Ron Maimon

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1,322 Answers

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Macroscopic laws which haven't been derived from microscopic laws
apr 13 '12 at 7:56
8
How does string theory reduce to the standard model?
mar 23 '12 at 17:46
8
How many colors exist?
jan 19 '12 at 2:45
8
How does time dilation work without a privileged reference frame?
dec 29 '11 at 16:38
8
How does electricity propagate in a conductor?
dec 3 '11 at 5:47
8
Anti-gravity in an infinite lattice of point masses
sep 16 '11 at 19:01
8
How does gravitational lensing account for Einstein's Cross?
sep 13 '11 at 17:23
8
Why can we treat quantum scattering problems as time-independent?
aug 29 '11 at 7:16
8
Second Law of Black Hole Thermodynamics
aug 19 '11 at 8:17
7
Discreteness and Determinism in Superstrings?
jul 27 at 7:08
7
Can bosons that are composed of several fermions occupy the same state?
dec 1 at 21:48
7
Is there perfect vacuum 10000 billion lightyears away?
oct 23 at 18:49
7
Can a wavefunction be solved to any arbitrary precision, given enough computer time?
oct 13 at 4:52
7
Classic Literature in Quantum Gravity?
may 29 '12 at 5:36
7
Is there a subtlety to the Lorentz transformations one needs to be aware of?
may 25 '12 at 1:36
7
In astronomy what phenomena have theory predicted before observations?
may 14 '12 at 0:44
7
What errors would one learn from Eliezer Yudkowsky's introduction to quantum physics?
apr 16 '12 at 4:18
7
Is there an upper frequency limit to ultrasound?
apr 9 '12 at 8:26
7
Why don't quantum effects invalidate the speed of light barrier?
dec 29 '11 at 7:35
7
Taylor approximation in physics
nov 21 '11 at 8:22
7
Proca theory and renormalization
nov 13 '11 at 23:34
7
Derivative of the product of operators
oct 14 '11 at 22:46
7
Mermin-Wagner theorem in the presence of hard-core interactions
oct 7 '11 at 7:36
7
Can the universe be described by a Markov chain?
oct 5 '11 at 23:24
7
How can tunneling be one-way?
sep 27 '11 at 4:40
7
What is the physical significance of dot & cross product of vectors? Why is division not defined for vectors?
aug 28 '11 at 23:40
7
Did Einstein prove $E=mc^2$ correctly?
aug 14 '11 at 20:14
6
Can black holes be created on a miniature scale?
mar 20 '12 at 6:29
6
Is the electric field at the edge of a uniformly charged disk infinite?
oct 16 at 4:57
6
Why do some physicists believe that scalable quantum computing is possible?
aug 31 at 1:24
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