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Graduate Fundamental Cosmology conference (Stockholm, November 2012)
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Graduate What is the distance needed for a rocket to reach a velocity of 0 on Planet X?
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Graduate Can Shock Waves Initiate Protostar Formation?
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Undergrad Apparent size of comets in images from the SOHO satellite
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Graduate How can the Universe be flat and accelerating in its expansion?
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High School What is the age of the universe in billions?
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Graduate Another nail in the coffin of alternative redshift theories
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Graduate Is My Proper Time the Same as Cosmological or Conformal Time?
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Graduate Looking for other proof of expanding universe.
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Graduate Is Heat Death or the Big Rip Inevitable in an Open Universe?
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Graduate Understanding Spectra Shifts of Distant Stars
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Undergrad Big Bang Questions: How Far, How Long, Possible?
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Graduate Energy in co-moving co-ordinates?
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Graduate Difference between the Higgs field and the Inflaton field?
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Graduate Periodicity in the mass of planets?
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Graduate I'm sure this has been asked before, but: Universes colliding with each other
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High School Life in the Early Universe: Origins and Evolution
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Graduate Cosmological constant from first principles
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Undergrad Is Retro-Rocket Still a Relevant Term for Slowing Down Satellites?
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Graduate Consequences of a negative mass universe
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High School Can a person catch an object in space and stop it without being pulled along?
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Graduate Determining Mass/Density of Universe: How Accurate?
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Graduate Does Light Exist Outside Time?
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Undergrad Can someone explain abberation of starlight?
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Graduate Could the Formation of Great Voids be Explained by Ordinary Laws of Motion?
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Undergrad How Does the Moon Influence Earth's Rotation and Orbit?
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Oceans vs Outer Space: Colonization & Resources
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Graduate Observable Universe and Black Holes
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Graduate Vogt-Russell Theorem: Learn & Model Stellar Structures
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Undergrad The universe and its matters: finite or infinite?
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Graduate Temperature of planets from their Luminosities at specific wavelengths.
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Graduate Spacetime Crystal: Theory & Possibility
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Graduate Evidence of Cosmic Backround Radiation cooling
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Graduate Gravity Assist Oberth Effect Sun
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Graduate Simple argument for a linear cosmology
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Graduate Dark Matter as possible ground state for all matter
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Graduate Why does our universe/dimension follow the laws that it does?
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Undergrad Is Dark Rift a Rotating Cloud or a Dust Belt Surrounding the Galactic Center?
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Graduate Higgs Boson and Dark Matter / Dark Energy
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Graduate Jupiter and Saturn - Back and Forth in the Early Solar System?
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Graduate Co-moving density should be constant?
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Graduate Perfect cosmological principle in co-moving co-ordinates
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Solar Activity Trends: Historical Chart and Validation for Current Increase
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Graduate Many Worlds + Anthropic Principle
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Graduate A question about our prodominently matter universe.
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Graduate How did gravity build astronomical objects that rotate?
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Graduate Does the Milky have a QSO? What is the observational evidence concerning QSOs?
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Graduate Universe was the size of our solar system after 1 sec
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Undergrad Backwards Orbiting Moon: Impact and Visibility with Earth's Rotation
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Graduate How would Earth mass loss theoretically affect its orbital mechanics?
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Undergrad Red Shift: Questions About Light & Big Bang
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Undergrad Is the Expansion of the Universe Slowing Down?
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Graduate Oldest most distant Galaxy discovered to date
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Undergrad Do You Know Why Stars Have Different Colors?
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Graduate Is This Fomalhaut's Debris Disk?
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Graduate How Are Fluid Solutions Used in Astrophysics and Cosmology?
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Graduate How is mass distribution understood within the LCDM cosmological model?
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Graduate Angular Velocity of a Nebula Accretion Disk
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Graduate How much space mining would begin to affect earth
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Graduate Creating artificial ultradense objects by ablation implosion?
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Graduate The Kantian Wall - The Meaning of Space, Time, and Mass in Modern Physics
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Graduate Big Bang inflation/expansion vs centre of universe vs Speed of light query
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Graduate The First Law of Thermodynamics VS. The Universe Created from Nothing
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Why is the Universe So Complex and What Should I Do About My Existential Crisis?
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Graduate Origin of Matter: Theory Explaining Creation
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Graduate What does it mean that time is expanding?
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Graduate How to Generate Accurate Initial Conditions for Simulating Galaxy Dynamics?
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Graduate Do Solar Systems with Eccentric Planets Have More Stable Orbits?
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Undergrad Q about moon and sun tides, energy related to comet strikes and the mass water?
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Undergrad Is the Expansion of the Universe a Fact or a Possibility?
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Graduate Is Spacetime Capable of Tearing or Breaking Down?
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Graduate Direct detection of dark matter tendrils?
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What is the heaviest thing in the universe?
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Graduate Source of magnetic field of Neutron stars.
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Graduate How Does a 3.5D Perspective Enhance Our Understanding of Spacetime Expansion?
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Graduate Heat Interactions with Non-Normal Matter
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Undergrad How do you calculate declination and Right Ascension from Earth Coordinates?
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Graduate Understanding Rotation Curves: A Study of Galactic Density and Derivatives
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High School A theory about the beginning of the universe
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Graduate Understanding the Zero Energy Principle of the Universe
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Graduate Isotropic and homogeneous of space
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Graduate The Fate of the Universe: Expansion, Matter Decay, and the Ultimate End
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Graduate At what speed are we moving through space?
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Graduate How is gravity considered as the weakest force?
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Undergrad Unraveling the Mystery of the Universe's Center: Theories and Explanations
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Graduate A good book for astrophysics&astronomy
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Graduate Is the Universe's Expansion Rate Truly Accelerating?
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Undergrad Does Light Have Mass? Gravity Effects Explained
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Undergrad Basic Big-Bang ?'s For First Thread
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Graduate Geocentricism, could you comment on a conversation I had about it?
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Graduate The Universe shouldn't look like it does if it is expanding
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Graduate Cherenkov radiation detection
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Undergrad Can you have binary stars with the same radius but different masses?
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Graduate Coarsely modeling impacts between bodies on a planetary scale
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Graduate Latest z >1 Type1a supernova results?
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Graduate On the Origin of Solar and Stellar Magnetic Fields
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Graduate Another theory of the universe based on red and blue shifts
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Undergrad Instruments and Imaging: How to prevent condensation inside a closed system?
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Graduate What is the Latest Measurement of the Hubble Constant Using Infrared Light?
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