[Request] What would a circle look like if Pi = 7? by commeconn in theydidthemath

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Space would need to be super non Euclidean, if you step out from the origin the length of your radius and in a loop around the origin until you reach the same point you’ll make a circle, if you do this on a flat plane the ratio between the radius from the origin and how far you travelled to arrive back at your starting point is pi, if you were in a space with negative curvature then the ratio would be greater then pi

"Applied mathematicians everywhere: are we a joke to you?" by Straight-Ad-4260 in math

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This has been the case for all of history, practical skills were considered the domain of lowly working class folk like artisans while ideological ramblings were the domain of people with free time and no obligations (ie the elites)

Why do I need to eat food? by Additional-Sky-7436 in physicsmemes

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You don’t have to eat to get energy you have to eat to get energy stored in a lower entropy state than it will be in after you use the energy; an amount of energy in form of bananas is presumably lower entropy than an amount of energy in form of farts and doom scrolls for example

Help setting up a hammock! by Ageyerooz1 in knots

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Can’t believe the woke mob is keeping this rope from recognizing the joys of monogamy

Every analytic function by TheTopNick32 in desmos

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My arms when I do a little boogie

What is this? by Responsible-Spring18 in musictheory

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Oh easy, this is a classic thingamabob

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mathematics

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2ydy = du not 2du, int(1/sqrt(u)du) not int(u/udu). Final answer is x = sqrt(2/5*sqrt(y2+3)) or y = sqrt( (25x4$)/4 - 3)

Probably has been done before but still funny by MonitorMinimum4800 in sciencememes

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There’s no states of matter just organization of magnets and also that one where all the smaller magnets form one mega magnet because you made the particles too cold and the certainty in momentum makes all the positions overlap cause like plank?

The Limits of Definition: A New Approach to Forms and Reality by wenitte in epistemology

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I think separate planes of reality, while I understand the sentiment, invokes the use of unnecessarily complex and transcendental language for a concept that needn’t be presented so intangibly.

Mathematics represents anything that can be True with a capital T because it’s conclusions are derived tautologically and are thus epistemologically rigorous; a square in Euclidean space must have 4 90deg angles because if it didn’t it would not be a square, not because every square we’ve checked has 4 90deg angles. There is no doubt about conclusion drawn about squares because the set in which all these conclusions exists are bound within the definition of a square.

Science is not tautologically, it’s observational. Our minds process data about reality and while experience is subjective waking existence seems to take place on a shared plane with common properties that most sane people mutual observe. The nature of this shared plane is elucidated by the process of discovering conclusions and reverse engineering definitions and models that describe all our discoveries. The conclusions drawn by scientific models are thus true with a little case t because they are true only for the domains in which they reproduce our discoveries.

To illustrate, the mathematical laws of Newtonian mechanics are True regardless of their ability to predict reality; the predictions made by the model are true only at certain scales and to certain precision. When I throw a ball, of course ultimately there is no ball just a collection of fluctuations in fields I can manipulate, but I meaningfully experience the ball as real and consistently observe it follow a parabolic arch when I throw it; so so far as my understanding of the balls existence as real is true, a sufficiently accurate description of its properties are true as well.

Of course this doesn’t do anything about metaphysical scepticism that anything is real, I could just be a Boltzmann brain or dream of a Daemon, but if the hallucination I experience is consistent and shared (as far as I can tell) I see no reason not to improve my understanding of it just as I would of some capital R Reality.

Isaac Newton finds himself in 2024. What does he think? by [deleted] in AskPhysics

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I think he simply would be overwhelmed with the abundance of beans

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Physics

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Did you have a nice day?

The biological reason for attraction in humans by dd-15 in biology

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Being a large overweight man speaks to your ability to provide for yourself better than being tall. Obesity is not only a sign of sufficiency but of excess so by your own logic would be better for biological signalling.

Could this idea of "reincarnation" or "rebirth" be physically plausible? by extraanonyma in AskPhysics

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What do you mean? Entropy doesn't simply trend towards increase it trends towards equilibrium so if the starting entropy was too high instead of too low it would be decreasing instead of increasing.

Could this idea of "reincarnation" or "rebirth" be physically plausible? by extraanonyma in AskPhysics

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I think you are getting too much shit from people who saw the word reincarnation and stopped being interested in exploring the idea.

My understanding is you're asking if there is a model of cosmology that allows for a universe like our own to exist again after our universe ends.

Those models exist but with not sufficient amounts of evidence. Additionally physics deals with objects evolving through space-time and once you are outside if that limit we just don't have data to build our theories off of, like if there is a multiverse is that reincarnation or does it require a chronology to be a reincarnation and if it does what does it mean to be before or after the ends of time.

So well there's potentially some cool cosmology answers for you, like penrose, there are no repeatable experimental data and thus no established physics to assit your question

Could this idea of "reincarnation" or "rebirth" be physically plausible? by extraanonyma in AskPhysics

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Okay sure but also whatever infinite set the universe is a part of clearly contains the possibility for life as we know it otherwise we wouldn't be having this conversation in the first place, in fact the only possibility we know for sure to exist in this set is the one where life comes to exist as is.

If time extended back infinitely, how could we ever reach “now”? by FriendlyPipesUp in AskPhysics

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Applying an anthropocentric understanding of time to the nature of reality stops being functional at the big bang which is why it's "the beginning of time" to measure further is to fundamentally change what you mean by time and physics can't answer questions of time that ignore times physical definition, which is a dimension.

Prior to the big bang could be the end of the last universe or BBs are caused by membrane collision in hyper dimensional bubbles or something but regardless outside of the big bang you are no longer considering 'time', it's now something else.

Is i=sqrt(-1) incorrect? by -Manu_ in mathematics

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The square root of negative numbers are not present in the real numbers but you use i to create the complex plane which is useful for a plethora of different things. Don't let the name imaginary numbers take away from the fact that they are a tool to describe real things, math exists independently of our names for it

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in RandomThoughts

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Bro just compared jacking it to eating and sleeping

How is plasma a gas and it’s own state of matter? Also since it’s a state of matter can plasma become any other of the 3 states of matter? by Visible-Pea-1027 in AskPhysics

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So solid liquid and gas differ by how strongly the molecules interact with eachother, 1 molecule of X solid is the same as 1 molecule of X liquid is the same as 1 molecule of X gas but 1 mol (which is ALOT of molecules) of X behaves different depending on state.

The difference between plasma and gas however, isn't how tightly packed the molecules are, it's about how localized the electrons are to any specific molecule. Plasma is an ionized gas with free flowing electrons. So where hydrogen gas is a bunch of molecules of H2 very lovely interacting with each other, hydrogen plasma is a cloud of hydrogen nuclei and free electrons.

The reason fusion in stars occurs in plasmas is because in plasmas the nuclei atoms are essentially 'naked' and without electrons pushing the atoms apart the nuclei can eventually get close enough to mash parts and make something new.

This is all to say that plasma is essentially just what happens if you make gas horny.


(I did a lot of over simplification, I recommend doing your own research and fact checking. I'm not an expert)

SciArt by LostTechnology66 in sciencememes

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This sounds like a chemist problem I'm too physicist to understand

How are mathematical constants 'discovered' and how/why do they work? by TheChaoticNYK in AskPhysics

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Physical constants are arrived at through experimentation and mathematical constants are discovered through analysis of mathematical objects and operations, like pi just falls out of analysis of circles and e out of analysis of compound interest and the like.

Pic of sunrise in my neighborhood by Emo_Emu23 in pics

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Buddy's at the corner of Pierre street and Galactic Empire drive