Chris White

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I am a graduate student studying astrophysics at Princeton. I received my bachelor's in physics and mathematics from Caltech (2011).


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Is it possible that there is a color our human eye can't see?
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Why do tuning forks have two prongs?
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Do photons lose energy while travelling through space? Or why are planets closer to the sun warmer?
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Does a guitar sound different in zero (or micro) gravity?
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What are these rays that appear in photograph of sun?
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Why doesn't a bus blow due to internal pressure?
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Why is there this asymmetry between the two foci of an orbital ellipse?
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Plotting $\psi$ for finite square well potential
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Does light change color on its way through a window?
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Would travelling at relativistic speeds have any impact on human biology?
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Do spheres exist in nature?
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Does an empty refrigerator require more power to stay cold than a full one?
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How does a star ignite?
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Relativity of Simultaneity
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What's the significance of large-scale anomalies in CMB
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Is it possible to have faster-than-light movement in General Relativity?
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How does moving charges produce magnetic field?
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Why the K shell only contains 2 electrons?
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Quantum Mechanics Notation for BRA KET
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Difference between theoretical physics and mathematical physics?
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If you had two “perfectly” flat surfaces of the same material?
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Can one raise indices on covariant derivative and products thereof?
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Is 2.5x speed of light possible between two objects?
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Meaning of the direction of the cross product
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Optical depth in astrophysics
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What is inner product of the vacuum state with itself?
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Gravitational potential outside Lagrangian points or Lagrange points
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Why are *high redshift* measurements of supernovae required to measure dark energy?
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How do you calculate power at the focal point of a mirror?
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Does Dark Matter have more space-time or particle characteristics?
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