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>Last September, astronomers in Japan detected a series of objects in the Kuiper Belt – described by the BBC as a "doughnut shaped region of icy bodies" beyond the orbit of Neptune – that had unusually warped orbits around the Sun. Researchers Michael Brown and Konstantin Batygin, from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, speculated that only a massive planet's gravitational pull could explain these "orbital anomalies", said Live Science.

>Then in February, scientists narrowed down the "likely hiding" place of the "elusive" planet after they "whittled away" 78% of the "hypothetical world's suspected orbital pathway", said Philip Plait in Scientific American.

https://theweek.com/science/the-hunt-for-planet-nine

>If things go at this rate, it might take about a decade [to find].
Quote from 4.5 years ago

https://youtu.be/pe83T9hISoY
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>>16142131
what did he mean by this?
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>>16142131
I don't know shit about shit
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>>16141104
You'll have to take up this issue with Nibiru high command.
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>>16139799
Give me one good reason to let you live once I nab your spaceship, chud
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You uninformed retards acting like the Oort cloud contains any mystery never fail to astound me with your ignorance. Is there not a single advanced human browsing this board? Haumea is used as a sort of sumo wrestling ring for bored advanced humans, with Ganymede acting as a waystation for people who can't make the trip in one go. I refuse to believe none of you are aware of this. There is nothing interesting happening in the Oort cloud aside from losers having to kick off of whatever matter they reach after being ejected from Haumea in order to return. Some people carry pouches of rice or stones to use as ballaste but it's usually destroyed prior to ejection so random shit in the Oort cloud is still the primary means of returning to planet. There is literally nothing else going on out there. If you're a normalfag looking for interesting shit in space focus your attention on Ganymede.

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What was this machine designed to do exactly?
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>>16141944
Like in the film Fifth Element?
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>>16141938
it's a unnaturally-naturally aspirated turbo
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>>16142397
Will someone do that? Lie to questionaries?
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>>16141947
Read Hancock.
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>>16137037
these were designed to focus ether on the kings chamber.

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Title: Precision Deflection of Electron Beams Using Synchronized Laser Pulses for Trajectory Analysis
Abstract

This study proposes an experimental setup for precision deflection of electron beams using synchronized laser pulses. The experiment aims to explore the dynamics of electron trajectories by inducing a controlled 5-degree deflection and analyzing the resulting paths using a combination of field emission electron microscopes and high-intensity lasers. The primary objective is to achieve detailed mapping of electron interactions within a controlled environment, facilitated by advanced synchronization between the electron emission and laser activation to ensure minimal interference and maximum accuracy.
Introduction

Electron beams, traditionally used in microscopy for imaging at atomic scales, possess potential for detailed physical interaction studies when manipulated with electromagnetic fields. Recent advancements in laser technology allow for precise control over these interactions. This experiment leverages these technologies to induce specific deflection angles in electron beams, facilitating novel investigations into electron dynamics and beam manipulation techniques.
Materials and Methods
Electron Beam Generation

Electron Source: 36 field emission electron microscopes are arranged in a circular configuration around a central target, each configured to emit electrons at 30 keV. Field emission is chosen for its ability to produce sharp, well-defined electron beams suitable for precise interaction studies.
Pulse Modulation: Electron emissions are modulated using RF cavities to produce short pulses with durations matching those of the laser pulses, estimated to be in the picosecond range.

Laser System

Laser Configuration: High-intensity lasers are synchronized with the electron pulses. Each microscope is equipped with a vertically oriented laser designed to deflect the electron beam by 5 degrees.
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Laser Parameters: The lasers operate with a wavelength optimized for maximum interaction efficiency with the electron beam, with pulse durations designed to match the electron pulse length for synchronized deflection.

Deflection Measurement

Catching Mechanism: Positioned at 4.5 meters from the electron microscopes and 5.5 meters from the central target, catching mechanisms are strategically placed to capture the deflected electrons without interfering with the primary detection zone.
Detection Apparatus: A sensitive detection system encircles the central target within a 5-meter radius, designed to monitor and record the undisturbed electron paths for comparison with the deflected paths.

Experimental Setup and Synchronization

Setup: The entire experimental apparatus is housed within a vacuum chamber maintained at 10−610−6 torr to minimize air molecule interactions and ensure unimpeded electron travel.
Synchronization: A central control system coordinates the timing of electron and laser pulses to achieve precise synchronization, crucial for ensuring the accuracy of deflection measurements.
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Results

Expected Outcomes: The experiment is designed to measure the extent of electron beam deflection accurately and to evaluate the consistency of the deflection across multiple trials. Initial simulations suggest that the setup can achieve a deflection accuracy within 0.1 degrees of the intended 5-degree angle.
Data Analysis: Detailed analysis of the deflected and undisturbed paths will provide insights into the interaction dynamics between electrons and laser-induced electromagnetic fields.

Discussion

Implications: The results from this study could have significant implications for the fields of material science and electron dynamics, providing a new method for manipulating electron trajectories and studying material properties at the atomic level.
Challenges: The main challenges anticipated involve maintaining precise synchronization across all components and managing potential electromagnetic interference between closely spaced electron microscopes.

Conclusion

This experiment pushes the boundaries of electron beam manipulation using laser technology, providing a novel method for studying electron behavior and enhancing our understanding of atomic-level interactions. The precise control and detailed measurement capabilities developed for this study represent significant advancements in the field of experimental physics.
Peer Review Considerations

Innovativeness: The experiment's design and the integration of synchronized laser and electron beam technology are innovative, representing a significant step forward in precision beam manipulation.
Feasibility: While challenging, the proposed setup is built on established principles of electron beam control and laser interaction, suggesting that the experiment is feasible with careful implementation and calibration.
Reproducibility: Detailed descriptions of the methods and synchronization protocols are provided to ensure that other researchers can reproduce the setup and results.
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If for whatever reason you would want to use multiple pulses of the electron beam you could create an attosecond shutter via multiple nonlinear crystals, a primary laser and multiple secondary pump lasers to convert the frequency of the primary laser to a blockable wavelength via a filter. Basically the laser deters the electron beam going through about 3 nonlinear crystals then once it has deterred it for an attosecond the secondary lasers directed at the nonlinear crystals change the wavelength to something blockable by the filter and in which case it works the laser is blocked by up to 70% per crystal meaning .3 x .3 x .3 = 0.027 or roughly only 2.7% of the primary laser will pass through the filter.
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>>16142948

Fascinating!

this is you
just a few billion years ago
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>>16143772
giwtwm
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>>16143772
He appears astute. I like him.
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>>16143772
A few billion years ago we were still struggling to stick two cells together.
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>>16143794

Oy vey!
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>>16143772
Cook AF, just chilling there, not giving a single fuck, so much better than this made up language-society-economics bullshit.

Is a planet with a sun that renders everything black and white possible, scientifically? I heard people talking about infrared n shit.
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>>16143770
based, thanks for responding but can you elaborate more? I appreciate your response
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>>16143865
looking into Achromatopsia it seems that they have fucked color cones, can detect only blue or red or something like that. but if the Dune dudes can see color in low light, then they must have inverted cone/rod function/activity.
photopic vision uses all three types of cones in bright light.
mesopic vision uses all cones and rods in low light, like night time with some lights and stuff
scotopic vision which uses the rods only, for very very low light
so they might use the rods for high intensity light, and be monochromatic, and and lower intensity light they switch to cones and color.
I know jack shit about it but for sci-fi it could pass as some mutation.
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or have two of the three cones fucked somehow, genetically, such that past certain light level they crap out and don't send any info to brain, so they see through one type of cones past certain light intensity. and brain just removes that cone's color from representation, replaces it with gray.
and this could be due to some light wavelength bias, like way more blue light, or red light. or green. whatever the cone color that still works past certain intensity.
blue or red stars exist but are there (predominantly) green light stars?
if you want it to make sense somehow you can consider humans going there and in time loosing two of the three cones during daytime since they're not as useful
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and if their star is blue and you maybe make the planet larger but lower density to keep the 1G, you get more atmosphere between you and star, so more blue light gets filtered, thus making at sunset for a somewhat Earth daytime color spectrum, hence why they see like us in low light. but have no idea on the math if it works out.
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>>16143990
>you get more atmosphere between you and star
at sunset

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>go to a bar hoping to get laid
>see two beautiful girls sitting separately
>calculate my chances with each, they're not great
>but if I approach both, the combined probability isn't bad
>one girl leaves early, gets hit by a truck and fucking dies
>my chances of getting laid with the remaining girl are now higher than what they were initially
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>>16143938
Well, should I?
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>>16143901
Unsurprisingly, a poor understanding of the problem also results in a faulty analogy
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>>16143958
Where is the flaw?
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>>16143968
Firstly, there are three women, not two. Secondly, you know that one of them is 100% into you, but you do not know which one. Maybe you're meeting a blind date who is as into your obscure weird fetish as you are but stupidly forgot to agree on a token of recognition in your eagerness to meet. You also know that any other women will be repulsed by your sick fetish. If you broach the subject of your fetish with someone who is not into it, she will kick you in the balls, neutering you, and subsequently have you arrested, ruining any chance you have of getting laid. However, you have no other way of ascertaining her identity. With nothing to go on, you strike up a conversation with a random woman Whilst she is your captive audience, another woman gets up and leaves. You know this cannot be the woman you were intending to meet; she will never meet another man as sick as you. One other woman that you didn't talk to is still waiting by the bar.

So, do you bring up your fetish to the woman you're talking to? Or do you go to the woman by the bar and apologise for the confusion? What if there were four women in the bar, and two of them left, besides one by the bar and the one you're awkwardly making small talk with? What if there were five, and three of them left over the course of the evening? What if there were fifty women at first and at the end of the night there's just two left, the one you're talking to, and another who's been sitting by herself all evening?
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>>16143975
Yeah that's the Monty Hall Problem alright but I'm just pointing out how absurd it is that the success probability of a group concentrates into one choice once the rest have been eliminated. Isn't that the standard reasoning behind switching?

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ITT we expose lies of math
>Gabriel's horn has infinite surface area but finite volume
>Unit hypercube has volume = 1 in all dimensions but infinite surface area for higher dimensions
Clear violations of Stokes theorem, not that they give a shit.
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>>16142923
>because the product of A and B for A and B nonempty is the product of A times the product of B, and the only way to keep that consistent if either A or B is empty is of the empty product is the multiplicative identity, 1.
I'm going to be honest, I don't understand what you just said and it seems fishy. I've yet to make up my mind about the matter because not understanding something and rejecting it out of hand is stupid. But I do suspect that what you said doesn't actually add up.

>>16143023
N+1 is full. The entire premise of the paradox, the very nascency of the thought experiment (or whatever you'd call it) is that there are infinite guests in infinite rooms. All rooms are in state 'full'. No rooms are in state 'empty'.

>>16143033
That's basically my stand as well. So far in my search for resolutions to some things that don't add up in math it seems to boil down to "Because I said so" (or some other arbitrary personal attribution) or "It has to or the models wouldn't work".
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>>16143175
not a good example though since the area of a line is 0 even if it's infinitely long
and rotating the line around the x-axis creates an narrowing cylindar where the surface gets smaller and smaller just like the area under .5n gets smaller and sums to a finite amout. the area under the 1dimensional curve is 2dimensianal, yet finite. the surface area of the cylinder is also 2dimensional. how is it not finite?
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>>16143632

>Picrel

>Use the language of the Judeo-Semites who killed Jesus to convey a love for Christ.

And I will promote my love for humanitarianism with human blood.
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>>16143785
Hebrew was invented by Jesus.
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>>16143646
>N+1 is full
It is? I thought the resident of N+1 moved to N+2, leaving N+1 empty

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Do colors really have a psychological impact on us or is it all just cultural?
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>>16143894
>yellow and cyan can be deceptive
and I think white but I'd have to test it. there should be a mix of orange and some lighter blue that stimulate all color cones to make for white light. in this case you'd have two colors (wavelengths) making white, instead of three for RGB.
>>16143910
our cones are the firewall for "outside". whatever goes to them can vary, like green+blue OR cyan photons, but from eyes to brain you'd have the very same signals. so "energy" is about how much it stimulates one of the three color cones.
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>>16143917
>and I think white but I'd have to test it. there should be a mix of orange and some lighter blue that stimulate all color cones to make for white light. in this case you'd have two colors (wavelengths) making white, instead of three for RGB.
Well that's how opposite colors work, if you mix Green light with Magenta light it will make white, if you mix Yellow light with Blue light it will make white, if you mix Cyan light with Red light it will make white
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>>16138265
>In ancient Greece they also did not have a word for blue separate from green. These distinctions are a linguistic thing.
>>16138220
>many african tribes don't have the concept of blue and green.
I've read this before. It is very interesting to think about. Language has more of an effect of how we think and perceive the world than we grant it, I feel. At the same time, I don't think we should ignore biological explanations. Leaves/trees are green. Blood is red. The sky is blue. It makes sense (to me) that these colors inherently have different effects on us.
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>>16138327
I always associated red with night time and blue with day time for a similar reason and implement that color scheme into my art. It's what I see in reality.
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>>16143956
As for me I associate green with the natural and magenta with the supernatural

Why do nurses earn more than engineers?
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>>16142642
supply and demand
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>>16142642
Because engineers are absolutely pathetic gaylord losers.

t. engineer
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>>16143915
engineers make it real
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>>16143923
Engineers make drawings, other people make it real
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>>16142642
The US-Dollar has devalued massively and badly. I knew, nurse professions, for whatever reason, paid well in the USA but usually in the range of 80-100k and only after having completed a series of certificates.

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Is it worth dropping out of my CS (year 2) degree and starting a math/physics degree at age 21 at a different (better) university from scratch? I hate my current experience.
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>>15833839
>Reminder: /sci/ is for discussing topics pertaining to science and mathematics, not for helping you with your homework or helping you figure out your career path.

>If you want advice regarding college/university or your career path, go to /adv/ - Advice.
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>>16142690
I need help tho
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>>16142281
years 2 you have only taken what 2 cs courses? retard
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>>16142841
Mean.. originally
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>>16142290
I've been in a similar situation. I enrolled in a CS program, discovered that I enjoyed math much more, and ultimately graduated with a dual major and went off to a graduate program in math.
2 & 3 strike me as decent (or at least relatable) reasons to switch tracks. Have you taken a math or physics course at the university level? My concern for you is that if you haven't, you might leave your CS program only to discover that you don't like these other programs either. Your chosen careers don't seem to require a math/physics degree specifically, so this would be an unfortunate outcome.

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Why do scientists brazenly maintain this antiquated model of Earth's core?
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>>16139887
>If it was wrong you could analyze the seismic data yourself and do the mat
All you have is a scientific model to explain the behavior of waves. It the observations of waves fit the theory of waves, then its scientifically true. However you will never have direct evidence of what the earth is really like, just indirect through its effect on waves.
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>>16142527
Every time a new deep borehole is drilled, whats observed at the deepest depths is contrary to what the (((experts))) have claimed they would find. The soientists' predictions are never even close to being accurate. All of their "but muh seismic waves" claptrap is a bunch of lies, they have no idea whats going on down there, but they do know that nobody has any way of disproving their claims of knowing whats going on down there, so they publish them anyway. It will be centuries before anyone penetrates even 100 miles down, let a lone seeing whats going on in the core.
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>>16137080
>agartha schizos are back on the menu
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>>16137047
Science should be based on more delectable models. For example, I really love the physics idea of spaghettification.
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>>16143620
>welcome to Agartha, bitch

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Is science an art?
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>>16143354
Science is discovered, not created.
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>>16143386
Discovery is just the creation of a novel observation.
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>>16142838
In a way, yes.
People will say is no objectivity in art, but those people are retarded
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>Is science an art?
umm yes
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It can be. But a lot of science is rote repetition and that part is unavoidable in experimentation. Designing experiments can be a sort of art, though.

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Does diversity make teams work better?
Apparently not!
A new, comprehensive preregistered meta-analysis found that, whether the diversity was demographic, cognitive, or occupational, its relationship with performance was near-zero.
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>>16142759
I cannot believe all this diversity shit is being done by someone who actually believes it. It has to be just tool to some other goal, be it dumbing down civilization or whatever else. You need to be a moron to believe and support it.
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>>16142759
It has always been a grift to penalize corporations by guilt tripping them into hiring minorities.
Leftists don’t require any evidence for their ideals, since they use the threat of violence or boycotting to justify them.
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>>16143582
You gotta be more silent about it tho. Ignore hiring DEI mutants and just keep silent about it.

Alternatively go pure meritocracy route and you’ll just hire whites/asians while your competitors swamp themselves with useless niggers and trannies that suicide their company.
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mixed sex military units also consistently have higher rates of casualties. Not just higher than all male units, but ALSO higher than all female units.

is evolution /sci/entific?
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>>16143743
Do you just see that picture, understand its implications, and take it for an absolute fact?
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>>16143751
No. I have a master of science in computational biology and I've spent enough time looking at genomic and proteomic data to know that evolution is a fact.
Beyond that, there's nothing in that picture that's difficult to understand, nor is it unreasonable or impossible or any other nonsense that creationists spew. There is nothing whatsoever stopping accumulated mutations from leading to speciation and you have to get over it.
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>>16143757
Did I ever say I was against it either? Look at you with your retarded piece of paper from an indoctrinated school that doesn't teach critical thinking anymore. If you can prove evolution as a fact you'd be famous. That fact being the all life sharing one common ancestor. That image doesn't do well in showing branches, etc.

Evolution is observable, we know this. The only people denying this fact are the same zealots that say the devil put dinosaur bones in the ground. The argument they have is that earth was created 6,000 years ago - which is up for interpretation. That God created man, but the Bible also states that Adam was created from dust in the ground. Who's to say that couldn't be from single celled organisms? Animals did come before man according to Genesis as well.

My point being, people like you get angry over a Christian having a belief through faith, but refuse to look at the bible with a scientific standpoint without an agenda. Make yourself feel like you're so smart with your little degree and your insignificant life. Reminding yourself that you're better than anyone who's a Christian out of some impotent rage.
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>>16143764
>Evolution is observable, we know this.
Car evolution is observable too, we all know this.
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>>16143941
You're probably trying to bait me into a parallel, in that car evolution is influenced by man. One could say that God influenced ours. We can observe evolution from microorganisms and fruit flies as a result of their environment.

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WE'RE BACK
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>>>/sci/sfg/
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>>16142704
Somebody posted it there nobody cared
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okaeri
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>>16142731
take the hint
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>>16143365
No


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