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Replace material with real. Is it real? Then there’s something there to it. That’s material. To say something isn’t material is to say something isn’t real.
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>>16869395
Anon. Scientists not agreeing on words is the bane of science. Semantics is rot. It’s an actual issue.

Google Search: “Does matter without mass exist?”
Google Answer: “Yes, retard. Photons are a thing.”

Google Search: “Is light a form of matter?”
Google Answer: “No, retard. Light has no mass!”

Fucking hell.
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>>16830683
le funny bighead sculpture man
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>>16869395
Scientific literature isn’t /sci/ ?
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>>16831013
People who still think that the supernatural is a literal thing rather than a relative position of ignorance weird me out. They're religiously minded and what there to be more than more in life, when life is just life, existence is just existence. Physics deals with what is real.
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>>16872069
want* there to be more than more in life

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Let's talk about plasma physics and nuclear fusion. Does it have any future?
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>>16872051
why was he silenced? what breakthrough was this guy on the verge of?
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they will bump up against chaos because no one likes to organize chaos
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>>16872130
Jesus 12 papers in a year? Is that normal?
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>>16872140
Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental plasma physics process crucial in magnetic containment fusion. When there are new developments (breakthroughs, if you will), lots of new science is published.
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>>16872140
Yes. Most of them are last author papers from his grad students and 4/12 are just DPP abstracts.

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.

Resources for protecting yourself from academic marxists:
>https://www.thefire.org/ (US)
>https://www.jccf.ca/ (Canada)

Information resource:
>https://sciencecareergeneral.neocities.org/
>*The Chad author is seeking additional input to diversify the content into containing all STEM fields. Said author regularly views these /scg/ threads.

No anons have answered your question? Perhaps try posting it here:
>https://academia.stackexchange.com/

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>>16872099
i've taken several real math classes and i know what math is
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>>16872103
I don't believe you, but sure.
If you like it enough to commit to getting a useless degree, yes pursue a BS in Mathematics. However, I can't say I would recommend it to anyone who intends for their degree to lead to a related job. If you intend to go to a field where just having the degree is what matters (like many government jobs), not the actual content, than I'd encourage it. If you plan on getting a job in math, then you're a fool.
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>>16872125
what would you recommend then? and why do you say the last part?
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>>16872128
I'd recommend you grow up. Since you're clearly too impatient to wait for that, ask someone who already has--your professors.
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Will human female breasts keep getting bigger?
Is it possible we'll have a runaway effect to the point it will become unsustainable like with those animals going extinct due to growing too large horns and tails etc.?
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>>16871076
It seems like he's pretty consistent in explaining everything in terms of selection, genetic determinism with references to big 5 personality traits thrown in.
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>>16870967
Being a pedophile isn't a crime.
Acting on it is.
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>>16870770
4 is clearly the best. Big breasts, blonde and blue eyed, almost perfect body. Whats not to love?
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>>16870770
4>3>1>2

I will conceit that 3 looks a bit retardio, but she's the only one with appropriately shaped curves.

2 has nothing to her, maybe apart from being 5cm taller than the others for what it's worth. But you don't even see her face. What you see it not great. The curly hair is not great.
One wouldn't want either, but if you gotta fuck one, it's the one with giant melons just for having fun.
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>>16870669
2≥3>1=4

>>16871095
What's the point of a fridge if you can't retrieve the food that goes into it?
>>16871966
True, 2 has no boobs and you can't see her full face, but her body is at least somewhat slim and feminine and she seems to have a somewhat cute face. Look at the rest (except 3), they look like blocks.

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Woopsy, we made an 8th grade level mistake guys...we're very sorry.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4210929/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5541280/
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>>16865623
this picture makes me lol
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>>16868584
the government can't be that incompetent
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>>16870674
When it comes to government:
>Never attribute to stupidity what can adequately be explained by malice.
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>>16870898
trvke
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>>16870674
>the government can't be that incompetent
go work in a public sector job for a few years and then come see if you still stand behind this post. retard.

Is it too late to stop Global Warming? We aren't transitioning to renewables and electric cars fast enough and we're constantly hitting new high temperatures globally.

We're getting close to having ice-free Arctic summers. We are already on average about 1.4 degrees Celsius hotter today than what we were in the pre-industrial era.
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>>16872097
Its over. The oceans are rising. The atmosphere is boiling! The animals are going extinct. Science is under attack from white republican madness . IT HAS NEVER BEEN MORE OVER..

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Cats understand the concept of reflections and representations. From the cat's perspective, they are looking at a smartphone screen. They see themselves and their owners on the screen via selfie cam. They don't think "that's another cat and person, not me". They don't think it's an unparseable and irrelevant 2d image. When the feline "face filter" is turned on, the cats are shocked and physically look up at their owners, because they know the person on the screen is them, and they want to see what the fuck just happened.
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>>16871992
You're an idiot.
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>>16871996
I admit I was wrong. The main thing I based my assumption on was the badge at 0:43 which is mirrored now that I look at it again, plus the funny animal succession. Doesn't disprove it being ai but there are no obvious giveaways that I see.
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>>16871992
This video is fucking old
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>>16872013
>>16871992
ironically the video does use AI but neither of you retards understands how or why
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>>16871996
*your'

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Did we overreact to Chernobyl?
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>>16871988
Because the spill wouldn't instantly teleport into the oceans, you retard.
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>>16871930
>Uniformly distributed
Nice assumption, asshole.
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>>16872001
With some ingenuity and effort it could be moved there though (or contamination could be dealt with through alternative means - it was just an example) - humans are not passive observers.
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Chernobyl is actually not that dangerous of you have proper gear
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>>16871930
the problem is that isotopes ACCUMULATE through the food chain. yes you can visit chernobyl just fine, but you wouldn't want to live there, drink the water, eat from a garden and hunt in the forest.
incidentally, because of that the wildlife is doing amazing. theres large populations of wolf, moose, european bison, beaver, wild horses...
turns out human activity is more harmful than a reactor blowing up.
some with the bikini atoll. theres no fishing going on there because its all irradiated and no theres large healthy coral reefs and incredibly healthy fish populations

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Only legend pro max can solve this
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>>16871829
Imagine writing all this and giving irrelevant links with only goal to confuse us
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>>16870765
And what if we open the lid?
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Ok now let's see you solve the new captcha.
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>>16871836
I was just checking this picture was posted
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Action Lab has solved this question

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0IGrSjcBZs

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ITT: /sci/ legends

Who is your favorite /sci/entist? Starting with the obvious one.
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Zubrin
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>>16872043
Sam Altman the greatest scientist to have ever lived

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Why the fuck have we not really moved past Schrödinger's cat and the double-slit experiment nearly a century later?
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>>16871073
>There's no "its just a math trick bro" argument inserted as a means to diminish wave function out of QM, when wavefunciton IS the QM.
QM is mathematically richer than just "wavefunction" and oversimplifying it to such an extent does an (equally dimishing) disservice. Wavefunctions were already ingredients in classical physics, too, as demonstrated by the isomorphic Koopman-von Neumann theory, which restricts itself to only commutative algebras of observables.

>A model with many worlds inside. Just as classical mechanics only allow one universe, QM allows many worlds.
If that's the case, then a proposition, i.e. in QM an operator with boolean spectrum, of the form
[eqn]\mathrm{World}_{0} \wedge \mathrm{World}_{1} \wedge \cdots[/eqn]
should evaluate to True. But even for a 2-level quantum system (qubit) prepared in e.g. some cat state like
[eqn]\lvert\psi\rangle = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}} \left [ \lvert 0\rangle + \lvert 1\rangle \right ][/eqn]
we have
[eqn]\langle\psi \lvert P_{\lvert 0\rangle} \wedge P_{\lvert 1\rangle} \lvert\psi\rangle = \langle\psi\lvert \left ( \lvert 0\rangle\langle 0\lvert\cdot\lvert 1\rangle\langle 1\lvert\right ) \lvert\psi\rangle = \langle\psi\lvert 0\lvert\psi\rangle = 0\langle\psi\lvert\psi\rangle = 0 = \bot[/eqn]
...a contradiction.

>We dont deny the reality of classical mechanics
The scientific method isn't some egalitarian hugbox. Classical mechanics and the Laplacian universe it implies is wrong, incorrect, falsified, to the same degree as flat Earth. It's useful as an approximation under certain circumstances, as is neglecting Earth's curvature when using a metrestick, but has no scientific "reality".

>Everyone now knows QM isn't the be all end all model of reality either. Strings's got infinite many worlds or something.
QM serves as a framework for model building and string theory obeys all of its postulates. Multiverse scenarios in string theory have nothing to do with Everett's puerile sophistry.
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>>16871111
>MWI wasn't stupid, it was an attempt to get wf collapse indirectly from the other axioms of QM.
Everett was an alcoholic coomer who couldn't even score a postdoc position. People already tried this decades prior, his thesis was peak midwittery, bordering on psychopathological before the insane ramblings about amoebas were removed by his adivsor, motivated only by his own poor reading comprehension of von Neumann's book, and contributed nothing other than spawning a bunch of cancerous pop sci misconceptions.
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>superdeterminism solves all of these problems but people deny it because of animalistic instincts
brutal...
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>>16867180
>we do the double slit experiment
Show me only one paper to replicate ist. Protip you can't. When you When you confront an academic parasite with that the answer is Muuh only thought experiment, we dindu nuffin.
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>>16872002
>Protip you can't.
Original:
Young, Thomas. "Experiments and Calculations Relative to Physical Optics." *Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London*, vol. 94, 1801, pp. 1-16.
Published replications:
Young, Thomas. "Outlines of experiments and enquiries respecting sound and light." *Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London*, vol. 90, 1803.
Thomas, J.I. "The classical double slit experiment–a study of interference patterns." *Journal of Physics*, 2020.
Walleczek, J. "False-Positive Effect in the Radin Double-Slit Experiment." *Journal of Scientific Exploration*, 2019.
Tremblay, N. "Independent re-analysis of alleged mind-matter interaction in double-slit optical system." *Physics Essays*, 2019.
Das, S. "Double-slit experiment revisited." *arXiv preprint*, 2022.
Aharonov, Y. "Finally making sense of the double-slit experiment." *Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences*, 2017.
Pallikari, F. "Replication Kit for the Review of a Double-Slit Experiment." *Open Science Framework*, 2025.
Imperial College London researchers. "Double-slit experiment recreated in fourth dimension." *Nature Physics*, 2023.
MIT researchers. "Atomic scale replication of the double-slit experiment." *Physical Review Letters*, 2023.
Radin, D., & Delorme, A. "Double-Slit Experiment on Observer Consciousness." *Frontiers in Psychology*, 2023.
Antimatter research team. "Replicating the double-slit experiment with antimatter." *Physical Review Letters*, 2024.
Skill issue.

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based or jewish?
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Looks like kabbala rebrand
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>>16870823
>Magic circles were group theory math shizoposting all along
Grim. Imagine the wizard powers tho if you ever get isekai'd
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based AND jewish
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>>16871980
mathematics is agnostic with respect to judaism or nazism, judaism not so much towards "math", well, at least numerology due to gematria, but still
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>>16870823
invented by the french so how is it jewish you fucking retarded piece of shit scum stain moron

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I believe in the theory of evolution by natural selection but I do not believe in abiogenesis. No matter how many organic compounds into a "soup" you will never get life. Shock it, boil it, blast it with radiation, it's not going to suddenly self-organize. The simplest possible living, self-replicating cell has more divine machinery than any scientific busybody can even observe let alone hypothesize its origin. The idea that only these insanely complex organisms remain while every single intermediary step vanished without a trace and fails to reemerge is absurd.
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>>16870123
Hi, Grok.
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>>16870103
>more ad hominems
i accept your concession
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>>16864714
Molecules that don't replicate don't keep making more of themselves.
It is a very basic blind type of natural selection. Where dumb and blind self replicating molecules are affected by a blind and dumb environment and the random molecules that are better at replicating themselves through whatever means perpetuate themselves while other types of molecules don't. And there is a selection for that which does it better.
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>>16864551
How many stars are in a galaxy, how many galaxies are in the universe. How small is a cell, how big is the surface of a planet. For how long did the universe exist?
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So what's the alternative to abiogenesis? Panspermia is not an answer since that proto-life must have also originated from somewhere. And if that was created, by whom and where did that proto-life-creating creature come from (and so forth)?

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“Alien life exists elsewhere. The odds are just too good.”

“But alien life visiting us? No. Impossible. It could never happen.”

Are scientists just retarded?.

“No you can’t come here. We’re off limits. No way no how. Cope.”

It’s fucking weird.

Do scientists not consider successor theories to our own limitations? Do they think our limitations are everyone else’s limitations?
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>>16869651
Only inert space rocks. We could easily spot rockets being launched from all the way to Pluto. If any object in space was actually doing anything then it would be incredibly easy to notice. The issue with rocks is that they just aren't doing anything while aliens would be doing something which would make them easy to spot.
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>>16870036
Absolutely. They’d probably find it incredibly easy to hide extraordinary evidence to extraordinary claims.

Humans arrogantly think we’d be able to detect them if they didn’t want to be detected. They could be beyond all our senses staying within higher dimensions for all we bloody well know.
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>>16869358
yet we get bested by metal tools, all it takes is for an alien to release a virus that makes humans engage in their deepest darkest desires, or overtake them with someone elses, it really is that easy human ego is unwarranted and i hope someone out there strikes it down like a whimpering ember
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>>16870178
>They could be beyond all our senses staying within higher dimensions for all we bloody well know.
Looking at us inside and out, the perverts
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>>16869289
Disgusting image.

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How do you know that even though the future was like the past in the past, that the future will be like the past in the future? and what is your basis for knowing that?
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>>16770206
Hume -> Kant discussion
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>>16866863
Deprivation ends cycle
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>>16866898
Kant's "solution" is literally "it was real in my mind" and "I can't imagine anything else therefore my current mode of cognition is fundamental".
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>>16867958
yea I think Aristotle did better
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>>16770206
Oh, uh.....


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