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Why no proton microscopes? Proton diffraction; or proton scattering experiments? Proton crystallography?
Aug 21, 2020
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Why doesn't Hawking radiation add to the mass of a black hole just as much as it subtracts from it? [duplicate]
Jun 21, 2021
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Why, precisely, is argon used in neutrino experiments?
Mar 27, 2019
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Why is Rubidium-87 used for Bose-Einstein condensates?
Aug 2, 2020
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If a polarized light wave is indistinguishable from its original self after being flipped 180°, why doesn't a photon have a spin of two?
Apr 13, 2021
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Has a free neutron ever been shown to absorb/emit/interact with a photon?
May 7, 2019
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What is the 'energy localization problem' of general relativity?
Jun 7, 2021
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Do the mean lifetimes of short-lived particles follow a Gaussian (or 'normal', or 'standard') distribution? When plotted?
Jan 3, 2022
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Why are nuclei with large numbers of neutrons only stable with correspondingly large numbers of protons? [duplicate]
Feb 20, 2023
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Why isn't Neptunium used in nuclear power plants?
Jul 9, 2022
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Why isn't 'chemically-strengthened glass' made with potassium carbonate to begin with?
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Why don't (or can't) stars be more than 325 or so times the mass of the sun? What limits their size?
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Why is there so little nitrogen in the Martian and Venusian atmospheres?
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Why doesn't dark matter clump strongly in the center of galaxies, since it doesn't feel either radiation pressure or the Pauli exclusion effect?
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How can astronomers pinpoint the location of the source of a neutrino?