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1981
« on: February 21, 2015, 07:34:51 PM »
You know, they were pretty much spot on for half the video, and I was confused as to what you were talking about. It seemed like a very decent laymen's overview of quantum theory. And then I got to 3:05. Quanta (a fancy word for the smallest possible amount of a physical unit, like a photon of light, or OP's penis), are not singularities, and they are not all a singularity, and everything around us is not "one", in any meaningful way. 'Quantum relativity' is just a nonsense phrase here. And somehow they top it off by saying that because everything is one and science is confusing, governments don't matter. Basically justifying hedonistic nihilism because "you are the quantum singularity interacting with itself" is just dumbfounding.
Also. Why does the. Narrator speak like. This ?
The problem w/ laymen's explanations of quantum mechanics is that in dropping the math something is lost in translation. What you get then is people that think they understand it but don't and they end up sounding like our buddy Deepak.
1982
« on: February 21, 2015, 07:30:49 PM »
I'd rather talk about cold fusion. Other nuclear reactor types have been proven unstable due to human errors, or unpredictable circumstances. However, cold fusion is still small, and mostly theoretical.
You'd rather talk empirically unsubstantiated pseudoscience?
1983
« on: February 21, 2015, 07:29:52 PM »
"Agree with me or you're harmful to the rest of humanity."
...okay?
If in disagreeing you completely disregard negative affects that could be prevented by the thing you disagree w/, ye.
1984
« on: February 21, 2015, 07:26:10 PM »
Have you ever found yourself in the ufology/new age portion of youtube?
Shit is cray
1985
« on: February 21, 2015, 07:24:03 PM »
What's the climate denier mantra?
"FOLLOW THE MONEY!"
1986
« on: February 20, 2015, 02:25:42 PM »
Can you drink it?
1987
« on: February 20, 2015, 02:20:24 PM »
>not having the cow look you directly in the eyes before throttling and butchering it yourself
1988
« on: February 20, 2015, 02:08:04 PM »
My ancestors had the chance to absolutely crush Islam when it was forming and they did nothing.
#JustZoroastrianThings
Thanks Persia.
1989
« on: February 20, 2015, 01:54:57 PM »
1990
« on: February 20, 2015, 01:38:19 PM »
I think I get the point that you're trying to get across, however I don't understand how that might be more consistent than the other of way of conceiving them. For example laws like the conservation of energy can be reformulated in this negative way and still say the same thing. In fact according to David Deutsch(which some people may call a kook, but is nevertheless one of the god fathers of quantum computing) all laws are essentially statements that tell us what is impossible.
You also may want to look into Charles Sanders Pierce who hypothesized that natural laws may change according to a type of selection effect similar to biology.
1991
« on: February 20, 2015, 01:20:41 PM »
People are so afraid to offend someone they practically try to sidestep reality, it's ridiculous.
1992
« on: February 17, 2015, 05:42:25 PM »
OH, well at least we he let us know. . .
1993
« on: February 16, 2015, 09:26:43 PM »
Putin isn't gonna stop swinging his dick around as long someone doesn't make him believe, under no uncertain terms, that it's urgent that he put it away.
1994
« on: February 16, 2015, 08:59:29 PM »
been meaning to read this one too. maybe after this super busy semester.
1995
« on: February 16, 2015, 08:30:40 PM »
halp
fixed
they're both geniuses you fuckcake
no stahp
1996
« on: February 16, 2015, 08:27:03 PM »
If it's the paper i think you guys are referring to, move along it's mostly junk.
1997
« on: January 26, 2015, 09:33:23 PM »
modsmodsmodsmodsmodsmodsmodsmodsmodsmodsmodsmods
1998
« on: January 26, 2015, 09:02:19 PM »
No, faster than light travel is impossible.
Doesn't make interstellar travel impossible, just harder and more of a long term investment.
So is the greater cosmic/physical purpose of human life so mathematically small that we're irrelevant (which would mean we could do what we want), or is there a greater physical/mathematical need for humans to spread and disperse energy?
?
I'm sorry, what are you asking?
Everything ultimately pulls back into the singularity. So does human life play any significant role in that, or are we so insignificant that we can do what we want?
There's really no evidence now that points towards a big crunch at this point, if that's what you're talking about.
And we're just as much a part of this universe as anything else within it.
Did you change your mind or something? Weren't you the one that said that gravity would eventually overcome the dark energy forcing the expansion of the universe?
I may have said there are certain models of dark energy, quintessence, etc., where the value of the scalar field may change but as of now there is no evidence it will.
Dark energy as we currently understand is most simply modeled as a cosmological constant which, as the name suggests, is constant for our current spacetime. Of course it could be totally wrong.
I'm tempted to switch my major to engineering physics so that in the future I would actually understand whatever the fuck you just said, but I have to stick with chemical engineering to satisfy my hopeless dream that I'm going to genetically engineer bacteria to clean up dumps and other waste sites and become slightly famous and slightly rich over it.
Fuck me.
To be totally honest, you should, I can tell by talking to you that you'd love it.
1999
« on: January 26, 2015, 08:56:58 PM »
No, faster than light travel is impossible.
Doesn't make interstellar travel impossible, just harder and more of a long term investment.
So is the greater cosmic/physical purpose of human life so mathematically small that we're irrelevant (which would mean we could do what we want), or is there a greater physical/mathematical need for humans to spread and disperse energy?
?
I'm sorry, what are you asking?
Everything ultimately pulls back into the singularity. So does human life play any significant role in that, or are we so insignificant that we can do what we want?
There's really no evidence now that points towards a big crunch at this point, if that's what you're talking about.
And we're just as much a part of this universe as anything else within it.
Did you change your mind or something? Weren't you the one that said that gravity would eventually overcome the dark energy forcing the expansion of the universe?
I may have said there are certain models of dark energy, quintessence, etc., where the value of the scalar field may change but as of now there is no evidence it will. Dark energy as we currently understand is most simply modeled as a cosmological constant which, as the name suggests, is constant for our current spacetime. Of course it could be totally wrong.
2000
« on: January 26, 2015, 08:51:15 PM »
No, faster than light travel is impossible.
Doesn't make interstellar travel impossible, just harder and more of a long term investment.
So is the greater cosmic/physical purpose of human life so mathematically small that we're irrelevant (which would mean we could do what we want), or is there a greater physical/mathematical need for humans to spread and disperse energy?
?
I'm sorry, what are you asking?
Everything ultimately pulls back into the singularity. So does human life play any significant role in that, or are we so insignificant that we can do what we want?
There's really no evidence now that points towards a big crunch at this point, if that's what you're talking about. And we're just as much a part of this universe as anything else within it.
2001
« on: January 26, 2015, 08:45:41 PM »
No, faster than light travel is impossible.
Doesn't make interstellar travel impossible, just harder and more of a long term investment.
So is the greater cosmic/physical purpose of human life so mathematically small that we're irrelevant (which would mean we could do what we want), or is there a greater physical/mathematical need for humans to spread and disperse energy?
? I'm sorry, what are you asking?
2002
« on: January 26, 2015, 08:42:59 PM »
No, all the cool floodians died, now it's just these faggots.
2003
« on: January 26, 2015, 08:36:02 PM »
The cancer is strong in this place.
2004
« on: January 26, 2015, 08:25:11 PM »
No, faster than light travel is impossible.
Doesn't make interstellar travel impossible, just harder and more of a long term investment.
2005
« on: January 26, 2015, 05:57:49 PM »
ITT: Challenger went so fast he hurt himself
2006
« on: January 26, 2015, 04:55:46 PM »
Is that what you get when you too much nutella?
2007
« on: January 26, 2015, 04:32:54 PM »
Wait, so is this a serious thread?
nah
How do you know? Isn't it crossing a line when you say you're going to take your life and other's too?
maybe i'm just cynical, too much internet.
2008
« on: January 26, 2015, 04:25:00 PM »
Wait, so is this a serious thread?
nah
2009
« on: January 26, 2015, 04:21:02 PM »
In all honesty there are a few unknowns for which it would be in our best interests to keep an eye on, but in almost all cases most of the really scary shit the talk about can be narrowed to shit quality experimental protocols, bad conclusions and forgoing the null hypothesis.
2010
« on: January 26, 2015, 04:10:27 PM »
The chicken is homophobic there
homophobia tastes fucking delicious
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