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can someone explain to me how physicists are so confident in their models when there is constantly more and more shit they discover that breaks the models entirely and they just invent some new term in the equation and call it a day.
like how much do you need to break the model by before you develop a really groundbreaking new approach
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How to practice logical thinking? Any online puzzles that require second order thinking, inversion, first principles, and so forth in order to solve them?

Please let me know I want to practice my thinking and problem solving skills.
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We should send one of these into space. Just saying.
Actually no take back that statement. We should send multiple of them into random directions of space.
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what happens when you (or any object/observer) goes through a black hole?
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How Would You Raise the Next Terrence Tao?

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What type of environment would you need to put a kid into to realistically have a chance at creating the next mathematical or scientific genius? The man was going through college textbooks in elementary school for fun.
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I want to fuck around and make my own GMOs to see what happens.

What's the math for beta radiation and DNA damage? I figure I'd place some seeds near a radiation source for x time, and see what grows out of them.

Seems probably easier than trying to build some custom UV set-up or something.
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How do we even know schizophrenia is real?

>a schizo told me its real so therefore its real

Are we really supposed to be trusting these “people”?
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