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Graduate The Cause of the Big Bang: Proven Theories
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Graduate Universal constants changing into new ones?
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Graduate Antimatter gravity hypothesis-question
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Graduate Something about The Beginning I could never figure out
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Graduate Singularity Theorem Proof on IanBay's Site
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Graduate ICosmo: an Interactive Cosmology Package
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Undergrad A theory that universe is infinite
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Graduate Where Did the Superforce Go After Splitting?
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Graduate How Does Gravity Affect the Speed of Time Flow?
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Graduate The Big Bang: Where Did it Come From & Does Time Exist?
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Graduate My idea on what happened to all the antimatter.
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Graduate Should the universe's definition include higher spatial dimensions?
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Graduate The Standard Model: Unified Forces or Unanswered Questions?
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Graduate Detecting Bulk Motion of 700 Clusters with KSZ Effect: Results & Implications
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Graduate Is the Observable Universe Really Limited to 13.7 Billion Light-Years?
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Graduate Dark Energy, the Cosmological Constant, General Relativity and you
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Graduate Couple of Bounce Questions Regarding Black Holes / Universe
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Graduate Can We Reach and Surpass the Universe's Edge?
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Undergrad Background Radiation: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe
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Graduate What Can We Learn from the Distant Gamma Ray Burst GRB 080913?
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Undergrad The sum of all energy in the universe
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Graduate More on Infinity: Why Does Balloon Analogy Not Describe Universe?
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Graduate The inconsistent current picture of the universe?
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Graduate Does the expansion of the universe violate conservation of energy?
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Graduate Loop Quantum Gravity: Is the Speed of Light a Function of Wavelength?
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Graduate Do Bounce Theories Consider the Role of Elements in Cosmic Collapses?
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Graduate Common parlance for Cosmo forum, proposed
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Graduate Relative Velocity: Can We Exceed the Speed of Light?
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Graduate Origin of the Uinverse / baby universe
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Graduate Hydrodynamics of structure formation
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Graduate Upper BH mass limit, another structure formation clue?
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Graduate Right after the bigbang, microblackholes were formed
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Graduate Is Ned's Calculator Mislabeling Angular Size Distance?
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Graduate Modifying Newtonian Gravitational Force
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Graduate Oscillating universe and entropy
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Graduate Usefulness of a 4th spatial dimension
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Graduate If a blackhole contains a singularity, and the big bang was as well
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Graduate Is the Universe's Geometry Truly Irrational?
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Graduate Practical cosmology and cosmology physics
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Undergrad How Many Gamma-Ray Bursts Occur in Each Galaxy?
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Graduate Ideas about dark matter and structure
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Undergrad Is the Pioneer Anomaly really directed towards the Sun ?
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Graduate More clues about structure formation (e.g. minimum galaxy mass)
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Graduate Filaments of Galaxies: Connecting Clusters in Space
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Graduate How Does Dark Energy Affect the Universe's Expansion?
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Graduate Alternative hypoteses for cosmological redshift
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Graduate What Models Explain the Expansion of the Big Bang?
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Undergrad Can arXiv.org's Papers be Simplified for Beginner Physics Students?
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Graduate Does the Black Hole Event Horizon violate the Equivalence Principle?
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Graduate What is the outer source of anomalous cosmic rays?
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Graduate What is the Difference Between Curved Space and Curved Spacetime?
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Graduate Would like to know what energy is beyond its definition
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What Does a Cosmologist Do?
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Graduate Can human being ever find the real basic laws of our universe?
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Graduate Friedman equations from flat FRW universe line element
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Graduate Can black holes really destroy information forever?
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Graduate Liveweaver's Paper On Expanding Confusion Is Confusing
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Undergrad Is the Big Bang Theory the Only Valid Explanation for the Universe's Origin?
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Undergrad Dark matter within the solar system
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Graduate Converting Cosmic Super-Voids from Mpc/h to LY - What is the Conversion Factor?
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Graduate Did the Big Bang Really End or Are We Still in It?
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Graduate Debunking Dark Energy: Where Does Energy Go in the Universe?
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Graduate What Causes a Star to Collapse into a Black Hole?
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Graduate XMM observes evidence of dark energy
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Undergrad Is the Universe Expanding or Are Galaxies Moving Apart?
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Undergrad Life in Universe, statistical point of view
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Undergrad Which Weakens More Over Distance: Gravity or Light?
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Graduate Number of galaxies by type, today
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Graduate Can the cosmological constant term run in Einstein's equations?
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Graduate Galaxie recession vs. universe expansion?
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Graduate Is the Universe Expanding from a Single Point and Can We Observe Its Center?
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Graduate Principles behind galaxy formation
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Graduate Origin of universe/big bang question
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Undergrad Possible rotation of a tidal locked object?
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Could Invisible Matter Exist in Different Dimensions?
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Graduate Why is matter not uniformly distributed across space time?
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Graduate Expansion drains momentum from massive objects
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Graduate Why is space expanding and matter including galaxies not shrinking?
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Graduate Is The Definition Of A Singularity Incorrect?
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Graduate What is the speed of gravity and its relationship to light?
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Graduate Temperature of the CMB, from WMAP
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Graduate Why Does the Speed of Light Have a Limit?
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Graduate Is the energy and mass of the universe constant?
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Graduate Why Don't Cosmologists Consider Other OUs?
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Graduate String fusion during the begining of our universe?
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Graduate How Does the Cosmological Constant Λ Define the Cosmic Scale of Space-Time?
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High School Is Matter Composed of Space and Energy?
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Undergrad Was the Early Universe Hot?
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Graduate What Do 600 Hubble Survey Results Reveal About Cosmic Expansion?
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Graduate Is the Universe's Expansion Constant or Accelerating?
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Graduate Are the Cosmological Coincidences Just a Matter of Chance?
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Will the universe run out of energy?
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Graduate Swiss Cheese" Cosmology: Luminosity Dist. & Single Void Size
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Undergrad What is the relationship between the speed of light and the meter?
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Graduate Superluminal Recession & Cosmological Redshift
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Graduate Universe as Computer Sim. - Practical Considerations
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Graduate Holographic Principle Research Paper
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All our information comes from light
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Graduate How Do We Understand the Size and Limits of the Universe?
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Graduate Sim of first star formation (100 solar typical)
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