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1) cbf 2) ln(x)*(x^2+1)^-1, product rule: derivative: 1/(x^3+x) - 2x*ln(x)/(x^2+1) = (1+2x^2*ln(x))/(x^3+x) 3) y'=1/x, y'(e)=1/e tangent: y=x/e+b, 1=e/e+b so b=0 tangent: y=x/e 4) Pardon wtf bbq? Int dx/(2x+9) from 36 to a = ln(k) Int dx/(2x+9) = ln(2x+9)/2 For terminal 36, the answer is...

Don't worry about whether or not there's rote learning; I'll handle myself. Tell me a bit more about chem engo though man. I haven't spoken to you in ages.

Gonna punch you in the cock if I ever meet you.

Fuck off and do hamachi/IP cunts

So it was just a jump to the left... and a step to the right?

If you plan to do engineering, an actual BEng will do you a lot better than a BSc. Engineering does honours implicitly in 4th year, so there's no need for a master's degree.

I accept that current science is not complete, but I can see how it can all come together to describe this world. Each day some new discovery justifies this 'faith' a litte more. But you see that human understanding of science isn't complete yet, then you resist attempts to see how science...

Hey there. Does anybody do nanotechnology? I'd love to hear your thoughts about your degree or individual courses. This applies to materials science, polymer science, and chemistry, too. I'd like to know the ups and downs, what's fun and what's not, and what you enjoy. For reference, I'm...

Well, I'll leave you at that, Lentern. I can tell this isn't about intellectual honesty for you, but a desire to resolve the uncertainty you currently feel about your world. Repeating "but there must be a supernatural being!" over and over might help you bring consistency to your world for a...

I don't even want to think about how the Everett interpretation fits in with a cyclic model of the universe! :shy:

Yeah, I think it's a promising topic. Of course, paraconsistent logic requires the dismissal of very intuitive logical axioms (such as transitivity or negation), so people like Lentern are no better off. Alas, alack.

Sorry, I thought this was a sincere debate about philosophy, not a matter of saving face. If you agree, say so. If you disagree, say so. Don't pretend to disagree because it's easier to defend your stance. :) I'm doing this asynchronously, but you didn't actually 'comment on it there'. I'm...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del's_incompleteness_theorems When you get to this point in metaphysics, the difference between the universe and a methamatical model of the universe becomes arbitrary. It's exciting to consider the implications of Gödel's incompleteness theorems at such a point.

Who said I'm an atheist at this scale? I'm providing you with logical discourse and you're trying to shrug it off with "Well somebody else believes otherwise and you're an atheist, so you must be wrong." If you can't find logical fault with what I say then you can hardly go around claiming a...

I'm happy to have faith in a cyclical model of the universe because there's a high degree of scientific weight behind its possibility, while God still evokes the uncaused first cause problem.

Science these days is a matter of probabilistic non-determinism, not classical determinism. I just gave you an example of that above (radioactive decay). You should read about things like quantum mechanics, (non)determinism and causality. Plenty of in depth scientific, mathematical and...

Oh, well I guess what you were told must be the infallible truth. You can safely ignore the rest of science from now on. :) Sure, and Euclidean geometry is flat. But Euclidean geometry doesn't apply to the world, and neither may your "unending relation between cause and effect"; they are both...

No it doesn't. No it doesn't. Who told you that? It's metaphysics, because it's beyond the realms of observability, but there are numerous mathematical models which explain it, but they are unfortunately not testable, so it's unlikely we'll know which one is correct. Don't be fooled into...

It's not about how well equipped the forces are, though that's obviously an integral part. What's also very important is the technological sophistication of the equipment, which places like America and Israel continue to ensure are state-of-the-art. Current advances for America involve...

Once the metric expansion of space exceeds the speed of light, is the universe not infinite?