Samoth, drinking slushee, taking questions for the next hour

[PICK3]

Okay, I have one last one. What is one issue that the scientific community is aware of that other people should really be paying attention?

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.


~Stephen Jay Gould~
(1941 - 2002)






you're welcum

 

[samoth]

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

~Stephen Jay Gould~
(1941 - 2002)

I've been meaning to read Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions for a few years...

 

[PICK3]

when did you get interested in teh financials/investing?

 

[javaguru]

Einstein. Dood gets way too much credit. Over half his professional life was a total failure, too.

I would have guessed you would have chosen Hawking.

 

[samoth]

when did you get interested in teh financials/investing?

Early '09. Did a couple trades with dad a long time ago, and shares I had in a company from back then were cashed out (company went private) and he gave me the cash after graduating. I already knew about all the astrophysics PhDs going to Wall Street, so I got into it to figure out why they were interested enough to go into the field. Sure enough: http://www.icpress.co.uk/etextbook/p556/p556_chap04.pdf

 

[PICK3]

Early '09. Did a couple trades with dad a long time ago, and shares I had in a company from back then were cashed out (company went private) and he gave me the cash after graduating. I already knew about all the astrophysics PhDs going to Wall Street, so I got into it to figure out why they were interested enough to go into the field. Sure enough: http://www.icpress.co.uk/etextbook/p556/p556_chap04.pdf

Did you see this story on "High Frequency Trading"? (rhetorical ... I know you don't watch TV)

It talks about the possibility of "rigging" the market.

Features a company called Tradeworx run by Manoj Narang and a small group of mathematicians and scientists called "quants," which is short for quantitative analysts. Their high speed computers trade 40 million shares every day.

 

[pdaddyII]

Can anti matter be created? Are there current projects where funding is going towards the research/discovery of anti matter? Do I sound like a douchbag for even asking this because I feel like one.

 

[calveless wonder]

Why do you still have your ex girlfriend in your avatar

 

[smurf2]

Why do you still have your ex girlfriend in your avatar

lol

 

[pdaddyII]

why do you still have your ex girlfriend in your avatar

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