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    Graduate Why Are Photons Massless in Quantum Field Theory?

    some ppl here have chatted about how physics does not answer WHY the photon does not have mass. this is only half right. it is true that physics will not be able to tell us why the most FUNDAMENTAL laws are as they are, but things that occur as a CONSEQUENCE of them are considered to be...
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    High School Why Does Light Always Go Straight?

    ^ at what speed does it travel on those other paths?
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    Graduate Ket bra notation, and radial momentum

    the letters inside a bra or ket denote the quantum numbers of that state with respect to some operator. the notation pr,g must just refer to 2 different quantum numbers
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    Graduate What caused inflation in the big bang theory?

    In fact very distant galaxies are receding from us at speeds greater than the speed of light today!
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    Graduate What caused inflation in the big bang theory?

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    High School Expanding Universe: Matter Growing?

    why does this idea of more matter explain anything? amsterledan, why were you lead to this idea?
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    Graduate Gravitational force and electric force

    The reason that gravity is so weak is simply because the mass of the proton is much less than the Planck mass