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Graduate Is Dark Matter Only Present on a Galactic Scale?
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Graduate Philosophy and Physics: Questions as to the Origin of the Universe
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Graduate Laws of Physics may change across the Universe
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Graduate Expansion and Conservation of Energy
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Graduate If the big crunch occurred, would time go backwards?
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Graduate What Is the Mechanism Behind Dark Flow?
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Graduate How Does Gravity Influence Our Understanding of Time Since the Big Bang?
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High School What Did the Universe Look Like from the Big Bang to Now?
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High School I think Eddington cooked the books .
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Graduate Universal fractal structure and the infinite universe
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Graduate Is the popular understanding of C.M.B.R. too simplistic?
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High School Is the Universe Like the Inside Of A Spherical Mirror
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Graduate Is the Cosmic Expansion Merely a Result of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle?
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Undergrad Dust or Suns: Which Contributes More to Dark Matter in Space?
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Graduate Life and the size of the universe
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Graduate How much will the planck mission resolve about the universe.
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What is the Purpose of Black Holes?
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Graduate Are Proto-Photons the Only Matter at the Outer Limits of the Universe?
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Graduate Initial state based on current state?
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Graduate Is There a Universe Beyond Our Own?
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Graduate What Causes the Big Crunch and How Does it Affect the Universe's Expansion?
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Graduate Bumping bubbles from our pre-bang past ( test of eternal infl.)
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Graduate Without Dark Matter and Dark Energy
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Graduate Penrose Gurzadyan fire back: new paper today
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Graduate Trying to understand the Shape of the universe.
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How can we define the universe as having a shape ?
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Graduate Photon Red Shift Energy losses in expanding universe theories
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Graduate Missing Milky Way Dark Matter: Surprising Constraints on the Lambda-CDM Model
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Graduate No evidence for circles in the CMB; contrary to claims by Penrose and Gurzadyan
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Graduate Penrose: WMAP Shows Evidence of ‘Activity’ Before Big Bang
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Undergrad Dark Energy & Light: The Mystery
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Graduate Discovering the Shape of the Universe: An Elegant Inquiry
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Graduate When can true singularity take place? Was the big bang the only chance
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Graduate Published data sets for distance modulus versus redshift
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Graduate Is the Universe's Structure Truly Compact or Just Matter-Induced?
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Graduate The Role of EM Radiation in Cosmology Today
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Graduate New figure for speed of solar system relative to the ancient light
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High School Can Cosmic Rays Penetrate Stones, Mountains, and the Human Body? Answers here!
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Undergrad How Far Away Are the Farthest Quasars in the Universe?
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Graduate How did matter go so far so fast?
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Graduate The fate of the Universe - big rip, then big crunch?
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Undergrad Just need someone to clear something up for me
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Graduate Quantum/Relativitiy and the Speed of Light Paradox
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Undergrad Are Black Holes Infinite and Do They Emit Jets?
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Undergrad If the universe came from a single atom, then
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Graduate Could intelligent life cheat God?
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Graduate Why does the universe have to have a beginning?
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Graduate Calculation of CMB anisotropies size
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Graduate Unraveling the Universe: The Relationship Between Matter and Mathematics
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Graduate Is the Universe Infinite? Theories and Considerations
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Graduate How Does Matter Influence the Universe's Expansion and Dark Energy?
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Undergrad Is the Universe Becoming More Orderly or Disorderly?
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Graduate The Universe: Finite or Infinite?
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Graduate Can Black Holes Dance Around Each Other Without Merging?
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High School Our solar system's proximity to other ones
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Graduate String stars instead of black holes?
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Graduate Does the entire universe have a survival instinct?
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Graduate Unraveling the Mystery of Quasars: Are They Really Dying Out?
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Graduate Is Our Perception of the Universe Just a Black Box?
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Undergrad Origin of Cosmic Rays: Intensity Explained
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Graduate How does GR slow a homogeneous universe?
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Graduate Does the universe have zero total energy?
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Graduate Is this equation I made correct?
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Graduate Is gravity really a force of universal attraction?
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Alien life forms, do they exist?
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Undergrad A burning question from a random thinker
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Graduate A question on Gravity Waves and Gravity Radiation
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Undergrad New Dark Matter Map Solving Galactic Puzzle?
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Graduate Relativistic mass and Hubble constant
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Graduate The Ultra-mega-macrostructure of the Universe
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Graduate Where Can I Find Raw Data for Galactic Curve Velocities?
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Graduate Accelerating universe - details and dispute
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Graduate Two separate barycenters of a binary system in a small closed universe?
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Graduate Simply connected vs. non-simply connected
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Graduate Is the future of Cosmology limitless or are we bound by fundamental questions?
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Graduate What is the Egg Shell Theory of the Universe and its implications?
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Graduate Could Dark Mass Be a Possible Explanation for Missing Particles in the Universe?
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Graduate Is there an infinite number of events in the past?
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Graduate Living between the Galaxies (Dark Energy)
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Graduate Why is the vacuum flat, i.e., Euclidean?
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Graduate What Lies Beyond Our Observable Universe?
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Graduate Hubble's Law And A Question Of Time
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Graduate What is the Shape of the Universe?
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Undergrad Fine-tuned Universe for life = God
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Undergrad Eventual decay of all matter - question from an amateur
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Undergrad Could this explain how evaporation of matter occurs in the universe?
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Graduate Are the universe and time abstract concepts?
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Graduate Expanding Universe or Expanding Space?
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Graduate What Existed Before the Big Bang?
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Graduate Questioning the cosmological principle
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Graduate Question about the universe structure?
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Graduate What Is the Energy Associated with Dark Matter WIMP Particles?
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Graduate What is the velocity and direction of the CMB dipole?
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Graduate CMB or nucleosynthesis as empirical tests of gravitation by radiation?
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Graduate If the universe is flat and finite?
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Does an Infinite Universe Include All Gods and Goddesses?
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Graduate Can a universe exist without matter?
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Undergrad Understanding Orbital Mechanics: The Force Behind Planetary Motion
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Undergrad Age of Universe: 14B Years - True or Assumption?
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