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Is John Nash's "Interesting Equation" really interesting?
Awarded 21 hours ago
How Subjective is Entropy Really?
Awarded 2 days ago
Confusion about time dilation
Awarded Sep 6 at 11:15
Can light become a satellite of a black hole?
Awarded Sep 5 at 2:47
Conservation of the determinant of density matrix
Awarded Sep 3 at 18:26
Christoffel symbols for Schwarzschild metric
Awarded Sep 3 at 16:11
Can taut membranes and strings that are clamped at both ends propagate non-standing waves?
Awarded Sep 3 at 12:05
Is the spectrum of Hawking radiation identical to that of thermal radiation?
Awarded Aug 31 at 6:34
Periodic boundary conditions: torus or infinite images?
Awarded Aug 28 at 20:05
Which operators do non-invertible symmetries correspond to in quantum mechanics?
Awarded Aug 27 at 19:38
Basic questions about the Kitaev chain
Awarded Aug 27 at 8:31
Do the trigonometric functions preserve units?
Awarded Aug 25 at 9:31
When a submarine blows its ballast and rises, where did the energy for the ascent come from?
Awarded Aug 25 at 0:18
How do I understand the Hodge $⋆$ operator in Yang-Mills Lagrangian?
Awarded Aug 23 at 12:47
What is the cardinality of the set of all possible wave functions?
Awarded Aug 22 at 1:12
Do wind turbines spin at constant speed? If so, how?
Awarded Aug 22 at 0:30
Why in QM the solution to Laguerre equations are ONLY Laguerre polynomials?
Awarded Aug 19 at 22:53
Do objects absorb or reflect gravitational waves?
Awarded Aug 15 at 4:49
Derive vacuum polarization and magnetization
Awarded Aug 12 at 10:36
Strange definition of microcanonical partition function
Awarded Aug 12 at 7:50
The gravitational potential of ellipsoid
Awarded Aug 11 at 20:11
How do I get the total acceleration from 3 axes?
Awarded Aug 9 at 7:25
How do we know that only symmetrical and antisymmetrical states occur in nature?
Awarded Aug 7 at 22:42
Form of the geodesic equation
Awarded Aug 7 at 8:43
Using AC or DC to create an electromagnet
Awarded Aug 5 at 17:09
Why don't neutrons and protons have variable half-integer spin?
Awarded Aug 5 at 5:41
Is a hotter heat source always necessary for an object to be heated?
Awarded Aug 5 at 3:26
Does spring stop applying force as soon as we cut it?
Awarded Aug 4 at 6:13
Differential cross-section for a 2-particle process in the LAB frame
Awarded Jul 31 at 14:13
Vector Potential for Magnetic field when the field is not in simply-connected region
Awarded Jul 29 at 7:56
Do non-commuting Hamiltonians have non-commuting time evolution operator?
Awarded Jul 27 at 14:39
Can a non-inertial frame be viewed as an inertial frame?
Awarded Jul 25 at 21:07
Open or closed windows in a tornado?
Awarded Jul 23 at 20:56
If a unitary operator is close to the identity, will it leave any state it acts on unchanged?
Awarded Jul 23 at 17:51
Is there a wavelength shift between sunlight observed from the ISS versus from Earth's surface?
Awarded Jul 21 at 13:16
Schrödinger equation in energy basis
Awarded Jul 20 at 16:46
What is the physical interpretation of harmonic coordinates?
Awarded Jul 20 at 16:46
A flying fly inside a sealed box on a scale
Awarded Jul 19 at 21:56
Are chaotic systems the same as dissipative systems in inverse time?
Awarded Jul 19 at 20:42
Does color temperature limit how much a laser of a given wavelength can heat a target?
Awarded Jul 19 at 1:26
Anomaly, symmetries, and Ward identity
Awarded Jul 18 at 18:47
Relation between energy and time
Awarded Jul 18 at 14:40
Photon propagator in path integral vs. operator formalism
Awarded Jul 18 at 5:22
Why can we treat a ball as a point mass to calculate torque?
Awarded Jul 17 at 1:06
Dilation operator in CFT viewed as 'hamiltonian'?
Awarded Jul 16 at 12:56
A paradox while explaining the equilibrium of books
Awarded Jul 16 at 8:47
How do we derive the minimal coupling Hamiltonian?
Awarded Jul 14 at 22:30
Why does the pet's water bowl overflow?
Awarded Jul 14 at 11:10
Trouble understanding the classic approximation of a black body as a hole on a cavity
Awarded Jul 12 at 17:50
Deriving Virasoro algebra question
Awarded Jul 12 at 17:50
Continued calibration of atomic clocks
Awarded Jul 12 at 7:41
Do thermodynamic cycles occur only in human-made machines?
Awarded Jul 11 at 3:36
Can a big mass defect make the mass negative?
Awarded Jul 10 at 15:46
Nuclear fission in the Sun
Awarded Jul 10 at 15:46
Does the cosmological constant entail a mass for the graviton?
Awarded Jul 9 at 13:50
What's the relationship between glow and arc discharge?
Awarded Jul 8 at 3:04
How come a mobile phone signal is blocked by aluminium foil, but Wi-Fi gets through?
Awarded Jul 7 at 15:28
Could a transparent frequency-altering material be possible?
Awarded Jul 7 at 5:09
Why is pressure in the outermost layer of a star lower than at its center?
Awarded Jul 3 at 1:16
Imagining Graham's number in your head collapses your head to a black hole
Awarded Jul 1 at 17:32
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