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Graduate Constants and multiverse possibilities
- leonstavros
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Graduate Can we see the earth in the past ?
- HossamCFD
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Graduate Formula of anti-gravitational force
- Ranku
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Graduate Finite Universe: Why Postulate an Infinite Universe?
- paulselhi
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Graduate Center of the Universe (thought experiment)
- cbd1
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Graduate Can We Truly Conceptualize Quantum Particles and Four-Dimensional Space-Time?
- Mr Peanut
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High School Does matter and energy come into existence in the Big Bang?
- philophysics3
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Undergrad Does Hawking radiation decay faster for smaller black holes?
- srfriggen
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Undergrad Is Anything Else Expanding Like the Universe?
- FeDeX_LaTeX
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Undergrad Expansion Algorithm: Acceleration Over Time
- amaruq
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Graduate How exactly can CMBR tell us universe age
- azaharak
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Undergrad An asteroid is orbiting around the sun at a distance of 4.2
- Brittykitty
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Undergrad Difference between hot and warm pixels?
- the riddick25
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Undergrad Astrophysics and astronomy resources for self-study
- zico89
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Undergrad Why do black bodies emit light at all wavelengths when heated?
- Niko Bellic
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Graduate What's the most distant observed star which is not a supernova or quasar?
- petergreat
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Undergrad Question regarding movement of universe
- FeDeX_LaTeX
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Undergrad Question: What is our solar systems galactic position?
- Sam G
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Graduate Expansion of space or accelerating speed?
- harrietjob
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High School Relationship between color of stars and their heat intensitiy
- dreamfrost
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Undergrad Does solar wind at 400 km/s take 4 days to disturb Earth's magnetic field?
- tom_l
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Graduate Gravitational waves and quantum physics
- madness
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Graduate Is Antimatter Present in Cosmic Rays?
- Naty1
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Undergrad What happens when two black holes approach each other?
- KnowPhysics
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Graduate Smolin's two predictions, circa 2006, True ?
- rhody
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Undergrad Would converting all mass in the universe to energy raise the average temperature?
- tiredryan
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Graduate How did scientists use WMAP to determine the flatness of the universe?
- benk99nenm312
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Stargazing Could a very large telescope see a star as a disk?
- Thecla
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High School All the bodies in our solar system alligns in one line?
- mervk_16
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Undergrad The Possibility of "Pure" Planets
- MrModesty
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Graduate The Interplanetary Magnetic Field
- kd001
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Undergrad Should the Drake Equation Consider Moons?
- Loren Booda
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Graduate Will it ever be possible to create Matter from a large source of energy ?
- Physicz
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Graduate Why doesn't cosmic expansion affect bound systems like atoms and planets?
- tfast
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High School Farthest known astronomical objects discovered per year before 2000
- Micru
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Graduate How can we see galaxies 13 billion light-years away?
- ultrasquid
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Graduate Could the Early Universe Have Collapsed into Black Holes?
- Constantin
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Graduate Origin of the Universe - Byteland.org
- TalonD
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Graduate Why doesn't the universe cool down during inflation?
- matteo210
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Undergrad Finding orbital state vectors of planets at a specific time
- ayae
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Graduate Michio Kaku, Parallel Universes, and Galactic EZ Bake Ovens
- Mr. Q
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Undergrad What caused Earth's orbital change 125,000 years ago?
- jnorman
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Graduate Does gravitational potential energy change as space expands between stars?
- kasperm
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Undergrad Did Mars belonged in Earth's Orbit at one time?
- GaryF
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Graduate Big Bang Big Schmang, astronomical redshift is an artifact of distance
- MartinTimothy
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Graduate Is the rare Earth hypothesis correct about life's rarity?
- emc2cracker
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High School What are some theories of the creation of the universe?
- Da2Shae
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Graduate Calculating strength gravity over light years
- ensabah6
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Undergrad Why are there Magnetic Fields on the Sun?
- wofsy
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Undergrad What is the force of gravity between Andromeda and the Milky Way?
- masonlane
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Graduate Asymptote of expected rotation curve velocities
- Buckethead
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Graduate Reversing a Black Hole: Can It Be Done?
- spellberg56
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High School Graphs of galaxy rotation curves?
- Buckethead
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Graduate Big Bang supposedly set matter and energy
- rrw4rusty
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Graduate Extended structure of dark matter
- Loren Booda
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Graduate How could matter-antimatter annihilation power spacecraft?
- DarkStar707
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Graduate Evidence of Rotating Black Holes?
- cbd1
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High School Is Astrobiology a Legitimate Scientific Field?
- Lacy33
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Graduate Can a star and black hole orbit each other stably without accretion?
- danihel
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Graduate Energy, blackholes and whiteholes
- alvarogz
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Graduate Electron degeneracy pressure in QM
- Naty1
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Graduate Could panspermia have seeded life across the early solar system?
- qraal
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Undergrad How Does the Sun's Motion Appear from Earth's Perspective?
- Freeman Dyson
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Graduate The First Particles After the Big Bang: What Do We Know?
- cbd1
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Undergrad Wavelengths increasing with space?
- earlofwessex
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Undergrad Can we track the Sun's galactic orbit and find sister stars?
- emc2cracker
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Graduate Hydrostatic Equilibrium in General Relativity
- Totalderiv
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Graduate Question on redshift/expanding universe
- gamblej
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Graduate Determining Distances to Galaxies
- sderamus
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What does 'try again next time' mean in a job interview rejection?
- Dolphiney
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Graduate Can the Big Crunch Theory Allow for Time Reversal?
- Aero_Marty
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Graduate Limiting value of Hubble constant
- Ranku
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High School How To measure Moon Orbital Velocity ?
- ZakieChan
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Graduate 7-year WMAP observations: cosmological parameters and constraints
- marcus
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Graduate When did H2O develop during the last 13.5 b y?
- baywax
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Undergrad What is the relation between gravity and light?
- phy_freak
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Graduate Space-time fabric distortion measuring
- steli
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Undergrad Coordinate systems in the solar system?
- dotancohen
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Graduate What happened to the vacuum genesis theory of the Big Bang?
- Mean-Hippy
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Graduate Gravitons and gravity in a asteroid-planet interaction
- bikeaddict
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High School When will the Sun expand and what would happen to Earth?
- curious_cat
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Undergrad Force of Gravity in terms of Density
- wildkat7411
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Undergrad Why would traveling through a wormhole take you to a different time?
- altairz
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Graduate Accelerating Universe, Relativistic Mass and Dark Energy
- oXDawidXo
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Graduate The Universe's Possible Cyclic Existence
- A. H. ES NA S
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Graduate Is Gravity Truly an Entropic Force in the Universe?
- oldman
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Eternal Universe - What Do You Think?
- Shadowmonk710
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High School Can I observe objects with negative declination from 45N?
- Freeman Dyson
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Graduate Is the omega point theory by Frank Tipler plausible?
- celebrei
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Graduate What happens to a system with mass below the Jeans mass?
- Ranku
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Undergrad Formulas for Elliptical Orbits X,Y,Z Co-Ordinates
- frogtag
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Graduate Observing Bright Stars: Project Checkup
- Berdi
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Undergrad Where does the missing energy go in redshift?
- david2010
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Graduate Detection of gravitational waves
- Ranku
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High School Resources for learning about black holes and astronomy
- irphysics
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Graduate Do gravitons exist and is gravity made of them?
- phy_freak
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Graduate The Universe Exists Because It Has To
- Evolver
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Undergrad Does Hydrogen Alone Lead to Life in the Universe?
- FUNKER
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Undergrad How Do Black Holes Influence the Path of Light?
- vorcil
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