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    Hermann Göring's Nuremberg Testimony

    Difficult to believe you think he was fat during WW1. I don't think you thought that one through.
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    High School A Mind-Boggling Number Comparison

    And I'm 5' 9' tall. What's your point? If you're looking for large numbers in the physical world, your choices are incredibly weak.
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    Collection of Lame Jokes

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    A movie about AI and physics!?

    Why would you think AI could change the laws of physics???
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    Bill Murphy

    Welcome to the forum
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    High School Where does the figure for a proton's rest mass come from?

    No, it's a NUMBER. Are you not familiar with exponential notation? Without units it is, as Dave said, just a number. When you add the units, it the mass of a proton, which is an experimental result, not something derived from something else.
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    Collection of Lame Jokes

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    Undergrad How do I stretch a laser from a beam into a sheet?

    a plain WHAT? I think you mean plane.
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    Uncertainty in pursuing Engineering

    @seventyeight-hxr: What is the difference between a paragraph and a wall of text? Walls of text are long paragraphs that aren't written, edited, or formatted to be readable on the web. Mostly a mistake of formatting, like bricks packed closely together, the text forms an almost opaque wall...
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    Undergrad What happens when two Neutrinos collide?

    Google is your friend. You should learn how to use it
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    Why do we spend so little time learning grammar in college?

    @sevensages I have read this thread with some amusement. I am a grammar Nazi, and as some on this forum know, I often correct people's grammar (including in at least one embarrassing instance, my own). I have my badge to show my authority: so, I sympathize with your point of view but you...
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    High School Red shifted tired light doubts

    which has been totally debunked here over and over. Arguing this is pointless. Incorrect. Photons have energy, which means they ARE affected by gravity. Look up Einstein Rings. The universe really doesn't care what we find satisfying. It does what it does. The energy of a photon is not...
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    Collection of Lame Jokes

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    Undergrad Question about the absorption of heat based on color

    Direct sunlight will tend to warm up dark clothes more than light colored clothes.