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No.13404076 ViewReplyOriginalReport
Am I missing something or is the weak interaction a little bit irrelevant in the grand scheme of things? All the other ones have pretty obvious impacts of pretty much every scale imaginable.
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No.13403654 ViewReplyOriginalReport
As an intelligent person who understands some fundamental realities, how do you stop yourself from becoming apathetic?

Age has really done a number on me. As you age and start to fall apart just a little bit, the massive impact on quality of life makes suicide seem like the only reasonable option.
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So I never did well with Maths at school and now I'm trying to improve. I can't get my head around different base systems. I know we use base-10 but I don't understand the reasoning or how that relates to other base systems.

Is the reason we use base-10 because each column to the left is exactly 10 times larger than to the right which makes calculation easier (10,000, 1000, 100, 10, 1 etc.)? Whereas under base-8 it would be super complex (4096, 512, 64, 8, 1)?

Or have I got that completly wrong and even under base-8, the columns to left would technically be in groups of 10 but "ten" would refer to "eight" and we wouldn't count 8s and 9s? So "ten" just means group rather than a fixed quantity?
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Theoretical Physics As a Product of Modern Narcissism

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Is Schrondinger's Cat the first example of an unfalsifiable scientific theory that is not based on the scientific method, but rather on extreme narcissism as a motivating factor?

Unless your use of logic has been completely destroyed by deconstructionism and post-modernism, it's clear that a cat cannot be simultaneously dead and alive. The existence of any entity does not rely on your observation of it. Was this the first example of pointless theoretical physics that manifested from post-modern narcissism? Or was it simply just a grift like most theoretical physics?
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No.13403882 ViewReplyOriginalReport
>Randomized group assignment
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Does meditating with distractions have greater effects?

No.13403638 ViewReplyOriginalReport
Turning on the lights, playing loud music, challenging stuff like that, from a scientific perspective, what reasons do we have to believe or not believe this will produce better results? It might train your concentration even harder than normal meditation
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Einstein invented so many arms and weaponry.
He discovered a lot and earned money.
Finally he understood the truth.
>What is for all this ammunition? It is only to kill people.
>Is it what I have learnt? I could not join good company.
>I have become a scientist and cause for all destruction."
Then he has gone through Bhagavad Gita.
Then he said,
>Tell me your company, I shall tell you what you are.

As is the company so you become.
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Double slit experiment / quantum computing

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Curious thought
From what i've gathered from the double slit experiment, firing single particles without observing creates a wave pattern. While observing particles behave normally.

My thought is...
What if we need to always be observing a quantum computer for it to behave in a predictable way.

Could i be on to something or completely wrong?
I'm king layman
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No.13394794 ViewReplyOriginalReport
born about 250 years too early to hit full cyborg-tier of human evolution. but, with conquering aging within 50 years, SOME of us may make it.
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