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Fields finitely generated as $\mathbb Z$-algebras are finite?

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Why did my leaking pool light trip the circuit breaker, but not the GFCI?

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Physics of heating a swimming pool

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Understanding a Bill Thurston popularization of knot complements

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Can Mathematica solve this sort of functional/differential equation?

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Is Tsirelson's Bound the only constraint on these quantum correlations?

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How is wireless communication possible?

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Higgs Boson: The Big Picture

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Is position fundamentally different from other observables?

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Why particles with certain properties can't exist

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How far out from the Sun is visible light still sufficient to read a book?
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Does pure yellow exist in variations we can't discern?
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If all motion is relative, how does light have a finite speed?
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Which one to learn first: Special or general relativity?
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Identification of a quadrilateral as a trapezoid, rectangle, or square
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What is a wave function in simple language?
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What do sine, tan, cos actually mean?
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Can general relativity be explained by equations describing a fabric of space embedded in a flat 5-dimensional Minkowski space?
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Does throwing a penny at a train stop the train?
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A nonsplit short exact sequence of abelian groups with $B \cong A \oplus C$
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Why is a Hermitian operator a “quantum random variable”?
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Understanding quantum entanglement.. help me validate this analogy!
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Why associativity $h \circ (g \circ f) = (h \circ g) \circ f$ is required in composition?
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Can there be an argument without premises?
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Shooting someone's past self using special relativity
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Understanding the definition of tangent basis
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Special relativity: is this a known paradox, or one at all?
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Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
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Are continued fractions ever of use in physics?
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Does Einstein's derivation of the Lorentz transformation have a mathematical error?
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Is it known if $\pi + e$ is transcendental over the rational numbers?
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Twin paradox in curved space time
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Self-contained text on characteristic classes
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Does some proof of arithmetic's consistency exist?
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Why do we believe the equation $ax+by+c=0$ represents a line?
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What is the sum of the reciprocal of all of the factors of a number?
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Is Russell's paradox really about sets as such?
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