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John-Francis
My understanding of General Relativity is that there are no absolute frames of reference and therefore all rotation is relative. Is this in conflict with the quantized rotation that occurs with...
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amazinglib
What is it like to be in a coma? Can you have a seizure while in a coma? What excatly is a coma and how does it effect your brain and body?...
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Bert
Why is it that on the calmest of days, when there isn't even a breeze, that, if you leave the front door and back door of your house open, one of the doors in between will slam shut with enough force...
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Knuckledragger
What would happen if a hypothetical asteroid was traveling so fast it punched a hole right through the earth with entry and exit holes in the oceans? Let's leave out the facts that it would end all...
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bednobs
following on from kendrick lamar's song ...if you really did have a swimming pool full of liqour and dived in, would you float in the same way you would float in water?
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dedoooo
Suppose I Have Two Hydrocarbon Mixtures ,Each Mixture Has Known Composition & Freezing Point , Is There Any Empirical Formula To Calculate The Freezing Point Of a Blend Of Those Mixtures?...
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Knuckledragger
I'm watching the movie the day after tomorrow and wondered if this was possible over let's say a year? I'm guessing the reality is over thousands of years with the temperature dropping lower and lower...
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AB Editor
I am reading The 4% Universe by Richard Panek. It's an "easy access" romp through the history of cosmology and astrophysics (at this point, 100 pages in) and focuses on those who have searched for...
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modeller
If the big bang started from a mass of near ' infinite ' density then the mass must have occupied a space. No matter how small that mass was it would still occupy a space. If that is the case then how...
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Knuckledragger
When you see aircraft travelling at supersonic speed they break the sound barrier right and it's almost as if they're splitting the air, so what if you have a plane or rocket travelling at 1000 times...
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sammmo
This may seem like a strange question.. at the time a 13 amp fuse blows what current is actually flowing?
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modeller
For instance if we only had our galaxy , could our world have still been created ? If for instance could the big bang have been a little bang resulting in a single galaxy with its solar systems , one...
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modeller
I've looked through the titles of many books but none of them explain how spacetime was created out of nothing. That has no more validity than saying it was created by God or who created God ? Can...
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sumar
hi! I'm not sure what the title should be or even if this question is science, but here goes. Well over 50years ago I was on a double decker bus with my mum and saw the tall towers at the gas works...
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njoods
How volcanoes occur?
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jim360
And if so, why, and what should be done about it? I asked having just watched Thursday's Question time where once again the MMR row raised its ugly head, but the media representative defended the...
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tigerthakur
if pressure increases then the speed of sound
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modeller
We are told that we can look back in time, but can we really ? e.g. looking at a star that is say 2 light years away today, but if I look back next month. I would not be 'seeing' the same thing. It...

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