/sci/ - Science and Mathematics

Hey /sci/ I'm trying to decide what I should research for my IB Maths Internal Assessment. I was thinking about modeling the amount of users on this site, with a sine function based on posts that are only trolls rather than legitimate posts. What do you guys think??

will we ever finish science?

is there an equation waiting to be discovered that would explain absolutely everything?

http://curiosamathematica.tumblr.com/post/109472259290/this-game-is-a-sliding-tile-puzzle-introduced-by#notes

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Whatever. I don't know how to extract the game.

Can you solve the puzzle without cheating and inspecting the algorithm?

Hello to all 9 of you /sci/entists

Why is this board so dead? Half/sci/ attracted much more attention than this (even adjusting for higher halfchan traffic). It would have been my favorite board if not for the IQfags, conciousnessfags and freshman math-fags - none of these are a problem here, so this board is perfect for me, yet it's a fucking ghost town.

How can we revitalize it? Shill on /boards/? Encourage more quality content? Weekly journal club?

Well /sci/?

How sexist are you?

my homework says that the final answer should've been what i had, but 33 instead of 3. where did i go wrong?

and yes, the question is 11x2+3=0

http://www.nature.com/news/scientific-method-defend-the-integrity-of-physics-1.16535

Are String theories and Multiverse theories not science because they're unfalsifiable? What do you guys think?

Hello my /sci/entists, so lately I have been trying to tell my parents how evolution works, and I am terrible at explaining to them how it functions because I am not good at talking, they are stuck with the thought that evolution = humans were monkeys before, which is an ignorant thought.

So I always tell them that we humans didn't descend from monkeys, but from a common ancestor, which is why we share around 99% of their DNA, and that we weren't always like we are today, and we change as time passes and that there is evidence of it in our genes. They however simply laugh at me and keep fucking saying they will never trust scientists because they will never trust someone that believes we were monkeys.

When they spit bullshit like this I get so upset I just leave and stop talking to them, and I am asking for help for a way I can explain to them evolution better and they get rid of that fucking mentality scientists came from monkeys.

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I had the idea that in a fantasy game such as /tg/ play it would be possible to create a magnetic monopole by putting one half of a bar magnet in the physical world and the other half in an ethereal world or something. Then I realized I couldn't actually think of a use for a magnetic monopole (especially not in a preindustrial civilization) and that I could see no point to creating one (aside from physics experiments.) So is there any actual use for magnetic monopoles or are they just potential physical curiosities?

The possibility exists that the conditions required for a spherical base of cellular wall to happen upon the necessary building blocks in the exact correct proportions under the exact amount of radiation and temperature in a particular order is infinitely rare.

It is the possibility that we are alone in the Universe.

And one random rock could wipe out all life that has ever existed in all time and history of this particular universe…one random blast from a neutron star could sterilize our planet entirely, completely and instantly.

Perhaps in all universes that have ever existed.

Perhaps all time that has ever existed life has only ever arose from the primordial ooze once here on Earth.

We believe that our star is a population three star.

That means the first stars in the universe were comprised mostly of hydrogen and helium…those stars created more complex chemicals and heavier metals inside of them and some of those stars went super nova and scattered those more complex materials throughout the universe…then those more complex materials were used in the creation of population 2 stars.

Population 2 stars again took those first population stars guts and forged them inside the stellar forge to create even heavier elements and more variety of elements. Then some of those population 2 stars went nova and those star guts were used in the formation of new suns called population 3 stars.
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My girlfriend bought a smartphone, some Chinese model, but pretty good for the price, and with a warranty.
It has two cameras, a microphone and a shitload of preinstalled crap from every major Internet company in my country. When you run those, some of them want your phone number, email, physical location etc. I'm not even talking about Google, whose OS this device runs - it just wants everything it can possibly process, including your voice patterns.
What the fuck? How come your device, your private social life, your library, your movie collection etc. became essentially public? Even without taking government spies and criminals into account.
I don't even own a smartphone these days, I've tried a couple and they seemed useless to me compared to a simple solid QWERTY-featurephone on Symbian S40, which is what I use to this day as my personal memory addon and earplug.
You know, it seems like the advent of the Internet might have been a bad move for the individual, after all. Privacy only ever goes down and transparency increases, destroying the whole notion of personal life utterly. Your personal space is now between your ears only, and even that is not going to hold for long, by the look of it.
The Internet seems to me a major shift for human species, like agriculture. Not just another petty revolution, but a thing that will connect everyone and make everyone's life everyone's business. Death spell to the individual or small-group freedom, in other words.
What do you think of this? /sci/ because useless retards elsewhere.

I'm trying to find what the hyperfocal distance of the human eye is but I'm coming up short

Using a lens calculator and inputting a circle of confusion of 0.006mm what I get is 66ft, this seems incorrect.

A bit of googling leaves me with the figure 15ft which seems a lot more reasonable but the methodology by which that number is arrived at was not provided.

Anyone able to help me out with this?