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B Does this experiment prove that light speed is actually faster?
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I What are the most energetic lightning "superbolts" ever measured?
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I What Explains the Odd Behavior of the Four Fundamental Forces?
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I Why Do Physicists Use Gaussian Error Distributions?
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I Entropy question involving our Solar System
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I Time travel is a fact or fiction.?
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B What material is best suited for making Chladni figures?
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B Cryogenic storage dewars and EM waves
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A Effects of a spatially nonuniform diffusion parameter
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B Cooling the room with a ceiling fan and skylight window
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A Relation of ionisation voltage vs. pressure for hydrogen
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I Measurement Science: True Magnitude, Error & Accuracy
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B Can EM Radiations Exist without a Source?
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I A problem with science media coverage
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B Electrons, quarks and gluons made from something or nothing?
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B Are these actually real electrons?
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I Usable energy from alpha particles?
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B Which lines are the quark-gluon plasma?
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B Protecting Your Computer from Solar Storms - Is a Faraday Cage Enough?
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I Propagation of uncertainty in the slope
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I Nozzle Reaction Forces: Explaining the Resultant Force
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I FTL Travel: The Matryoshka Paradox
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B Launching into space without fuel -- Please bare with me....
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A COMSOL Multiphysics- Mathematics
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Insights A Principle Explanation of the “Mysteries” of Modern Physics
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B Question re photons/EM waves and the double slit experiment
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B Implication of Goedel's theorems on physics
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A LIF Spectrum: Understand 12 Branches & Subscripts
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I Does luminous efficacy differ between direct and reflected sunlight?
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B How do we know what would happen if time reversed?
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I HVAC dehumidifier energy wastage
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I Preventing parasitics for wires?
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I Fluids: Bernoulli's Equation Derivation Question
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B How Does Viscosity and Turbulence Affect Fluid Flow Between Plates?
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I A ray crossing 2 media of different indices and energy conservation
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B A layman's question about entanglement
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B How does conservation of energy apply at the nuclear level?
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B Is Photon Rotation Key to Solar Wind and Earth's Orbit Stability?
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A Block universe and entropy increase
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I Why does entropy grow when a solar system is formed?
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I Are all symmetries in physics just approximations?
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I Can a single photon be reflected by a mirror?
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I Can the Principle of Least Action Unify Different Branches of Physics?
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B Is time a consequence of 2nd law of thermodynamics?
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I Numerically solving Time-independent Schrödinger eqn. using Shooting algorithm
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I Can we calculate the efficiency and output of solar panels on an electron level?
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I What is the confusion surrounding time as a coordinate in general relativity?
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I Can Electromagnetic Fields Exist Independently of Charges?
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I Why high Q factors have low phase noise
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B Symmetry of parity: Mistake in the experiment?
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I How to calculate the focal length and focal point of collimator?
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B Popular talks by PhD students, May 27
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B Radon testing my first basement (already has a mitigation system)
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I The Simulation Theory and the dangers of pop-science
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I How can artificial gravity be created for space exploration?
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I Telescoping antenna -- why is there a knob on top?
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I What are the biggest problems in the study of complex systems?
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I Two stage amplifier for a plastic scintillator
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I Left-right arrow in Einstein equation
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B An arrow vane claim (fletchings as airfoils)
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I What is the secret behind Shi Yan Ming's extraordinary punching power?
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B 'A Brief History of Time' question on gravity
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I Force required to open a swinging gate
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A Thought Experiment: Aether Medium
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B Is The Planck Length the smallest length possible?
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I Question about data analysis and error
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A Is this solution for interstellar travel viable?
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B Could Archimedes' problem have been solved a little differently?
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B Why is fire colored orange and sometimes blue?
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I Are the Laws of Thermodynamics still applicable in modern physics?
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B Why do we take k=1 in the derivation of F=k*ma?
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I Why is the Sabine equation considered an equation, but not a law?
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B Can I Use GIMP to Edit My Checkerboard Images for Synthetic Schlieren Imaging?
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I Obtain the Density of State using the Green function
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I On spherical geometry and its applications in physics
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B Can the human body affect a radio receiver?
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B The Purposes of Physics: Understanding the Fundamentals of Nature
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I Irreversible Isochoric Process in a Cycle
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I Ignite Jupiter? Could Earthlike Planets Exist in Its Atmosphere?
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B Is time a true variable in the scheme of things?
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I Why are some theories in physics falsifiable?
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B Do you think quantified things exist in reality?
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B Significant figures for special functions (square roots)
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I Wheel physics -- which scooter would be easiest to get to school and back?
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B Is the Concept of Vacuum in Physics Truly Lorentz Invariant?
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I Varying dimensional universal constants
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I Can Energy Be Measured Directly or Only Through Its Changes?
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What Does Path Mean in Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory?
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What Is the Self-Energy of an Electron?
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I From Micro to Macro physics (Emergence)
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What is Field energy, what does it mean?
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