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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Graduate Can Scalar Waves Influence Natural Disasters and Weather?
- No-where-man
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Undergrad What Is the Strong Nuclear Force and How Does It Work?
- icvotria
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Name of the photonic pressure toy with black and mirrored fan blades
- Jayse_83
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High School Why doesn't my resonance tube graph pass through zero?
- Miki
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Undergrad Robotic Reproduction: Constructing Identical Robots from "Food
- rbj
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High School Building a Goldberg machine for brushing teeth
- Rasine
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Why did the Northridge earthquake sky look so unusual in 1994?
- Ivan Seeking
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Graduate So will there be a theory of everything before 2200?
- Starship
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High School What Does Energy Really Mean?
- madness
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High School Do bones glow when heated?
- DeeZee
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Richard Feynman stamp dedication events May 11 and 20, 2005
- robphy
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High School What is Olbers' paradox?
- Ian
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Undergrad Can We Control Hurricanes with Current Technology?
- No-where-man
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Graduate Is modern physics a departure from classical assumptions about the universe?
- joeboo
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Can Matter Be Created? Scientists Weigh In
- lwymarie
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High School What will block damage to mag stripes?
- thecat
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Undergrad Can Santa Claus Really Deliver Presents in One Night?
- Peter.E
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Undergrad What is the electric cosmos theory?
- Jonny_trigonometry
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Undergrad Radiation physics textbook covering radioactivity to dosimetry
- Soilwork
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Graduate Can awareness be quantized as a particle property?
- Jonny_trigonometry
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Graduate Is the opposite of nothing something or antimatter?
- icvotria
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Undergrad What is the Resistance Across a Resistor in an Infinite Square Mesh?
- AntonVrba
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High School Explain how a daughter can be biological older then here parents
- Moose Knarkle
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Tell me im wrong SEMI-INVERTED VORTEX
- TOROIDAL
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High School Is variance the disorder of a parameter?
- nmondal
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Graduate Greatest Unsolved Problems in Physics?
- W.H.
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Graduate How to Determine the Goodness of Fit in Fluorescence Lifetime Measurements?
- Hanneman
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Why breakthrough ideas aren't allowed on Physics Forums
- aviator
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Michio Kaku Speaking at CUNY May 9th.
- alex caps
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Patent dispute and nervous breakdowns
- aviator
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High School What is the temperature in a vacum?
- ArielGenesis
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Undergrad Would the energy be in if you used grams for mass and km/sec for c?
- Someone502
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High School What exactly are sparks scientifically?
- Pengwuino
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High School Can Curiosity in Physics Lead to a Deeper Understanding?
- icvotria
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What object appears to move in different directions from different viewpoints?
- Jimmy Snyder
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Enter Physics Olympics this Year!
- LENIN
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Undergrad Fade in/out function for volume control
- VMail
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Graduate UCLA Researchers Produce Nuclear Fusion
- loseyourname
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Undergrad What Is Gravity and How Does It Relate to the Standard Model?
- icvotria
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Graduate How Do Atomic Clocks Differ from Orbital Clocks in Measuring Time?
- Huckleberry
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Graduate What Are Some Credible Anomalies in Physics and Beyond?
- Ivan Seeking
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Graduate Is the micro-chip an informational inevitability of the planet.
- Metatron
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TSK TSK TSK So you Physicists aren't that bright after all
- gravenewworld
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Graduate Wave dispersion: modulation envelope, dispersion relation, beaded string
- belleamie
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Graduate Is Mass Just an Illusion Created by Humans?
- wolram
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Most Fascinating Areas in Physics Today?
- coryr
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Undergrad What are some important physics equations for a physics calculator?
- eNathan
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Undergrad What is the Future of Physics in Relation to Other Sciences?
- Loren Booda
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High School What Would Happen if You Pointed a Camera at a TV Screen?
- Civilian2
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Today (April 18, 2005) 50th anniversary of Einstein's death
- PhysicsFan
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Graduate What Are Some Recommended Books on Schumann Resonances?
- kirovman
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Undergrad Volume of Intersection of a Cone with a Sphere
- sneez
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Graduate Can We Derive a Universal Formula for Material and Non-Material Objects?
- Thor
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Undergrad Difference between viscosity and upthrust in liquids
- Cheman
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What Does It Feel Like to Make the US Physics Team?
- daveed
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High School How do you pronounce phi in physics?
- eck
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Does water drain clockwise or counterclockwise in the southern hemisphere?
- gnome
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Graduate Orthogonality condition for discrete Fourier transforms
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High School Understanding How Waves in the Sea Are Formed
- verri vedhava
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Graduate Could the laws of physics change or end abruptly?
- Kirk Gregory Czuhai
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High School Where Does Energy Come From When Hanging a Permanent Magnet?
- Dodig
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Graduate Finite base-10 progression that repeats after four pages
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Graduate Comprendre la structure moléculaire à partir du nom donné
- chloé
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Are You Ready for WYP2005 Activities in NYC/LI and Knoxville, TN?
- ZapperZ
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High School Is there such thing as AntiGravity?
- QuantumTheory
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Graduate Comparing Earth's oblate spheroid dimensions to academic measurements
- Robust
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Graduate Can Moseley's Law accurately calculate X-ray parameters?
- maverick280857
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High School Was my physics teacher justified in giving me a zero on the test?
- Dynamis
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Undergrad Somebody is living on a spherical world
- kleinwolf
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High School Why are latitudes not parallel to each other but longitudes are?
- lwymarie
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High School Time Travel = Infinite Harry Potter's ?
- Poetic dreamer
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High School What does energy mean without a specific context?
- briandunning
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Have you seen What the Bleep Do We Know?
- derekmohammed
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Graduate Difficulty in understanding non-oscillatory waves
- tsienni
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Amazing science facts for TV documentary episodes
- squirrel
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Undergrad An easy way to get yourself a cool $100k?
- Nereid
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Why doesn't a crater make sense as a splash?
- russ_watters
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High School Can one read a meter stick down to a tenth of a millimeter?
- Haftred
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Undergrad Is energy a mathematical construct or something fundamental?
- Cheman
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High School Stationary Waves on Strings and in Pipes?
- ylem
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High School Place i can get a basic idea about physics
- Someone502
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Kaku Equation T-shirt? Heard on TV last night
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Graduate 13 scientific mysteries from New Scientist
- Ivan Seeking
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Undergrad Radiometric dating- creationism.org
- matthyaouw
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Can you theorize on what I winessed?
- Max431
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Can Magnetism Influence Gravity?
- Someone502
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High School Physics project ideas for high school beginners
- Rasine
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Graduate Solving for Interference Minima in N-Slit Electric Field
- shaiqbashir
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Does Russia have a good physics program
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High School Firing a gun in space with equal pressure on the bullet
- oldunion
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New Scientist: What's Your Take?
- Alkatran
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High School How to test the strength of rubber bands for a school project
- Gurra
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Do Physicists Make Superior Drivers?
- Loren Booda
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Undergrad Fdarkangel's critique of the word type
- fdarkangel
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Undergrad How does antimatter relate to chemistry?
- Gary King
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So how many people in your school were pretty stupid?
- KingNothing
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Graduate Is There a 2nd Dimension in Time?
- hexhunter
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Graduate What do I know I'm a lowly engineer
- Niffgiffler
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News Hans Bethe's work on stellar fusion and the Manhattan Project
- Simfish
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