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    Programs Non-Physics Undergrad and Grad - Phd Physics?

    I really want to thank both Twofish and Chronos for your comments. Twofish , I could not help but smile on your repeated reference of 'slave labor' - I do get your point! :wink: I am just at that point in life where life has become totally monotonous and I really want to escape the inertia...
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    Programs Non-Physics Undergrad and Grad - Phd Physics?

    Hi, I have done my Under Grad in Electronics Engg from India and my Master's in Telecommunications from US. I wanted to know how difficult will it be for me to get into a Doctorate course in Physics especially Astrophysics? I am working right now and want to pursue this solely for personal...
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    How was time and space created at the Big Bang?

    hi mike, agreed what u r saying -that due to some reasons with time space started to grow-but my point is:space started to grow for OUR universe and not for the actual thing that was present before it - also what must have been the "trigger" for such an expansion ? one really needs...
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    How was time and space created at the Big Bang?

    Hi, i had a query bout big bang which i guess even u guys would have thought of at some time or the other... big bang theory says that this primordial atom was a "small point" which had infinite density and contained all the matter n energy needed to fuel n run todays...
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    Why does light travel at light speed?

    hi, we know that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light...but what is it about light that gives it this special status?? i mean it could have been sound...could have been some other thing...n if we if we think logically then anything traveling opposite to the direction of light...
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    Planet formation DOES happen in slow motion

    ok! but any idea after how much mass can a mass be called as planet?ya if it is made by the accumulation of smaller chunks of matter then it might take a really long time! but can't planets be formed by some massive collision ...or some star's loss of mass due to some passing star? i which case...
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    Planet formation DOES happen in slow motion

    well, to answer this question i guess one needs to understand as to what goes into "forming" a planet? my guess is that any celestial body of considerable mass which revolves around a star can be called a planet of the star...and again planets are beleived to be the debris of the star...
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