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Paul T.

Wilmington, DE, USA

Physicist, data analyst, curmudgeon.

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Why did the gamma ray burst from GW170817 lag two seconds behind the gravitational wave?
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Can someone conceptually explain time dilation?
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What is a generally polite and succinct response to player requests for mechanical changes?
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Does a long vertical pole fall at a different speed than a short vertical pole?
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What does it mean for the laws of physics to "break down" at a singularity?
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Is energy "equal" to the curvature of spacetime?
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How is a Bose-Einstein condensate produced from sodium atoms that do not have an integer spin?
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Where can I find Einstein's paper on relativity first to end?
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Why does Ligo's second detection of gravitational waves and a black hole merger look absolutely nothing like the first?
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Could the September 2015 LIGO gravitational wave "detection" from "merging black holes" be fake?
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Time dilation clock experiment: what would happen if the clock were flipped 90 degrees?
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Why did the apple explode when spun very fast?
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Errors when the quantity is an exponent
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How were the solar masses and distance of the GW150914 merger event calculated from the signal?
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How is a Planet's Moment of Inertia Measured Remotely?
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Interpretation of gravitational waves
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Why relativistic Lagrangian doesn't simply equal kinetic minus potential energy $L=T-V$?
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Does the mass lost by merging black holes depend on how they merged?
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Gauss law in gravitation
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Does gravitational radiation change the eccentricity of binary orbits?
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Why would a quantity like the 'Hubble contrast' be squared, then have its square root taken?
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In what sense were virtual particles confirmed?
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7
Post-Keplerian orbital parameters; is there a generally accepted set with definitions?
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7
Who to invite to as a speaker?
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Why would GR's prediction for galaxy rotation curves differ from Newtonian gravity's in spite of prevailing intuition from dimensional analysis?
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What piece of technology is able to record the exact phase of microwaves?
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What's the point of Hamiltonian mechanics?
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What does 'high-beta' mean for a fusion reactor?
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A question regarding pressure in a moving liquid
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Difference between gravitational wave detectors
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