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    Graduate Poll: Planck's Length - Vote on 1 or 2

    so is this considered one of the problems in making relativity complatible with quantum theory...
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    Graduate Poll: Planck's Length - Vote on 1 or 2

    thats sounds kinda interesting...if nothing can cross the barrier of PL...then does it mean, that an object traveling close the the speed of light cannot get smaller than PL...i mean if the object somehow manages to travel fast enough to break the PL barrier, will it still not go beyond PL...or...
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    High School Creating a Heat Engine with Everyday Instruments

    thanks pal
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    High School Creating a Heat Engine with Everyday Instruments

    does anyone know how to make a very efficient heat engine using casual laboratory instruments...thanks
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    Who are the Top Comedians of All Time?

    definetly, Rowan Atkinson
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    Who Is Considered the Greatest Mathematician Ever?

    well i guess I am the only one to go with : 1) einstein 2) Newton 3) maxwell
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    Graduate Does the Schrodinger equation account for the characteristic smell of a soap?

    according to quantum mechanics there are many possiblities for a anything to happen...for example if there is a soap on the table..it exists only when we see it...only when we 'actualize' the wave-function...but what about the characteristic smell of the soap doesn't that make it exist? Does...
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    What Would You Do With a Million Dollars?

    million dollar... What would you do if you have a million dollar?? "other than having two chicks at the same time" - movie, Office space
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    Undergrad Careless mistakes you've made in tests/exam

    languages are undoubtebly the worst...I swear I hate them so much...though I'm fluent in about 4 and know 2 more...
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    Undergrad Careless mistakes you've made in tests/exam

    mistake are also made by people who fear tests like me! I don't have a problem in anything outside...but while writing a test in a the class I start sweating...I don't think that I can even get full in a first graders exam...here are a few mistakes that I recently made in my final exam of honors...
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    Funny Story: Driving a Funeral Van for 25 Years

    As the elderly man lay dying in his bed, death's agony was suddenly > pushed aside as he smelled the aroma of his favorite homemade > chocolate chip cookies wafting up the stairs. > > Gathering his remaining strength, he lifted himself from the bed. > Leaning against the...
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    Graduate About null and timelike geodesics

    it does not completely answers your question but helps... http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~cjld1/pages/geometryandcosmology.pdf
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    How Does Personality Link to Color Preferences?

    I voted for blue...but since
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    Graduate Protons: Stability, Decay & Half-Life

    I'm sorry...but just to clarify my doubt...in some books I read that the half life is something like 10^45 years...
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    Funny Story: Driving a Funeral Van for 25 Years

    Difference between men and women when getting cash from ATM Bank Men Drive to the bank, park, go to the cash dispenser Insert card Dial code and desired amount Take the cash, the card and the slip Women Drive to the bank Engine stalled Check make-up in the mirror Apply...