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

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Why does "Turn! Turn! Turn!" equal 241217.524881?

notation factorial gamma-function computer-algebra-systems asked Jul 26, 2021 at 0:22

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

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

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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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How can dimensional regularization "analytically continue" from a discrete set?

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When a cork is pulled out of a wine bottle, why does the inner end often expand more than the outer end?

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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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What, in simplest terms, is gauge invariance?

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Why do we use cross products in physics?

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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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Is there a more "physically mature" way to think about the right hand rule with electromagnetism?

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Why is Google's quantum supremacy experiment impressive?

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How do we know that gravity is spacetime and not a field on spacetime?

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Can there be an atomic nucleus where there are more protons than neutrons?

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Accidental expletives in mathematical literature.

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Do gravitons interact with each other?

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Basis for the Generalization of Physics to a Different Number of Dimensions

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Lowering/raising metric indexes

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Understanding time crystals

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Is there a general way of solving the Maxwell equations?

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Is giving condolences to a professor socially acceptable?

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Does gravity sometimes get transmitted faster than the speed of light?

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What are some results in Economics that are both a consensus and far from common sense?

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Are fermions and bosons fundamentally different?

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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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Does QED really break down at the Landau pole?

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Why use Fourier series instead of Taylor?

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