Science!

The Batlord · 01-14-2017, 06:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Qwertyy

im gonna captain the x-treme science ECW team

Captain the x-treme with Adam X the X-Treme!!!

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 01-14-2017, 06:32 PM

captain my ballsack

OccultHawk · 01-17-2017, 02:11 AM

Binary bump: How a new 'star' could appear in our night sky in five years - CSMonitor.com

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A group of astronomers has predicted that, five years from now, two faraway binary stars currently orbiting each other will collide, creating an explosion so bright that it will be visible to the naked eye. If accurate, the so-called "red nova" would be the first ever to be predicted by scientists on Earth.

Xurtio · 01-19-2017, 11:08 AM

have a brain massage:

Xurtio · 01-19-2017, 11:12 AM

Also, this is a pretty neat simulation of perturbations in bose-einstein condensate.

DwnWthVwls · 01-19-2017, 12:03 PM

That drip looks awesome at the end.

**Frownland** · 01-19-2017, 02:04 PM

Holy smokin toledos

Xurtio · 01-19-2017, 02:11 PM

The double pendulum. A good example of "sensitivity to initial conditions" (i.e. Chaos). The pendulums start in very slightly different state (so slight it's not even detectable by eye). For some time, their behavior is the same, but then it begins to diverge. The interesting thing about this phenomena is that, even for mathematically predictable phenomena, our control over initial conditions will always be limited. A well known example is, of course, the weather - for which predictions about the next day or two can be pretty accurate, but predictions about a week away will likely be updated as the system diverges from prediction and meteorologists re-calculate predictions based on the new state.

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 01-19-2017, 02:15 PM

wtf that's so cool

grindy · 01-20-2017, 01:04 PM

Math might not be a science but whatevs.
Yet another awesome Numberphile video.

01-19-2017, 11:08 AM	#14 (permalink)
Xurtio Brain Licker Join Date: Apr 2014 Posts: 1,083	have a brain massage: __________________ H̓̇̅̉yͤ͏mͬ͂ͧn͑̽̽̌ͪ̑͐͟o̴͊̈́͑̇m͛͌̓ͦ̑aͫ̽ͤ̇n̅̎͐̒ͫ͐c̆ͯͫ̋ ̔̃́eͯ͒rͬͬ̄҉

01-19-2017, 11:12 AM	#15 (permalink)
Xurtio Brain Licker Join Date: Apr 2014 Posts: 1,083	Also, this is a pretty neat simulation of perturbations in bose-einstein condensate. __________________ H̓̇̅̉yͤ͏mͬ͂ͧn͑̽̽̌ͪ̑͐͟o̴͊̈́͑̇m͛͌̓ͦ̑aͫ̽ͤ̇n̅̎͐̒ͫ͐c̆ͯͫ̋ ̔̃́eͯ͒rͬͬ̄҉

01-19-2017, 02:04 PM	#17 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Holy smokin toledos __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

01-19-2017, 02:11 PM	#18 (permalink)
Xurtio Brain Licker Join Date: Apr 2014 Posts: 1,083	The double pendulum. A good example of "sensitivity to initial conditions" (i.e. Chaos). The pendulums start in very slightly different state (so slight it's not even detectable by eye). For some time, their behavior is the same, but then it begins to diverge. The interesting thing about this phenomena is that, even for mathematically predictable phenomena, our control over initial conditions will always be limited. A well known example is, of course, the weather - for which predictions about the next day or two can be pretty accurate, but predictions about a week away will likely be updated as the system diverges from prediction and meteorologists re-calculate predictions based on the new state. __________________ H̓̇̅̉yͤ͏mͬ͂ͧn͑̽̽̌ͪ̑͐͟o̴͊̈́͑̇m͛͌̓ͦ̑aͫ̽ͤ̇n̅̎͐̒ͫ͐c̆ͯͫ̋ ̔̃́eͯ͒rͬͬ̄҉

01-20-2017, 01:04 PM	#20 (permalink)
grindy . Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: . Posts: 7,201	Math might not be a science but whatevs. Yet another awesome Numberphile video. __________________ *A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.*