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Q: Since it involves limits, is calculus always an approximation?
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Q: How does Earth’s magnetic field protect us?
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Q: If a long hot streak is less likely than a short hot streak, then doesn’t that mean that the chance of success drops the more successes there are?
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Q: Where do the rules for “significant figures” come from?
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Q: If time slows down when you travel at high speeds, then couldn’t you travel across the galaxy within your lifetime by just accelerating continuously?
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Q: When something falls on your foot, how much force is involved?
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Q: If nothing can escape a black hole’s gravity, then how does the gravity itself escape?
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Q: Is there a formula for finding primes? Do primes follow a pattern?
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Q: If the number of ancestors you have doubles with each generation going back, you quickly get to a number bigger than the population of Earth. Does that mean we’re all a little inbred?
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Q: Why are many galaxies, our solar system, and Saturn’s rings all flat?
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Q: How do you define the derivatives of the Heaviside, Sign, Absolute Value, and Delta functions? How do they relate to one another?
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Q: Is it possible to have a completely original thought?
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Q: How can the universe expand faster than the speed of light?
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Q: How fast are we moving through space? Has anyone calculated it?
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Q: If you flip a coin forever, are you guaranteed to eventually flip an equal number of heads and tails?
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Q: What is radioactivity and why is it sometimes dangerous?
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Q: How do we know that π never repeats? If we find enough digits, isn’t it possible that it will eventually start repeating?
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Q: Why does carbon dating detect when things were alive? How are the atoms in living things any different from the atoms in dead things?
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Q: What role does Dark Matter play in the behavior of things inside the solar system?
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Q: Are some number patterns more or less likely? Are some betting schemes better than others?
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Q: Why does iron kill stars?
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Q: According to relativity, things get more massive the faster they move. If something were moving fast enough, would it become a black hole?
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Q: How do we know that atomic clocks are accurate?
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Q: “i” had to be made up to solve the square root of negative one. But doesn’t something new need to be made up for the square root of i?
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Q: Could the tidal forces of the Sun and Moon be used to generate power directly?
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Q: What would it be like if another planet just barely missed colliding with the Earth?
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Q: What are “delayed choice experiments”? Can “wave function collapse” be used to send information?
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Q: Why can some creatures walk on water yet I (a human) can’t?
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Q: What fair dice can be simulated by adding up other dice?
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Q: How do I encrypt/hide/protect my email?
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Q: Where do the weird rules for rational numbers come from? (Dealing with fractions)
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Dragon*Con 2013
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Q: Why doesn’t the air “sit still” while the Earth turns under it?
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Q: Can resonance be used to destroy anything? Is the “brown note” possible?
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Q: Are there examples of quantum mechanics that can be seen in every-day life, or do they only show up in the lab?
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Q: Why does it take thousands of years for light to escape the Sun?
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Q: What does it mean for light to be stopped or stored?
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Q: What are quasi-particles? Why do phonons and photons have such similar names?
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The nuptial effect
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Q: How do you prove that the spacetime interval is always the same?
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Q: Are numbers real?
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Q: If time were reversed would things fall up?
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Q: Why don’t “cheats” ever work on the uncertainty principle? What’s uncertain in the uncertainty principle?
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Q: Do the past and future exist? If they do, is the future determined and what does that mean for quantum randomness?
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Basic math with infinity
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Q: What is the Planck length? What is its relevance?
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Q: What causes friction? (and some other friction questions)
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Q: Is fire a plasma? What is plasma?
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Q: Why are determinants defined the weird way they are?
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Q: Are white holes real?
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Q: If a photon doesn’t experience time, then how can it travel?
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Q: Why is Schrodinger’s cat both dead and alive? Is this not a paradox?
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Q: What kind of telescope would be needed to see a person on a planet in a different solar system?
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Q: Is Murphy’s law real?
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Q: Why doesn’t life and evolution violate the second law of thermodynamics? Don’t living things reverse entropy?
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Q: Does quantum mechanics really say that there’s some probability that objects will suddenly start moving or that things can suddenly “shift” to the other side of the universe?
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Q: Using modern technology, are we any closer to turning lead into gold than alchemists were hundreds of years ago?
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Q: How do you turn/change directions in space?
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Q: If a man hangs on an un-insulated wire using both his hands what will happen and why?
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Learning intro number theory
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Q: Is the Alcubierre warp drive really possible? How close are we to actually building one and going faster than light?
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Q: Is darkness a wave the way light is a wave? What is the speed of dark?
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Q: Is it a coincidence that a circles circumference is the derivative of its area, as well as the volume of a sphere being the antiderivative of its surface area? What is the explanation for this?
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Q: If hot air rises, why is it generally colder at higher elevations?
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Q: What is quantum teleportation? Why can’t we use it to communicate faster than light?
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Q: Since all particles display wave-like characteristics, does that imply that one could use destructive wave interference to destroy or at least drastically change a particle?
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Q: How does the Oberth Effect work, and where does the extra energy come from? Why is it better for a rocket to fire at the lowest point in its orbit?
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Q: How do lenses that concentrate light not violate the second law of thermodynamics? If you use a magnifying glass to burn ants, aren’t you making a point hotter than the ambient temperature without losing energy?
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Q: What makes natural logarithms natural? What’s so special about the number e?
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Q: If the world were to stop spinning, would the people and everything on it be considered ‘lighter’ or ‘heavier’? Would any change take place? And does centrifugal force have an effect on gravity?
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Q: Two entangled particles approach a black hole, one falls in and the other escapes. Do they remain entangled? What about after the black hole evaporates?
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Q: If there are 10 dimensions, then why don’t we notice them?
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Q: Will the world end tomorrow?
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Q: In an infinite universe, does everything that’s possible have to happen somewhere?
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Q: Which of Earth’s life forms could survive on each planet of the Solar System?
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Q: What are fractional dimensions? Can space have a fractional dimension?
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Q: Are shadows 2-dimensional? Are there any real examples of 2-dimensional things in the universe?
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Q: Is it possible to experience different rates of time? If time were to speed up, slow down, or stop, what would you experience?
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Q: How many theorems are there?
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Q: How much of a direct effect do planets and stars have on us? Is astrology reasonable or plausable?
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Q: Why are scientists looking for life in space by looking for water? How can they be sure that all life uses water?
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Q: If energy is neither created nor destroyed, what happens to the energy within our bodies and brains when we die?
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Q: Could Kurt Vonnegut’s “Ice-9 catastrophe” happen?
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Q: How accurately do we need to know π? Is there a reason to know it out to billions of digits?
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My bad: If fusion in the Sun suddenly stopped, what would happen?
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Q: If fusion in the Sun suddenly stopped, what would happen?
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Q: Does opening a refrigerator cool down the room?
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Q: What is the probability of an outcome after it’s already happened?
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Q: How do you answer a question scientifically?
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Q: Why are the days still longer than nights, until a few days after the fall equinox?
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Q: What is a Fourier transform? What is it used for?
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Q: What are singularities? Do they exist in nature?
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Q: Is it likely that there are atoms in my body that have traveled from the other side of the planet, solar system, galaxy, or universe?
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Q: Is there a number set that is “above” complex numbers?
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Q: Are the brain and consciousness quantum mechanical in nature?
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Q: How are voltage and current related to battery life? What is the difference between batteries with the same voltage, but different shapes or sizes? What about capacitors?
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Q: What are virtual particles?
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Q: Would it be possible to create an antimatter weapon by “harvesting” enough antimatter, containing it in an electro-magnetic field and placing that in a projectile?
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Q: If Earth was flat, would there be a horizon? If so, what would it look like? If the Earth was flat and had infinite area, would that change the answer?
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Q: Is there an experiment which could provide conclusive evidence for either the Many Worlds or Copenhagen interpretations of quantum physics?
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Q: If you could drill a tunnel through the whole planet and then jumped down this tunnel, how would you fall?
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Q: How many people riding bicycle generators would be needed, in an 8-hour working day, to equal or surpass the energy generated by an average nuclear power plant?
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Q: Why is hitting water from a great height like hitting concrete?
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Q: How does instantaneous communication violate causality?
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Q: What is the “False Vacuum” and are we living in it?
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Q: How would the universe be different if π = 3?
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Q: Is it possible for an artificial black hole to be created, or something that has the same effects? If so, how small could it be made?
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Q: Do colors exist?
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Q: How can we see the early universe and the Big Bang? Shouldn’t the light have already passed us?
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Q: Are beautiful, elegant or simple equations more likely to be true?
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Q: If quantum mechanics says everything is random, then how can it also be the most accurate theory ever?
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Q: Why do wet stones look darker, more colorful, and polished?
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Q: What would the universe be like with additional temporal dimensions?
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The 2012 Venus transit
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Q: Why haven’t we discovered Earth-like planets yet?
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Q: Is quantum randomness ever large enough to be noticed?
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Q: How is radiometric dating reliable? Why is it that one random thing is unpredictable, but many random things together are predictable?
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Q: Is the final step in evolution an ascension into an energy-based lifeform?
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Q: What would life be like in higher dimensions?
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Q: How much does fire weigh?
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Q: Since the real-world does all kinds of crazy calculations in no time, can we use physics to calculate stuff?
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Q: Is there some way to actually play quidditch?
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Q: Can you poke something that’s far away with a stick faster than it would take light to get there?
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Q: Does how you deal cards affect how random they are?
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Q: Will CERN awaken the Elder Gods?
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Q: The information contained in a big system isn’t the same as the amount of information in its parts. Why?
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Q: Is the quantum zeno effect a real thing?
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π day!
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Q: Is there an intuitive proof for the chain rule?
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Q: How do you write algorithms to enycrypt things?
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Q: Satellites experience less time because they’re moving fast, but more time because they’re so high. Is there an orbit where the effects cancel out? Is that useful?
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Q: Is it possible to objectively quantify the amount of information a sentence contains?
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Q: What would happen if a black hole passed through our solar system?
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Q: If you are talking to a distant alien, how would you tell them which way is left and which way is right?
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Q: Would it be possible in the distant future to directly convert matter into energy?
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Q: What’s the difference between anti-matter and negative-matter?
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Q: Why does gravity make some things orbit and some things fall?
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Q: Do you need faith to believe in science?
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Q: What keeps spinning tops upright?
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Q: Do time and distance exist in a completely empty universe?
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Q: Why is it that photographs of wire mesh things, like window screens and grates, have waves in them?
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Q: How does quantum physics affect electron configurations and spectral lines?
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Q: Is it possible for an atomic orbital to exist beyond the s, p, f and d orbitals they taught about in school? Like could there be a (other letter) orbital beyond that?
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Q: Will the world end in 2012?
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Q: How do you find the height of a rocket using trigonometry?
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Q: What are chaos and chaos theory? How can you talk about chaos?
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Q: What is the Riemann Hypothesis? Why is it so important?
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Twitter
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Q: Why does the entropy of the universe always increase, and what is the heat death of the universe?
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Q: Could God have existed forever? Is it actually feasibly possibly for some ‘being’ to have just existed, infinitely?
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Q: How can wormholes be used for time travel?
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Q: If gravity suddenly increased would airplanes fall out of the sky, or would it compress the air in such a way that airplanes could keep flying?
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Entanglement omnibus!
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Q: How are imaginary exponents defined?
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Q: Why do nuclear weapons cause EMPs (electromagnetic pulses)?
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Q: How does the expansion of space affect the things that inhabit that space? Are atoms, people, stars, and everything else getting bigger too?
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Q: What would Earth be like if it didn’t turn?
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Q: According to the Many Worlds Interpretation, every event creates new universes. Where does the energy and matter for the new universes come from?
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Q: Can wind chill make things “feel” colder than absolute zero?
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Q: What is “spin” in particle physics? Why is it different from just ordinary rotation?
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Q: What is Bayes’ rule and how do I use it to improve my life?
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Q: Are there universal truths?
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Q: What’s the difference between black holes and worm holes? Could black holes take you to other universes?
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Q: Is there an equation that determines whether a question gets answered on ask a mathematician/physicist?
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Q: If you could hear through space as though it were filled with air, what would you hear?
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Q: What is the three body problem?
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Q: How are fractals made?
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Q: CERN’s faster than light neutrino thing: WTF?
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Q: What’s the point of purely theoretical research?
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Q: Why does lightning flash, but thunder rolls?
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Q: Hyperspace, warp drives, and faster than light travel: why not?
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Burning Man 2011
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Q: If light slows down in different materials, then how can it be a universal speed?
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Q: What is mass?
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Q: How much of physics can be deduced from previous equations/axioms?
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Q: If God were all-seeing and all-knowing, the double-slit experiment wouldn’t work, would it? Wouldn’t God’s observation of the location of the photon collapse its probability wave function?
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Q: How do those “executive ball clicker” things work?
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Q: Why is cold fusion so difficult?
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Q: Why does light choose the “path of least time”?
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Q: Does light experience time?
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Q: Would it be possible for humans to terraform mars?
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Q: Can light be used to transfer energy instead of power lines?
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Particle physics, neutrinos, and chirality too!
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Q: What are integral transforms and how do they work?
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Q: How does reflection work?
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Q: What does a measurement in quantum mechanics do?
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Q: If you stood in the beam of a particle accelerator, what would happen?
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Q: What exactly is the vacuum catastrophe and what effects does this have upon our understanding of the universe?
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Q: What is a “measurement” in quantum mechanics?
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Q: How close is Jupiter to being a star? What would happen to us if it were?
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Q: Can you fix the “1/0 problem” by defining 1/0 as a new number?
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Q: How can we have any idea what a 4D hypercube or any n-D object “looks like”? What is the process of developing a picture of a higher dimensional object?
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Q: Is it possible to destroy a black hole?
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Q: Why does the Earth orbit the Sun?
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Q: If you suddenly replaced all the water drops in a rainbow with same-sized spheres of polished diamond, what would happen to the rainbow? How do you calculate the size of a rainbow?
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Q: If we meet aliens, will they have the same math and physics that we do?
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Q: Is 0.9999… repeating really equal to 1?
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Q: What would Earth be like to us if it were a cube instead of spherical? Is this even possible?
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Q: How do velocities add? If I’m riding a beam of light and I throw a ball, why doesn’t the ball go faster than light?
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Q: What is the universe expanding into? What’s outside the universe?
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Cheap experiments and demonstrations for kids.
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Q: How do I estimate the probability that God exists?
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Q: How do you calculate 6/2(1+2) or 48/2(9+3)? What’s the deal with this orders of operation business?
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Q: Is there a single equation that proves black holes are real?
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Q: Is the edge of a circle with an infinite radius curved or straight?
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Q: As a consequence of relativity, objects becomes more massive when they’re moving fast. What is it about matter that causes that to happen?
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Q: What is the evidence for the Big Bang?
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Q: Is there a formula to find the Nth term in the Fibonacci sequence?
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Q: Why is the integral/antiderivative the area under a function?
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Thank you!
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Mathematical proof of the existence of God.
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Video: Getting Computers to Learn
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Q: What is going on in a nuclear reactor, and what happens during a meltdown?
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Q: How do I find the love of my life? (a Mathematician’s perspective)
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Q: Are all atoms radioactive?
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Q: How do you talk about the size of infinity? How can one infinity be bigger than another?
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Q: What are the equations of electromagnetism? What all do they describe to us?
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Q: What is the entropy of nothing?
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Q: How can quantum computers break encryption?
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Q: How does quantum computing work?
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Q: What causes buoyancy?
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My bad: If atoms are mostly made up of empty space, why do things feel solid?
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Q: How many mathematicians/physicists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
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Q: Why is it that (if you exclude 2 & 3) the difference between the squares of any two prime numbers is divisible by 12?
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Q: Why does relativistic length contraction (Lorentz contraction) happen?
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Q: Why does Lorentz contraction only act in the direction of motion?
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Relativity and Quantum Mechanics: the elevator pitch
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Quantum mech, choices, and time travel too!
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Video: How do we know that 1+1=2? A journey into the foundations of math.
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