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Kostya

Doing Theoretical Physics. Interested in "Hydrogen atoms" of all the mathematical disciplines.
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Why correlation functions?

field-theory greens-functions correlation-function propagator asked Jan 17, 2011 at 16:10
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How were gas costs chosen for the Ethereum Virtual Machine instructions?

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What is the status of Mpemba effect investigations?

thermodynamics water freezing ice asked Jul 27, 2012 at 14:36
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Does a photon interfere only with itself?

quantum-mechanics photons quantum-optics interference asked Mar 2, 2011 at 11:04
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How fast a (relatively) small black hole will consume the Earth?

black-holes astrophysics earth estimation asked Jan 12, 2011 at 16:01
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"Velvet way" to Grassmann numbers

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What does "j'ai tennis" idiom mean?

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Is empowerment of women a cure for poverty?

economics gender asked May 25, 2011 at 11:26
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What is the difference between a complex scalar field and two real scalar fields?

quantum-field-theory lagrangian-formalism field-theory complex-numbers asked Jan 21, 2011 at 16:12
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What is the return type of boost::bind?

c++ types boost-bind asked Jun 20, 2011 at 13:38
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Do we know why there is a speed limit in our universe?
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Best Fake Proofs? (A M.SE April Fools Day collection)
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What is the difference between implicit, explicit, and total time dependence, e.g. $\frac{\partial \rho}{\partial t}$ and $\frac{d \rho} {dt}$?
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Calculus of variations -- how does it make sense to vary the position and the velocity independently?
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What is the usefulness of the Wigner-Eckart theorem?
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Why does one experience a short pull in the wrong direction when a vehicle stops?
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What physical evidence is there that subatomic particles pop in and out of existence?
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What is so special about speed of light in vacuum?
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Paradox regarding phase transitions in relativistic systems
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Do photons gain mass when they travel through glass?
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Why can't a single photon produce an electron-positron pair?
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What programming languages do mathematicians use?
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Interference of polarized light
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Why is Higgs Boson given the name "The God Particle"?
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If the observable universe were compressed into a super massive black hole, how big would it be?
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At CERN - What do you call the moment (event) particles crash together in the particle accelerator?
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What would happen if Large Hadron Collider would collide electrons?
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Should I not cite an arxiv.org paper which otherwise seems to be unpublished?
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Guessing what a simple partial differential equation is describing physically
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Since radioactive material decays how is it possible that there is any left after 4.5 billion years?
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Great unsolved physics problems
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Are water waves (i.e. on the surface of the ocean) longitudinal or transverse?
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Vacuum Expectation Value and the Minima of the Potential
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Why does the (relativistic) mass of an object increase when its speed approaches that of light?
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What physics does occur at short distances in QED?
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Can energy be taken out of the QFT vacuum?
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What are the alternatives to the Higgs mechanism?
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Your favorite Physics/Astrophysics blogs?
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Your favorite surprising connections in mathematics
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Zero magnetization of spin model without external magnetic field
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