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Q: How is matter created? Can we create new matter and would that be useful?
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The Physicist
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There’s no such thing as pure energy
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looking it up
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about 40% of their mass
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Q: Is it possible to create an “almanac” of human behavior that predicts everything a person will do?
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Q: Is π the same in every universe?
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strength of gravity
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one of them isn’t completely inhospitable
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this enterprising individual
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how to calculate π just like we have
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here are two lists of ideas
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seems to split
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entanglement between continents
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big enough to be seen
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At one time
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there are bigger planets
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Q: Is getting plasma really hot the only way to initiate fusion?
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Q: How likely is it that there’s dark matter in me right now?
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Q: How big is the universe? What happens at the “edge”?
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Q: What if the particles in the double slit experiment were conscious? Could you ask them which slit they went through afterwards?
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A Quantum Computation Course 4: Full Measure
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A Quantum Computation Course 3: Rise of the Quanta
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A Quantum Computation Course 2: Quantum Harder
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A Quantum Computation Course
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Q: Is silicon life possible? Why all the fuss over carbon-based life?
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Q: Why are the laws of quantum mechanics so strange? Does it mean that we’re missing something?
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Q: What is quantum supremacy? Is it awesome or worrisome?
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Q: Do we actually live in a computer simulation?
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Q: Half-life?
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Q: What’s the point of going to the Moon?
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Q: How hard is it to build a space elevator? What’s the point?
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Q: Could we get rid of CO2 if we pumped it through a pipe into space?
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Q: Why was it so hard to take a picture of a black hole? What are we even looking at?
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Q: Will time travel ever be invented?
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Q: Why is a negative times a negative positive?
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Q: In relativity, length contracts at high speeds. But what’s contracting? Is it distance or space or is there even a difference?
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Q: Can you beat the uncertainty principle using entanglement, by measuring position on one particle and momentum on the other?
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Q: Why do clouds hold their form?
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An origin story
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Q: Can free will exist in our deterministic universe?
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Q: What is the “monogamy of entanglement”?
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Q: Could dark matter actually be the “gravitational shadow” of parallel universes?
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Burning Man’s Mathematical Underbelly
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Q: Given two points on the globe, how do you figure out the direction and distance to each other?
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Q: Is it possible to eat all of the ice cream in a bowl?
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Q: Could the “proton torpedoes” in Star Wars be a thing?
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Q: Why does gravity pull things toward the center of mass? What’s so special about the center of mass?
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Q: In relativity, how do you define “the observer”?
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Story Collider
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For the first time ever, you can buy a book! Again!
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Q: What is the most complicated equation?
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Q: What is quantum immortality?
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Q: If you double your bet every time you lose, won’t you eventually win and come out ahead?
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Q: Will we ever discover a completely new color?
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Q: With entangled particles, can you tell when/how the other particle is measured?
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Q: How hard would it be to keep the Moon from drifting away?
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For the first time ever, you can buy a book!
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Q: Where is all the anti-matter?
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Q: Is it possible to write a big number using a small number? Is there a limit to how much information can be compressed?
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Q: Is reactionless propulsion possible?
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Q: How can I set up a random gift exchange that’s different from year to year?
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Q: How does “1+2+3+4+5+… = -1/12” make any sense?
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There’s something new under the Sun!
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Q: Is it more efficient to keep keep a swimming pool warm or let it get cold and heat it up again?
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Q: What determines the size of the bright spot when you focus sunlight with a lens?
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Q: Why are numerical methods necessary? If we can’t get exact solutions, then how do we know when our approximate solutions are any good?
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Burning Man 2017
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Q: How can something be “proven” in science or math?
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Q: If time is relative, then how can we talk about how old the universe is?
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Q: How can carbon dating work on things that were never alive?
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Teleportation! In space!
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Q: If the world is a giant magnet, how come we can’t build a repelling magnet that can float?
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Q: How can something have different amounts of energy from different points of view?
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Q: Where is the middle of nowhere?
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Q: If light is a wave, then what’s doing the waving?
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Q: If you’ve got different amounts of debt in different accounts with different interest rates, how should you pay them down?
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Q: Should we be worried about artificial intelligence? By “we” I mean humans.
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Q: Why haven’t we been able to see the spectra of anti-hydrogen until recently? Why is it so hard to study anti-matter?
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Q: Does quantum mechanics really say there are other “mes”? Where are they?
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Q: In base ten 1=0.999…, but what about in other bases? What about in base 1?
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Q: How many samples do you need to take to know how big a set is?
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Q: Does anti-matter really move backward through time?
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Q: How do we know that everyone has a common anecestor? How do we know that someone alive today will someday be a common ancestor to everyone?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Are some colors of light impossible? Can any color of light be made?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Proxima B!
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Is there anything unique about our solar system?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: What is dark energy?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: What are “actual pictures” of atoms actually pictures of?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: If you were shrunk to microscopic size would you be able to see normally? Would you be able to see microscopic things?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: How does one attain an understanding of everything?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Can planes (sheets) be tied in knots in higher dimensions the way lines (strings) can be tied in knots in 3 dimensions?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Gravity Waves!
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Is it possible to parachute to Earth from orbit?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Why can’t we see the lunar landers from the Apollo missions with the Hubble (or any other) telescope?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: How bad would it be if we accidentally made a black hole?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: What if gravity acted like magnetism?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: When you write a fraction with a prime denominator in decimal form it repeats every p-1 digits. Why?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Pluto!
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: If atoms are 99.99% space, what “kind” of space is it? Is it empty vacuum?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Is geocentrism really so wrong? Is the Sun being at the “center” (i.e. the Earth orbiting the Sun) just an arbitrary reference frame decision, and no more true than the Earth being at the center?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Is there such a thing as half a derivative?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Why is our Moon drifting away while Mars’ moons are falling?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Why do we (people) wave our arms when we fall? Is it for attention?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: What is the state of matter in deep space?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Is there a scientific conspiracy?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: After the heat death of the universe will anything ever happen again?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Why does kinetic energy increase as velocity squared?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Quaternions and Octonions: what?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Since the Earth is spinning and orbiting and whatnot, are we experiencing time wrong because of time dilation?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: How do I know my windmill is on straight?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: If all matter originated from a single point, does that mean all matter is entangled?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: How good is the Enigma code system compared to today’s publicly available cryptography systems?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: When “drawing straws” is it better to be first or last?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: What would happen if there was a giant straw connecting the Earth’s atmosphere right above the ground to space?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Can a human being survive in the fourth dimension?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Why radians?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: If the Sun pulls things directly toward it, then why does everything move in circles around it?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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0.999… revisited
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Before you open the box, isn’t Schrödinger’s cat alive or dead, not alive and dead?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: How many times do you need to roll dice before you know they’re loaded?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Since it involves limits, is calculus always an approximation?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: How does Earth’s magnetic field protect us?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Where do the rules for “significant figures” come from?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: When something falls on your foot, how much force is involved?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Is there a formula for finding primes? Do primes follow a pattern?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Why are many galaxies, our solar system, and Saturn’s rings all flat?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Is it possible to have a completely original thought?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: How can the universe expand faster than the speed of light?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: How fast are we moving through space? Has anyone calculated it?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: What is radioactivity and why is it sometimes dangerous?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: What role does Dark Matter play in the behavior of things inside the solar system?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Are some number patterns more or less likely? Are some betting schemes better than others?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Why does iron kill stars?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: How do we know that atomic clocks are accurate?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Could the tidal forces of the Sun and Moon be used to generate power directly?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: What would it be like if another planet just barely missed colliding with the Earth?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: What are “delayed choice experiments”? Can “wave function collapse” be used to send information?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Why can some creatures walk on water yet I (a human) can’t?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: What fair dice can be simulated by adding up other dice?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: How do I encrypt/hide/protect my email?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Where do the weird rules for rational numbers come from? (Dealing with fractions)
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Dragon*Con 2013
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Antaa mehua |
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Q: Why doesn’t the air “sit still” while the Earth turns under it?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Can resonance be used to destroy anything? Is the “brown note” possible?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Why does it take thousands of years for light to escape the Sun?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: What does it mean for light to be stopped or stored?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: What are quasi-particles? Why do phonons and photons have such similar names?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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The nuptial effect
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: How do you prove that the spacetime interval is always the same?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Are numbers real?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: If time were reversed would things fall up?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Basic math with infinity
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: What is the Planck length? What is its relevance?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: What causes friction? (and some other friction questions)
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Is fire a plasma? What is plasma?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Why are determinants defined the weird way they are?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Are white holes real?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: If a photon doesn’t experience time, then how can it travel?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Why is Schrodinger’s cat both dead and alive? Is this not a paradox?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Is Murphy’s law real?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: How do you turn/change directions in space?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Learning intro number theory
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: If hot air rises, why is it generally colder at higher elevations?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: What is quantum teleportation? Why can’t we use it to communicate faster than light?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: What makes natural logarithms natural? What’s so special about the number e?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: If there are 10 dimensions, then why don’t we notice them?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Will the world end tomorrow?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: In an infinite universe, does everything that’s possible have to happen somewhere?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Which of Earth’s life forms could survive on each planet of the Solar System?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: What are fractional dimensions? Can space have a fractional dimension?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: How many theorems are there?
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Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Could Kurt Vonnegut’s “Ice-9 catastrophe” happen?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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My bad: If fusion in the Sun suddenly stopped, what would happen?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: If fusion in the Sun suddenly stopped, what would happen?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Does opening a refrigerator cool down the room?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: What is the probability of an outcome after it’s already happened?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: How do you answer a question scientifically?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: What is a Fourier transform? What is it used for?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: What are singularities? Do they exist in nature?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Is there a number set that is “above” complex numbers?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Are the brain and consciousness quantum mechanical in nature?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: What are virtual particles?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Why is hitting water from a great height like hitting concrete?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: How does instantaneous communication violate causality?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: What is the “False Vacuum” and are we living in it?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: How would the universe be different if π = 3?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Do colors exist?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Are beautiful, elegant or simple equations more likely to be true?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Why do wet stones look darker, more colorful, and polished?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: What would the universe be like with additional temporal dimensions?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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The 2012 Venus transit
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Why haven’t we discovered Earth-like planets yet?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Is quantum randomness ever large enough to be noticed?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Is the final step in evolution an ascension into an energy-based lifeform?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: What would life be like in higher dimensions?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: How much does fire weigh?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Is there some way to actually play quidditch?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Does how you deal cards affect how random they are?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Will CERN awaken the Elder Gods?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Is the quantum zeno effect a real thing?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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π day!
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Is there an intuitive proof for the chain rule?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: How do you write algorithms to enycrypt things?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Is it possible to objectively quantify the amount of information a sentence contains?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: What would happen if a black hole passed through our solar system?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Would it be possible in the distant future to directly convert matter into energy?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: What’s the difference between anti-matter and negative-matter?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Why does gravity make some things orbit and some things fall?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Do you need faith to believe in science?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: What keeps spinning tops upright?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Do time and distance exist in a completely empty universe?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: How does quantum physics affect electron configurations and spectral lines?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Will the world end in 2012?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: How do you find the height of a rocket using trigonometry?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: What are chaos and chaos theory? How can you talk about chaos?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: What is the Riemann Hypothesis? Why is it so important?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Twitter
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Sisäinen |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: How can wormholes be used for time travel?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Entanglement omnibus!
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: How are imaginary exponents defined?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Why do nuclear weapons cause EMPs (electromagnetic pulses)?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: What would Earth be like if it didn’t turn?
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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
Antaa mehua |
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Q: Can wind chill make things “feel” colder than absolute zero?
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Sisäinen |
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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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Antaa mehua |
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Q: What’s the point of purely theoretical research?
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Antaa mehua |
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Q: Why does lightning flash, but thunder rolls?
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Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
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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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Sisäinen |
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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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Antaa mehua |
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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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Sisäinen |
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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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Q: If atoms are mostly made up of empty space, why do things feel solid?
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Q: Can we build a planet?
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Q: π = 4?
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Q: How does a scientist turn ideas into math?
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Q: Is Santa real?
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Q: Why isn’t the shortest day of the year also the day with the earliest sunset?
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Q: Why does “curved space-time” cause gravity?: A better answer.
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Q: According to relativity, two moving observers always see the other moving through time slower. Isn’t that a contradiction? Doesn’t one have to be faster?
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Q: What does 0^0 (zero raised to the zeroth power) equal? Why do mathematicians and high school teachers disagree?
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Q: Can you do the double slit experiment with a cat cannon?
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Q: How is the “Weak nuclear force” a force? What does it do?
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Q: Does Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem imply that it’s impossible to be logical?
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Q: If accelerating charges radiate, and everything is full of charges, then why don’t I radiate every time I move?
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Q: If you zoom in far enough, what do particles look like?
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Q: What would you experience if you were going the speed of light?
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Q: Why is pi not a definite number?
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Q: What came before the big bang?
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Q: How do “Numerology Math Tricks” work? (adding digits and tricks with nines)
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Q: What is a magnetic field?
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Q: What is the probability that two randomly chosen people will have been born on the same day?
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Q: Which is a better approach to quantum mechanics: Copenhagen or Many Worlds?
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Q: Why is our vision blurred underwater?
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Q: In the NEC “faster than light” experiment, did they really make something go faster than light?
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Q: How does a Tesla coil work?
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Q: What are Feynman diagrams, how are they used (theoretically & practically), and are there alternative/competing diagrams to Feynman’s?
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Q: Does the 2nd law of thermodynamics imply that everything must eventually die, regardless of the ultimate fate of the universe?
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Q: What is The Golden Ratio? How is it used in Mathematics?
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Q: Why can’t you have an atom made entirely out of neutrons?
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Q: What is the physical meaning of “symmetries”? Why is there one-to-one correspondence between laws of conservation and symmetries? Why is it important that there is such correspondence?
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Q: Why does energy have to be positive (and real)?
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Q: How does the Twin Paradox work?
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Q: How can photons have energy and momentum, but no mass?
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Q: If you were on the inside of the Sun falling in, the matter closer to the surface doesn’t affect your acceleration, but the matter closer to the core does. Why is that?
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Q: How do surge protectors work?
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Relativity and Quantum Mechanics: the elevator pitch
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Q: Why are orbits elliptical? Why is the Sun in one focus, and what’s in the other?
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Q: What would happen if everyone in the world jumped at the same time?
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Q: How can electrons “jump” between places without covering the intervening distance?
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Antaa mehua |
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Q: Why do we only see one rainbow at a time?
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Q: Why does putting spin on a ball change how it moves through the air?
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Antaa mehua |
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Quantum mech, choices, and time travel too!
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Q: Why is the speed of light finite?
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Q: Why is the speed of light the fastest speed? Why is light so special?
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Q: Will we ever overcome the Heisenberg uncertainty principle?
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Q: If gravity is the reaction matter has on space, in that it warps space, why do physicist’s look for a gravity particle? Wouldn’t gravity be just a bi-product of what matter does to space?
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Q: Is it possible to beat the laws of physics?
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Q: What’s the chance of getting a run of K or more successes (heads) in a row in N Bernoulli trials (coin flips)? Why use approximations when the exact answer is known?
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Q: Aren’t physicists just doing experiments to confirm their theories? Couldn’t they “prove” anything they want?
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Q: What’s up with that “bowling ball creates a dip in a sheet” analogy of spacetime? Isn’t it gravity that makes the dip in the first place?
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Q: If we find a “Theory of Everything” will we be done?
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Q: Is it possible to say if the Earth is moving or sitting still without going into space?
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Q: Will there always be things that will not or cannot be known?
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Antaa mehua |
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Q: If you could see through the Earth, how big would Australia look from the other side?
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Q: How is it that Bell’s Theorem proves that there are no “hidden variables” in quantum mechanics? How do we know that God really does play dice with the universe?
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Antaa mehua |
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Q: Does an electric field have mass? Does it take energy to move an electric field?
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Antaa mehua |
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Q: What would the consequenses for our universe be if the speed of light was only about one hundred miles per hour?
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Q: Do virtual particles violate the laws that energy can be created or destroyed? Have virtual particles ever been observed? In any other instance can energy ever be destroyed or created?
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Video: How do we know that 1+1=2? A journey into the foundations of math.
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Q: Would it be possible to generate power from artificial lightning?
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Antaa mehua |
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Q: What is the optimum spectrum to visualize things with? Theoretically, which type of vision would be the best to see things with?
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Q: What causes iron, nickel, and cobalt to be attracted to magnets, but not other metals?
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Q: Is it possible to fill a black hole? If you were to continuously throw galaxies worth of matter into a black hole, would it ever fill up? And what would theoretically happen if all the matter in the universe was thrown into a single black hole?
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Q: Can math and science make you better at gambling?
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Q: Spectroscopy?
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Q: Is it possible to breach the center of a nebula?
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Q: If energy is quantized, what is the least amount of energy possible? And how did they measure it?
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Q: How did Lord Kelvin come up with the absolute temperature? I mean, how could he say surely that it was 273.15 C below zero?
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Q: What do complex numbers really mean or represent?
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Q: Is it odd that the universe’s constants are all so perfectly conducive to life?
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Q: How/when will the world end?
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Q: What would happen if an unstoppable force met with an unmovable, impenetrable object?
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My bad: Have aliens ever visited Earth?
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Q: How do Bell pairs (entangled particles) behave experimentally?
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Video: What your Spiritual Guru Never Told you about Quantum Mechanics
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Q: How big does an object have to be to gravitationally attract a Human or have a molten core?
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Video: The Scientific Investigation of Aliens – Evidence Examined
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Q: How do I count the number of ways of picking/choosing/taking k items from a list/group/set of n items when order does/doesn’t matter?
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Q: Who would win in a fight: Gödel or Feynman?
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Q: How hard would it be to make a list of products of primes that could beat public key encryption?
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Q: What are complex numbers used for?
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Q: Can one truly create something from nothing? If matter formed from energy (as in the Big Bang expansion), where did the energy come from?
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Q: Why does wind make you colder, but re-entry makes you hotter?
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Q: Are explosions more or less powerful in space?
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Q: What is infinity? (A brief introduction to infinite sets, infinite limits, and infinite numbers)
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Q: Are there physical limits in the universe other than the speed of light?
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Q: Is it of any coincidence that mathematics is able to describe physical reality – given that both are inventions of the human mind?
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Q: If you were to break down an average human body into its individual atoms, and then laid the atoms out in a single straight line, how far would it stretch?
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Q: What’s it like when you travel at the speed of light?
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Q: Is there a real life example where two negatives make a positive?
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Q: Do the “laws” of physics and math exist? If so, where? Are they discovered or invented/created by humans?
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Q: Do we have free will?
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Q: How did mathematicians calculate trig functions and numbers like pi before calculators?
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Q: How can planes fly upside-down?
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Q: A flurry of blackhole questions!
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Q: Why does going fast or being lower make time slow down?
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Q: What’s so special about the Gaussian distribution (i.e. the normal distribution / bell curve)??
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Q: Is the universe infinitely old?
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Q: Have aliens ever visited Earth?
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Q: Why is the sky blue?
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Q: Is there a formula for how much water will splash, most importantly how high, and in what direction from the toilet bowl when you *ehem* take a dump in it ?
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Q: What is the meaning of the term “random”? Can thinking affect the future?
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Q: Is it possible to choose an item from an infinite set of items such that each one has an equal chance of being selected?
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Q: Do aliens exist?
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Q: Is it true that all matter is simply condensed energy?
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Q: Which is better: Math or Physics?
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Q: Why is the number 1 not considered a prime number?
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Q: If the universe is expanding and all the galaxies are moving away from one another, how is it possible for galaxies to collide?
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Q: What happens when you fall into a blackhole?
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Q: Is the total complexity of the universe growing, shrinking or staying the same?
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Q: If two trains move towards each other at certain velocities, and a fly flies between them at a certain constant speed, how much distance will the fly cover before they crash?
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Q: Why does oxygen necessarily indicate the presence of life?
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Q: What’s the relationship between entropy in the information-theory sense and the thermodynamics sense?
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Q: Would it be possible to kill ALL of Earth’s life with nuclear bombs?
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Q: Will black holes ever release their energy and will we be able to tell what had gone into them?
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Q: What are the Intersecting Chord and Power of a Point Theorems?
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Q: How far away is the edge of the universe?
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Q: Why do superconductors have to be cold?
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Q: Why does the leading digit 1 appear more often than other digits in all sorts of numbers? What’s the deal with Benford’s Law?
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Q: How does the Monty Hall Problem work?
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Q: How/Why are Quantum Mechanics and Relativity incompatible?
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Q: What the heck are imaginary numbers, how are they useful, and do they really exist?
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Q: What’s that third hole in electrical outlets for?
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Q: Do physicists really believe in true randomness?
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Q: Could a simple cup of coffee be heated by a hand held device designed to not only mix but heat the water through friction, and is that more efficient than heating on a stove and then mixing?
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Q: What did Einstein mean by: “Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.”
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Q: Why does saliva boil in the vacuum of space?
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Q: Can things really be in two places at the same time?
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Q: Why do weird things happen so much?
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Q: Why?
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Q: Will CERN create a black hole?
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Q: What’s the highest population growth rate that the Earth can support?
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Q: What is time?
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Q: What is “Dark Matter”?
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Q: Why do heavy objects bend space and what is it they are bending?
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Q: Why does math work so well at modeling the world around us?
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Q: Why is it that when you multiply a positive number with a negative number you get a negative number?
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Q: What is the best way to understand relativity theory? Why is it so counter intuitive?
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Q: Will we ever go faster than light?
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Q: If you were on a space station, would you be able to tell the difference between centrifugal force and normal gravity?
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Q: Is teleportation possible?
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Q: If black holes are “rips” in the fabric of our universe, does it mean they lead to other universes? If so, then did time begin in that universe at the inception of the black hole? Could we be in a black hole?
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Q: Since pi is infinite, do its digits contain all finite sequences of numbers?
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Q: What is the connection between quantum physics and consciousness?
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Q: What is the probability that in a group of 31 people, none of them have birthdays in February or August?
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Q: What is the meaning of life?
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Q: Why is e to the i pi equal to -1?
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Q: How does a refrigerator work?
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Q: How do I find the love of my life?
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Q: Why does “curved space-time” cause gravity?
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Q: What is monotony?
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Q: How do we know if science is right?
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Q: How plausible is it that the laws of physics may actually function differently in other parts of the universe?
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Q: Are there an infinite number of prime numbers?
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Q: How can we prove that 2+2 always equals 4?
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