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Temporarily inactive, until StackOverflow makes good on their promise to fight for responsibility in AI uses of contributors' data. See https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/398142/180171 for my POV on the situation.

I'm a maths postdoc with background in physics and computer science.

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Why does matter exist in 3 states (liquids, solid, gas)?
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Why do shadows from the sun join each other when near enough?
Jan 19, 2014
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Why doesn't light, which travels faster than sound, produce a sonic boom?
Apr 16, 2015
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Why does the Earth even have a magnetic field?
Dec 9, 2017
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Gas pipes - why does gas burn "outwards?"
Sep 9, 2019
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Why does water cast a shadow even though it is considered 'transparent'?
Feb 23, 2021
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Why does a blackboard dry very quickly?
Apr 8, 2017
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Why is paper inelastic but flexible?
Dec 13, 2023
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Why do gravitational waves circularize a binary?
Mar 2, 2020
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How do I experimentally measure the surface area of a rock?
Nov 11, 2019
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