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Graduate Oscillating universe and entropy

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Does MySpace Tom have a public personal email?

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Graduate What is the true nature of dark energy and its gravitational effects?

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Graduate Usefulness of a 4th spatial dimension

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Graduate Understanding Matter and Antimatter Interactions in Black Holes

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Identifying a Bright Celestial Object in FL, USA - Eraniamayomii

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High School What is the cause of the rotation of the planets

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Graduate If a blackhole contains a singularity, and the big bang was as well

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Undergrad 3 questions on Physical Cosmology

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Graduate Is the Universe's Geometry Truly Irrational?

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Like a diamond in the sky(with video)

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Undergrad Motion of randomly generated stars

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Graduate Can Two Stars in a Static Universe Ever Collide Due to Gravitational Influence?

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Undergrad Is Pi a Rational Number in Discrete Space?

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Graduate Practical cosmology and cosmology physics

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Undergrad How Many Gamma-Ray Bursts Occur in Each Galaxy?

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Graduate Gravitational acceleration for a rotating torus

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Graduate Ideas about dark matter and structure

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Undergrad Is the Pioneer Anomaly really directed towards the Sun ?

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Graduate More clues about structure formation (e.g. minimum galaxy mass)

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Undergrad Kepler's Laws, mysterious equation?

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Graduate Could CMB Mass Reveal Insights About Dark Matter?

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Graduate Filaments of Galaxies: Connecting Clusters in Space

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Graduate How Does Dark Energy Affect the Universe's Expansion?

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Graduate Alternative hypoteses for cosmological redshift

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Graduate Measuring astronomical distances

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Graduate What Models Explain the Expansion of the Big Bang?

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Graduate What is centimeter continuum emission?

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Undergrad Can arXiv.org's Papers be Simplified for Beginner Physics Students?

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Undergrad What type of camera is needed for solar corona photography?

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Graduate Does the Black Hole Event Horizon violate the Equivalence Principle?

  • Sigie
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Undergrad Is it known what dark matter is?

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Graduate What is the outer source of anomalous cosmic rays?

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Graduate What is the Difference Between Curved Space and Curved Spacetime?

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Graduate Would like to know what energy is beyond its definition

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Graduate White Hole Postulation: Can it Exist?

  • Questman
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High School We in the Center: Why Are We at the Universe's Center?

  • Yoni
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What Does a Cosmologist Do?

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Graduate Black Holes and Galaxy formation

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Graduate Can human being ever find the real basic laws of our universe?

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Undergrad Find the spectra of most elements on line?

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Graduate Friedman equations from flat FRW universe line element

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Graduate Can black holes really destroy information forever?

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Undergrad Basic Question about angle of inclination of a circle

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Stargazing Light Source for Point source fibers - telescope

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Graduate Liveweaver's Paper On Expanding Confusion Is Confusing

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Graduate Dark Matter Exists: Evidence from Colliding Clusters

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Undergrad Is the Big Bang Theory the Only Valid Explanation for the Universe's Origin?

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Undergrad Dark matter within the solar system

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Graduate Converting Cosmic Super-Voids from Mpc/h to LY - What is the Conversion Factor?

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High School Black Holes & Wormholes - What Happens?

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Graduate Signal to the end of the universe

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High School Tides are influenced by the moon

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Graduate Did the Big Bang Really End or Are We Still in It?

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Graduate Debunking Dark Energy: Where Does Energy Go in the Universe?

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Graduate What Causes a Star to Collapse into a Black Hole?

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Graduate XMM observes evidence of dark energy

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Undergrad Is the Universe Expanding or Are Galaxies Moving Apart?

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Undergrad Life in Universe, statistical point of view

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Undergrad Which Weakens More Over Distance: Gravity or Light?

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Graduate Number of galaxies by type, today

  • Barnak
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Graduate Can the cosmological constant term run in Einstein's equations?

  • wolram
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Graduate A way to see dark matter annihilation (Pamela: cosmic positrons/antiprotons)

  • marcus
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Graduate Galaxie recession vs. universe expansion?

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Graduate Is the Universe Expanding from a Single Point and Can We Observe Its Center?

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Graduate Principles behind galaxy formation

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Graduate Can sound waves reveal the history of dark energy in galaxies?

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Graduate Gunn-Peterson effect and the Lyman-alpha forest

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Graduate What is the newest theory on the missing mass?

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Graduate Origin of universe/big bang question

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Undergrad What Do Hard and Soft Spectrums Really Mean?

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Undergrad Basic question about sun's mass & orbit of planets

  • Bob Weaver
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Undergrad Possible rotation of a tidal locked object?

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Could Invisible Matter Exist in Different Dimensions?

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Graduate Why is matter not uniformly distributed across space time?

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Graduate Rotations of Earth and other Rigid Bodies

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Graduate Expansion drains momentum from massive objects

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Undergrad Moon's & Sun's Diameters During Solar Eclipse

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Graduate Why is space expanding and matter including galaxies not shrinking?

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Graduate Hubble+/- 4.3%, is the constant constant ?

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Graduate What Happens If You Travel Beyond the Edge of the Universe?

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Graduate Is The Definition Of A Singularity Incorrect?

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Undergrad Gravitation Force on the Earth's Centre

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Graduate What is the speed of gravity and its relationship to light?

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Graduate Temperature of the CMB, from WMAP

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Graduate Why Does the Speed of Light Have a Limit?

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Graduate Is the energy and mass of the universe constant?

  • azzkika
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Graduate Why Don't Cosmologists Consider Other OUs?

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Graduate String fusion during the begining of our universe?

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Graduate How Does the Cosmological Constant Λ Define the Cosmic Scale of Space-Time?

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High School Why cant u go to outer space like an upwards climbing roller coaster?

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High School Is Matter Composed of Space and Energy?

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Undergrad Was the Early Universe Hot?

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Graduate Orbit in space (extrasolar planets)

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Graduate Hubble ultra deep field - beyond the big bang

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Favorite books to read on subjects ranging from Astronomy

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High School How does the movement of stars compare to the movement of planets

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Graduate What Do 600 Hubble Survey Results Reveal About Cosmic Expansion?

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Graduate Pliers, pulsars and extreme physics

  • Garth
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Undergrad Why Don't Galaxy Rotations Follow Kepler's Third Law?

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