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High School Are There Stars Primarily Composed of Helium?
- Loren Booda
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Graduate 3pi/Lambda = area of cosmological horizon
- marcus
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Graduate Cosmological redshift: how much energy has gone missing?
- marcus
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Graduate Lee Smolin predicted dark energy back in 1995
- marcus
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High School What initiates star birth and how does gravity focus debris into a star?
- wolram
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Graduate A toolkit for working with natural units
- marcus
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Graduate One theory is that the higgs particle gives matter mass
- wolram
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Graduate What are the galactic coordinates of the Cosmic Microwave Background hotspot?
- marcus
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Graduate How long before the sun goes red giant?
- marcus
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Graduate What is the quantitative understanding of Hawking radiation from a black hole?
- marcus
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Graduate Understanding Rho Crit: The Critical Density of the Universe
- marcus
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Graduate SauwIs the concept of finite space in infinite time scientifically valid?
- Sauwelios
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Undergrad Are fundamental physical laws dependent on our choice of units of measurement?
- heusdens
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Graduate Are There Explanations for Solar Neutrino Anomalies and Hot Jupiters?
- sage
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Stargazing Effects of a massive object on light and its relation to the 1919 Eclipse
- JM2107
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Undergrad Astronomer107 and the surface gravity of a black hole
- marcus
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Graduate What's your favorite brief survey of modern cosmology?
- marcus
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Stargazing Check Out the Lunar Eclipse Tonight - Night Calculator
- kyle_soule
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Graduate Question re GP-3 orbiting gyroscopes test of relativity
- marcus
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Graduate Z/A in the Chandrasekhar formula
- marcus
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Graduate Why does gravity occur?
- Tyger
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Undergrad Which nearby star system should we target for interstellar missions?
- meteor
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Graduate In 1998 Hubble volume meant a cube 12 billion LY on a side
- marcus
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Graduate Early planetary formation thought
- drag
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Graduate Is Photon Energy Lost or Conserved in Cosmological Redshift?
- (Q)
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Graduate What Secrets Do Solar Rings and Shadow Matter Hold?
- Tyger
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Graduate The principle of least action/time, and geodesics of spacetime
- vshiro
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Undergrad What is a Hubble volume?
- RuroumiKenshin
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Graduate Radius of cosmological mass-energy symmetry?
- Loren Booda
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Graduate Can the Infinite Time Theory Be Refuted in Cosmology?
- Sauwelios
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Graduate What happened before the Big Bang?
- Viper
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High School This seems kind of weird, but is there really no such thing as gravity in
- New-Prototype
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Undergrad Photon structure - light decyphering
- Victor
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Undergrad What creates the tail of a comet as it moves through space?
- charlatan
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Graduate A great 16 page paper in quantum cosmology
- marcus
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Graduate Nything beyond the known universe boundaries?
- Viper
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Graduate Dimensionless cosmology-getting rid of units
- marcus
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Undergrad Why isn't the universe shaped like a bubble with a void in the middle?
- wyzowl
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Graduate What is false vacuum and can it collapse from high-energy events?
- Parsons
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Undergrad How is transit time accounted for in universe age estimates?
- wyzowl
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Graduate Is there an anti-space analogous to antimatter?
- wolram
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Graduate Are Refinements to Newton’s Calculations Necessary?
- Bill Gavlas
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Graduate What is the weight of a copy at Earth's average distance from the sun?
- marcus
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Graduate Can the finite space and energy with infinite time theory be refuted?
- Sauwelios
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Graduate Problems with big bang theory expansion and isotropy
- Michael F. Dmitriyev
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Undergrad Is There a Reason for the Unique Shape of This Galaxy?
- Tyger
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Graduate The Physics of Immortality: Fact or Fiction?
- demiurge
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Graduate What does one calorie per cubic mile mean to you?
- marcus
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High School Is Interstellar Travel Feasible with Current Physics?
- Twisted Angel
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Respected Linde vs Far-Out Rees: Who to Follow?
- Labguy
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Graduate What are your ideas about describing Planck units?
- marcus
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Graduate Are black holes regions of absolute zero with no mass or fluctuations?
- Michael F. Dmitriyev
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Einstein was right about the speed of gravity
- Rashid
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Graduate What experiments confirm the big bang theory?
- Will
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Could the universe be expanding inside a black hole?
- quasi-quasar
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Undergrad S.A.R.S Could this be the result of inbound Particles
- ranyart
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Graduate Alternative forms of the Friedmann equations
- marcus
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High School Anybody know the name of this mission?
- enigma
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Graduate Could Suicidal Black Holes Evolve Due to Their Charge and Hawking Radiation?
- MrCaN
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Undergrad Does light accelerate when approaching a black hole?
- Moogle
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Graduate If you go fast enough will you turn into a black hole
- My User Name
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Graduate Are there more than two types of charges in spacetime?
- blike
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Graduate (Not folding space) Instant Travel Form A-B? But Not Time (theory)
- Stormy
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Graduate Can Inflation Theory Explain the Curious Behavior of Gravity?
- wimms
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Undergrad Where does galactic kinetic energy come from?
- Saint
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Explore the Local Space in 3D: Download Celestia for Free!
- Mr. Robin Parsons
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High School How wide is the Milky Way and how can we see it from inside?
- Saint
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Graduate How quantized space affects graviton transmission in collapsing matter
- demiurge
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Undergrad Why do we skip leap year every 100 years instead of every 25?
- The_oMeGa
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High School How far does the earth travel in one year?
- wolram
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Graduate Why do galaxy clusters form sheets?
- drag
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Graduate Is the Level I Multiverse the Most Popular Cosmological Model Today?
- MegaFishTank
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Graduate Why 1 dimensional discrete space?
- Eh
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Graduate It's Official-The Universe is Absurd
- wuliheron
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Graduate What is the importance of hadronic matter in physics?
- chaplaintappman22
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Undergrad Why does Einstein's Cross show four images instead of a distorted ring?
- Hydr0matic
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Undergrad Finding individual masses of visual binary stars from orbital period
- pi-70679
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Why worry about untestable cosmological speculation
- MrCaN
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Graduate Electrons in intergalactic space.
- ranyart
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Graduate Does a flat dust-dominated universe with positive cosmological constant expand forever?
- Wong
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Graduate Philosophy of Nature. Time and Space
- heusdens
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High School Physics of colliding stars for a school project
- sen_almighty
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Graduate IN the Future Blackholes or Wormholes
- Rashid
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Graduate So, Is the gravity of a light emmitting star really decreasing as 1/r?
- ObsessiveMathsFreak
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Graduate Speed of Gravity = c: Does Traveling at C Affect Gravity?
- wolram
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Graduate Do Black Holes and Wormholes Affect Time and Space Similarly?
- Radiatedtheory18
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Is SETI@home worth joining now?
- KLscilevothma
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Graduate Is there a prediction for the frequency of a gravity wave?
- wolram
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Graduate Challenge - A problem in astronomy
- Messiah
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Have you watch the movie the core?
- Saint
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Moving mass good or indifferent?
- Nowbodylaterenergy
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Graduate Is Everything a Form of Positive and Negative Space in Matter?
- Lifegazer
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High School Which Voyager spacecraft traveled further: 1 or 2?
- Radiatedtheory18
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Graduate Skinny galaxy harbors massive black hole at core
- (Q)
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How does light pollution impact birds and other wildlife?
- Phobos
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