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Undergrad Why Do Physicists Use Gaussian Error Distributions?
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Undergrad Ideas from previous Nobel prize winners
  • kelly0303
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High School What material is best suited for making Chladni figures?
  • Juliette B
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Graduate Is the Future of Our Universe Truly Beautiful?
  • James William Hall
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Graduate Effects of a spatially nonuniform diffusion parameter
  • Couchyam
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Undergrad Measurement Science: True Magnitude, Error & Accuracy
  • Logical Dog
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Undergrad A problem with science media coverage
  • KosKallah
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High School Are these actually real electrons?
  • Rev. Cheeseman
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High School Protecting Your Computer from Solar Storms - Is a Faraday Cage Enough?
  • Icositetraedro
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Undergrad Space and time -- Is the term "light year" really correct?
  • Simon Peach
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Undergrad Propagation of uncertainty in the slope
  • Jussi Lundahl
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High School Launching into space without fuel -- Please bare with me....
  • Ryan davis
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Graduate COMSOL Multiphysics- Mathematics
  • shar333
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Graduate Unusual request re: Matter and Dark matter and song lyrics
  • Matias
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Graduate Nobel prize in physics for quantum cryptography?
  • Suekdccia
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Undergrad Noise cancellation technique can be used to neutralize laser weapons?
  • justcurious1
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Insights How Well Do You Know Isaac Newton?
  • Greg Bernhardt
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Who Were Miguel Angel Virasoro and Steven Weinberg?
  • Orodruin
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Graduate The current state of physics and comparing it with the past
  • LCSphysicist
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High School Four fundamental forces of physics -- explanation for dummies please
  • Fellatoor
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Superdeterminism ruined the significance of DCQE experiment
  • Gary_T2018
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Extremely rare "ball lightning" phenomena caught on video.
  • ElliotSmith
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Undergrad Can we calculate the efficiency and output of solar panels on an electron level?
  • The Baron
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One who knows enough to think he is right, but not enought to.... ;)
  • KosKallah
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Help, new physics student looking for advice
  • LuluH
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Best Platforms for Posting Word Problems on Physics Forums
  • harpazo
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Do scientists have a social life?
  • atharv kapila
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How can I find physics journals near me?
  • AR_Thinking
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Undergrad Why high Q factors have low phase noise
  • iVenky
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High School Do all great scientists possess a genius level IQ ?
  • atharv kapila
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High School Popular talks by PhD students, May 27
  • Orodruin
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High School Radon testing my first basement (already has a mitigation system)
  • CPW
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Undergrad Surfers Unaware of Shark Nearby: Drone Photo Captures the Moment
  • kuruman
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Undergrad How can artificial gravity be created for space exploration?
  • Physics guy
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Future Nobel laureates in physics?
  • Suekdccia
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Undergrad The problem with Mathematics in Physics
  • Tanelorn
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Undergrad Telescoping antenna -- why is there a knob on top?
  • hacivat
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Graduate Nobel laureates who may consider the multiverse hypothesis?
  • Suekdccia
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High School Is Nuclear Energy Beneficial for the Future?
  • AndrewAndrew
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Graduate The Future of Space Travel: Can We Protect Our Brains from Radiation on Titan?
  • Astronuc
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Undergrad What is the Role of U-235 in Nuclear Fission?
  • KingGambit
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Undergrad What are the biggest problems in the study of complex systems?
  • Tim667
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Undergrad Negative Ease in knitting (both in flat rows and in rounds)
  • Tomato Evony
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High School Archimedes Strength: What Determines Strength?
  • Rafael Aiguzhinov
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High School How Did You Prepare for the Physics Olympiad?
  • rockinwhiz
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High School Will Metal Obstruction Affect WIFI Reception of My Sonos One Speaker?
  • jptb
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Graduate Nuclear meltdown in 2015 on antineutrino map?
  • TimeSkip
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Neil deGrasse Tyson said that your mind should be blown once a day
  • Nick tringali
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Undergrad Looking for large dataset of non image-centric physics data
  • galliaproject
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Undergrad Question about data analysis and error
  • Arman777
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Graduate Would Advanced Aliens Need Our Resources?
  • DTM
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Physical Valentine's Day -- quotes from particle physics magazine
  • Yassmin
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High School Why is fire colored orange and sometimes blue?
  • kirithika
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Undergrad Different conceptions of pop physics
  • AndreasC
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Undergrad Why is the Sabine equation considered an equation, but not a law?
  • Mohamed Nabil
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High School Can I Use GIMP to Edit My Checkerboard Images for Synthetic Schlieren Imaging?
  • Keith_McClary
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How did Vanadium50 become a polymath in physics and computer science?
  • fluidistic
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High School The Purposes of Physics: Understanding the Fundamentals of Nature
  • trees and plants
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Trains Plowing Snow: Interesting Physics Videos
  • Stephen Tashi
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News Miranda's Cliffs: Surviving a 12 Mile High Fall
  • zuz
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What is the reality of being a physicist?
  • Hacker Jack
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Movies that feature physics concepts
  • Frabjous
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Who was Martinus Veltman: Nobel Laureate and Physics Pioneer?
  • George Jones
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High School Are ICTP and NORDITA international institutions (like CERN)?
  • Suekdccia
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Graduate When Does Particle Population Size Shift from Microscopic to Macroscopic?
  • BillTre
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High School Do you think quantified things exist in reality?
  • Hacker Jack
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High School Significant figures for special functions (square roots)
  • yucheng
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Best scientific/physics magazines for laymen like me?
  • pie
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Undergrad Viewing Distant Celestial Objects: Could Hubble Have Seen the Moon Landings?
  • sophiecentaur
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News Jack Steinberger: Nobel Laureate Passes at 99-1/2
  • Vanadium 50
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Graduate How does consciousness affect our perception of gravity during sleep?
  • jk22
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High School Is there a clever name for Newton's 2nd Law?
  • Grasshopper
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Undergrad What are the real benefits of anion mode in air humidifiers?
  • greg_rack
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Graduate Understanding the mechanism of capillarity
  • Ahmed Abdullah
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Undergrad Questions on Studying Computational Physics in Undergrads
  • Ashuron
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Undergrad Numerical Analysis or Computational Physics
  • grendle7
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What Scientific Concept Was the Hardest For You to Comprehend?
  • kyphysics
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Undergrad How Does Touch Occur in the Brain in a Vat Hypothesis?
  • Johnny5454
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Undergrad Pure Physicist - A physics simulator app
  • sa1988
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#BlackInPhysics week (Oct 25 - 31, 2020)
  • robphy
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High School Why are serrated knives more effective than normal knives?
  • Josh0768
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Undergrad Why does wind blow leaves in circles?
  • Josh0768
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Graduate Examples of physics to maths and vice versa
  • jk22
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News More about the passing away of Mr Dyson
  • sbrothy
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Graduate 10 yrs at the LHC - a live talk organised by The Royal Institution
  • Wrichik Basu
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Undergrad Favorite Physical Sciences Podcasts?
  • DaveE
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Undergrad Perceived Height and actual height
  • Howlin
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The nostalgic popular physics book that I can't remember its name
  • MerryM
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Graduate 25 Years of the End of Science (or at least the end of physics?)
  • BWV
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The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to....
  • jtbell
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Graduate How to surround myself with other physicists/students outside of academia?
  • diegzumillo
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Who Was John D. Barrow?
  • davenn
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Undergrad Will steam generated inside an oven not break it?
  • k.udhay
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Undergrad Sea breeze and Chinese lantern question
  • Whipley Snidelash
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Undergrad How Does Bryson DeChambeau's Physics Background Affect His Golf Game?
  • atyy
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RIP Joan Feynman: A Woman Scientist Ahead of Her Time
  • phinds
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Undergrad What does "m0 → 0" mean in physics
  • htam9876
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Graduate Curious about how you've seen research work out
  • random_soldier
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Undergrad What do people mean when they say "Volts of charge"?
  • rtareen
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High School Do physical (macroscopic) waves consist of matter?
  • Vitani1
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