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Visible Spectrum: All Colors & Where Is Brown?
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Mass Caused by a Field: Force Carriers & Spin
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Questions About Black Holes - Answers for Non-Physics Students
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Doubts and Unease: Physics Articles Troubling Ben
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What's Your Specialism? Professionals Share Their Passion!
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Could Fast-Moving Particles and Dark Energy Influence Electron Behavior?
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Twisted Experiment: Is Drinking Heavy Water Suicide?
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Flares etc: why do they only exist on stars?
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Do Wormholes Require Antimatter Singularities to Function?
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Are Canadian Physics Departments Comparable to Top U.S. Schools?
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Solving Vector Addition Without Angle Measurements
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What Are the Limitations of LQG in Explaining Photon-Graviton Interactions?
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Antimatter - could it ever be utilized as poss. energy source?
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How does Archimedes' Principle prove buoyancy?
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A collection of questions/ideas
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Empirical Computing: Unlocking Limitless Calculation Speed
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Gravity of Torus: Understand Its Impact on Shape & Movement
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Modern Physics Books for Laypeople: Recommendations like George Gamow's
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How Can a Beginner Self-Learn Physics and Mathematics?
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Are tachyons real and why haven't we found them yet?
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Where Does Lost Energy Go When Lifting and Lowering Objects?
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Does Bus Travel Affect the Boy's P.E.?
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What does an underlined U mean?
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Possible to percieve God in this ?
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Melting & Boiling: Heat Energy Explained
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Formula for force in magentic field
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What is Dark Matter and is it a reputable concept in astronomy and cosmology?
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Understanding Smoke Detectors: The Role of Americium
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Determining Mass, Volume & Density of Objects
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Where threads abt chaos & complexity?
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Why Inverted Candles Don't Burn: Explained
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Computing the Volume of a Negative Sphere: Formula and Implementation
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What Connects Mass, Energy, and Time Translations?
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How Can We Tap Into The Vacuum?
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Physics equations with deffinitions?
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What Happens When You Jump into a Hole from the North Pole to the South Pole?
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Where are we on gravitational waves/graviton?
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Can the Hydro-Electric Engine Truly Achieve Over 100% Efficiency?
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Does Gravity Expand and Collapse or is it Always Present?
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Constructing a Rotating Wood Platform for Adults | Easy DIY Guide
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What is the Pattern for Solving X^2 and X^3 Equations?
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Exactly what is theory all about?
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Gravitational Forces on the Edge of a Disk
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Is Einstein's Theory of Relativity Flawed?
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Solving the Mystery of M1 and M2: What is the Equation for?
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What is Antimatter and How Does it Work?
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Expansion/contraction same thing?
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Length of Vectors x, y and z in RSK Plane R | Reference System K
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What is the application of the artificial feel equation in robotics?
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What is Nothing vs Absolutely Nothing?
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Can Gravity Be Explained by a 4th Dimensional Hypersphere Attraction?
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Teleportation goes long distance
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Meaning of Permittivity as used in EM
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How Do You Calculate the Volume of a Scuba Tank with a Hemispherical End?
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Liquefying Gas: Temperature & Compression
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Constructing a Tensor Formula: 3D Mass to 2D Wave
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Who Should I Share My Unique Theory of Everything With?
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The Geomagnetic Reversal: Its Effects on Earth
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Information on Resistance and Resistivity for a Class 12 CBSE Investigatory Project
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So we have problems with clocks measureing time ?
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New revolutionary theory explaining every thing about black hole
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Calculating Tension: Force P and Mass m in a Toy Car Train System
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What is Gravity? Philosophies & Theories
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Create or die (a 3 months team mission)
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Zero Point: Solving for it and what it is.
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Scientific Logic for God's existence
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Theory development. Please test.
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Why Does Metal Melt but Wood Doesn't?
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A possible way to produce thrust from ZPE?
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Is Teleportation Scientifically Possible?
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What are the implications of M=E<C on electron behavior and photon emission?
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Can Herbs Really Cure AIDS and Cancer?
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Coupled Mode Theory: Info on Cylindrical Waveguides
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What is the origin of Boltzmann's constant?
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Does Spinning on a Top Cause Acceleration?
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The kaleidoscope of periodic tables.
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Can't imagine something that is colorless
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Solving a Random Equation: a=dt_o/t^3sqrt(1-v^2/c^2)
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How does the concept of mass decay relate to the theory of superstrings?
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Terry Giblin Double Split Experiment
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How Does Geometry Relate to Action in Physics?
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Recommendations for Physics book?
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Can Mass Be Transformed into Energy Without Antimatter?
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The Theory of No Choices: Do Humans Always Return to Their Original Path?
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Waves of any sort do not transfer mass
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Discovering Happiness: The Truth Revealed
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Equations: E=\frac{1}{2}W & a=\frac{dt}{t_o \sqrt{1- \frac{v^2}{c^2}}}
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Someone said that the earth is hollow. Is this possible?
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Does the type of matter a neutrino passes through affect its flavor probability?
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Pythagorean Theorem: Simplifying with Ab/Ab + Bc/Bc = Ac/Ac
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An attempt to unify EM and Grav., just to see if my ideas are in order.
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The missing neutrino problem solved - Physics Reunited
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What if humans were artificial life forms (heh, and aliens for sure)?
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Acoustic Mirrors, Waveguides & Interference Effects
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Dear Nereid and Phobos (seat belt on) can we talk about redshifts?
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What are the forces applying to antimatter?
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Solar Energy: Cooling with Solar Panels
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The Foundations of a Non-Naive Mathematics
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