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    Stratospheric Cooling: Why is it Cooler Than the Ground?

    Statospheric cooling, when taking the increasing CO2 amounts into account, is occurring because of the effects of CO2 as a greenhouse gas in the troposphere. CO2 slows down the rate at which longwave radiation can escape from the troposphere to the stratosphere, with the net effect being that...
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    What Happens When You Reach the Center of the Earth?

    In fact, at the Center of Earth you would not be weightless at all, but would be pulled along the walls of your spherical cave (if that's the shape it was). The reason is that you must consider the Earth/Moon gravitational system, and the balance point is somewhere beneath the surface of the...
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    The shape of space-time and physical constants

    I am wondering if anyone knows of research being done, or theories that are related to the actual structure of space-time as they are related to physical constants such as the speed of light, Planck's constant, and the cosmological constant. I'm far from being a expert, but I've been playing...
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