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I am a graduate student in Physics at UC Santa Barbara.

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Why does LIGO do blind data injections but not the LHC?

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Is there a widely-accepted opposite of “as the crow flies”?

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What is the relationship between different types of quantum field theories?

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How can dimensional regularization “analytically continue” from a discrete set?

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Why is a quantum computer in some ways more powerful than a nondeterministic Turing machine?

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Does the Gauss-Bonnet theorem apply to non-orientable surfaces?

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Is there a *simple* example of how the axiom of choice can lead to a counterintuitive result?

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Does the Gauss-Bonnet theorem apply to non-orientable surfaces?

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How long does it usually take for published articles to show up on Google Scholar?

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How is it possible for other animals to have better night vision than humans, who can detect individual photons?

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What, in simplest terms, is gauge invariance?
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Examples of notably long or difficult proofs that only improve upon existing results by a small amount
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If the pressure inside and outside a balloon balance, then why does air leave when it pops?
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How do we know that gravity is spacetime and not a field on spacetime?
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Accidental expletives in mathematical literature.
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Do gravitons interact with each other?
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Can two heavy objects circling around their C.M. be separated because of the speed of gravity?
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Basis for the Generalization of Physics to a Different Number of Dimensions
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Do echo-locating bats experience Terrell effect?
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How can entropy increase in quantum mechanics?
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Does gravity sometimes get transmitted faster than the speed of light?
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Why is the mol a fundamental physical quantity?
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Are fermions and bosons fundamentally different?
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Invariance under boosts but not rotations?
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Understanding time crystals
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EM vs Matter wave. The lie and confusion of School Physics
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Why do physicists assume that dark matter is weakly interacting?
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How is Pauli's exclusion principle valid for electrons of two hydrogen atoms in ground state, having same spin?
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Is it possible to formulate the Schrödinger equation in a manner that excludes imaginary numbers?
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Is there oscillating charge in a hydrogen atom?
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Intuition for Formal Definition of Linear Independence
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Why does the Schrödinger equation work so well for the hydrogen atom despite the relativistic boundary at the nucleus?
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What is the difference between a Hilbert space of state vectors and a Hilbert space of square integrable wave functions?
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What are some results in Economics that are both a consensus and far from common sense?
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Does QED really break down at the Landau pole?
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What is the mistake in calculating such a commutator?
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Definition of inner product as in the case of work
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Are all infinite sums not divergent? In quantum field theory
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Lowering/raising metric indexes
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Covariant formulation of electrodynamics
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