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Hey guys. I'm not sure how much I'll be around in the next month or so. I broke my laptop and it'll be a few weeks to get it fixed. I'll still be around on the forums, just not as much on the server.
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Sorry to hear about your laptop Temp. Hope you get it fixed soon and with reasonable price.
(also, completely unrealted, if by any chance the lower part of your laptop is still fully intact, try to see if you could just hook an external monitor to it. I think people do that sometimes, don't know how safe it is though.)
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1181. Dogs kill more people then cats.
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Yes it doesn't need to be something new, but preferably it would be. Of course, validating other research is an integral part of science, bt I'd like to try and do something novel. And no, they don't want us just pick up someone else's research. Nope, it's not meant for us to be doing derivative work. We can choose to, of course, but they encourage us to try and do new research.As for math skills, IB Further Maths, which, BTW, is a world wide course, covers graph theory, number theory, linear algebra, geometry, stats, sets, groups and relations and some calc. Calc III is multivariable calculus, and is partnered through a local university, so, yes, I know derivatives, integrals, and 3D vectors, and I've taken AP Stats. Having to learn new math is only a slight concern for me, but if I have to learn an egregious amount of new math, it would become prohibative. And I know electron microscopes cost a lot; we already have them though. Yep. It is university level math. We're doing concurrent enrollment through a university. The point of this course is for us to be doing university level research. A good number of people in this course have considered just going to the university for their classes (me included)
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So this is a total shot in the dark, but maybe one of you has a great idea for me. I'm part of a new research course at my school. We're meant to come up with our own question and spend the entire year researching it, and in the end, hopefully publish. The school built a huge lab, so I have access to some very advanced equipment like, high pressure liquid chromatography, blast furnaces, liquid nitrogen. scanning electron microscopes and the like. On top of that, they've partnered with a few local universities and companies to get us lab time and mentors, so I can use some of their equipment, including a high resolution transmission electron microscopes and high powered lasers. My point is, I have a lot of resources at my finger tips. Ideally I want to research something with physics... even better would be quantum mechanics or theoretical physics. I'm struggling to find a specific question though because of three big things: 1. Time - I'm going to have to wrap up my research in May, or at least have some tangible results I can report. Project scope is a real concern. 2. Difficulty - To be frank, I just don't have the math skills to do some of the incredibly advanced standard model calculations. I'm in calc III and IB Further Maths this year, but some of that stuff is another level or two beyond. I can teach myself of course, but spending three months really limits my already time crunched schedule. At some point, I will have a Ph.D researcher helping me and mentoring me, so this is less of a concern then the other two. 3. Equipment - While I have a wide array of equipment at my disposal, a lot of physics research requires equipment that is prohibitively expensive and can measure at picometers or picosecond scales or can smash particles together at near light speed velocities. I just don't have access to that kind of stuff. So with that said, does anyone have any general advice or ideas for me? I've been looking at Bose-Einstein condensate research, since I know I can make them in the school's lab, but measuring them would probably be incredibly difficult.
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Nope. Maybe K_H will show up for me though.
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How the fuck am I gonna pick research topic?
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Who? I forsee Ice Cream.
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Welcome back nerd.
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Nope. Just me. Spineblade?
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Wulf, the ultimate composer
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1120... cats
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"Swipe or Insert Card" - Favorite Retail Store
Tempest replied to Chase's topic in General Discussion
Microcenter.... I buy way too much computer shit.
