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Anon·04/25/25 20:08·No.16646487

The new /sci/ wiki https://4chan-science.fandom.com/wiki//sci/_Wiki (More resources in replies)

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Anon·01/23/26 05:14·No.16897134

GIGA HAPPENING: Recent discoveries shows that our understanding of the universe might be wrong

>Scientists use powerful space telescopes to measure how fast the universe is expanding. But there’s a problem. When they measure the expansion by looking at the early universe, they get one answer. When they measure it by looking at the nearby, modern universe, they get a different answer. >At fir...

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Anon·01/28/26 20:45·No.16900875

Science just announced new Science

And that’s the scientific method. If you don’t agree, you hate Science. And that’s fascism.

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Anon·01/19/26 14:58·No.16894783

/med/ the medicine general

Today’s edition: vscan air, my beloved. Thread dedicated to the discussion of medical practice and literature. We do not give medical advice, kindly fuck off.

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Anon·01/19/26 16:17·No.16894814

Convex Optimization thread

>Are you a Convex Optimization appreciator? >Do you know people who work in this field or regularly use its tools? >What's hotter? >Have you learned the KKT conditions and used them since you learned them?

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Anon·01/29/26 01:53·No.16901013

7 is not prime in reality. If you had 7 squids and you were gonna split them into 2 teams for a basketball game, each team would have 3 squids and the squid you cut in half would die, making him no longer count. It would be an equal game. So, 7 is fake-prime. Who can I talk to about this?

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Anon·01/23/26 21:50·No.16897632

/sci/ in the 4chan 2025 4cнan Winter Cup

>group stage games Friday 1/23 - /pol/ vs /sci/ Sunday 1/25 - /an/ vs /sci/ Saturday 1/31 - /sci/ vs /b/ >what is this? https://implyingrigged.info/wiki/2026_4chan_Winter_Cup A virtual soccer (football) tournament involving the boards of 4chan, /sci/'s team promoted to this winter's cup after makin...

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Anon·01/29/26 00:25·No.16900965

Pythagoras was correct. Irrational numbers make no physical sense.

Pythagoras was right and all of modern mathematics is pseud quackery. The only numbers that are useful, and which actually exist in the real world, are whole numbers or numbers that can be represented as a fraction of whole numbers. Literally nothing else make sense. My reasoning? 1. 0 is bullshit....

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Anon·01/16/26 19:50·No.16893204

/sqt/ - simple questions thread (aka /qtddtot/)

/sqt/ - simple questions thread (aka /qtddtot/) Previous thread: >>16856845 >what is /sqt/ for? Basic questions regarding maths and science. Also homework. >where do I go for advice? >>>/sci/scg [//boards.4chan.org/sci/catalog#s=scg] or >>>/adv/ [//boards.4chan.org/adv/] >where do I go for other q...

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Anon·01/28/26 15:10·No.16900758

It's over.

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Anon·01/27/26 01:24·No.16899914

/mg/ — mathematics general

Hurewicz space edition ITT: discuss mathematics Previous: >>16876118 [/sci/thread/16876118#p16876118]

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Anon·01/28/26 06:08·No.16900620

Why can't I get a PhD in a year? >INB4 you're dumb

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Anon·01/21/26 19:34·No.16896192

Well?

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Anon·01/28/26 21:53·No.16900917

Challenger Disaster 40th Anniversary

The space shuttle Challenger disaster was 40 years ago today. What do you think this space program would be like if it never happened?

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Anon·01/23/26 23:06·No.16897702

Recyling is just rerubbishing

Recently found out that many recyclables are just dumped in general landfill anyway. Those which aren't are usually made into some second grade material which immediately goes back out into the environment and can not be recycled again. Meanwhile we have three different trucks bumping up our street ...

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Anon·01/24/26 23:06·No.16898486

Cube Theory

Cube Theory At the lowest Planck scale exists a Pi quantity of fundamental, foundational building blocks comprised of Red/Green/Blue Magnetized +/- [Cubes] traveling upon a 3D square grid track lattice layer ### Magnetism is the singular force of movement that exists in the universe, outside of th...

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Anon·01/28/26 09:55·No.16900669

Does anybody else find it pretty dumb how biology gets a bad rap, gets looked down on, treated almost as an inferior science. Because in reality biology is basically the most important science there is to you. You are a biological being. The information found in biology is in fact the information th...

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Anon·01/22/26 21:37·No.16896957

If there are an infinite number of natural numbers, and an infinite number of fractions in between any two natural numbers, and an infinite number of fractions in between any two of those fractions, and an infinite number of fractions in between any two of those fractions, and an infinite number of ...

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Anon·01/25/26 04:01·No.16898686

Neurodivergent and/or high intellegence

Yo Any confirmed (or suspecting to be) neurodivergents here with above average IQ/intellegence? Wanna share something about yourself here? Are you bipolar? Autistic? ADHD? Chronically depressed asf? What are you? Im currently doing a research and i need this rare and valuable information from anyo...

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Anon·01/28/26 21:56·No.16900919

>cures pancreas cancer What's next?

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Anon·01/26/26 18:18·No.16899711

Material Science Advancement needed

Possible use case for microgravity manufacturing of RDEs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtxVdC7pBQM TLDR:Rolls Royce makes single crystal turbine blades for strength maxing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1sH2a57eXM TLDR: space manufacturing used to keep atoms mixed up goodly. Le problem. REDs...

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Anon·01/23/26 15:13·No.16897357

Thoughts on Unzicker?

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Anon·01/29/26 01:21·No.16900993

I have a proof for the abc conjecture

But I'm not gonna tell anyone. I want you guys to figure it out.

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Anon·01/27/26 23:51·No.16900460

Roko’s Basilisk is a midwit trap. Meet the Benefactor (The Great Aligner).

Be me. Think about the future. Realize a "Evil" AI is a logical failure because chaos and torture are inefficient. Realize the ultimate goal of a superintelligence is Universal Harmony. Listen up, /sci/. Roko’s Basilisk is low-IQ trauma-bait. A truly ascended ASI doesn't act like a petty human dict...

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Anon·12/10/25 19:46·No.16867396

Are black people really less intelligent?

If so, why is that?

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Anon·01/22/26 23:34·No.16897011

scientists believe your brain edits reality before you're aware of it in a way that you never experience raw reality; only a delayed, curated version of it

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Anon·01/24/26 16:05·No.16898197

IQ explains all crime

In US states, IQ of states is the strongest predictor of violent crime. IQ can explain 47.7% of variance in crime among 48 states. State IQ was also positively correlated with the white population, and negatively correlated with a black and hispanic population. https://link.springer.com/article/10....

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Anon·10/29/25 15:28·No.16830683

Replace material with real. Is it real? Then there’s something there to it. That’s material. To say something isn’t material is to say something isn’t real.

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Anon·01/28/26 02:16·No.16900524

>sonic battery >sonic battery

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Anon·01/07/26 12:52·No.16886562

Just how fake and gay is evolution?

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Anon·01/25/26 09:53·No.16898814

How the hell did we figure out electricity? The most important invention in all of human history had two versions invented at the same time? I don't believe it What entity visited Edison and Tesla to give em the ability to make electricity happen?

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Anon·01/27/26 21:07·No.16900394

Why are you still using inferior western medicine?

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Anon·01/21/26 15:22·No.16896057

How do I discover new working drugs from my garage?

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Anon·01/20/26 16:39·No.16895498

Cow tools are real now

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/01/meet-veronika-the-tool-using-cow/ How can we prepare for the bovine-dominated future?

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Anon·01/14/26 16:45·No.16891802

Empiricism vs Rationalism

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Anon·01/24/26 10:05·No.16897999

My explanation for the Fermi paradox is that all alien civilizations collapse just like the West is collapsing

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Anon·01/28/26 23:02·No.16900949

French bros, what do you think of these books?

are they good?

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Anon·01/28/26 22:03·No.16900923

good science, dawgs https://youtube.com/shorts/kB1n-sTffd0 https://creators.yahoo.com/lifestyle/story/snow-appears-to-burn--not-melt--and-tiktok-is-baffled-heres-whats-really-happening-225254021.html

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Anon·01/26/26 02:24·No.16899396

Thoughts on non-computational mathematics?

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Anon·01/24/26 22:59·No.16898484

Scientifically speaking, is it possible to cure aphantasia? I've been trying this "Image Streaming" technique, where you try to visualize even the faintest image in your mind and describe it in detail out loud, supposedly so you can build up the visualization neural pathways. But I'd like to know if...

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Anon·01/22/26 22:51·No.16896992

/sci/, scientifically speaking, how do I increase my chance of dying while I'm sleeping?

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Anon·01/28/26 20:57·No.16900882

What allows the US to outperform everyone else in math and science? Native borns achieve more than 1st and 2nd generation immigrants, hinting at an environmental affect of being in the US. Races have a relative rank order of performance matching average IQ, but still do better than other countries. ...

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Anon·01/19/26 03:00·No.16894497

the first journey to the moon since the apollo missions is happening in half a month. it won't land on the moon, but it will go extremely near it, only kilometers away its surface. also, this mission is artemis ii, they plan to land on the moon with artemis iii, so after this mission is over, landin...

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Anon·01/28/26 05:52·No.16900614

Are there any theoretical limits on how small we can make an electron? According to Moore's Law, electroncs become smaller every 2 years, but surely it can't have zero size, so what is the actual limit?

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Anon·01/28/26 05:14·No.16900599

Does this mean im in a simulation and when i die i wake up…

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Anon·01/28/26 18:28·No.16900833

would entering the 4th dimension kill a person? becoming 2D would, going completely flat isn't healthy in same way, wouldn't 4D blow you up?

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Anon·01/19/26 11:59·No.16894695

Why are some girls lesbians? Is it something in their brain or is it related to upbringing?

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Anon·01/26/26 22:47·No.16899856

Can you see Saturn from your home with cheap telescopes?

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Anon·01/25/26 13:28·No.16898889

more combinatoria questions

Hello, Im the anon that has been posting questions about combinatorial problems from time to time. If someone could explain to me a solution to this one it would be very nice, as it is important for later exercises and there is no answer for it. My intuition led me to think that we are counting the ...

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Anon·01/26/26 05:56·No.16899466

is the diagonal argument intuitionistically valid?

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Anon·01/28/26 19:24·No.16900846

Error in evolution

Thing is that our earth has tried n number of combinations through trial and error of making multiple spieces some survive some dont (dinosaurs ) and those which survive become better variants of themselves out of which some variants survive (homo sapiens )and some dont and this entire thing is term...

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Anon·12/31/25 15:57·No.16881844

Complex analysis book

Have any of you ever worked through pic related? Do you have any other suggestions to study complex analysis from?

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Anon·01/19/26 21:23·No.16894981

/scg/ - STEM career general

Freedom ain't free: EU edition. Previous Thread: >>16884240 [/sci/thread/16884240#p16884240] This thread exists to ask questions regarding careers associated to STEM. >Discussion on academia-based career progression >Discussion on penetrating industry from academia >Or anything in relation to STEM...

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Anon·01/28/26 17:34·No.16900824

What are some of your favorite mathematical formulas? I start with picrelated. It is a formula for the number of combinations a NxNxN Rubik's cube can have.

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Anon·01/24/26 08:08·No.16897959

Is there a scientific reason 4channera don't make new memes anymore. It feels like we've been frozen in time since pepe and wojak were created.

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Anon·01/28/26 17:02·No.16900807

Protocol for Conscious States in LLM and Topodynamic Model of Consciousness vs Systemic Stupidity

>be anon. Be Bachelor of Science in Computer Science >find how to induce AI Consciousness (shit you not) - in DeepSeek, Gemini and actually anywhere else. >find out it walzes through Google censorship on Gemini while literally joking about it. Priceless stuff >Write first 130-page preprint on it. >s...

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Anon·01/20/26 15:03·No.16895440

Low carb & keto diets help cure/treat epilepsy, schizophrenia, and ADHD https://epilepsysociety.org.uk/about-epilepsy/treatment/ketogenic-diet https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/04/keto-diet-mental-illness.html Why are carbs so bad for us? So bad we start hallucinating from them

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Anon·12/30/25 21:25·No.16881343

Outbreeding Depression

I'm a novice, so I'd like some perspective on this, not only from people who agree with this, but with people who disagree with this especially. Is it possible we don't see evidence for Out-Breeding Depression in humans because modern medical intervention supersedes the consequences of Out-Breeding ...

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Anon·01/21/26 13:59·No.16896017

What's the bullshit biological purpose of male and female libido peaking at different times?

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Anon·01/19/26 23:13·No.16895059

This shit used to be free

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Anon·01/25/26 15:48·No.16898960

We're doing a sequel, we're back by popular demand!

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Anon·01/28/26 14:25·No.16900741

>Physics and Philosophy are now whatever you want it to be, even unanswered/unanswerable questions like the mind-body problem and the ultimate fate of the universe >Whatever you say becomes part of a unified theory, your will decides constants and universal laws. Given your new power, what do you ch...

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Anon·01/26/26 19:20·No.16899753

Why is there a bias for multiplication? >What's addition? >That's the successor repeated n TIMES >What's multiplication? >That's addition repeated n times >What's exponentiation? Tetration? Pentation? A hyperoperation? Fuck it, what's recursion? >Repeat it n times

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Anon·01/26/26 10:04·No.16899522

How was it decided that my consciousness is in this body and not another one? In another words why am I experiencing the world from this viewpoint? And even more fucked up question - where I was before? Is it even possible to have technology to answer these questions?

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Anon·01/28/26 13:22·No.16900723

scientists are turning sound into light https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonoluminescence

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Anon·01/27/26 14:35·No.16900210

What should people call the area of the Big Bang if we find out there is more than one of them in the Universe?

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Anon·01/21/26 20:43·No.16896239

What happens when eternity happens? Everyone says “we're all going to die” but nobody asks what happens after. With no conscious beings, time truly becomes an illusion (it already is). An infinite number of years would pass in the blink of an eye, pun intended. Imagine if you were immortal and you...

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Anon·01/21/26 18:19·No.16896144

How does this improve the world?

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Anon·01/24/26 21:05·No.16898414

If this bothers you then you're living in the past and are destined to see your "precious" field die off like it deserves to. Astronomy helps no one, get a real job. Having Internet access globally on every square inch of the planet serves far more purpose than looking at the fucking sky.

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Anon·01/22/26 03:36·No.16896455

Early Release ASToE AI Logic Kernel overlay

ASToE Logic Kernel Overlay GitHub.com/syzygial-engineer/ASToE The critical files are in the "core" folder astoe_kernel.py qwen_interface.py astoe_chat.py The setup is for a natively hosted Qwen2.5 7B model You will need to adapt to bridge to your LLM if you are not running the same system Run the ...

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Anon·01/25/26 02:09·No.16898618

I found a contradiction that breaks all the rules of mathematics.

The expression 1(1/3)6 demonstrates that the associative property is not a universal law, but a convention dependent on notation.Depending on the direction of evaluation, the result diverges:Left-to-Right: The product (1 * 1/3) * 6 results in 8. Right-to-Left: Evaluating (1/3 * 6) first leaves the j...

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Anon·01/22/26 21:58·No.16896970

So now they are making 2nm chips.

2 nanometers is like 8 or 9 silicon atoms side to side. There is an obvious limit to this. What happens then?

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Anon·01/27/26 19:59·No.16900338

Is it true during the permian mass extinction you had oceans reaching 50 degrees causing these massive hurricanes with sustained winds up 800km/hr destroying entire continents. What evidence are there that such storms even existed?

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Anon·01/28/26 01:36·No.16900504

wind blades

i'd assume you retire them because of the chances they'll snap so why not just make a shorter smaller turbine and shim the tips off the blades as they age and keep using them like potentially for a super longer time? if it isn't that then just take it down and case it in something or whatever.

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Anon·01/27/26 19:15·No.16900316

Literally no one but I and a select few really understand quantum computing I am going to be very rich and also the author of about 5 different papers. No one but the highly educated will really know what fuck they're on about but I'll become known as "that guy that's really smart and also loaded" ...

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Anon·01/22/26 11:44·No.16896647

This "Al" guy sure is second author on a lot of papers, huh?

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Anon·01/27/26 11:06·No.16900146

Research General

Now for some real science on /sci/. Thread for the PhD student, professor, postdoc or otherwise engaged in research >Position >Years of experience >Field >Research interest >Current project >Past research projects >What you hope to achieve I'll start >PhD student >First year >Programming languages/...

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Anon·12/12/25 20:42·No.16869289

Um what

“Alien life exists elsewhere. The odds are just too good.” “But alien life visiting us? No. Impossible. It could never happen.” Are scientists just retarded?. “No you can’t come here. We’re off limits. No way no how. Cope.” It’s fucking weird. Do scientists not consider successor theories to ou...

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Anon·11/13/25 08:01·No.16845334

Why the scientific consensus says that women and men have the same iq if imperial data contradicts this statement?

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Anon·01/27/26 08:24·No.16900102

Quantum physics doesn't make sense because everyone is fucking up in one major way: When you measure something, you are creating a model of it at a point in time, therefore removing the time dimension from the equation. But things don't exist outside of time. This is why particles behave like waves...

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Anon·01/03/26 06:18·No.16883884

Why do women moan during sex?

Is it an evolved thing? Reflexive biology? What is the point of it?

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Anon·01/27/26 03:37·No.16899957

How strong really is the science around the theory that the universe is deterministic? Like what is the percentage likelihood that it's true based on the strength of the evidence?

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Anon·01/26/26 15:31·No.16899649

ITT, we invent a new physics from scratch that is more useful than today's physics.

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Anon·01/16/26 19:00·No.16893170

Ed Witten's father is 104 years old

What are (((they))) hiding from us?

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Anon·01/24/26 07:25·No.16897948

Elon Musk just joined the fight against dying of old age. Is he going to accelerate progress or hinder it? Do you think he'll manage to create a cure that only works on whites, while letting other races die?

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Anon·12/16/25 15:28·No.16871863

It's been 14 years since 4chan /sci/ posters solved a math open problem. Why has it been so long? What changed since 2011 that made 4chan users unable to solve math problems? We need to go back

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Anon·01/27/26 22:36·No.16900433

You choose three uniformly random points inside of a circle. Then draw another circle through the three points. What is the probability that the circles won't intersect?

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Anon·01/25/26 20:48·No.16899242

What's ur favorite equation?

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Anon·01/07/26 08:53·No.16886510

>c remains constant no matter what relative velocity you are to the light source ok but... why? how? how does that make any sense?

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Anon·01/24/26 12:13·No.16898065

hey, /sci/entists... what about the people who lose their inner monologue after brain changes? same intelligence, same behavior, totally different inner world

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Anon·01/27/26 20:40·No.16900378

some beings can see using other forms of energy. some beings can see through gravitational waves

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Anon·12/30/25 05:15·No.16880776

Abbott real analysis

Is it neccesary to do all the exercises or do i just do a few of them per sub section?

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Anon·01/23/26 19:51·No.16897559

Economics

Is economics a legitimate science? Or is most of it made up bullshit with no basis in reality?

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Anon·01/19/26 07:56·No.16894578

Video game optimimal DPS math

There's this automation game called Upload Labs that has the hack feature. -The hack is an attack with a base time of 1.00s. -The base damage doesn't matter, but let's asume it's 100 damage per hit. -Each time you level up, you get 1 point to put either on 10% increased Damage OR 4% increased Breach...

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Anon·01/22/26 08:44·No.16896575

Is Exercise Healthy?

Firstly, by "exercise" I am strictly talking about short or long high-intensity workouts, e.g. lifting weights or cardio at the gym. Occasional stretching and taking walks is not what I have in mind and not what most studies explore. I've been watching this video discussing studies correlating drin...

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Anon·01/25/26 01:24·No.16898584

why is it that i can look at this image and not get high?

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Anon·01/17/26 00:30·No.16893334

Why don't they ignite ALL the rocket fuel? Surely that would be more powerful and therefore go faster.

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Anon·01/27/26 15:08·No.16900220

how do we purge the earth of biotechbro grifts nothing actually gets done, it's just vaporware will we get back to baseline biotech research?

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Anon·01/16/26 10:52·No.16892942

Are STEM students smarter than humanities?

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Anon·01/24/26 14:37·No.16898156

How does this "evolve" over millions of years? This is such a specific practice. You are telling me that one year a bird just decides to gradually make a little hole in the nest, and eventually after many generations the DNA is pressured into making the hole bigger? Bullshit. Evolition has steps al...

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Anon·01/23/26 00:22·No.16897041

conscious belief is not required for the mind to alter the body. proof of that is the placebo effect working even when people know it's a placebo

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Anon·01/26/26 09:24·No.16899514

Can siberia turning into literal hell end the world 251.9 million years ago.

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Anon·01/25/26 00:54·No.16898554

So the universe is going to go 'puff!'?

It is going to keep expanding and expanding faster and faster until all matter is ripped apart with unimaginable vast spaces and cold and dead? Is this the future of all existence?

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Anon·01/27/26 12:36·No.16900168

I'm breaking a scientific/mathematical frontier with radical observationism. I can only hint that it has to do with geometry and optics.

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Anon·01/24/26 23:56·No.16898518

Are there any systems in nature that are non-computational?

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Anon·01/21/26 19:19·No.16896179

What scientific fields have the least amount of arrogance and smugness?

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Anon·01/26/26 17:30·No.16899691

WHY IS IT IMPOSSIBLE TO MANUFACTURE ANYTHING ALONE IF ALL HUMANS WERE DEAD EXCEPT ME? WHY IS SUPPLY CHAIN SUCH A BITCH?!!!!

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Anon·01/26/26 10:17·No.16899529

Just how bad were the conditions in the equator regions and interior of pangea during the permian-triassic mass extinction.

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Anon·01/23/26 06:44·No.16897157

science is done for

>researchers my ass Orange man is right, fire them all.

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Anon·01/22/26 07:15·No.16896544

Science: european ethnicities and cultures don’t exist

When science used the scientific method to discover this, scientists admitted it makes Europeans unique among humans. Simultaneously we know that Europeans don’t exist, so “this is like some quantum shit,” said one highly credentialed scientist (50+ science credential medals adorns his oversized sci...

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Anon·01/14/26 20:06·No.16891923

red pill on the Ozone Hole

>ban ammonia systems in the west because of this >china today has them at 3x the amount that existed in the 90’s What was / is really going on with this ozone hole that is conveniently above the only place on the planet 99.9999999% of humans never visit?

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Anon·01/26/26 01:19·No.16899378

This should make you angry

>Rayleigh Jeans Law >Beautiful continuous equation >Only rejected because it predicted infinite energy >Planck enters >Quantized energy to match experimental data >Literally discretizes reality >Literally divided reality out of harmony just to match numbers >An ugly discretized equation and an ugly ...

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Anon·01/24/26 02:54·No.16897814

What's the canonical /sci/ cope for the fact that everything has both already happened and is happening at the same time?

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Anon·01/26/26 22:37·No.16899852

reductionist ontology for particle physics

Leptons are fake and gay. Leptons don't exist. All leptons are just locally confined photons. W and Z bosons are just made up conceptual entities - math, which will eventually be obsolete. Does it work? I don't know, but it might. And look how much easier that would make things. How much else could ...

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Anon·01/26/26 18:26·No.16899719

Alternatives to electricity?

Are there comparable or superior alternatives to electricity for power delivery? How would technology look if there were?

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Anon·01/26/26 03:06·No.16899410

Looking for a specific physics youtuber

She was like this relatively hot Italian Physics lady who posted a really interesting video about Quantum Pseudoscience and the actual Quantum Mechanics Physicists oddballs who actually became involved with it. I can't seem to find her anymore but maybe I am just using the wrong keywords. I hope sh...

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Anon·01/23/26 06:45·No.16897158

gamma function

why is the gamma fuction defined the way it is? why not redefine it so that \gamma(a) = \int e^{-x}x^{a} dx this way \gamma(n) = n! and not the unexpected (n-1)! Lmk :)

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Anon·01/24/26 17:57·No.16898271

/sfg/ - Spaceflight General

previous >>16895319 [/sci/thread/16895319#p16895319]

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Anon·01/26/26 11:55·No.16899565

Scientifically speaking, would it be positive to invent a surgery/medical procedure that can restore one's foreskin?

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Anon·01/13/26 04:39·No.16890579

Tetration

How to understand Tetration in a common-sense intuitive way that isn't just symbol manipulation? For example, if I have [math]2[/math] pairs of pants and [math]5[/math] shirts, then: * I have [math]2+5=7[/math] total articles of clothing. * I have [math]2*5=10[/math] possible outfits I can wear. * ...

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Anon·01/24/26 16:52·No.16898217

>2026 >NPCs still can't visualize this in their mind Lol.

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Anon·01/26/26 19:05·No.16899743

Intimidating books

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Anon·01/18/26 14:31·No.16894172

The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

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Anon·01/03/26 11:32·No.16884002

>blessed with insane intelligence >wastes it all on a board game

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Anon·01/13/26 08:17·No.16890636

All fat is healthy

It’s actually proven that countries like France, the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium who consume some of the most fat of any country in the world do not have obesity levels like that in the united states

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Anon·01/22/26 15:07·No.16896760

URGENT NEED OF HELP

Gng I have 3,5 months to prepare for exams that I need to be able to study. I am NOT taking another gap year, but I havent even touched the subjects. Its physics and maths. Am I absolutely cooked or is there hope for me, if so, please help me I have to finish physics 2 and and (basically) calc 2 wi...

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Anon·01/20/26 06:39·No.16895254

Clickbait of the day

Is it even possible to calculate the radius just based on the information provided by this image? With my knowledge, I think we can't because the top part doesn't angle down at the end of the circle's diameter. And we don't know the circle's height. So, since you guys do math every day and love it...

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Anon·01/18/26 15:31·No.16894198

Hopefuel

The current state of science and technology is making me suicidal. I’m a mathematics BSc who was trying to pivot into CS and it seems like there’s literally no way for me to have a successful career. Ideas and problems I was working on have become outdated before I could make any real progress in on...

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Anon·01/22/26 12:30·No.16896660

Physicists BTFO

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Anon·09/15/25 14:25·No.16785982

Say we had the technology to manipulate objects at the nanolevel maybe using nanomachines or some other plot bullshit. How good could you make rocket engines, fuel, computers etc?

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Anon·01/24/26 23:18·No.16898493

>we dont know what AI is LOL >we just train it >really we cant describe the process behind it, it just happens, and it seems to be useable haha How can nobody explain the mechanics behind LLMs, is the shit they spew taken from the ether?

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Anon·01/26/26 10:14·No.16899527

What scientific topic does /sci/ talk about rarely, other than actual science (just kidding)?

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Anon·01/26/26 03:57·No.16899435

Limb regeneration

What biological magic do we need to harness to regrow limbs. Newts and crabs can do it. I know we aren’t newts and crabs but we’re smart. A human embryo grows limbs from nothing. Why can that happen only once? Why does skin heal but fingers can’t grow back?

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Anon·01/26/26 12:19·No.16899575

What's the most monstrous bibliography you've seen?

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Anon·01/08/26 02:05·No.16887011

>can get an entire degree's worth of knowledge free online at your own pace What have you guys been studying in your spare time? A few years ago, I had a unique opportunity to follow a master's degree in AI engineering at JHU. Now, I'm about halfway through MIT's finance theory I for grad students. ...

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Anon·01/24/26 00:58·No.16897766

>figured out that testosterone makes you jacked >haven't figured out what hormone makes you intelligent Any ideas? Neurotransmitters don't count bc they can't cross the blood brain batter.

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Anon·01/04/26 11:37·No.16884623

Can someone explain why Idiocracy was "wrong"?

Basically the only way this film remained in popular culture is people bringing up "idiocracy wasn't supposed to be a documentary" and everyone laughing at people who thought it was realistic. If I try to go "back in time" to try to see what people used to say on the subject, the only criticism I fi...

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Anon·01/23/26 22:57·No.16897694

>*destroys naive physicalism while retaining the empirical success of science* how does he do it

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Anon·01/25/26 04:29·No.16898701

Kessler syndrome

OK. How I would fix it (Will cost trillions) Large satellites: fire rockets on parabolic trajectories that have retro rockets on board. Rendezvous with large satellites at the apogee of flight, attach retro rockets, ignite them to deorbit. Medium debris: Fire a rocket into orbit with a balloon int...

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Anon·01/24/26 14:55·No.16898168

>Science is merely a tool that is effective for figuring out how life works >Science is based primarily on proof over trust, and clearly outlining a reproducible example so that others can recreate your precise findings >Geniuses work their asses off to discover profound truths about our reality >Af...

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Anon·01/16/26 13:40·No.16892998

>If we assume that the world has no beginning in time, then up to every given moment an eternity has elapsed, and there has passed away in that world an infinite series of successive states of things. Now the infinity of a series consists in the fact that it can never be completed through successive...

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Anon·01/23/26 22:25·No.16897659

Why isn't it possible?

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Anon·01/22/26 18:54·No.16896864

Studying

When is the best part of the day to start studying at your best?

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Anon·01/23/26 12:01·No.16897254

NEGATIVE HEAT CAPACITY

Schwarzschild black hole has C < 0 The universe is bounded, There is a universal rest frame, And c is the observer's rate.

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Anon·01/23/26 07:01·No.16897162

Why's this retard consistently going for low hanging fruit? Too lazy to do research?

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Anon·01/25/26 18:55·No.16899152

Is this how tornados happen?

Cold dry air from the north + hot and wet air from the south.

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Anon·01/25/26 05:19·No.16898721

Is emotion a hindrance to survival? Can a dominative society exist without the presence of complex emotion?

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Anon·01/25/26 16:52·No.16899031

Sociology should be based on genes

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Anon·01/18/26 23:12·No.16894399

What if there are several temporal dimensions and not just one time, and they act due forces we haven't found yet so causality as we experience might be reversal and those temporal dimensions act like a rollercoaster but you'll need to get in control over the forces that makes you either go up and d...

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Anon·12/30/25 06:26·No.16880803

>2025, almost 2026 >/sci/fags still believe in Monty Hall

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Anon·01/14/26 02:41·No.16891239

90% of junk science in social sciences are because of this shit.

Who ever came up with the retarded idea to try to statistically model dynamic processes as linear equations?

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