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Is a photon truly massless?
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What's the relationship between glow and arc discharge?
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How come a mobile phone signal is blocked by aluminium foil, but Wi-Fi gets through?
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Why does the length of an antenna matter when electromagnetic waves propagate perpendicular to the antenna?
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Why does the length of an antenna matter when electromagnetic waves propagate perpendicular to the antenna?
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Could a transparent frequency-altering material be possible?
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Do you always experience the gravitational influence of other mass as you see them in your frame?
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Do thermodynamic cycles occur only in human-made machines?
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Why do ice cubes stick together or to the edges of a drinking glass?
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Why do we select the metric tensor for raising and lowering indices?
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Do thermodynamic cycles occur only in human-made machines?
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What information is contained in the quantum spectral density?
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Why is pressure in the outermost layer of a star lower than at its center?
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Why is pressure in the outermost layer of a star lower than at its center?
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Imagining Graham's number in your head collapses your head to a black hole
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Imagining Graham's number in your head collapses your head to a black hole
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In equation (3) from lecture 7 in Leonard Susskind’s ‘Classical Mechanics’, should the derivatives be partial?
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Do known physical systems all have a unique time evolution?
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Is the zero vector necessary to do quantum mechanics?
Awarded Jun 30 at 15:26
How can things around us have different colours if they have specific emission spectra?
Awarded Jun 29 at 16:41
How does a gas of particles with uniform speed reach the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution?
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Physical meaning of each term of the square modulus of a wave function
Awarded Jun 28 at 15:27
How exactly does a seashell make the humming sound?
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Why is M42 red in the pictures, but green when observed at the eyepiece?
Awarded Jun 27 at 22:18
Quantum Zeno effect and unstable particles
Awarded Jun 27 at 21:45
Why was the neutrino thought to be massless?
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Eye Floaters Optics
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Why are there 3 quarks in a proton?
Awarded Jun 26 at 21:56
How does special relativity lead to anti-particles?
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Spurion analysis: pedagogical example
Awarded Jun 26 at 14:05
Confusion about rotations of quantum states: $SO(3)$ versus $SU(2)$
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Which temperature does $T$ in Clausius inequality ($\oint \frac{\delta Q}T\le 0$) refer to?
Awarded Jun 26 at 3:19
How does a vehicle's brake affect the friction between the vehicle and ground?
Awarded Jun 25 at 21:25
What will happen if we keep bringing two protons closer and closer to each other, starting from a large distance?
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Killing tensor in the Kerr metric
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How does a vehicle's brake affect the friction between the vehicle and ground?
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Time evolution in QFT
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Problem with internal forces in spring following Hooke´s law
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Is the work I do on the object always equal in magnitude but opposite in sign to the work the object does on me?
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What will happen if we keep bringing two protons closer and closer to each other, starting from a large distance?
Awarded Jun 22 at 14:33
Can the laser light, in principle, take any wavelength in the EM spectrum?
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Why do we need unit vectors in a differential bit of area?
Awarded Jun 21 at 19:12
Aristotelian vs Galilean relativity in terms of bundles
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What does "DC" mean in gravitational physics?
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Can the laser light, in principle, take any wavelength in the EM spectrum?
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Where are the poles in a magnetic field generated by a current carrying straight conductor?
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Bound states between neutrinos using Schrödinger's equation?
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The Fifth Gamma Matrix
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Unit vectors in the cylindrical coordinate system as functions of position
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Understanding the definition of tangent basis
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Is intrinsic spin a quantum or/and a relativistic phenomenon?
Awarded Jun 20 at 14:21
John, in his spaceship traveling at relativistic speed, is crossing the Milky Way in 500 years. How many supernovae explosions would he experience?
Awarded Jun 20 at 13:41
Is there a second-order non-linear addition to Maxwell's equations?
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What does "DC" mean in gravitational physics?
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Why, when we calculate forces in banking of roads, we do not take the centripetal force but the centrifugal force?
Awarded Jun 19 at 16:16
What happens with liquids in vacuum?
Awarded Jun 19 at 12:50
Is intrinsic spin a quantum or/and a relativistic phenomenon?
Awarded Jun 19 at 11:56
Why electrons can't radiate in their atoms' orbits?
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Why is nonzero net charge density incompatible with the cosmological principle?
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Time of a ball going up and down with air resistance
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