A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
Easy. First you survey the existing literature for your theory. Chances are, somebody already came up with it, or, more likely, debunked it. If that's not the case, you write up a paper, presenting your theory together with its supporting evidence and submit it through the usual channels. I know that sounds pretty discouraging, but the chance of some rando contributing something meaningful are pretty close to zero
Pretty close to zero multiplied by billions of people yields results sometimes.
These people went through the process I described above. I'm not saying you need a degree to do scientific work. I'm saying you need to do scientific work to achieve scientifically relevant results.
These aren't coming out of nowhere however. They are obviously being exposed to new material through their education and then extrapolating into some new tangent. These aren't epiphanies that just happen later in life unless you are working to understand these concepts. Not saying it can't be done, it just hasn't been done yet, and every generation builds upon the foundation of what came before it.
And this would be larger with better education.
Because it's not always about the "potential of the student" if there's no support or validation.
Finland didn't have a gifted program, you're not supposed to be better at anything than others. Except in sports, where it's the whole thing.
There were special programs for slow kids. But none for fast ones.
First grade teacher put me in an empty classroom to read by myself when everyone else was just learning what sounds different letters make.
Nothing kills my motivation more than discovering something new in math and then finding out some dead guy beat me to the punch by several centuries lol
Then again sometimes it’s worse when I expect there to be literature on a topic and then discovering there isn’t even a wiki page for it.
Hell, most recently it was bi-intuitionistic logic. Originally studied in the 40s by one German guy who took bad notes. Main body of work done by a single math grad in the 70s (Rauszer) culminating in her PhD. Turns out there were errors discovered in her proofs and it was proven inconsistent in 2001. Only for two relatively young mathematicians to clear up that there are two separate versions of bi-intuitionistic logic which are consistent. This discovery and proof are found a paper that was published only this fucking year.
I asked a simple question about dealing with uncertainty in a logical system and instead of finding a well studied foundation of knowledge I was yeeted to the bleeding edge of mathematics.
Edit: in case it isn’t clear, by “new things” I mean new to me not new to the world; hence the aforementioned dead guys with published works on the topic. And when I say I was yeeted to the edge of math, I should mention that edge is well beyond my capacity to further. I had to learn a lot about notation for logic just to parse the paper, and I’m sure I still don’t fully understand it.
Oh I remember you! You're the guy who claimed to be an engineer working with "ocular algorithms" when it turned out you were an undergrad who read a Wikipedia article about cuttlefish.
Now you're discovering "new things" in math because you were thrust to the bleeding edge of mathematics. Incredible stuff. Completely 100% real stuff.
Please do future you a favor and stop presenting yourself as some intellectual giant. It's not only cringe, but harmful to your actual academic growth. Some of the things you write are identifiable, what would happen if a professor for an undergrad lab you work at saw the way you write?
Edit: Tl;dr this is a child doing a Mutahar and isn't handling being called out very well. Zero accountability and everything you'd come to expect from a budding charlatan. Saved by mods for "civility".
Yes but what if they feel REALLY clever???? U expect me 2 go thru all dat work? Ffs smh rn ngl u cap I swear.
I would love to know how many peer-reviewed papers have been published from independent authors with no degree or university affiliation, if any.
They have some chance if they wrote code to find a counterexample to some obscure math conjecture
Oh you're a programmer? I have this app idea...
No! I've seen this Rick and Morty episode!
First of all, if you have a theory they rejected, clearly its because they are afraid of your massive intellect, pure jealousy to the point of refusing you entirely. So that means your theory is 100% fact, and you should write a book all about how you are a genius ahead of their time, and sell it on Amazon becoming a number 1 best seller and use that to propel you into micro-celebrity status and live off the royalties because thats what smart people do. Duh.
Graham Hancock moment
Write letters to the press. Ripped from Control:
Dear New York Tribune,
Airplanes aren't real. I figured out how they do it.
The windows are TV screens. The whole thing moves on big tracks like a rollercoaster that moves through underground tunnels in the Earth. Airports are more like train stations.
They do this because the sky is full of monsters that they don't want us to know about. The planes we see in the sky are the monsters. The government made the Earth-trains look like the monsters so they could lie to us better.
Don't contact me.
Not real, obviously, but clearly the most effective tactic when no one takes your 100% legit theories seriously.
AMAZING game. The Dead Letters department might be my favorite section of The Oldest House
Absolutely, although I'm a Containment/Panopticon fan myself. Langston's dialogue is great, especially in the AWE dlc. Dead Letters is close behind though. The fish letter is excellent.
Playing AW2 right now after having watched a Quantum Break playthrough, so I've got the Remedyverse on my mind constantly and see it in everything. Such a dope company, can't wait for the next control. I think it's next on their development list, so hopefully soon!
You convinced me.
There are 99 crackpots for every genius without a degree.
Probably more like 999.
But that 1 in a billion could change the world
Genius is what the ignorant call the results of dedication, a genius wouldn't let that stop them.
Now, that dedication becoming obsession and breeding mental illness like rabbits, that'll stop a genius.
"I have theories" is great, everyone should have theories and ideas.
But if you can't connect them to understood, known physics and systems that have been demonstrated over and over again for centuries, you're not really contributing anything.
"I have ideas for a really cool race car shape. I don't know anything about formula 1, I just have this neat idea. Why won't professional teams who demonstrate their efforts daily take my design seriously?"
Go to school, educate yourself with online courses, read every possible criticism or attack on theory, be your own worst critic and THEN if it survives knowledge and critique, you have a chance of being seen and noticed. This isn't about "encouragement" or "making someone feel better" and it's certainly not a plot by Big Science to keep the little man down, this is just how the process works and why you have phones and video games and soda dispensers.
1705542 is a prime number. How can I get my proof published?
I appreciate that you chose an even number to claim as prime so nobody even has to check it.
Hey, not all primes are odd numbers! Give my man 2 some consideration dawg
My brother in law was telling me about this amazing new tech called a Thunderstorm Generator which apparently filters out carbon from combustion engines. After seeing this... I just can't... It's too much...
That chart...
EARTH HAS 4 CORNER
SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY
TIME CUBE
That wiki entry really does it no justice. That website was a raw stream of unhandled brain-gasm. It should have been preserved. Or maybe it was too dangerous exist.
Here's the last archive.
CW: everything but misogyny, it's remarkable how little misogyny there is in a schizophrenic screed against Jewish, black, queer, and educated people
They put a lot of effort for that pdf...jeez, who wrote that should write more sci-fi or fantasy in general lol
Hi. People contact me with theories all the time based on my published research. They tend to come from an oversimplified view of the problem.
It's a special kind of stupid to be too stupid to understand that you're stupid, to be so stupid you think you're smart. Man, what a life that must be, blissful ignorance.
The maths department in my uni receives (or did when I was there) several proofs every year on general formulas to solve equations of degree >5.
The biggest problem is that your theories are not going to equate to the depth, degree, and experience of people who've been over a decade in Universities studying their own, who receive grants and everything to do so. It may be a revolutionary theory, but every scientist has got their own. That's what you are competing against. Hell, there are plenty of brainiacs at each other's throats over whose theory they believe is right.
I have a personal theory that I believe can encompass a lot of phenomenon, but I lack the graduate level experience or the extraordinary intelligence to raise eyebrows, so it has to remain largely faith based. There are much more knowledgeable people who dismiss the basic core tenets of it. And unless you map it out onto some real math and start making predictions that can raise eyebrows, it will remain that, faith-based. Society doesn't give a shit about ideas, they give a shit about implementations of those ideas.
ITT: Science and Engineering users debunking others attempts to contribute from an entry level
And then there's Maths where all you need is a fresh pair of eyes.
This is actually a pretty good parallel to programming
With an open source project, you gotta know how to clone a git repo and create a pull request
With such an advanced field as Physics, you need to have read other studies at a basic level. If you don't know how to write a basic study, you clearly lack the intelligence to talk about such things at a professional level
Lack intelligence, or lack education?
Education.
Knowing how to write a good study is a matter of experience more than intelligence.
It’s both really.
When I was publishing my first paper after sending it in to a professor for review a few times he called me in and went line through line of the whole paper for about 4 hours explaining to me what I needed to fix and why.
A lot of it were things that came down to experience and that no book education could have given me.
People that believe they can make significant contributions need to go through the proper process. But ridiculing them before they even attempt is not the way to go.
A good point that Angela made in her video from what. I remember. I watched it a while ago was that these crackpots always have grand theories. It’s never a small contribution. In that sense. A good filter is just asking them to show why we should listen to them before putting effort into it.
You think you found a way to make warp drives work ? Show us a prototype.
Edit. I did live in the midst of academia for a while. But from my experiences. Reaching out to people in other universities. They had no real way of verifying a priori that I was who i said I was. And.no one ever told me to fuck off and very few people ignored me. From memory no one did. So it does make me wonder what kind of insane message that person is sending and to whom.