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I'm a grad-student in Astrophysics, focusing on theory, and generally studying high-energy transients.


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Can the solar system really fit in a thimble?
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Why does a supernova explode
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Gravity in other dimensions than 3 and stable orbits
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Is it really a particle?
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Why can't Humans run any faster?
11
Is the escape velocity at Geosynchronous Earth Orbit 0km/hr?
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How do we know Dark Matter is non baryonic?
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Why do the stars in the galaxy core move so fast?
8
What are the various physical mechanisms for energy transfer to the photon during blackbody emission?
7
How much information about the scale of a waterfall can be obtained from its sound?
7
Is there something special in the visible part of electromagnetic spectrum?
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Is it possible to determine astronomically/astrophysically whether other planets have ever encountered polarity reversal?
7
One strategy in a snowball fight
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We're all star dust?
6
What's the avarage temperature of the Universe?
6
Are Neutron stars transparent?
6
Population I and II stars
5
How reliant is the Solar System on being exactly the way it is?
5
How do interstellar hydrogen atoms form stars?
5
Why are *high redshift* measurements of supernovae required to measure dark energy?
5
Travel direction of lightning
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Explosion of a Neutron Bomb
5
How is light affected by gravity?
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Can we see ALL of the observable universe?
4
Have general relativistic effects of the sun's rotation been measured?
4
Cosmological constant
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Mirror problem of radiation pressure
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Is there a more scientific term for “obstruction of EM waves”?
4
What is light, and how can it travel in a vacuum forever in all directions at once without a medium?
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Universal expansion faster than the speed of light
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