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Graduate Universe was the size of our solar system after 1 sec
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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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Graduate Big Bang inflation/expansion vs centre of universe vs Speed of light query
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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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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 How Does a 3.5D Perspective Enhance Our Understanding of Spacetime Expansion?
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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 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 Is the Universe's Expansion Rate Truly Accelerating?
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Undergrad Basic Big-Bang ?'s For First Thread
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Graduate The Universe shouldn't look like it does if it is expanding
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Graduate Latest z >1 Type1a supernova results?
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Graduate What is the Latest Measurement of the Hubble Constant Using Infrared Light?
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Graduate Could a universal Oort cloud structure cause expansive acceleration?
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Graduate Could dark energy and expansion of space be just a topological effect?
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Graduate When talking cosmology what exactly is a manifold, is there any
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Graduate Cosmic Distance Ladder: Advancing Physics of Cosmic Distances
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Graduate Philosophical: Is the universe a type of Turing machine?
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Discover the Fascinating Olber's Paradox in This Cartoon Cosmology Video
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Graduate Expansion of the universe and the speed of light
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Undergrad Simple Beginner Dark Matter Question
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Graduate Why cannot the universe have net angular momentum?
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Graduate Light from MACS 1149-JD implausible
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Graduate Omega being less than one in a flat Universe?
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Undergrad Is Everything Shrinking Instead of Space Expanding in the Big Bang Theory?
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Graduate Is the CMBR a relic from the big bang or an image from background galaxies?
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Graduate Number of Voids in the (observable) Universe
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Can Light Be Slowed or Even Stopped?
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Graduate What Is the Universe Expanding Into?
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Graduate Would Cosmic Expansion Break a Tether Between Galaxies?
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Graduate Does the holographic principle remove the need for dark matter
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Graduate How inflation solves the horizon problem
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Graduate Is Dark Matter Uniformly Distributed Locally and in Distant Galaxies?
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Graduate Dark Matter: Understanding Its Nature & Impact on Stars, Planets
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Graduate Why is the age of the Universe the reciprocal of the Hubble constant?
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Graduate Could a cosmo tabulator give hands-on experience with cosmic Event Horizon?
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Graduate Is the Decaying Vacuum Model a Complete Description of Cosmic Expansion?
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Graduate Space Smoothness: Virtual Particle Effects on Photon Paths
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Graduate Gravity and the expanding universe
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Undergrad Why does the cosmic microwave background make a noise
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Graduate Brian Powell's latest paper: Scalar runnings
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Graduate Does CMBR Cooling Mirror Black Body Radiation Processes?
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Undergrad Hubble's law and the age of the universe
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Undergrad How can the universe be moving faster?
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Undergrad Cosmological models and begining and ending of universe
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Peer-reviewed case study of how an ideal universe would work
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Graduate Why are we so sure the universe existed in a point 13.7 billion years ago?
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Graduate Non-expanding solution to redshift observations
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Undergrad Could Redshift not result from the Doppler effect?
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Graduate Is there a problem in assuming the universe has a boundary?
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Graduate Is the Earth's Distance from the Moon Affected by Universal Expansion?
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Graduate Is universe a 3 dimensional fractal .?
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Graduate Keep track of cosmos by size or by elapsed time? Your preference?
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Graduate Age of the universe in earth's reference frame?
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Graduate NASA's new WISE Survey Results (and dark matter)
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Graduate What proof is there that time started at the moment of the big bang
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Graduate Is the Universe Truly Flat While Space-Time Curves?
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Undergrad After the Big bang ,when did the first atoms form?
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Graduate Are Supersymmetric Inflation Models Still Viable After LHC's Latest Results?
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Graduate Does the big bang theory conflict with the law of conservation?
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Graduate Measuring the size of the observable universe
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Graduate F(R) gravity with non-minimal carvature-matter coupling
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Graduate Early galaxies in formative stages: where are they now?
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Graduate Question about universe formation
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Undergrad Where Does Energy Originate?
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Graduate Supernova 1a Distance Calibration & Implications for H_0
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Graduate How Do Two Doubling Times Shape the Standard Cosmic Model?
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Graduate Dark Matter and Eternal Inflation
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Graduate Can Quantum Mechanics Explain Multiple Universes in the CMB Map?
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Graduate Big Bang modeled as a phase-change
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Graduate Did the universe start as dimensionless and evolve through higher dimensions?
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Graduate Dark Matter in Galaxies/Star Clusters
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Graduate Power of inflation in relation to expansion
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Graduate How much energy is there in the Universe?
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Graduate Light’s temperature and particle’s temperature from 3000K
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Graduate Could a Curved Boundary of Space-Time Explain Dark Energy?
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Undergrad Curious about the age of the Universe
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Graduate Mass Absorption -V- Black Hole size
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Graduate Understanding Energy Density in Cosmology
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Looking for source of cosmology/astrophysics quote
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Graduate Copenhagen interpretation of Big Bang
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Graduate The nature of nothingness/space, and potential multiverse
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Graduate Review of Evidence for Dark Matter
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Graduate Could dark energy be gravitational potential energy?
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Graduate Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
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Graduate Quantum tunneling and the universe
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Graduate Why Does Dark Matter Appear Scale Variant in Galactic Rotation?
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Graduate Will the expanding universe really end up cold and empty?
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Graduate Low Entropy big bang , models that explain it
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