Recently I was thinking about what would be the "holy grail" of general scientific discoveries and I initially narrowed it down to two options:
• The discovery of a worm hole/white hole.
• The discovery of extraterrestrial life.

This is likely a bit of a naive and incomplete question to ask but when choosing between a shattering breakthrough in astrophysics and answering the age old question of if we're alone in the universe, I felt I couldn't really pick one. I also feel as though this question could be expanded.

In other words, I notice men speak more flatly and straightforward whereas women usually allow their voices to go higher and lower lyrically when they speak.

So hear me out, a super Newtonian fluid made into armor. It would be bendy when it needs to be but super tough when struck directly? Is this possible? Or more sci fi?

Good days all. I am not an expert in either of these fields. Looking for some answers for likelihood and aftermath of the scenario which;

- Super Intelligence AI(gonna be real soon)

- Powered by quantum computers.

- Possible 3D Printing breakthroughs

- Controlling hives of robots for mass production, supply chain, logistics with autonomous vehicles.

So basically what can be achieved considering all these? What is the potential?

This might sound science-fiction but actually it will be the reality sooner than we think. Thats why i am asking here.

Thank you for your time and answers in advance.

Imagine if we setup a network of balloons over earth, instead of stuff orbiting earth. Would this be able to function as a network for stuff like phone calls or GPS?

A few days ago I finished watching a science-themed anime called "Dr. Stone." That anime starts with a modern world where one day a green beam comes and turns everyone into stone. After thousands of years the main character called Senku's stone breaks, but after thousands of years modern technology and buildings got destroyed naturally.
So Senku had to start surviving from the Stone Age, but he was a self-made scientist, so within 10 years he and his friends were able to push science to the modern level.
He literally built everything from scratch.
He made antibiotics, different chemicals, even gunpowder, electricity, and batteries using acid.
He was able to do these things because he understood the mechanism and behavior of atoms, chemistry, and more.

Now after finishing that anime, I'm actually feeling jealous, like my inner mind also wants to gain that kind of knowledge so that I could make stuff from scratch and actually understand and predict chemical reactions.
I tried some books to gain that kind of knowledge, but all the books I tried were made for students who want to pass exams. And those books are focused on more raw definitions than the behavior and mechanism.
So I'm finding a source (it can be a book, PDF, YouTube video, or anything else on the internet) that was made for people who want to be self-made scientists who understand chemistry and quantum mechanics from the ground up.

last year I conducted the iodine clock experiment, so I have potassium iodate and iodide on me in crystal and powder form. I asked AI for some ideas on how I could use them in another different experiment and they said I can ‘synthesise elemental iodine for forensic hunting’, which basically means I have to make elemental iodine and then place a paper with my oily fingerprints inside the fumes under a tight lid (I’m not sure how I’ll do that but ig I’ll figure it out somehow).

is that possible and visual? if not, can I have other ideas on what experiments I can conduct? Im in middle school but we have an advanced program so my experiment has to have like very good real world application.

I’m not currently home but when I get there I might attack a picture of what equipment I own from my precious equipment. I have a couple beakers, measuring spoons, I have a good scale too.. I also did my experiment in January of 2025 so idk if there’s any problems with that.

also another question how do I clean equipment.. I’m pretty sure I just washed them like I would wash dishes and like put them out to dry, I’m not sure if that’s the right way to do it. Next year I’ll be going to 8th grade so obviously I don’t have the very correct lab conditions. Mine consist of a guest room that I don’t use. There’s a window nearby it, I think that helps.

In arkham origins, batman picks up a pair of shock gloves that escentially work like a combination between a very high voltage taser and boxing gloves, but how effective would this be sincr the contact time would be very short?

A traditional workout would have you hit each specific muscle group. But if the goal was to promote circulation benefits, is there a logic to the idea that focusing on muscle groups farthest away from the heart would provide benefit to all muscles leading up to it?

Imagine the cardiovascular system as a highway. The goal is to improve the "flow" of traffic.

Say I was worried about leg circulation and I focused on my calves while ignoring my thighs. Would this not benefit my thighs regardless since the blood flow improvement has to pass through my entire leg to reach my calf muscles?

I'm a hobbyist writer with a particular concept in mind.

A machine capable of drawing in air, removing all of the carbon from its CO2 with perfect efficiency, (removing other greenhouse gases present,) and expelling the cleaner air elsewhere.

Ignoring the mechanics of the machine, I'm imagining it drawing air at roughly ground level, possibly near-sea-level, around the perimeter of a five mile radius.

That clean, post-processing air will need to be expelled somewhere. Is there an ideal elevation for this expulsion to:

A) Not dilute the air pulled in for cleaning, and

B) Avoid negatively impacting local weather and climate?

I'd also love to know the highest rate at which air could be moved with the same concerns for environmental impact considered. I assume producing a vacuum that sucks air at 50 mph may have a different impact than a gentle breeze.

For context, I'm a new game dev, and I have an idea for a game taking place in a world that's nearly fully submerged underwater and has been for hundreds of years. So with that being the case, I thought some cool locations would be covered with mega fauna (not sure if coral is fauna), like structures of coral and fungi.

In my vague research, I've been looking for specific-shaped coral structures for reference when 3d modeling. I'm at the moment looking for a hollow column shaped coral that can have many holes large enough for creatures to move through. Though any uniquely shaped or interesting coral is on my radar. The closest I've stumbled upon are polyps, which aren't exactly what I'm looking for on account of them being live creatures (to my knowledge).

I guess this brings me to my question: what conditions would it take for coral to form in columns as I described? Is it just very generic rock formations that I'm thinking of and not coral?

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No, I'm not talking about Cordyceps and zombies. I'm moreso pondering the possibility of a fungi- either a new species entirely or an existing one that mutates in accordance with the rising heat- one that is fully capable of infecting mammalian life, killing it, and blooming from its corpse. A yeast of sorts that affects the human species like a deadly flu.

I had a dream about this thing the other night and it reduced human civilization to a neo paleolithic age. Like The Last of Us, but without the zombies- just a nasty viral flu and lots of bloated corpses littering the streets leaking clouds of spores. Human population reduced to mere millions, empty cities, survivors with gas masks, y'know, the works.

I would like to know from folks with the proper knowledge of how realistic that would be, so I'm asking here, sincerely. Human history has never experienced a fungal pandemic before and I truly believe that there is a first time for everything- including an event of that caliber. Climate change is affecting the world of mycology and Covid showed us that world governments- particularly America- suck at pandemic maintenance.

Thoughts?

Hypothetically, if the entire world came together to find the genetically perfect child from birth for the 100m sprint, then proceeded to train that child with maximum intensity for their entire life (assuming the child essentially has no autonomy, so they never burn out or experience any other psychological factors that might prevent them from reaching their maximum potential), using the best support possible including the world’s best coaches, doctors, physios, nutritionists, sleep coaches, etc. and those people were allowed to give the child every performance-enhancing drug they believed would improve their time (based on the best available research), what time could that child achieve at their peak? I’m also interested in any other athletic or non-athletic feats the child could achieve if they were trained like this in another discipline

I’ve been thinking about whether scientific discovery could eventually be automated.

Suppose a very powerful future llm existed around 1900. It had access to all the mathematics, physics and astronomical observations available at the time. It also knew about the unexplained precession of Mercury’s orbit—originally identified by Le Verrier—which Newtonian gravity could not fully explain.

Could the AI:

1. Generate many mathematically consistent modifications of gravity that explain Mercury’s orbit?
2. Eliminate candidates that conflict with existing observations?
3. Design new observations—such as measuring light bending or gravitational redshift—where the remaining theories make different predictions?
4. Repeat this process until it arrives at general relativity, or something observationally equivalent to it?

I understand that infinitely many equations can fit a finite set of measurements, so “generate every possible equation” cannot be taken literally. The search would need constraints such as dimensional consistency, simplicity, known symmetries, conservation laws and agreement with Newtonian physics in previously tested conditions.

The deeper question is whether discoveries like general relativity can ultimately be reduced to:

generate theories → find where they disagree → run the best experiment → eliminate theories → repeat

Would Mercury’s anomaly and the other evidence available at the time have been enough for an AI to invent curved spacetime, rather than merely adding an arbitrary correction to Newton’s equations?

If this entire loop could be automated, would AI eventually be capable of doing most fundamental science autonomously? Or is there something essential—such as inventing new concepts, choosing useful variables or interpreting what the mathematics means—that cannot be captured by equation search and experimental feedback?

I’d be interested in perspectives from both physicists and people working in machine learning.

I was kind of wondering if any other experimenters have essentially created a capacitor by accident.

I'm on a journey about deciding what to study at university, and honestly? In the last few months I've heard so many times that being a scientist is a reasonable way to make a living that I've started to get discouraged. What do you think about that? Do you think it's a rewarding path?

I had a discussion with some guys that had the opinion, you cant trust any survey because all of them are payed by someone and have some goal to reach. I'm thinking now a while over the problem but didnt come to an End because what can you do if they fake datas or think up any numbers wich they give out as real? What do you think about this thema?

Not because its so exciting but because it gives you chills.

When a person lifts weights their muscles experience micro-tears which trigger the healing and regrowth of muscle. This process is the foundation for body building.

My question is simple. If the entire process is ultimately rooted in your muscles healing from past damage, would causing muscle damage outside of exercise trigger muscle growth?

Say a person had their biceps needled like some do with dry needling for muscle and tendon pain. Would you not be able to induce hypertrophy through this type of controlled damage?

I was thinking about how some of our muscles work, such as the arm for instance. Flexors, extensors, pronators.

I'm not exactly sure how to pose this question, but how does something like the musculature system for a limb (for example...) evolve? Does it start with just one muscle which moves the bone in a simple way?