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High School Head or Tails: The Question of Determinism and Probability
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High School Is Neil DeGrasse Tyson a Reliable Source for Physics?
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Graduate ChatGPT Results: Testing Special Relativity
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RIP Jay Pasachoff - Astronomer with 74 Solar Eclipses Seen
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Mathematicians' contributions to physics
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Undergrad Building a physics formula database -- Help please
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What's Your Favorite Scientific Theory?
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What research fields in physics are you working in?
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Most commonly mispronounced scientists' names
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Graduate Are Quantum Mechanics Interpretations Misrepresented in Fiction?
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Graduate Effect of time dilation on Earth/space communication?
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Graduate What Is the Significance of PF Signatures in Historical Physics Debates?
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Graduate Is ChatGPT useful yet for answering astronomy questions?
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This is what happens to an aluminum block when it hits...
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Undergrad Metal drinking cup is stuck inside a pressure cooker
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Undergrad Can Ground Penetrating Radar Help Locate Earthquake Survivors?
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Undergrad Is this the Fourier Number, or some other formula?
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High School What is the concept of Physics of Cymatics (of a liquid)
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The Annoying 'That's Bad' in Science YT Videos
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Undergrad Is there a serious risk to airliners from satellite debris 12 miles up?
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Undergrad Why Isn't My Sonoluminescence Experiment Working?
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News Kurt Gottfried: Physicist, Author & Co-Founder of UCS Dies at 93
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Undergrad How to find the value of a constant experimentally?
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A Remarkable Example of Equilibrium
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Graduate Quantum entanglement and the Schrödinger experiment
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Graduate Uh-oh The movies and "quantum physics" as they see it....
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Any texts on the pleasure of studying physics?
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Graduate When can I read and understand research papers?
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Undergrad How to do resistance (spot) welds by using arc/TIG welder?
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Undergrad Vacuum force factors (vacuum created by a "flow through" liquid)
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High School Investigating the Impact of Chips on Packaging Pressure Differential
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Graduate Explicit search in ChatGPT recalls
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Graduate Gun with a tachyon bullet paradox
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Graduate Should I submit an outlandish physics idea that feels right?
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Physicists Create ‘the Smallest, Crummiest Wormhole You Can Imagine'
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High School Disk with holes falling on water
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Are there online cosmology book clubs for studying together?
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Undergrad How Are Tsinghua Students Using the Friedmann Equation to Protest Lockdowns?
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Undergrad Why NAND & NOR Gates are Necessary for LATCH Circuits
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Undergrad Analysis of data from previous experiments
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Who was the most influential and important physicist?
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High School Please mention all physics animation videos that you know
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Can’t understand is "life" word banned in physics forum.
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Graduate What should I do with my spacetime model?
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Undergrad What do physicists think of the Efficient Market hypothesis?
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Graduate Nima Arkani-Hamed's opinion on Many Worlds?
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High School Or when you look for a clip art of a prism
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Graduate Using the surrounding airflow to deduce the physics around UAP/UFO
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Graduate Superdeterminism and the Mermin Device: A New Perspective on Bell's Inequality
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Undergrad What is the smallest possible state change in the Universe?
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Undergrad Understanding how time derivative = acceleration
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Graduate More Nobel prizes in quantum information?
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High School What is the smallest unit of measurement used that the eye can see?
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Undergrad My favorite physics problem not is not an end-of-chapter problem
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Can a belly button ring travel through a person like a bullet?
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Predictions for the 2022 Physics Nobel Prize
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Physicists Doing Art With Birefringent Materials
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Nobel Prize in Physics (nominees 1901-1970)
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Graduate Chen Ning Yang is (almost) 100 years old
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Refrigerator Too Cold: Wrapping Veggies in a Blanket?
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Graduate Is gravity a force or just a consequence of mass?
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High School Is there any physics to this 'punch'?
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Undergrad Understanding Conventions in Engineering: The Role of Rules and Consistency
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Great Sequence of Video Documentaries on Nuclear Disasters
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Undergrad What are the biggest recent advances in physics?
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High School Destructive Interference in the sound of multiple firecrackers set off at once?
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What are the most important secrets of physics today?
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Undergrad Frank Drake (Drake Equation) 1930 - Sept. 2 2022
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Graduate Underwater acoustic unit conversion
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Graduate "Heuristics" for Casimir: how close to reality do they have to be?
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Undergrad What type of problems do you like the most?
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Undergrad Does Memorizing 70,000 Digits Increase the Chance of Being a Bolzmann Brain?
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High School No vacuum anywhere vs the measurement of "c"
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Undergrad Could the universe really be conscious?
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Undergrad Chaos theory has no fine edge -- does it fluctuate?
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Undergrad What Are the Current Events in the Universe 13 Billion Years Ago?
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High School Occam's razor in science: all-time practice or modern fashion?
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Physics experiments that changed the world (video)
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Graduate Question about kinetic theory and hydrodynamics (in plasmas)
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High School Question about Stereo Sound while listening to a Song by the Beatles
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Graduate Proxima Centauri Observing with JWST
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Physicist monkey and vending machine story
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Undergrad Are Lab Experiments with Strong Magnetic Fields and Plasma Expensive?
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Undergrad Can Conservation of Energy Be Applied to the Expanding Universe?
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Graduate Should we hit Mars with The Behemoth Comet?
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High School What is the underlying phenomenon of waves?
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Undergrad What is the function of the air cavity inside drums?
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Quora question: Did Richard Muller ever meet Richard Feynman?
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Undergrad What causes knots and stress when untwisting ropes?
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High School What are some free and legal video lectures for first year physics?
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Potential for progression at now age 70
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Undergrad Infrared Photovoltaics: Powering Ham Radios & Cooling Earth?
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What is the best free website for publishing my articles on astrophysics?
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Graduate The correct interpretation of QM.... according to a "language model" AI
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High School Everything Energy? My Thoughts on the Question
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High School Is there anything such as "Magazine of Physics problems"?
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Undergrad Why does the effect linger with Glow in the dark?
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Undergrad Aviation Enthusiast's Tale of Ruining a Flight Sim
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High School Can Neon Signs Emit Harmful X-Ray Radiation?
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High School Why don't humans orbit the Earth?
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