If white surfaces reflect all light they receive, why aren't all white surfaces mirrors?
>>16555631calcium is literal metal anon. chalk is made out of it.
>>16555638No shit. Go read about chemical bonds and how they affect the physical structure of materials. Ionic vs covalent bonds. You know, high school chemistry curriculum.
>>16555644>autism overloadit was a joke you nerd
>>16555649>I was merely pretending to be retarded it was just a prank bro
>>16555672why are you so angry?
this is seriously /yourguy/?> Since being awarded the Fields Medal, Witten has dominated headlines for a nonstop stream of reprehensible behavior. What started out as a controversy over the string theorist’s Auschwitz concentration camp T-shirts descended into a torrent of remarks about "anomalous U(1) symmetries of the Jewish nose" and "improper topological twist of the Ashkenazi side curl" before he appeared on Numberphile in mid January to praise Nazis and Hitler. “I see good things about Hitler,” Witten said during the bizarre three-hour interview where he falsely claimed Hitler had invented strings and quantum gravity. > Witten’s remarks mirrored earlier claims anonymous academics had told Quanta Magazine this fall — that the physicist had lauded Hitler and made several antisemitic comments within the past decade, paying at least two settlements to former colleagues who allege he made such remarks [...]> But as nearly half a dozen collaborators of Witten's admit, his alleged obsession with Hitler and Nazis dates back further than previously reported. [...] [Witten] has been discussing his admiration for Hitler and what he sees as positive achievements of Nazi Germany for nearly six decades.> During Witten's brief time as an economics student, he was known to be a "strange fellow," says our source, a former University of Michigan classmate. It was in those early days the then-18-year-old frequently discussed Jewish mind control and quizzed others on their thoughts [...]. “It was a daily thing."> The topic wasn’t couched in general conversation [...]. Instead, Witten allegedly would approach students and professors and ambush them with questions — seemingly trying to catch people off-guard. “Going up to somebody like, ‘So what do you think about the Holocaust?’ [...]
You know this board is in the shitter when an obvious bait thread improves peoples' moods. Too bad this thread isn't about science
>>16554829>he would attempt to engage with you and evangelize his beliefs about the parallels between Hitler and Nazi concentration camps with supersymmetry to youCan you blame him? I mean, after all, he was told that the Nazis somehow trucked in, gassed, and cremated 660 people a day for 1,700 days at Auschwitz. Clearly the Nazis had some hyper advanced understanding of quantum mechanics to pull off those numbers.
>>16554815Antisemites forever coping that they have lower IQs. How does it feel to know you'll be my slave in the new Earth? Shalom goys.
>>16555555checked
>>16555181this, I cancelled my subscription like 20 years ago as they became way too political and preachy
>undergrad researchhow fake is it?
>>16554558Biophysics is not physicists doing biology, same as bioinformatics is neither biology or computer science.>>16552979I spent my undergrad working with a molecular biologist running cell cultures and standard DNA-molecular biology work. I didn't publish anything, they also didn't publish anything, and in my 3rd year they were fired from the university. Couple weeks ago they posted on linkeding about being close to publishing their first paper. From career perspective I wasted my undergrad working for a crackpot
>>16555013Wouldn't say planned. I sort of just fell into it as I grew up in a highly competitive area and stuck with it because everything was extremely boring by comparison. Very boneheaded approach that's paid off just so-so so far.
>>16555015>What field was it? I hope you understand that I don't want to get doxxed, but the CS was on genetic algorithms and such the math one is on a functional analysis subfield.>How did you do it?I literally just cold-approached professors, we talked for a while and they wanted me in.Of course, for the math research I waited until I knew basic analysis, algebra and topology beforehand, and I went into the CS research knowing how to program already.Feel free to ask more questions, and don't feel bad about it. While research will probably help in grad school I'm not a great student at all. My GPA is 3.2, iirc.
>>16555420Bump
>>16552979I've always avoided giving undergrads work related to my projects, I don't trust them with any kind of work, and explaining what they have to do takes as much time as doing it myselft properly
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>>16555461Is this some kind of official promotion where healthcare workers are getting discounts or are you bringing up that you're a medical student?
>>16555484It's a student thing in general, i show them my student ID. Train tickets i think are cheaper for students by law, but other things are just businesses being nice i guess.
>>16554569im glad im not the only person who has failed here. i still need to retake my test though....
>>16555805Why did you fail? Not trying to be combative or anything. Just want to know what mistakes to avoid.
>>16555477nta but I think several failed ods have kind of fucked up my brain. I feel way less capable of doing complex things now
>Have the mental capacity to store any system>choose to store a silly board game and its many permutationswhy are these fucktards so revered? playing chess has about as much use as playing mario.
>>16555678Because it's fun and activates people's neurons.>>16555719Who cares what AI can do? If AI could eat your food and fuck your wife, would that be an improvement to your life?
>>16555683This. Chess is only revered because it's older. It's complete faggotry.
>>16555678>so reveredNo one cares about chess except people that play chess.
>>16555678Excellence in anything, even trivia, is amazing and rewarding. OP should try it some time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC1BAcOzHyY
>>16546325"""Science""" is a popular religion
>>16549055https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientism
>>16447701What if gravity from something moving by you attracts more than when that thing is standing still or moving towards or away from you? The only places it would show up is in the situations Dark Matter is needed to explain. ( it seems to this layman anyway )
>>16447701unproven model
>>16447704the missing 3rd step in there "use this stupidity as an excuse to demand a trillion dollars for research"
>"Goyslop" took off because of a single dedicated spammer autist>"Boomer / zoomer" took off because of a single dedicated spammer autist>"chudjak" took off thanks to a single dedicated spammer autist>"virgin vs chad" took off thanks to a single dedicated spammer autistWhy aren't you nolifing your MS paint drawings all over 4chan, anon? You too could brainwash millions of retarded lemmings into adopting whatever memes and vernacular you want, purely by means of astroturfing, to the point where literal politicians and famous people start using it like the dumb cattle they are. Even the people who resist yoyr memes will cave in and submit to them once all their friends and peers start using them, so they'll cuck into using your meme to fit in. Its literally so easy, so why aren't you doing it? And to make this thread /sci/ related, what are the long term societal and structural consequences of being able to program millions of people just by dedicating yourself to neurotically spamming the same memes over and over again repetitively?
>>16481426Ironically you neglected to include "autism."
>>16481489I've seen countless forced memes go nowhere. If spamming were all it took for a meme to get popular, there would way more than a handful of ubiquitous memes.
>>16494592I started chud and bodhi.
>>16503411I INVENTED THE PIANO KEY NECK TIE
>>16519721Memes are from the soul. The modern "scientist" is a soulless bootlicking midwit, at best, simply doing whatever daddy fink or the glowniggers tell them to do. No actual independent thought allowed.
2024 wasn't good year on /sci/ as far as the numbers go, first in July 14 the single day all time low post count was broken, a record which had originally been set on January 22, 2018 and following that in November /sci/ recorded it's first day with under 1000 posts on the 28th. Then in December /sci/ recorded a series of 3 digit post count days the culminated with a new all time low of 750 on the 25th which was only 68% of what had been achieved on Christmas day in 2023. December 2024 is also the all time slowest month on record for /sci/. What were the big events of 2024 on /sci/? What were the best threads? What were the best new science memes? What was the biggest or most surprising science news of this year?
>>16550828Either killed by the cia or hired by nasa
Is /sci/ going to see a resurgence now that TikTok has been shoah'd?
>>16554357the latest shartship disaster caused a slight uptick in posting, as long as shartship continues to fail on grand scale and humiliate musk and his army of h1b jeet slaves, /sci/ will attract people who want to gloat over it. if shartship ever becomes as boring as falcon then the board could easily drop to 500 or less posts per day
>>16535407On desktop, sure, but on mobile, I frequently have to wait for this timer every time I want to post. As other anons pointed out, this has killed the bored mobile poster when on the toilet. It's also very unwelcoming to newcomers that will see this and just go back to Twitter or Reddit. I know gatekeeping is good, but we still need to let some fresh blood in if we want this board and the website to survive.
>>16555787>buy a pass kekekekekeke>only $60/month good bargain! kekekekekekekeke>t. chinkmoot
Whats the scientific perspective on this question?
>>16535684that's not a feces concentration mapthat's an earthquake
>>16547857"""environmentalists"" are invariably people who live in urban zones, which are the most polluted and least environmentally productive areas on the planet. instead of doing anything to fix their own disgusting patches of land they always instead try to blame other for environmental problems.
>>16525073Grade A response, fellow intelectual have a upvote kind stranger*tips fedora*
>>16509161> from CaliforniaOpinion Disregarded.
>>16554333Redditoids always revel themselves because they all seem to think that casual use of profane language is "cool"
found this science meme on the internet, how accurate is it?
>>16544511better
>>16543277Is a french thing, you wouldn't understand
>>16550934French things are well understood, so much so that the course of history in France can be predicted a century in advance.
>Worries about seed oils>Addicted to drugs and doesn't exerciseThis really is fucking Clown World.
>>16554500Just because you're an obese drug addict doesn't mean that everyone else is
i grew up on his shows, i really love himhe makes really good shows even if they r pop science, fun to watch
>>16550536>he only gets hate here because he's blackwrong, people here dislike him because they dislike all incompetents, it has nothing to do with race, you're just projection your own racism on everyone else because you're low iq.
>>16550536>He can TALK!Yeah, that's super rare.
>>16519527Would this change the values I showed even slightly? yes or no?(Hint: The correct answer is no.)
>>16523518>RabbiYou lapsed into Yiddish for a second there, Shlomo.
>>16524144very antisemitic post
I guess quick iteration doesn't work after all...Who would've guessed rocketry is nothing like being a code monkey?
Iteration isn't the problem. It is just hard to believe all those engineers couldn't foresee such a failure.
>>16555251they redeemed nothing they could do
>>16553755i think (and hear me out on this) they were joking
>>16555251Musk is pushing them to release as soon as possible in software house-like fashion and they no longer feel like fighting back since they probably discovered along the way the whole design is flawed in some way and can't be made to work in current shape and form.
>>16553518move fast and break th--ACK!
Why is this board infested with christfags?
>>16555792policy
probably a few /pol/ postersthey go for the "kkk protestantism"
If the smartest man in the world was looking for big, important problems to solves. What would you have him do?
>>16548068Pure physics. Our current knowledge of physics is alchemy-tier.
>>16548068I'd give him all those stupid differential equations like navier-stokes
>>16548068nothingthe elite are waiting for god to come out thats why they invade middle eastern countries and shit
>>16548068I'd have him find me a gf.
>>16548068Economics, neoliberalism is failing and we need someone politicians will listen to explaining that it's doomed.
Do transgender individuals (they are people too) that are M-T-F, have less than ideal testosterone prior to their transition? Has there been a study on this?
>>16553055i dont know i want to rub a trans girls penis
>>16553055Latinx shemales are vicious they could probably beat up most western men, so no.
>>16554099but that doesnt that mean then they have too much test so they have too much estrogen?
>>16553685>bisexualAka gay>am attracted to trans girlsAka gay
>>16553055eee faggots!
