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Undergrad How Can Non-Scientists Explore Ideas About Time and Dark Matter?
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Undergrad How to relate to math expressions that don’t have physical representations
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Graduate Recent Noteworthy Physics Papers
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Graduate Abour Riccardo Giacconi's opinion about the multiverse?
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News Discussing Eric Weinstein's Physics Views: Caveats & Qualifications
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High School Which Cleanroom ISO Class is suitable for Liquid Crystal research?
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Do you see any "spirality" in this picture?
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Graduate Curvilinear.... isn't that a strange word?
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Undergrad Unconventional methods for pumping down a vacuum chamber?
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Graduate What Particles Do Educators and Students Worldwide Favor?
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High School Do we need another language other than math?
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Undergrad What is the Meaning of First Principle in Chemistry?
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Undergrad Physics and Philosophy are intertwined....
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High School How Unique Is Our Voice in Nature?
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Graduate Software for cross section calculations using .cif files
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AAPT 2020 Summer Meeting (now Virtual)
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If you break the laws of physics, do you go to jail?
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Undergrad How do I know the lithium content of a lithium-ion battery?
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Undergrad Why Does PRL Have Such Small Impact Factor?
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LIGO India is hosting a series of live talks on Youtube
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Photo Contest - Simple Harmonic Motion (5/2-5/8)
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Undergrad Differences between perturbation/variation of an object?
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News Who was Freeman Dyson and what were his contributions to science?
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Apollo 13: What did the crew see when they looked out the window?
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High School Are Beats and Standing Waves Related in Physics?
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High School Physics Tricks: Pendulum Swindle & More | Facebook
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Undergrad Solution to the 1D wave equation for a finite length plane wave tube
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RIP Nobel Laureate Philip Warren Anderson
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Amateur microscope mostly for children
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Undergrad What physics do I need to learn to do calculations for throwing water?
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High School Why are 2/3 of my brake lights required to work by law?
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Undergrad Faster than light thought experiment
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High School Is the Stationary Light Near the Moon Venus?
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Graduate Physics - Description is description
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Who was the legendary theoretical physicist who passed away at 96?
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Graduate The Human Body as a Dark Matter Detector
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Undergrad How did students manage to study the required Mathematics for Physics
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Graduate What was the most intellectually stimulating class you have ever taken?
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High School I'm Confused about Buoyancy (Anime: A Certain Scientific Railgun)
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Undergrad The Geekest T-Shirt Of The Year.... So Far
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Undergrad PM2.5 Monitor Question (particulates 2.5 microns or below)
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Graduate What would be the impact of the discovery of the Graviton in the world?
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High School What Are the Nuances Between Similar English Words?
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High School Who set the values of Physics Constants?
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Surreal Physics Movies: Share Your Favorites!
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High School Falsifiability -- What is Popper proposing and how should it read?
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High School Ready to Master Knots? Listen to This 2-Minute Audio!
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High School Kill drum head overtones without anything touching the drum head
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High School Do drums/strings have a pitch bend when they are struck?
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High School Gravity & Neutrons: Could They be Connected?
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Undergrad What Is a Harmonograph?
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Is it possible to have physics without mathematics?
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High School Opposing speakers and standing waves
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Undergrad Numerical Solution to the Rayleigh Plesset Equation
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Summer Sunday Tours at Brookhaven
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Dirac papers disappeared from archive.org?
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Undergrad What grade is expected of physics students?
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Graduate Can a Solar Panel Detect a Raman Signal After Filtering Rayleigh Scattering?
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Undergrad Studying the air layer over a solid object
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Graduate Did John Wheeler's Lost FBI File Reveal Secrets of the H-Bomb?
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Undergrad Why Sea Level sometimes gives an illusion being at height
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Undergrad What are nanosystems and where can we find them in our daily lives?
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Insights What Can You Learn About the Moon?
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Undergrad Efficiency of computers vs. brains
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Undergrad Unplug Fridge During Below-30 Days?
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Undergrad Resources to learn about scaling arguments
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News "Shaggy Dog Stories" relevant to "Cartoon Physics"
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Graduate Does Michio Kaku agree with Lawrence Krauss' concept of nothingness?
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Explaining your Physics degree to relatives
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High School Report shows gravity waves in clouds(?)
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Graduate Pre-1900s Educational Science Background?
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Photo Contest - Kinetic Friction (10/12-10/18)
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Graduate What are really brilliant physics students capable of?
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High School Did the Hunter's Moon Really Look Like a Second Sun in North America?
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News What Did the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics Reveal About Cosmology and Exoplanets?
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High School Lost significant figures through division by exact numbers
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Undergrad How do waves following a shockwave catch up to the shock wave?
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High School What is the Conversion Factor for Hectacomb Sacrifices?
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Undergrad Typical Wavelength vs Wave Length
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Should Scientists Reject Michio Kaku's Views on UFOs and Aliens?
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Graduate What does the concave multifractal spectrum shape physically mean?
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Graduate Understanding Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test Results for Random Number Generators
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Graduate Interesting Physics Riddle I Devised
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Graduate Real image of a sawtooth standing wave in a musical string?
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Billionaire invested in a fringe nuclear energy startup gone wrong
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Undergrad Number of basic physical quantities
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Adding drama and controversy to scientific articles for the public
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High School Why do oceans look blue from orbit?
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Undergrad Does Lawrence Krauss believe in the anthropic principle?
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Frustrations with the general populace's lack of interest in science
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Undergrad Rebinning Strategies for Unequally Spaced Data in Spectroscopy Experiments
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High School How does light interact with objects to create vision?
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News Remembering J. Robert Schrieffer: A Pioneer in Superconductivity Theory?
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Undergrad Searching Beyond EM Spectrum: Tech Needed to Discover New Wavelengths
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How to Fix Sagging Soccer Goals: Tips and Tricks
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Graduate Advantages of Larger Syringe Barrels for Aspiration & Pathology Removal
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High School Dumbing down of science for the general population
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High School Can Waves Reveal the Properties of Their Medium?
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Graduate Where Can I Find Animated Graphics of High Energy Collisions?
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Graduate How can a zipper MRI artifact be limited to a single line?
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