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Graduate Could the universe's energy density have been greater in the past?
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Graduate What Caused the Universe to Come Into Existence?
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Graduate How is Lorentz Contraction Manifested in a Distant Supernova?
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Graduate Cosmology at differing values of c?
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Graduate How cant EM wawe escape from a black hole?
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Graduate Is Consciousness a Process Inherent in the Universe?
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Graduate Wright's 'best fit' universe does not expand out into empty space
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Graduate How Could Quantum Foam Shape Our Understanding of the Cosmos?
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Graduate Black Holes & Light: Can Gravitational Force Exceed Speed of Light?
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What will be the after effects of the suns polar magnetic shifts?
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Graduate Another paper helping to clarify expansion-congrats, authors :-)
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Graduate Is this line element known to anyone ?
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Graduate How does the age of the Universe relate to the Big Bang theory?
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Graduate Expanding Space: the Root of all Evil?
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Graduate Redshift 9, oldest galaxies seen yet
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Undergrad Does Superconductivity Occur in Outer Space?
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Graduate Hubble Parameter & acc. Universe
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Graduate Pre Big Bang universe discovered ?
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Graduate Big Bang Question: Is Our Universe Expanding Through Vacancy?
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Undergrad What Natural Laws Influence Human Artistic Expression?
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Graduate Shining light thru the sun: evidence of axions?
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Graduate Is Our Universe Just a Preon in a Larger Cosmic Structure?
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Graduate without resorting to scalar fields
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Graduate Is Gravitational Radiation the Key to Unlocking Cosmology's Secrets?
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Graduate On the 'constantness' of Hubble's Constant
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Graduate Lyman Page new idea for CMB observations
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Undergrad Looking once around the universe
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Graduate Ratio of radiaton energy to mass energy?
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Graduate Are Parallel Universes Possible According to M-Theory?
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Graduate The link between the cosmological constant and the higgs field
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Graduate Review of Dark Matter and Dark Energy by M. Kamionkowski
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Graduate Black Holes: X-rays, Gamma Rays & Light Emission
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Graduate What Is the Expansion Limit of Our Universe?
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Undergrad Could Extraterrestrial Life Exist in Unique Environments Like Titan?
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Graduate X-ray background/peculiar velocities and the Big Bang
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Graduate Physical basis for dark energy-I think Bojo found it
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Undergrad Catastrophic Nova: Definition & Explanation
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Graduate Condition for inflation presented by Liddle
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Graduate Oldest Black Hole - Age of the Universe Explained
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Graduate Hellfire's introduction to quantum cosmology
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Graduate Does Time Reversal Symmetry Apply to All Interactions?
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Graduate Do Penrose and Carroll Agree on the Specialness of Conditions for Inflation?
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Graduate Homogeneous and Isotropic Stress-Energy Tensor in Cosmology
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Graduate Can Thermal Fluctuations in Loop Cosmology Solve the Horizon Problem?
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Graduate Is Retro Causality the Key to Understanding the Evolution of Universes?
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Graduate Accelerating Universe: Understanding Deceleration Parameter & Implications
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Graduate Is Our Observable Universe Limited by the Cosmic Horizon?
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Graduate What theories appose a multiverse?
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Graduate Question regarding the arrow of time
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Graduate About Hubble Radius (Radius of the Hubble sphere)
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Graduate Do anti-stars emit or absorb photons?
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Graduate Discover the Best Book on Inflation Theory for Your Studies
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Graduate Does the Friedmann Model Suggest an Unbounded Universe?
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Graduate Understanding Omega: Baryons, Leptons, Photons and More
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Graduate What Defines the Universe: Bostrom's Philosophy vs. Hardy's Causaloids?
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Undergrad Astronomy POD: Tan & Blue Galaxies - Why the Color Difference?
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Graduate What percent of baryonic matter is antimatter?
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Graduate Could Dark Energy and Dark Matter be .?
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Graduate Cosmic Humility: Trillions of Years into the Future
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Graduate Why Should The Atom's Form Exist At All?
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Graduate Dark matter searches (a survey of-)
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Undergrad Age of Universe: Seeing More than 13.5 Billion Yrs
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Graduate The Ashtekar density (you've heard of the Chandrasekhar mass, now here's )
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Undergrad Interstellar Medium: Est. Mean Mass of Particle
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Graduate Accelerating Universe: How Is It Possible?
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Graduate Gravitational Waves from Mergers
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Graduate Why Do Stars at the Edge of Galaxies Feel an Inward Pull from Dark Matter?
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Graduate Simulating the Future: Great Attractor 100 Billion Years Ahead
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Graduate Is the Universe in a State of Universal Motion?
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LCDM and Cosmology and Cosmologists
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Graduate A hyperbolicshape of the universe, despite measurements
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Graduate Einstein Cross vs. Ring: Understanding the Alignment of Quasar G2237+030
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Could we(entire universe) be almost nothing?
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Graduate What is the true definition of proper distance in cosmology?
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Graduate Cosmology: Is Universe Finite or Unbounded?
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Graduate Is Expansion Force Real or Just a Cosmic Illusion?
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Graduate Bill Thomson, Harold Jeffreys and Dark Stuff
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Graduate Expanding Universe: Cosmologists Observations & Questions
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Undergrad Dark Matter: Info and Math Equations
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Graduate Where Did the Energy from Early Universe Radiation Go?
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Graduate Scale Factor Ratio: Z Value at End of Inflationary Era
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Graduate Could a Spinning Star Defy Gravitational Collapse?
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Graduate Gravitons and Photons: Engineer's Questions
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Graduate Why the universe is not a black hole (merged)
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Graduate Is Self Creation Cosmology a Viable Alternative to the Standard Model?
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Graduate Where is the Cosmological Event Horizon in the LCDM model?
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Graduate What expands if there's no rubber?
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Undergrad Could computer simulations lead to discovering new laws of the universe?
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Graduate Discovering Dark Energy and Dark Matter in a Single Galaxy
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Graduate How can we see the cosmic background radiation?
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Graduate Does the Coupling Between Space and Matter Affect the Expansion of Our Universe?
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High School Why Did NASA Rename Its Astrophysics Division to Universe?
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Graduate Ekpyrotic Model: Explaining Big Bang Before It Happened
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Graduate Can dark energy be explained by superconductors?
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Graduate Humans can maybe create a universe
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Undergrad Inflation (The evolution of the Universe)
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Undergrad OK. So was the Big Bang the beginning or not?
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Graduate Why Is LCDM Preferred Over VSL in Modern Cosmology?
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