Science

[Clinamenic]

ITER, which apparently once stood for International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, I think, but has since been reconceived as iter as Latin for path or something to that effect, is a prime example of this global scientific excellence.

Once we get fusion to work, infrastructurally, then we may really start picking up speed. These plasma chambers in various tokamaks and other reactors reach temperatures higher than the core of our sun.

 

[Clinamenic]

Will politics yield to science? Will intelligence prevail?

 

[Clinamenic]

Stay tuned!

 

[luka]

what is science for? its well boring plus its for nerds

 

[Clinamenic]

Artificial Neural Networks are the mechanisms behind some of our most machine learning algorithms. Pattern computation at staggering scale and complexity.

 

[Clinamenic]

what is science for? its well boring plus its for nerds

Advancing knowledge and practically implementing it.

 

[luka]

sounds pointless

 

[IdleRich]

Some teen hooligan waved a bunsen burner at my face when I was 14 – a few inches closer and I could have been hideously scarred for life. What could the teacher have done to prevent that? Nothing: he was on the other side of the lab, reading the football results. But pressure equals volume over time, so all’s well with the world - the men in the labcoats tell us.

Set my hair on fire with a bunsen at school.
Actually there were a few hilarious and extremely dangerous incidents come to think of it.

 

[Clinamenic]

Of course you don't need the scientific method to advance knowledge, but it certainly can help, especially if you are trying to communicate this knowledge in ways that can be independently verified.

 

[Clinamenic]

sounds pointless

Admittedly, this is proving to be a tougher sell than I thought.

 

[IdleRich]

and maybe de-invent a few things

Genie back in lamp is a hard one.

 

[IdleRich]

When I chose my A levels I went all science - maths, physics, chemistry and further maths. Not sure it was right, but not sure it was wrong either.

 

[luka]

Admittedly, this is proving to be a tougher sell than I thought.

i actually understand what you like about it, the antiseptic glamour. its one reason i like jg ballard.

 

[luka]

prynne made me think science was cool

 

[Clinamenic]

Genie back in lamp is a hard one.

And yet, such seems to dominantly characterize so many (otherwise noble and intelligent) peoples ideas of progress. I would stop just short of calling it thermodynamically impossible.

 

[luka]

read this Stan. it should take about 20 minutes or so. let me know what you think in 22 minutes time https://solutioperfecta.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/g2-katko.pdf

 

[luka]

read this after http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/30729/1/g2-roebuck-and-sperling.pdf

 

[luka]

Presently intoxicated.

same

 

[craner]

I don’t know about science, but I think “presently intoxicated” is a fine way to start a thread.

 

[HMGovt’s Glorious Return!]

I think one solution to the rigidity of scientific thinking is to bring in some more poetic types, gnostic types, etc.

As if they would flourish in the conformist, peer reviewed hellscape of current science.