Participate in expert physics discussion. Discussion on the nature and properties of matter and energy. This area is for topics that don't fit the other categories. Mainstream physics only.
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Undergrad How much of an approximation are power measuring tools for martial arts?
- Username34
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Undergrad The multimeter is not displaying mv of strain gauge in circuit
- Micheal_Leo
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Will visible tattoos affect my chances in physics research?
- Felix Gonzales
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Undergrad A simple way to vizualize non-linear waves with a star Slinky toy
- mike2020
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Undergrad Solving Rotary Friction Problem at Ye Olde Swinging Door
- Ben2
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Undergrad Titan implosion: underwater shockwave?
- Lieutenant Barclay
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Undergrad Is the position vector a real vector?
- WildBohr137
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Graduate On Porch Lights, Optical Geometry and the Ignition Point of Eyebrows
- DaveC426913
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Graduate Fourier coefficients relation to Power Spectral Density
- Skaiserollz89
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High School Why Does the Bathroom Have the Highest WiFi Signal Attenuation?
- EleSuki
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High School Does ice-nine from Cat's Cradle violate physical laws?
- Randy Subers
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Undergrad Right handed co-ordinates and Left handed co-ordinates
- Slimy0233
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Undergrad Is optics typically taught before electricity and magnetism?
- Slimy0233
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High School Questions about climate and physics
- accdd
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How Was Einstein Really As a Student?
- bhobba
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Graduate Focus all of your ire on me, if you would
- AngryBeavers
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High School Could solar sails be used as turbines for power generation?
- dansmith170
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Graduate Why globular clusters don't collapse.
- Jordi Heguilor
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Graduate What was the impact of Stanley Deser's work on the field of relativity?
- robphy
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High School How did fundamental charge thinking develop?
- pinto
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Graduate ChatGPT on quantum mechanics interpretations and Bell's theorem
- Demystifier
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Manned (or Staffed) space exploration
- benswitala
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High School Head or Tails: The Question of Determinism and Probability
- nad32
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High School Is Neil DeGrasse Tyson a Reliable Source for Physics?
- BadgerBadger92
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Graduate ChatGPT Results: Testing Special Relativity
- epovo
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RIP Jay Pasachoff - Astronomer with 74 Solar Eclipses Seen
- gmax137
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Mathematicians' contributions to physics
- Demystifier
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Undergrad Creating a comprehensive online physics formula database
- angrymonks
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What's Your Favorite Scientific Theory?
- BadgerBadger92
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What research fields in physics are you working in?
- StatGuy2000
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Most commonly mispronounced scientists' names
- epenguin
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Graduate Are Quantum Mechanics Interpretations Misrepresented in Fiction?
- sandy stone
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Graduate Effect of time dilation on Earth/space communication?
- InquiringMind
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Graduate What Is the Significance of PF Signatures in Historical Physics Debates?
- dextercioby
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Graduate Is ChatGPT useful yet for answering astronomy questions?
- Ken G
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Aluminum block hit by 0.5 ounce plastic at 15,000 mph
- ElliotSmith
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Undergrad Steel cup stuck diagonally in pressure cooker
- bluebird
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Undergrad Using GPR and sound analysis to locate earthquake survivors
- hagopbul
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Undergrad Is this the Fourier Number, or some other formula?
- nomadreid
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High School What is the concept of Physics of Cymatics (of a liquid)
- Rosella Lin
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The Annoying 'That's Bad' in Science YT Videos
- bland
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Undergrad Is there a serious risk to airliners from satellite debris 12 miles up?
- jeffinbath
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Undergrad Why Isn't My Sonoluminescence Experiment Working?
- Beekeeper
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News Kurt Gottfried, quantum mechanics textbook author, dies at 93
- Doc Al
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Undergrad How to find the value of a constant experimentally?
- happyparticle
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A Remarkable Example of Equilibrium
- kuruman
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Graduate Quantum entanglement and the Schrödinger experiment
- Seyara
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Graduate How movies misrepresent quantum physics and the multiverse
- jim mcnamara
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Any texts on the pleasure of studying physics?
- Master Wayne
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Graduate When can I read and understand research papers?
- Ahmed1029
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Undergrad How to do resistance (spot) welds by using arc/TIG welder?
- abdulbadii
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Undergrad Vacuum force factors (vacuum created by a "flow through" liquid)
- Ralphamale01
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High School Do chips in packaging affect pressure differential in a sealed bag test?
- Danfishman
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Graduate Explicit search in ChatGPT recalls
- arivero
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Graduate Gun with a tachyon bullet paradox
- amorphos_b
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Graduate Should I submit an outlandish physics idea that feels right?
- Ahmed1029
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Physicists Create ‘the Smallest, Crummiest Wormhole You Can Imagine'
- bob012345
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High School Disk with holes falling on water
- epenguin
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Are there online cosmology book clubs for studying together?
- shirin
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Undergrad How Are Tsinghua Students Using the Friedmann Equation to Protest Lockdowns?
- atyy
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Undergrad Why latch circuits require NAND or NOR gates
- Avanthica
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Undergrad Analysis of data from previous experiments
- accdd
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Who was the most influential and important physicist?
- CallMeDirac
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High School Physics animation videos for learning concepts
- Nuwebwave
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Can’t understand is "life" word banned in physics forum.
- sadaronjiggasha
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Graduate What should I do with my spacetime model?
- Ahmed1029
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Undergrad What do physicists think of the Efficient Market hypothesis?
- beamthegreat
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Graduate Does Nima Arkani-Hamed support the many worlds interpretation?
- Suekdccia
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High School Or when you look for a clip art of a prism
- Borek
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Graduate Using the surrounding airflow to deduce the physics around UAP/UFO
- TheTuringTester
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Graduate Superdeterminism and the Mermin Device: A New Perspective on Bell's Inequality
- malawi_glenn
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Undergrad What is the smallest possible state change in the Universe?
- Chenkel
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Undergrad Understanding how time derivative = acceleration
- SlowLearner1218
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Graduate More Nobel prizes in quantum information?
- Suekdccia
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High School What is the smallest unit of measurement used that the eye can see?
- kyphysics
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Undergrad My favorite physics problem not is not an end-of-chapter problem
- CPW
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Can a belly button ring travel through a person like a bullet?
- numbersnovice
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Predictions for the 2022 Physics Nobel Prize
- Suekdccia
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Physicists Doing Art With Birefringent Materials
- Hornbein
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Nobel Prize in Physics (nominees 1901-1970)
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Graduate Chen Ning Yang is (almost) 100 years old
- robphy
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Refrigerator Too Cold: Wrapping Veggies in a Blanket?
- Hornbein
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Graduate Is gravity a force or a consequence of spacetime curvature?
- CuriousGeorge1
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High School Is there any physics to this 'punch'?
- yucheng
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Undergrad What happens when we adopt mathematical conventions like the right-hand rule?
- Trying2Learn
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Great Sequence of Video Documentaries on Nuclear Disasters
- jedishrfu
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Undergrad What are the biggest recent advances in physics?
- MarkTheQuark
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High School Destructive Interference in the sound of multiple firecrackers set off at once?
- MarvinBotts
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What are physicists today racing to develop?
- mech-eng
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Undergrad Frank Drake (Drake Equation) 1930 - Sept. 2 2022
- George Jones
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Graduate Underwater acoustic unit conversion
- nauman
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Graduate "Heuristics" for Casimir: how close to reality do they have to be?
- nomadreid
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Undergrad What type of problems do you like the most?
- bigmike94
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Undergrad Does Memorizing 70,000 Digits Increase the Chance of Being a Bolzmann Brain?
- Bolzmann_brain
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High School No vacuum anywhere vs the measurement of "c"
- Dangoe
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Undergrad Could the universe really be conscious?
- BadgerBadger92
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Undergrad Chaos theory has no fine edge -- does it fluctuate?
- Gary101
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Undergrad What Are the Current Events in the Universe 13 Billion Years Ago?
- Steve K
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High School Occam's razor in science: all-time practice or modern fashion?
- Aidyan
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Physics experiments that changed the world (video)
- DennisN
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