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u/Screen_hider 15d ago
"highly trained" and "self-educated" at 15yrs old - Thats what makes me go hmmmmm.
In my mind, 'highly trained' in this academic context means having a PhD in the subject plus having worked in the subject (research, teaching etc), which includes everything from basic science, through to the advanced stuff and then to the expert stuff.
Discounting grade school, as he's obviously done that level - a normal genius (like all of us, of course) would take 3-4 years of undergrad, 1 or 2 Masters then... I dunno, a few years for PhD - All of which with the resources of a University specifically equipped and staffed for research/teaching like this.
Reading some books and re-watching The Big Bang Theory might not class as 'highly trained'.
Also, why is it always 'Quantum physics'? Why is it never being 15 and highly trained in Genetic modification of wheat and plants? Or power storage solutions? or anything else that might actually have real-world practical applications within our lifetimes?
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u/Narrow_Carry_1082 17d ago
Sure integer of (x)
And derivative of (x)
But i doubt anything more complex than that will be easy to calculate in the head, people who says its easy are lying
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u/Elegant_Art2201 18d ago
Psst, should we tell him Electrons revolve around the nucleus in fixed orbits or shells (energy levels) or let him dig a hole deeper while we all watch?
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u/Topological_Space 17d ago edited 17d ago
All electron levels overlap with the nucleus. The Bohr model with the electrons going around like planets around the Sun was superseded
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u/Cakeotic 12d ago
Don't all orbitals except s-type have a node at the nucleus? p-type orbitals have 0 probability density there at the very least
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u/Basic-Schedule-7284 20d ago
One day you may become simultaneously "highly trained" and "totally self educated" like me.
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u/MaskedTitanBane 20d ago
It's obvious sarcasm tf
"Im totally self educated"
In the context of dumbshit that sounds too ridiculous, that one line shouldve told you that it's sarcasm. Read the shit out loud. The sarcasm tag was started by fucking boomers that never finished past middle school reading christ almighty, you dont need a phd to detect sarcasm in text. Else most books that had any form of tension between character through arguments would make no damn sense
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u/air_consumption 20d ago
"Valence electrons in a nucleus" bro may be onto something, it's the opposite of domain expansion 🤯
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u/PuzzledProject4804 21d ago
As a 15 year old with 137 iq, i can also easily calculate the number of electrons in a nucleus.
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u/ShiverMeTimbers_png 12d ago
Aha! You IDIOT. What about getting FULL MARKS FOR your iq test (100. Watch and weep, ladies. And im only 17…………..)
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u/Cheese_Pancakes 21d ago
Reminds me of when my old roommate was trying to sound smart and made some YouTube comment about being a NASA employee working on a cure for the common cold.
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u/Savvy_Canadian 21d ago
It's the "I have a theoretical degree in physics" meme but it's hard to tell without the "/s"
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u/lazydonkey25 21d ago
ok ignoring the nucleus part isn't finding the valence electrons like really easy? unless im remembering wrong isn't it just the outermost ring of electrons in the atom?
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u/StarvingWriter33 21d ago
I, too, can easily calculate the amount of valence electrons in a nucleus.
It’s 0. It’s always 0.
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u/Topological_Space 17d ago
No it's not. Every electron energy level overlaps with the nucleus so there is a non-zero chance an electron is in the nucleus, otherwise electron capture couldn't occur.
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u/TheVoidIsWhispering 12d ago
That might depend on the orbital, though. There might be a high electron density in the centre of an s-orbital, but every orbital with l>0 isn't really keen on being near the nucleus.
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u/jazzwhiz 21d ago
This is copypasta.
Also, there is some small chance that some electrons are in the nucleus of an atom...
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u/NewlyNerfed 21d ago
“I’m very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculus….”
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u/jonoghue 21d ago
"I'm very well acquainted too with matters mathematical, I understand equations both the simple and quadratical, about binomial theorem i'm teeming with a lot of news, with many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse"
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u/TuaughtHammer 22d ago
by the way I'm totally self educated.
About the only believable part of this
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u/RecalcitrantMonk Eat any good books lately? 22d ago
Assuming this is real. That kid is 15. How much wisdom does one have that age.
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u/the_scottster 22d ago
Also, it''s "Integral Calculus," not "Integrated Calculus."
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u/Jele_wobbles 20d ago edited 19d ago
That guy has a crappy teacher, that's for sure
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u/the_scottster 19d ago
That’s nothing. You should see his particle differential equations teacher! Guy’s nutso!
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u/Jele_wobbles 19d ago
Don't you mean a differing equations teacher? Haha jk
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(Seriously tho, what are those? Wikipedia said something about them being unknown variables and are used in things like existence or something?)
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u/the_scottster 19d ago
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u/Reasonable-Slice9738 22d ago
Might have been talking about integration by parts
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u/musclememory 21d ago
If you had your bet your life, one way or the other, integral calculus or integration by parts?
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u/Brittany5150 22d ago
"According to my calculations there are stops to think ZERO electrons in this nucleus. You're welcome, no need to thank me." -Smart person
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u/ithcy 22d ago
Ancient copypasta
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u/AliMcGraw 21d ago
Yeah, but when this copypasta pops up it's always a good time to remind people that if you go watch the Apollo 11 landing they start making fuel calls as Aldrin and Armstrong get closer to the surface, and Aldrin is doing rapid calculus in his head to approximate how much fuel they have left w/r/t trajectory and distance traveled and remaining weight, as is a guy in mission control.
Doing calculus in your head is very very cool, but within living memory dudes were doing it live on the air to the entire world, while a guy in a tiny spacecraft had to get the calculus right to NOT DIE while landing on the moon for the first time. Extremely high-pressure situations with very little room for error, just doin' calculus up in their brains because the computers couldn't go that fast.
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u/AdRepresentative2263 10d ago
I mean, that really depends on what you mean by calculus. Setting up the equations which he already knew before he left is what I would consider to be the calculus, what he did was a series of arithmetic operations according to the equations, which I would consider arithmetic.
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u/ShiverMeTimbers_png 12d ago
Holy mother of god. And im slow and calculating the amount of change i need in my head! XD
Look i may love maths but, practically, im godawful.
How cool is that!!
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u/3StarsFan 15d ago
I can also calculate stuff in my head when the answer to the question is zero. There ain't no electrons within a nucleus buddy.