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Graduate Uncovering the Mysteries of Dark Matter's Energy Content
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Undergrad Calculation of mean energy value of photons in recombination
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Undergrad Exponential expansion of inflation
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Undergrad Is the influence of dark matter symmetric?
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Undergrad Flat vs Open Universe: CMBR & Type Ia Supernovae
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Undergrad How Do We Measure the First Second of the Universe?
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High School Voyager 1 - image of 'Pale Blue Dot'
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High School How do physicist determine the energy of the universe?
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Do White Holes Violate 2nd Law of Thermodynamics?
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Undergrad CMB Education Tool - Adjust Contrasts & Visualize Effects
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High School Have we observed antimatter in the early universe?
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Undergrad How can the universe be infinitely big?
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High School Could dark energy just be caused by virtual particles
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Undergrad What Are the Proposed Alternatives to the Multiverse Theory?
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Undergrad The observable Universe and its shape
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Undergrad Is There a Preferred Axis in Cosmology and What Could Be Its Origin?
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High School Is Dark Energy Really Driving the Expansion of the Universe?
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High School Geometries of the Universe: What are the Most Accepted Models?
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Undergrad Could pulsar timing arrays see primordial gravity waves?
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Undergrad Deriving Equation of Motion for Quintessence Scalar Field?
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Graduate Tension between local and CMB measurements of Hubble constant
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Explore Binary System Inspiral w/ 1.5 Solar Masses
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Graduate In LIGO’s pulse, how much comes from BH merging/ inspiraling
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Undergrad Will a Slow Decrease in Dark Energy Density Alter the Fate of the Universe?
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Undergrad Axis of Evil": Power Asymmetry in the Universe
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High School What is causing the accelerated expansion of the universe?
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High School Does the Formation of Positive and Negative Mass Occur Throughout the Universe?
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Undergrad Understanding dark energy problem
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Graduate Could an entropic force help explain size of the cosmological constant?
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High School What are the limitations of the heuristic picture of Hawking radiation?
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High School Is it possible for "nothing" to exist
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Undergrad Time Space Fabric: Malleability & Extension Explored
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Insights A Brief on the Expansion of the Universe - Comments
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High School Could Another Big Bang Happen in My Hand?
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High School E=mc^2 & Universe Expansion - Answers Wanted!
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Undergrad Virtual Particles: Inflation vs Present Universe
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High School Entropy is greater in galaxies or pre atomic era
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What percentage of the universe's mass is contributed by neutrinos?
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Undergrad Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Anisotropies
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High School Could Supermassive Black Holes Be More Common Than We Thought?
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High School Questions regarding pre Big Bang
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Graduate What's the truth behind CCC's concentric circles prediction for the CMB?
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High School Continuous or discrete acceleration?
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High School Can Light Ever Stand Still in the Universe?
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High School Big Bang versus No Beginning and No End.... What is the lates
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Graduate Instability of Cosmology with Quantum Corrections
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Graduate Where to find galaxy mass function observational data?
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High School Is There a Global Database for Public Domain Scientific Knowledge?
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Undergrad VR/AR big bang model (Virtual Reality Simulation)
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High School What Are the Latest Insights on CMB Anomalies from Ali Frolop and Douglas Scott?
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High School Why does light not have infinite mass?
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Graduate What distance is used in Hubble's Law.
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Undergrad Dark Era of the Universe: Is it Really Dark?
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Undergrad Does the Universe's Expansion lead to Critical Mass < 1?
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High School What Are Common Misunderstandings About the Big Bang Theory?
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Undergrad Universe from Nothing: Cosmological Theory Explained
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Undergrad Can Dark Matter just be vacuum fluctuations?
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Undergrad Thought experiment: Communication beyond the particle horizon
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High School Final Temperature of the Universe: Effects of Dark Energy and Spatial Curvature
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High School Could redshift be caused by time speeding up?
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High School Is Space Infinite? Examining the Big Bang Theory and the Curvature of Spacetime
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Undergrad "Dark energy" may be nothing more than baseline curvature
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High School How Did the God Particle Explode to Create Our Universe?
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Undergrad Hypersphere mock-ups for educational purposes
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Undergrad CMB Radiation Q: Can It Be Detected from 42 Million Light Years?
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Undergrad Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor
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Undergrad Dark Matter Detection Experiment Results?
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Undergrad Does The LCDM Model need reworking?
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High School Challenge to humanity to see beyond and further than the CMS
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Undergrad Dark energy and the gravitational constant
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Undergrad Monopole Creation and Higgs Field
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High School Understanding the Flat Geometry and Curvature of the Universe
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Undergrad Is the following a smaller version of dark energy?
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Undergrad Current views on what happens at largest and smallest scales
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High School Hubble breaks the distance record with a redshift of 11.1
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Undergrad Deriving the second Friedman equation from the first.
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High School Will super symmetry become part of cosmology
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Graduate Having Trouble Plotting the Cosmic Shear Power Spectrum Kernel?
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Graduate What are the implications for dark matter searches and supersymmetry?
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High School Gravitational Radiation: Effects on Objects & Black Holes
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Was there more galaxy clustering in early Universe?
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How Does Geometry Influence Our Understanding of the Universe?
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How Does Dark Energy Influence the Expansion of Our Universe?
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Multiverse theory and Dark Matter
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How is the redshift of gravitational wave events measured?
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Gravitational waves, distance and space-time
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Is SUSY the next big step in cosmology
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What happens to energy of the stars?
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What is a finite and bounded universe and how do scientists envision it?
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Are there a regions of space with no gravity?
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Does age of Universe reveal its size?
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Is Numerology the Key to Understanding the Universe?
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Undergrad What If I Were Able to Remove All Matter From the Universe?
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Undergrad Gravitational waves due to Big Bang?
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F(R) gravity and the Hubble parameter
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Question on gravitational waves and redshift in BH coalesce
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Question: Accelerating Universe = Net Positive Energy?
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Graduate Perception of time, gravitational waves.
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When is the peak energy of gravitational radiation
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Accurate Measurement of Cosmological Constant Value
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