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Graduate What can weak lensing be used for?
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Graduate Nucleosynthesis and Hubble expansion
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Graduate Cosmological geometries that may function as blackbodies
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Graduate Block Universe / Frozen Universe / Block Time
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Graduate Entropy of Cosmological Event Horizon
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Undergrad Why Is the Night Sky Dark If the Universe Is Infinite?
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Graduate Universe Was Born in a Black Hole?
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Graduate SO(10) -> SU(3) x SU(2) x U(1) -inflation?
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Graduate Evidence for a flat universe vs. circular logic
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High School Theories and the begining of universe
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Graduate How does the cosmological event horizon change the matter density?
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High School Find the error in this paragraph about physics
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The Way Back to Your Universe Test
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Undergrad Siobhan Morgan's cosmology calculator has a new url
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Graduate Could Parallel Universes Be Created by Colliding Branes?
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Undergrad How do we know how much hydrogen the sun has?
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High School Are There Infinite Earths in Infinite Space?
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Graduate Understanding Friedmann Equations Equation of State: Step-by-Step Walkthrough
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Graduate End of the Sky: Is There a Limit?
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Graduate Is Carlos Barcelo's Research Redefining Cosmology and Gravity?
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Graduate Is the Axis of Evil still a valid feature in the CMB data?
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Graduate Help wanted with accelerated expansion and gr
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Graduate Scientific explanation of the Universe
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Graduate Does G vary because of Mach's Principle?
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Graduate Can science and technology give us complete control over the universe?
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Graduate Is Dark Energy Consistent with a Cosmological Constant?
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Graduate Big Rip Red Sky? - Universe's Fate Explored
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Graduate Is Order at the Edge of Chaos a Valid Explanation for the Universe's Operation?
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Graduate What is the relationship between gravity and dark energy in black holes?
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Graduate Dark Energy Discoevery [NASA Teleconference 16 Nov]
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Undergrad The Expanding Universe: Why Stretching is the Only Explanation
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Undergrad Dark Matter Simulation: Help Choose a Program Language
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Graduate Is the Universe Alive? The Fascinating Theory of an Evolving Cosmos
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Undergrad Is the Evolution of Matter Density Proportional to a^3 or 1/a^3?
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Graduate Speed of light and universal expansion.
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Undergrad Universe expansion VS speed of light
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High School Time taken to form universe, religion vs science.
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Graduate Supermassive BHs: Forming Farthest Quasars
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What Defines Our Individual Universes?
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Undergrad Understanding the Expanding Universe: A Simple Analogy for Kids
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Graduate What if the Universe had this cosmology
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Graduate Newtonian derivation of Friedmann equation
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Graduate Is the CERN particle accelerator risking a phase change in the Universe?
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Graduate On black holes and the implications according to me.
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High IQ & the Universe: Perceiving Patterns & Cycles
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Graduate My calculation of the density of the universe at (10^60)th of its present age
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Graduate Discover the Universe's Undensity with the Human Body Calculation
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Graduate Limitations on cosmology for observers restricted to Earth
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Graduate What does it mean for the universe to be globally flat,
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Graduate Universal expansion reaching a point of equiblirium
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Graduate Big Bang and Simultaneity question
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Undergrad Redshift - does energy fade or get absorbed?
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Undergrad Light years-distance or light travel time?
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Graduate Why is the Poincaré dodecahedron not observed in the universe?
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Graduate Scalar field pressure and energy density
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Graduate How is Cosmic Background Radiation Generated and What Does It Reveal?
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Graduate This universe would expand right?
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Graduate Inflationary Theory out of thin air?
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Cosmology & Physics Books: Recommended Reads
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Graduate Expanding Universe (an interestin mind experiment)
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Graduate Shape of the Universe: Evidence for Expansion in a Single Direction
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Graduate No HUP, a universe without unknowns?
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Graduate A question on the rate of time in the Light we observe
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Graduate Are Extreme Internal Accelerations Significant in the Inflationary Universe?
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Graduate Is dark matter just an illusion?
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Undergrad What if objects go toward each other rather than away
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Graduate Can Light Be Multiply Scattered in the Universe?
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Graduate The cross section of a photon traversing the observable universe
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Graduate CP violation and element forging
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The Ultimate Question: What Created the Universe?
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Graduate Just an idea I've been going over.
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Graduate What Is the Role of Vacuum Fluctuations in the Universe's Origin?
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Graduate Superluminal Matter at Two Stages of Big Bang ?
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Graduate Possible webpage title: What Are the Possible Explanations for Dark Energy?
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Undergrad Why does higher density of the early universe result in a faster expansion rate?
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Graduate How Does Precession Relate to Hindu Scriptures and Ancient Astronomy?
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Graduate Big Bang : 'Proofs' and observations
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Graduate Please shoot this, somebody (Laura Mersini-Houghton paper)
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Graduate Can the Universe Be Understood as a Two-Dimensional Model?
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Graduate Is Infinity Possible? A Discussion on Hawking's Theories of the Universe
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Popular Cosmology Books - Which to Buy or Not?
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Graduate Wolfgang Priester forsaw Big Bounce cosmology
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Graduate Could Quasar Activity Explain the Distribution of Dark Matter in Galaxies?
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Graduate Was the Singularity Rotating at the Time of the Big Bang?
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Undergrad Universe could be Bigger and Older - Move over 13.7 Gy
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Graduate What is the nature of Dark Matter?
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Graduate Locacal coordinate system in GR observed?
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Graduate Type Ia Supernovae: Implications for Cosmology
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Graduate Why is our universe the way it is?
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Graduate Planck black-box radiation and the universe
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Graduate Deriving Friedmann Equation from RW Metric - Blumfeld
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Graduate Solution to the lithium discrepancy
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Graduate What are the Origins and Characteristics of Cosmic Neutrinos?
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Graduate Expanding universe and Conservation of energy.
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Graduate The Existence of the Red Ball Law: A Universal Truth?
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Graduate How are the Casimir Effect, Vacuum Energy, Inflation, and Dark Energy Connected?
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Graduate Is the Multiverse Theory More Plausible Than Inflationary or Ekpyrotic Models?
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High School What Are Some Questions About the Universe That a Newbie May Have?
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Graduate Universe might be older and bigger
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Graduate Ultimate configuration of a flat universe
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