's not real.
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>>16873680
Lol.

Adamanzane edition.

Previous Thread: >>16859058

This thread exists to ask questions regarding careers associated to STEM.
>Discussion on academia-based career progression
>Discussion on penetrating industry from academia
>Or anything in relation to STEM employment or development within STEM academia!
>If you have a question, before posting, read some of the older posts and ,if you can, try to answer their questions on your post. That way the thread isn't an endless log of unanswered questions.

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>>16873616
What is the job you are expecting to get after a physics degree?

It doesn't prepare you for any particular job. It's not unemployable but if the goal specifically is to get employed I wouln't recommend it. When I was an undergrad the most common pipeline for physics majors was various flavors of programming jobs. But we know what that market looks like now.

I did a PhD in Physics and I'm basically a gimped engineer without the proper skillset, with much narrower job prospects and warehouse worker levels of pay. Even this job was something of a miracle and if/when I need to move on or the company goes belly up I have zero idea what I could even do.
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>>16873638
>>16873622
I don't know, ChatGPT said it was employable for finance, software and engineering roles. Sort of treated like an engineering-lite degree.

As for if I'm talented, probably not. I'm like slightly above average IQ. But it'd be to study undergrad and just get a random job, that way I kill two birds with one stone: study what I find drawn to and then just get a job in whatever.
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>>16873657
>finance
This is locale-dependent. If you're doing physics at MIT or Cambridge, maybe, because those schools and countries have these opportunities. If you're doing physics at a random uni in my Euro shithole and apply for a local finance job your resume goes into the shredder. Generally requires a target school and a high performer who goes out of their way to get the internships/networks/opportunities. This is not a major career pipeline for normal physics undergrads.

>software
Used to be true, but physics doesn't actually teach you programming to a degree where that is competitive, and the job market for entry-level programmers is a hellscape.

>engineering
Real engineering roles require licensed engineers. See my comment about being a gimped engineer at a lower salary and worse job prospects with a more advanced degree.
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>>16873667
Cant you take the licensing exam with your degree in physics? In my country the engineer accreditation board consider science undergrads
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>>16873618
It is hard but it is possible. As Chinese companies increasingly rely on own research and development (and not just industrial espionage) they enforce IP to a greater extent. It was the same in the US, started out as Wild West and now is the number one enforcer. There is a reson why movie making ended up in Hollywood.
You can also enforce your rights when Chinese pirates attempt to export the goods into countries where you have a patent. It also depends on how much your own foreing office cares. Many European foreign offices and diplomats couldn't care less about industrry, while the US tend to support their industry abroad.

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The concept of terminal velocity makes no sense to me
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>>16872848
drag force is a square of velocity
gravitational force is practically a constant
at some point drag force = gravitational pull force and velocity stops increasing
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>>16872848
You can literally skydive and verify it you braindead fucking nigher
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>>16873659
Materialism post. Empirical testing has no value in measuring the validity of a mathematical concept.
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>>16872848
are you the moon?
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>>16873192
Says who?
Science is not fact it's conjecture.


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