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Graduate What is the current understanding of the origin of the universe?
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Graduate What Caused the Early Universe to Reach 1000 Trillion Degrees Celsius?
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Graduate Alternative theories about the origin of the universe
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Graduate Is the Hubble Constant Constant?
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Graduate Some questions regarding WIMPs as a DM candidate
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Graduate How Does Simultaneity Affect Our Understanding of the Universe's Age?
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Graduate Repulsive Gravity & Its Impact on Space Geometry
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Graduate Accelerating expansion and the Cosmological Constant
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Graduate Congratulations to Christine on the new paper
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Undergrad Are we going in a particular direction?
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Undergrad Is the amount of matter in the universe infinite?
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High School Our universe should be called multiverse and not universe
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Graduate Can the Cyclic Universe Theory Be Explained Without Superstring Theory?
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Graduate How Do Aliens and Astronomers Measure Time Differently in the Galaxy Paradox?
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Graduate Knowing the environment and the creation of the universe
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Graduate Is the Universe a 3D Surface of a 4D Hypersphere?
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Graduate Neutrinos, can you explain them to me?
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Graduate How Do Scientists Measure the Universe's Expansion Rate?
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Undergrad Matter vs Anti-Matter: Why Did Matter Dominate Universe?
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Graduate Tried to understand how we/ our universe came to be
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Graduate Quasar Anomalies: Lack of Time Dilation in Variability
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Graduate What is the logical setup that determines the epoch of the CMB?
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Graduate Could all supermassive objects in the center of galaxies be SGR's post mortem?
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Graduate How Does Quantum Mechanics Explain the Beginning of the Universe?
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Graduate Is There a Preferred Lorentz Frame in the CMB?
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Graduate Debate with my coworker regarding the inflationary theory
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Graduate Dark Energy's effect on the curvature of space time
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Graduate Is the Holographic Universe Theory Still a Valid Concept?
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Graduate What are the key challenges facing mainstream cosmological theories?
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Graduate Measuring Mass of the Cosmos: Charles Hellaby's New Paper
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Graduate An HST Program for the Luminosity Calibration of Type Ia Supernovae
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Graduate New Satellite Data On Universe's First Trillionth Second
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Graduate Inflation is the rapid acceration of space some time after the BB
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Graduate Radiation in a Closed/Finite Universe?
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Graduate What are the fundamental constants that govern the properties of our universe?
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Undergrad Universe Q: How Far Away Are Objects Seen?
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Graduate Understanding Universe Expansion & String Theory
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Graduate Empty Nest - possible or not possible aspect of Big Bang?
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Graduate How universal are the laws of physics?
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Graduate Cosmological Event Horizon during Inflation
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Graduate The Expanding Universe: Calculating Real-Time Distances of Objects
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Undergrad Expanding Universe: Mass or Space-Time?
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Graduate Dark matter candidates, what chances would you give them?
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Graduate Is the Universe's Expansion Due to a Hidden Spin?
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Graduate Universe Expansion: Future of Dark Skies?
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Graduate Loop Quantum Cosmology dual to Randall-Sundrum Model
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Undergrad The Speed of Change: Centripetal Force
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Undergrad What force is stronger, Gravity or Magnetism?
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Graduate What is Dark Energy and Why is it a Mystery?
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Study proves universe created by committee
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Graduate What is Information Theoretic Process Physics and its implications?
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Graduate Effects of plasma on friedman/fluid/acceleration equations
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Graduate Is the Universe Losing Energy Due to the Exchange of Photons?
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Graduate How Can Black Holes Defy Einstein's Theory of Gravity?
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Undergrad Age of The Universe - Time vs Space
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Graduate Dark matter properties detected using VLT
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Graduate No Dark Energy? New Puzzling Discovery
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Graduate Revisiting Dark Matter Estimates in Axially Symmetric Galaxies
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Graduate Plasma-Redshift Cosmology: Fits to SNLS Data & Implications
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Graduate Fine-Tuning from First Principles don't laugh
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Graduate Does a bounded universe require more dimensions?
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Graduate Unraveling the Mystery of "Seed Universes"
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Graduate Understanding the Impact of Increased Universal Expansion Rate
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Graduate Is Lambda a True Force or Just a Distortion of Spacetime Like Gravity?
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Graduate Could life exist inside a black hole?
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Graduate Difference between particle horizon and cosmological event horizon?
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Graduate Seeing the edge of an unbounded, closed universe
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Graduate Cosmological Constant and the like
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Graduate What Caused the Strongest Explosion in the Universe?
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Graduate Has Lightspeed Changed Over Billions of Years?
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Graduate Did Simon Singh get stumped at the end of his Big Bang lecture?
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Graduate Could We See the Edge of the Universe?
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Graduate Is Dark Energy+Matter product of quantum particle-pair creation?
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Graduate Is Time Measured Differently During the Big Bang?
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High School Inflationary Theory Explained: A Beginner's Guide
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Graduate What is at the Edge of a Closed Universe?
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Does the Universe Have a Mind of Its Own?
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Graduate Big Bang Radiation: Does Gravity Reverse Its Spread?
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Graduate Is the Universe Flat or Does it Have a Height?
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Undergrad Big-Bang Theory Modification Real or Not
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Graduate Cosmic Microwave Background primer
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Graduate A question related to cosmology( or perhaps philosophy)
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Graduate Dating techniques for our universe
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Graduate CMBR as an absolute reference frame
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Undergrad Does the Expansion of Space Mean Everything is Growing?
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High School 'nothing' happened before the big bang?
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Graduate Are Multi Universes and Infinite Space Possible with Big Bang Theory?
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Graduate What is the Latest Update on CMB (end 2005)?
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Graduate Areas of space that we cannot see that also have an effect on expansion?
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Graduate What Is the Shape of the Universe?
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Undergrad How do they know the universe is expanding
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Graduate Can We Really Leave Our Universe and Explore Other Dimensions?
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Graduate The Cosmological Parameters 2005
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Graduate Could Black Holes Survive the Hot Death of the Universe?
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Graduate Addressing Impossibilities in the Standard Cosmological Model
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High School Holographic universe and werewolves/shapeshifters.possible?
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Undergrad How Big Would a Black Hole Be if All the Stars in the Universe Combined?
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Graduate Number of parallel universes formed at each measurement
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Graduate The Stable Universe: Human/Alien Intelligence & Time Travel Possibilities
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Undergrad Will the temperature in the universe ever reach absolute zero?
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