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Graduate Visualizing Astrophysical N-body Systems, John Dubinski
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Graduate Diminishing Results in Cosmology: Public Interest Fading?
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Graduate Graph with Saul and Perlmutter's results
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Graduate Good intro to cyclash universe by Steinhardt
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Graduate Cosmic Accelerators summerschool videos
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Graduate Is Redshift an Accurate Indicator of the Universe's Expansion Rate?
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High School What is the Difference Between an Open and Closed Universe?
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Graduate Could Variation in Light Speed Explain the Horizon Problem?
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Graduate What Is the Event Horizon Size When All Matter Is Infinitely Packed Together?
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Graduate What is the Nature of Dark Matter and How Are Scientists Trying to Discover It?
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New Special Issue: Dark Energy in GRG Journal
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Graduate Cosmological Constant in mks units
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Graduate Questions on mass-to-light ratio
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Graduate Proper distance at time of emission
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Penrose Lecture: Find Web Address for Lecture
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Graduate ESF release on tapping early universe (23 May)
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Graduate Calculating the cosmological constant from scratch
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Graduate What's the implication of calulationing the apparent angular sizes of a galaxy
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Graduate Angle deflection from gravitational lenses
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Graduate Tethered galaxy problem reconsidered
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Graduate Differences between GR & SR are frame-dependent
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Graduate Penrose on YouTube, before bang cosmology, eight episodes October 2007
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High School Why Do People Believe in the Big Bang Theory?
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Graduate Unraveling the Big Bang Question: Escaping the Gravitational Pull of Black Holes
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Graduate Is dark energy from cosmic Hawking radiation?
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Graduate Uncovering the Truth About the Moon's Orbit and the Universe's Expansion
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Graduate Was There Really a Billion Lightyear-Wide Void in the Sky?
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Graduate Does the WMAP immage show the edge of the universe?
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Graduate Determining Hubble Constant and Scale Factor of Universe
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Graduate Non-Gaussianity Analysis on WMAP Data
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Graduate Breaking Discovery: Missing Matter Found in Cosmic Web, Experts Weigh In
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Graduate Can loop quantum gravity see before the Bang?
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Graduate How Can Democracy Handle Complex Scientific Issues?
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Undergrad Can Black Holes Revert Back Into Stars?
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Graduate Why Is the Scalefactor 1 Today?
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Graduate Microwave BG vs Expansion vs Hydrogen Microwave Emission
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High School Take a Picture of Big Bang - Clarifying Questions
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Graduate Rocky Kolb's top 10 Questions about the Universe
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Undergrad Ordinary Energy - Is it Chopped Liver?
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If theres matter in the universe
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Graduate On the physical basis of cosmic time
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Graduate About the dimensions of the universe
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Graduate Inflationary framework of the universe
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Graduate Temperature between Galactic Structures
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High School Is the center of the universe constantly changing?
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Graduate Equal amounts of what we call matter and antimatter
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Graduate Is the coasting universe consistent with observed comoving recession velocities?
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Graduate Simple argument for a deterministic Universe-Please refute
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Graduate How Can Galaxies Move Away from Each Other Yet Still Have Filaments?
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Graduate Understanding the MOND Principle for Gravity and the Galaxy Rotation Anomaly
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Graduate Question regarding the big bang theory
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Undergrad Microwave radiation proves what?
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Where Does the Universe Reside?
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Graduate Does Dust Scattering Alter the Cosmic Background Radiation Spectrum at z < 100?
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Graduate Can we use our own Sun to travel through space?
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Is cosmology an extension of creation science?
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Graduate Interpreting the Expansion of the Universe: Matter vs. Spacetime?
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Official version of Big Bang 2008
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Graduate Island universe eventually true?
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Graduate Does a black hole have a temperature profile?
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Graduate Universal Expansion: Is Gravity Limited?
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What is the Intriguing Theory of Null Physics?
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Graduate Evidence for the Inflationary Period?
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Graduate Does the Cosmic Background Radiation Provide an Absolute Frame of Reference?
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Graduate Why Isn't Dark Energy Considered a Fundamental Force?
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Graduate Logical Positivism versus Cosmology
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Graduate Ray of light travelling through universe (applying cosmological principle)
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Graduate Is the Accelerating Expansion of the Universe Caused by Energy Conversion?
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Graduate Is the concept of a creator necessary if the universe has always existed?
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Graduate Void expansion rate and cosmic acceleration.
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Graduate Will dark energy overcome dark matter?
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Graduate Dark Matter Detection: Earth's Orbit and Its Interactions with the Solar System
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Graduate Question regarding about Ωbaryonic/DM/DE
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Graduate Is There Really No Edge to Space, Only an Edge to Time?
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Graduate A Theory on the possible fate of the universe
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Graduate What would happen to time if all movement were parallel?
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Graduate What Are the Different Horizons and Distance Scales in Cosmology?
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Undergrad How Do Scientists Measure Distance Using Standard Candles?
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Graduate The Void Phenomenon Explained (Tinker Conroy, computer sims)
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Graduate I Know Why We Will Never Come Across A Wormhole
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Graduate Loeb's perspective on emergence of structure
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Graduate How Does Hubble's Constant Relate to Universe Inflation and Horizon Changes?
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Graduate Inflation & the Speed of Light: Is It Possible?
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Graduate Is expansion only a factor in empty space?
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Graduate Light-Years, Horizons & the Age of the Universe
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Graduate Are TOEs Ignoring the Complexity of Animate Matter?
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Graduate Faster than light expansion speeds are standard
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Undergrad Big Bang & Universal Speed Limit: Is Light the Limit?
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Graduate Stability of cosmological models
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Graduate The Pre-Big Bang Universe: The Origin of Matter and Energy from the Vacuum
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Graduate Curvature of space; curvaure of spacetime
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Undergrad The Big Bang, and where it occured in space.
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Graduate Universe expanded faster than the speed of light?
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Graduate Start from Nothing: An Exploration of Pre BB Thinking
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Graduate Predicting Universe Collapse: Understanding the Forces at Work
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Graduate The End of Cosmology: Is Special Relativity at Odds?
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Graduate Boltzmann Brains: NY Times Article Explained
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Graduate Shape of Black Holes: Clarification Needed
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Graduate Queston On The Theory Of Everything
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Graduate The fuzzball proposal for black holes
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