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Is shape really just meaningless or are there energetic properties to it? Why does lighting strike at pointy objects? Why do forks spark in a microwave while spoons don't? Are we aware of all the energies and their properties? Surely, it would be naïve to say energy does not affect shapes with such a limited understanding of energies. Not to mention the black swan paradox. Well, a professor dabbled in the science of shapes and discovered astonishments that could possibly explain historical mysteries: Shape Power By Dan A:
https://archive.org/details/ShapePowerByDanA.DavidsonbOk.xyz
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>ITT Danny boy advertises his work on an underwater basket weaving forum
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>>14349869 The shape is an expression of the energy configuration.
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Any mechanical engineers here take mechanical/machine design? It's gotten to the point now where I feel overwhelmed not really "Getting it". The material our professor is giving us is dense, extremely dense. Usually not with alot of explanation of concepts as well. For any ME's here that took it, are there any good online resources that you know of? Thanks.
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>>14351024 I don't care about your dumb faggot 'problems'. Post more agricultural/industrial vending machines.
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>>14351024 >where I feel overwhelmed not really "Getting it". >material is extremely dense Can you be any more specific?
Anonymous (26 replies)
I'll be 24 when I start and 28 when I finish, so all of my 20's would be spent without money, or should I get a masters and go into that field and make money ? The upside of medicine in the uk is guaranteed stability and usually a 80k-120k salary in the UK.
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>>14346395 I feel bad for you europoors
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>>14350293 Floor is higher though meaning the poor are taken care of better, still see a lot of homeless people but they usually have a history of drug abusers or a still addicts
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>>14349588 Dr's wages are shit
you can only make money by opening a clinic but you dont have to be a. Dr to do that
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You really want good money, stability, and in a timely manner just be a specialized nurse. You're like a cog in the machine that is the hospital doing something that lets it serve more patients who need whatever you're doing, and you only need to learn to do that one thing.
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ITT post equations that have not been solved for centuries
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>>14350792 x=4
a=2
b=3.75
Solved
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>>14350792 Generally, that function is once continuously differentiable in the entirety of R (when a >= 0) otherwise its everywhere smooth except on x = 0.
With this in mind, set f(x) = 1 + bx + x - x^a and do newtons method.
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>>14350792 a=0
b=0
Are mathematicians this dumb?
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Given a set the only way I know if it's infinite is by checking for infinitely many different which is impossible. Similarly I cannot prove there exist any finite sets either since even if I've checked for we could still have . Furthermore even if there were both finite sets and infinite sets, it would be impossible to figure out when two sets are equal without again checking infinitely many which is impossible.
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You are exactly right. Suppose that A is the set of all natural numbers less than 3. Then a sane person would immediately resolve that there are finitely many elements. But you would continue to investigate all numbers 4,5,6,... as well. Are you a computer scientist?
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>>14347927 What does it mean for a set to exist in the first place? You will never hold the set {1,3,5} in your hand, you can only cope with a representation
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>>14351757 Fine, let A be the set of some odd numbers
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>>14351892 Of course it's a matter of believe. I don't believe the ZFC axioms describe anything meaningful. I think that the notion of a "set" is a complete gibberish.
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>>14352384 have fun using whatever language you like
just be sure to preface your interactions with your chosen means to communicate
this happens even in textbooks, K will denote a field etc. that kind of thing
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Is there even a single person that can compete?
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>the number 1 mathematician (by number of publications) is a christ loving christian man that defended divine revelation and inspiration and had 13 children >the number 2 mathematician (by number of publications) is an eccentric nihilist atheist amphetamine addict that mocked god, didn't have any children and owned nothing which one is it /sci/?
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>>14352300 God is santa clause for adults
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>>14352105 >he thinks being a genius means nobody else should be able to follow your work how fucking brainlet do you have to be to have this take? I bet you think more confusing and esoteric = better.
his genius was doing things with the same tools and foundation everyone else had but better and in ways nobody else considered
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>>14352315 Religions are believed by the masses, ignored by the educated, and used by the powerful.
Santa is believed by the children, ignored by the adults, and used by the merchants.
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but
you must abandon SCIENCE and MATH, never ever allowed to study such subjects or research them
would you take it?
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Sounds like the Heartland Institute's standard contract
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>>14350674 I'd do it without even a second thought. The only reason I pursued STEM through college was to land a comfy administrative job in the field. The amount of stress cost me my hair and sanity and now I'd rather spend my time reading books, writing, playing games and relax, talking to people.
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>>14352146 >I'd do it without even a second thought. The only reason I pursued STEM through college was to land a comfy administrative job in the field. The amount of stress cost me my hair and sanity No sanity? No care for science and truth?
You're the perfect candidate
Apply now
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>>14352164 I kek'd. Science is fun to me and truth is one of the most important things in the world, yes, but I don't really care about achieving something pertaining to science in my whole career. It's just a mean to an end and many people who do science for a living think the same as me, I'm not trans btw
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can i learn all of these topics in 12 days?
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>>14351653 topics in weeks 4, 5, 6, 7 seems very simple, like maybe 20-30 minutes for each topic
topics in weeks 1, 2, 3 are complicated if you are actually learning all that stuff properly, but you probably only need to memorize 3 or 4 examples for each thing, not actually understand it, so it's ok
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>sequences lists of numbers>series adding up sequences>integral test integrate the function being summed over the bounds of the function, if the integral converges the series/sequence converges>comparison test if the series is less/greater than a series that converges/diverges then it converges/diverges>ratio test if the ratio of consecutive terms has a limit less than 1 as x-->infty it converges>root test if the nth root of a term has a limit less than 1 as n-->infty it converges>alternating series if a series is alternating then it converges if the non-alternating part tends to zero and is decreasing>abs/conditional convergence if the termwise absolute value of the series converges>power series a series where you have coefficients, then x (potentially offset by some value) raised to the n>taylor and maclaurin series special kinds of power series that give series representations for transcendental functions>paramaterization of plane curves >calculus with parametric curves i have no fucking idea>polar coordinates instead of using x and y you use a radius and an angle>areas and lengths in polar coordinates idk but you should be able to just figure this out>3d coordinate systems you either add a height to the x-y plane, add a height to the polar plane, or add an angle coming down from the vertical axis to the polar plane>vectors direction and magnitude. add them by placing the tip to the tail. subtract by doing the reverse>dot product product of the magnitude times the cosine of the angle between them. returns a number representing the degree to which they are parallel>cross product product of the magnitudes times the sine of the angle between them. returns a vector pointing in a direction perpendicular to both of them. represents the degree to which the vectors are perpendicular (how they cross each other i guess)>lines and planes in space idk
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>>14351674 If you're not doing exercises and solving problems you're noy learning.
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>>14351653 assuming you put in 14 hour days of effective learning
maybe
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What are the limits of the frequency of light?
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>>14351985 You must be at least 18 to post here. And one would hope an IQ of at least 70 to post in /sci/.
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>>14351937 Vacuum isn't "nothing," it's the lowest stable energy state of Hilbert space. If it was nothing, quantum fluctuation wouldn't be possible.
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>>14351998 yea i had to add the word total since you were talking about outerspace
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>>14352134 I'm not the guy to whom you were talking previously.
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>>14352136 oh well, anyway it was mostly a stupid streetfight over a techincality in language
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Years ago I read an article in a science magazine about a paper regarding anti-entropic matter. Entropy is one of the arrows of time which is arbitrary, meaning it can run in either direction, which means it was just as likely for our Universe to be entropic or anti-entropic. It was once believed that any anti-entropic matter would long since have been eliminated through interaction with entropic matter, but this article said the study used computer modelling to show anti-entropic matter would be much more resilient than was previously believed.
This got me to wondering if it's possible that there are possibly local areas of anti-entropic matter and, if so, what physical properties it would possess. For example, what would an anti-entropic star look like?
I've been asking this question for years, and no one has been able to even venture a guess. How would an anti-entropic star appear to us? Or an anti-entropic galaxy? Would it have a supermassive white hole at its centre?
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>>14351997 Which arrow? There are multiple arrows of time, the most common ones we deal with on a macro scale being sidereal and entropic, but there are quantum arrows which are *not* reversible.
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>>14351965 I am not familiar with anti-entropic matter, but there is an interesting concept in statistical mechanics called the fluctuation theorem.
Essentially what it implies is that the law of entropy is only a statistical law - entropy *on average* over long time and length scales increases and systems generally move towards thermal equilibrium, but there is a non-zero probability that a state could spontaneously shift to a lower entropy state.
You can actually see this happen in certain experimental systems like dusty plasmas.
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>>14352112 Or life. Of course, if you zoom out far enough you can see the entropic increase, but life itself seems to create more ordered states from random chemical reactions.
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>>14352118 which could, itself, be a consequence of the FT
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>>14352144 On a quantum level, "entropy" is the accumulation of information. Every time a particle interacts with another particle, it gains information which reveals its entire history if we were able to detect it closely enough. This is experienced at a macro level as heat.
This has philosophical and theological implications, however. It means knowledge and wisdom are actually entropy. Just as the Gnostics described, God, the Original Principle, is committing slow suicide in order to perceive itself by tearing itself into I-and-other.