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Why did the United States drop a uranium bomb instead of a plutonium bomb on Hiroshima?

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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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If Statements in Plain TeX

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When Did Moses Receive the Torah

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Understanding a Bill Thurston popularization of knot complements

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Physics of heating a swimming pool

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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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Higgs Boson: The Big Picture

particle-physics standard-model higgs-boson symmetry-breaking higgs-mechanism asked Aug 25, 2012 at 23:02

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If all motion is relative, how does light have a finite speed?

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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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Which one to learn first: Special or general relativity?

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Couldn't we always redefine units so that inertial mass and gravitational mass are equal?

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Identification of a quadrilateral as a trapezoid, rectangle, or square

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If clocks themselves are based on light signals, wouldn't we expect the measured speed of light to always be the same constant?

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What is a wave function in simple language?

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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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What do sine, tan, cos actually mean?

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Can quantum entanglement be used to coordinate actions at "FTL speeds" without breaking causality or actual faster-than-light communication?

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The usage of chain rule in physics

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A nonsplit short exact sequence of abelian groups with $B \cong A \oplus C$

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Does throwing a penny at a train stop the train?

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How does a photon experience space and time?

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Why would FTL imply time travel?

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How exactly are Lorentz transformations rotations?

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What exactly does the belt/plate trick demonstrate?

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Special relativity: sensing speed and time from a rocket

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What is an example of three numbers that do not make up a vector?

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Why do we remember the past but not the future?

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If there is no absolute time, how can we say the Big Bang was 13.8 billion years ago?

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Understanding quantum entanglement.. help me validate this analogy!

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Doesn't the Schrödinger's cat inside the box cause the probability wave function to collapse long before a human opens the box?

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Does some proof of arithmetic's consistency exist?

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Is there a way to visualize curvature of time?

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Why do we perceive a mixture of blue and yellow paint as green?

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In the twin paradox does the returning twin also come back permanently length contracted flatter than the twin on Earth?

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What is the proper way to explain the twin paradox?

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Why associativity $h \circ (g \circ f) = (h \circ g) \circ f$ is required in composition?

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