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re: What's a concept that's hard to wrap your head around?
Posted on 2/5/19 at 10:03 pm to TulaneUVA
Posted on 2/5/19 at 10:03 pm to TulaneUVA
3 highly trained professional referees being the only people on Earth to not see one of the most blatant pass interferences ever. Everyone instantly recognized what happened except for the 3 most qualified people. It would be like everyone in America draining a 3-pointer but then Steph Curry, Steve Kerr, and Ray Allen throw up bricks.
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Posted on 2/5/19 at 10:04 pm to TulaneUVA
Fractals
Posted on 2/5/19 at 10:06 pm to LSU6262
Yes
Posted on 2/5/19 at 10:10 pm to noonan
Vastness of the universe has been menti8ned, but I can't wrap my head around the origins, big bang theory stuff.
Posted on 2/5/19 at 10:15 pm to TulaneUVA
You actually have a very slight but measurably better chance of the coin coming up on the side you call. This is an argument in favor of the existence of telekinesis.
Posted on 2/5/19 at 10:17 pm to Redbone
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There is an end to the universe somewhere out there.
And what's on the other side of the end of the universe?
Posted on 2/5/19 at 10:21 pm to BlindTiger7
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And what's on the other side of the end of the universe?
and what was there before?
Posted on 2/5/19 at 10:21 pm to BlindTiger7
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And what's on the other side of the end of the universe?
Nothing. But nothing is something.
Point being, our language isn't even equipped to deal with the universe.
Posted on 2/5/19 at 10:22 pm to Prominentwon
One of Newton’s laws. I’m sure I’m totally butchering this - if a bullet hit a mosquito the force/impact of the bullet hitting the mosquito, is the same as the mosquito hitting the bullet.
Posted on 2/5/19 at 10:23 pm to Akit1
That Newton smoked an impressive amount of weed.
Posted on 2/5/19 at 10:25 pm to gthog61
The same thing that's always been there: Infinity universe
Posted on 2/5/19 at 10:26 pm to mmmmmbeeer
You're right.
But like you said, empty space is something.
Just think of it as the entire universe being in a box. What's outside of the box?
But like you said, empty space is something.
Just think of it as the entire universe being in a box. What's outside of the box?
Posted on 2/5/19 at 10:27 pm to BlindTiger7
Another box.
Posted on 2/5/19 at 10:47 pm to TulaneUVA
Electrons, photons, protons, etc. I know we can describe their behavior and properties and even exploit them in practically magical ways, but seriously, WTF are they? They're all indistinguishable from each other, like they come from some perfect factory. They're our whole reality along with spacetime, which is unspeakably weird in its own right.
Posted on 2/5/19 at 10:57 pm to TulaneUVA
The Monty Hall Problem:
Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?
Under the standard assumptions, contestants who switch have a 2/3 chance of winning the car, while contestants who stick to their initial choice have only a 1/3 chance.
wikipedia monty hall problem
The wiki article mentions PhDs and Nobel prize physicists giving the wrong answer and insisting the logic is flawed. It's so counterintuitive only 13% of people switched choices in one study.
Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?
Under the standard assumptions, contestants who switch have a 2/3 chance of winning the car, while contestants who stick to their initial choice have only a 1/3 chance.
wikipedia monty hall problem
The wiki article mentions PhDs and Nobel prize physicists giving the wrong answer and insisting the logic is flawed. It's so counterintuitive only 13% of people switched choices in one study.
Posted on 2/5/19 at 11:03 pm to TulaneUVA
Do girls poop, or is this just a myth?
Posted on 2/5/19 at 11:05 pm to TulaneUVA
Suing ones parents for being born
Posted on 2/5/19 at 11:20 pm to InCaliForNow
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There are so many possible orders of cards in a deck that every time you shuffle, it is likely the first time in history that particular order occurred. 52 factorial is a big number
I’ve thought about this occasionally and yes, 52 factorial is a number I can’t understand.
However, there are other factors at work other than just probability. The first time each deck is ever shuffled, the cards are in the same order. I’ve seen people do amazing things with a deck of cards and find it very reasonable that someone could shuffle the cards laying each one over the other, one by one.
That would result in an identical shuffle. But yes, if the starting decks were at random, almost impossible to repeat a shuffle.
Posted on 2/5/19 at 11:20 pm to Erebus
Sleeping with Hillary Clinton.Makes me gag to think about it.
Posted on 2/5/19 at 11:27 pm to TulaneUVA
GILTI from the TCJA.
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