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Science!
It's really hard to keep track of all the cool scientific things that people post in the Spam Thread and Stuff That Is Awesome, so I wanted to make a place to post a variety of things science related and maybe have some discussion.
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PBS Spacetime has some of the best science videos out there.
I love how it's understandable but still complicated and not as dumbed down as such videos often are. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7_...gjHZ_7g/videos |
There's already a science thread. It's even on the first page and everything.
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Psuedo-science doesn't count. *virtual slap*
Nice, Grindy. I skimmed a couple of them yesterday. |
Michio! My man! :thumb:
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I thought about that and am cool with keeping this as the general, potentially older science thread.
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I was lazy and didn't bother searching.. I just know there are a lot of science related things posted in the threads mentioned in the OP and I wanted a place to separate them, so if you want combine this with the news thread that's cool.
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this is the team smackdown science thread
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im gonna captain the x-treme science ECW team
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captain my ballsack
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Binary bump: How a new 'star' could appear in our night sky in five years - CSMonitor.com
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have a brain massage:
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Also, this is a pretty neat simulation of perturbations in bose-einstein condensate.
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That drip looks awesome at the end.
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Holy smokin toledos |
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.
https://uwaterloo.ca/applied-mathema...es/2xdpend.gif |
wtf that's so cool
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Math might not be a science but whatevs.
Yet another awesome Numberphile video. |
Of course math is Science.. and I totally thought that was the chef Mario Batali at first glance haha..
Here is one of my favorite math videos, V-sauce always delivers.. The Banach-Tarski Paradox |
Yeah, Vsauce is one of the best things on youtube. Whenever a new one is out it's like christmas to me.
Also it isn't that clear cut that math is a science. Depends on one's definition. But I think arguing about definitions is usually really boring. |
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Okay, you're right, but as the thread creator, I say it's allowed. :D
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Yay. Math.
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This was actually really eye-opening.
List of scientifically controlled double blind studies which have conclusively demonstrated the efficacy of homeopathy |
But... but... anecdotal evidence!
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That rat problem is sweet.
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I subscribe to Wigner regarding mathematics place in science. It's not science, but it's a language and tool that we use in science.
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Great analogy.
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This thread is getting me excited. I'm changing my avatar to Satyendra Nath Bose.
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The pilot wave theory seems so be pretty trendy lately. Cool stuff.
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Quantum Mechanics in Plants
Gravitropism |
On a philosophical note, I read this in The Pleasure of Finding Things Out earlier today:
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I like that quote. Escaping our seemingly inevitable extinction should be the primary goal of our existence.
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Those last 2 videos ended up leading me to this:
Interesting talk, if you have the time. |
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Thats contradictory to the existence of all living things, not just humans. Also extinction and death are not the same. Also, welcome back.
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