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    Graduate Pre-flood firmament was in orbit

    the great flood was not so great. we now assume that the story of the great flood was derived from a story about a merchant stuck in the middle of the mediterranean sea with the animals he was to sell at market the next day. however the sea flooded a little and the merchant lost his bearings and...
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    Free Fall Problem: Calculating Projectile Motion from a Cliff Edge

    are you assuming that 30 m/s is not the pellets terminal velocity?
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    Graduate How Does Infinity Become Smaller? | Hawking

    I have heard that hawking thinks that space is contracting or will be contracting. my question is how do you make infinity smaller? no matter what number you go to from infinity it would still be infinitely smaller than infinity correct? so this would only work in a finite universe which most...
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    Undergrad How Can We Prove Light is a Particle Instead of a Wave?

    actually as of now some physicists believe that light is fundamentally a particle but due to it's extreme speed causes waves in everything including space. sorry if this has been disproven already i am not always informed of these things but if it has been please tell me.
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    Graduate Why are there exactly 11 dimensions?

    i believe tom has summed it up rather nicely but really more than 11 dimensions COULD exist although as of now they arent needed and therefore we don't add them. really i would just wait until m theory's full calculations have been done before i said that only 11 can exist.