Scientific Definition and 550 Threads

Hello, I'm studying for a physics bachelor degree in college. In order to graduate in time, i have to take several general ed courses, and I've chosen religious studie 100 course because i thought i know/like ancients myths that related to greek, roman, norse gods, and etc, and because of that...

Hello everyone, I've never used PF before, so I'm not exactly sure I'm posting in the right place. Anyway, here's what's going on : I'm currently preparing a Master's in neurobiology. I stopped studying sciences (i.e., physics, chemistry, maths) in high school, but somehow managed to catch up...

mainly maths and physics. individual sites will also help

Many phisicists writed scientific papers at early age like maxwell who wrote one at 14 another one at 16 then at 18 but these 3 papers weren't a new theory or discovery right ? So why a scientific paper is always noted in the biography of physicists if it's not important because it's not a...

Hi, I've done quite a bit of scientific computation at work, mainly related to molecular QM and dynamics of hyperelastic bodies... I've used C++ to write the code for those applications. I also do some other simulations at home in my free time, just for fun. My home laptop isn't exactly the...

Hi everybody I am a scientific enthusiast with great interest in the renewable energy field. and I had this idea in my head for so many years which i got from a scientific experiment I saw a few years ago. After few years of grappling with this idea in my head I was able to put it into a...

bapowell submitted a new PF Insights post Scientific Inference P3: Balancing predictive success with falsifiability Continue reading the Original PF Insights Post.

is there any site like codeacademy for scientific programming ?

bapowell submitted a new PF Insights post Scientific Inference and How We Come to Know Stuff. II. Continue reading the Original PF Insights Post.

bapowell submitted a new PF Insights post Scientific Inference and How We Come to Know Stuff Continue reading the Original PF Insights Post.

Would anyone happen to know what programs out there could be used to make this type of diagram/illustration? (image was found on this thread, btw) I've been wondering for a while as to how people make stuff like this, like the graphs they have in my math and science textbooks. I think knowing...

Hi everyone, I am a 41 year old and a newbie and I have a few questions... 1. Is there a single global database of public domain scientific knowledge on the internet? 1.1. If not should there be? 2. Why aren't the base unit definitions for the International System Of Units based on a single...

Does Anyone have an idea how to make the title of papers interested? and then, anyone have title that never published by someone? if you have that title, may i take your title to my study and to research it? Thanks anyway

I've been considering a change in career direction recently, and have been thinking about a career in developing scientific instrumentation. I know that "scientific instrumentation" is vague and encompasses a lot, hence the reason I am posting -- to try sharpen my understanding of exactly what...

How long after a scientist's death can papers be published with this very scientist as coauthor? I assume this is the case for all scientific work where he or she participated to such a degree that justifies listing as coauthor...living or dead. But there's a case that got me wondering. I read...

Hello everyone, I have a cluster computing that I am going to be setting up for scientific computing. I have never done this before and I was wondering, on a server what kind of operating system would be approiate to place on the cluster? As in, would a desktop or server operating system be...

Suppose you have 8-1/3 and want a precise value for it. How would you go about calculating this on a regular scientific calculator. I punched in: 8, then the exponent button, then 1, then negative, then division, and finally 3. The calculator reads "error."

Hi. I am doing some complex computations using c, c++, matlab, python. It is very slow on a conventional PC. I heard, there is a way to do scientific computations remotely. Such that I could sort of get an access to the remote advanced PC, and perform computation remotely there. And then...

Does anyone know any good non-programmable calculators? I have a sharp el-520w right now Do any of them solve things like indefinite integrals?

I'm graduating this year with a B.S in Computational Physics (the difference is the second semester upper division physics courses aren't required, and are replaced with a year of numerical analysis and a CS minor. But I took the 2nd semester physics back when I was a physics major anyways) and...

I'm sorry but I didn't find any other place appropriate to post this other than General Physics. Say I have downloaded a pdf of a paper that's not open access for free via my university's VPN connection.Is it legal to e-mail the pdf to someone else?

I'd like to learn how I can better understand research papers/scientific studies, judge the quality, the methods used, find out who funded it, etc. I'm a layperson. In researching various topics, especially controversial subjects, I try to find the actual scientific papers behind everything...

I am going to be a senior this year and I am considering on studying physics. I want to know what universities to apply to. I found a web page that shows universities ranked by scientific journals. A couple response would be nice. Link to web page-...

http://news.discovery.com/space/lhc-keeps-bruising-difficult-to-kill-supersymmetry-150727.htm LHC Keeps Bruising 'Difficult to Kill' Supersymmetry Previous attempts at measuring the beauty quark's rare transformation into a so-called "up quark" had yielded conflicting results. That prompted...

Or is there scientific consensus on whether or not "consciousness" actually exists at all? This article prompted the question... "Many theories have been proposed, but none has passed scientific muster. I believe a major change in our perspective on consciousness may be necessary..."...

Imagine an intelligent ant living in a sealed glass tank, with nothing inside but sand and himself, for his entire existence. He has the intelligence of a human but no way to escape, and nothing to see outside of the glass tank. The temperature never changes, the air is static, the source of...

I'm not a physicist or scientist but I am curious as to what your opinions are about using tau instead of pi in physics papers and research. Would you be able to get away with it, or would your peer reviewers get confused?

We all know that there is an abundance of poorly created studies and the media sensationalizes and cherry picks certain elements of these studies. I am looking to better arm myself against such problems. Currently I'm working on the Khan Academy statistic course to give myself a better simple...

For some philosophers an assertion is scientific if an experiment could refute it (all crows are black if we find an albinos one then it is wrong) But the axioms in maths are not refutable so can it be considered a science with this criterion ?

May a layman post a scientific manuscript (regarding cosmology) in "arXiv"? Will it be properly reviewed? Thank you, if you know the answer.

I have some proposition that I want to have some evaluation about it I don't know how to publish it in a scientific magazine about ferromagnetic modelling but I hope some one in the forum to help me please and here is the proposition

I personally think that acupuncture is nonsense but my spouse thinks it is legitimate. She says that she has "heard" that some studies have shown an effect (without having any specific reference). Being a scientist I am open to being disproven. Does anyone know of serious studies that have...

https://chronicle.com/article/How-Science-Literate-Are-You-/229753/This appeared in my news feed on the old Facebook, and my interest was piqued. Upon taking the quiz myself, I discovered a few noteworthy things. First of all, to my surprise, I was reported to have missed one of the eleven...

Let's say someone discovers something that can better the lives of everyone; where would they go to publish this discovery? Do they just patent/sell it or is there more to it?

I am In high school and its my last year.I want to write an scientific article.I am working on something.I have original ideas and I want to share them.But I don't have any idea about how to write a scientific paper.And also I don't know where I will going to send the paper. Is there any...

Definition 1: Ghosts are the "creatures" which might be made of particles as we are, but unseen (with the use of photons). Premise 1: We are made of particles or atoms which enable us to think and make us what we are (human creatures). Premise 2: Their might exist creatures which are made...

i am asking is it possible to apply scientific methods to stop the syrian war , or it is just too much away from reality and real life note : i am from syria and this question is not making me sleep at all ...

I was wondering whether there is an actual scientific point of taking ground-based photographs of the Solar corona during total eclipses on Earth. It seems to attract a lot of attention from well equipped amateurs around the world and the pictures of the fine plasma structure surely look great...

Dear all, I have been searching some scientific basis about the most known -there are others less popular- complementary & alternative medicines listed below: - Aromatherapy - Ayurvedic Medicine - Bach Flowers - Chiropractic - Chromotherapy - Iridiology - Kinesiology - Oligotherapy -...

I have a conceptual question. There is a law in science for every phenomenon in nature, like gravity or electric field. But also there are laws for springs or capacitors etc... I mean the engineering materials that are produced by engineering processes, not can be found in the nature itself...

What is the best non-programmable scientific calculator with a scrollable (or otherwise easily accessible) memory of past calculations? I would like to find one where the full decimal/standard answers from past calculations can easily be selected and used for new calculations. I already know...

I'm sorry for the question and maybe it's the wrong place at the forum to ask, but I need to know, what I have to do If I find a flaw in the General Relativity theory? Write a paper? what are the steps? Thanks.

Hallo Everyone, What are the most important unsolved problems in Classical Mechanics especially related to mechanics of rigid body mechanics, deformable-body mechanics and, fluid mechanics.

So this is what happened. the thing is that wherever i go i hum. So i was in the bathroom that day and it was as usual tiled everywhere. So when I started to hum, it echoed. Nothing special about it. But as i raised my pitch, there was a pitch at which my humming sound echoed ENORMOUSLY. And...

Hi, I have a somewhat strange request (hence did not knew which section to use for this post). I have no formal training in sciences (have a degree in philosophy, and no matter how much my peers disagreed with my opinion, that is not a science:), but I fell in love with science while studying...

I am currently starting an education in physics and want to have a career in this field as well. My question concerns today's attitude toward each other within the community regarding new ideas and concepts. I consider myself to be a very creative person, perhaps more so then a love for...

Which software do you use to make "publishing quality" illustrations as shown?.

in terms of style, presentation...who do you think was/is better at communicating the ideas of science to an audience Carl Sagan or Neil Degrasse Tyson

Homework Statement y= -2log3(x-3) -1 Homework Equations I am using a SHARP EL-546W scientific calculator, and I do not know what steps to take in order to find a point given an x value. i.e. if x=3, then y=6. I cannot seem to get 6 on my own and I have tried a wide variety of methods and...

Hey! I was hoping to read some interesting scientific papers about: - Atomic, Solid State, Comp. Physics; - High Energy, Nuclear, Particle Physics; - Special & General Relativity; - Quantum Physics; - Astrophysics. I want to read about those different topics to see what type of topic interests...