Why is this board so inactive?

[Madscientist]

Is there something I am missing?
I don't understand it.. why is there nothing going on here? Isn't science important? Aren't new things being discovered every day?

[mastodon]

mostly the interest on the boards has always been in the off topic stuff on the open board, politics, current events, and the like. there really has never been much posting at all on the science board, unfortunately.

[justoleme]

Oh ,I like science too,,But i wonder if there are any happy scientist?

[jutka]

Probably because most people are ignorant when it comes to science.

[IaBHOREgUNS]

im happy scien........ce student

[Dr_Nuisance]

last time I actually attempted to read a theoretical physics paper...the universe was deemed to be either 11 or 12 dimensional....Now, I didn't quite get the physics, but the math I understand...has to do with the fact that the forces are somehow represented as sections of a principle SU(N) bundle can't remember what N is...is it 4? What's the current theory? and is it that the other dimensions are "razor thin" or have high curvature?

Ok, the other question I have is the following simple question...Do you really believe the Mitochondrial Eve theory? And is there a sense that we are misinterpreting it?

on a related topic....you have 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great grand parents....In general you have 2^N great^N-2 grand parents. Assuming that a generation gap is on average over the ages, 25, that means we are talking about between 2^78~ 302,231,454,903,657,000,000,000.00 ancestors back at around Christ's era if no interbreeding took place, which clearly can't be the case....so it must mean a) that we all have many common ancestors and b)there was a lot of inbreeding...right?

[Dr_Nuisance]

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