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Highest scoring answer that outscored an accepted answer with score of more than 10 by more than 2x. This badge can be awarded multiple times.
Awarded 186 times.
Why is the area covered by 1 steradian (in a sphere) circular in shape?
Awarded Sep 13 at 14:31
Why is pressure in the outermost layer of a star lower than at its center?
Awarded Jul 3 at 23:31
How do photons have temperature?
Awarded Jun 6 at 15:11
Paradox about white dwarfs and ionization
Awarded Apr 27 at 7:33
How come gas molecules don't settle down?
Awarded Apr 17 at 10:48
Why does CNN's ‘gravity hole’ in the Indian Ocean dip the sea level instead of raising it?
Awarded Mar 9 at 18:51
How can the electric and magnetic fields be non-zero in the absence of sources?
Awarded Feb 7 at 23:02
Why doesn't the windshield fog up where my kid drew on it with her fingers?
Awarded Jan 12 at 1:43
Why do we still use pseudo forces?
Awarded Sep 15, 2023 at 4:25
Why correlation functions?
Awarded Sep 3, 2023 at 17:45
Angular Velocity expressed via Euler Angles
Awarded Jun 25, 2023 at 7:16
Why do things cool down?
Awarded Jun 15, 2023 at 21:53
What is it about the "conduction band" of a material that is distinct from the valence band?
Awarded May 16, 2023 at 8:15
Does Cosmic Background radiation transmit heat?
Awarded Mar 3, 2023 at 15:05
Why is the stress on a body not a vector?
Awarded Jan 14, 2023 at 18:03
Can spinning arms really help you balance on the edge of a cliff?
Awarded Jan 12, 2023 at 8:33
What speed shall I go to make my day longer?
Awarded Dec 10, 2022 at 6:18
Is there a more "physically mature" way to think about the right hand rule with electromagnetism?
Awarded Oct 21, 2022 at 22:47
What does the Canonical Commutation Relation (CCR) tell me about the overlap between Position and Momentum bases?
Awarded Sep 21, 2022 at 13:40
If reference frames are equally valid, then why do teachers say the geocentric view is wrong?
Awarded Sep 18, 2022 at 14:11
Where am I confused about force addition?
Awarded Sep 14, 2022 at 14:19
How can the universe evolve unitarily if there's no clock outside it?
Awarded Aug 23, 2022 at 16:04
What is spontaneous symmetry breaking in quantum systems?
Awarded Jul 18, 2022 at 11:26
How is energy "stored in an electric field"?
Awarded Jun 24, 2022 at 14:05
We know a human cannot run on water, but could a much stronger and faster animal?
Awarded Jun 20, 2022 at 20:32
How to take partial trace?
Awarded Jun 19, 2022 at 15:21
What exactly would it take to show (hypothetically) that the speed of light (in vacuum) is not constant?
Awarded Jun 13, 2022 at 13:52
Why EM waves lose energy via the square of distance but the light will not? Does that mean that EM propagate forever in vacuum?
Awarded May 5, 2022 at 21:47
What is the Wilsonian definition of renormalizability?
Awarded Apr 3, 2022 at 19:36
Why does the incline angle not affect how high a launched object will slide up a frictionless ramp?
Awarded Mar 30, 2022 at 16:15
What is a joule? I find the definition confusing
Awarded Mar 25, 2022 at 10:49
Apparent kinetic energy paradox
Awarded Mar 3, 2022 at 8:13
Why should a clock be "accurate"?
Awarded Feb 22, 2022 at 17:21
How specifically does an MRI machine build an image from received radio waves?
Awarded Jan 30, 2022 at 7:02
Why can atoms only gain or lose electrons and not protons?
Awarded Jan 24, 2022 at 4:51
Do magnetic field lines originate from the same point on a magnet?
Awarded Jan 13, 2022 at 15:40
Why is it so dark during a solar eclipse?
Awarded Jan 3, 2022 at 17:04
Has anyone charged an object with 1 coulomb? Why was such a ridiculously large charge chosen as the unit of charge?
Awarded Dec 31, 2021 at 4:09
Why does a free-falling body experience no force despite accelerating?
Awarded Dec 25, 2021 at 2:41
Why is it impossible to measure position and momentum at the same time with arbitrary precision?
Awarded Dec 17, 2021 at 16:47
In what sense, physically speaking, are electric and magnetic fields perpendicular?
Awarded Nov 15, 2021 at 23:31
Is the voltage ever undefined?
Awarded Nov 6, 2021 at 13:51
How do stars produce energy if fusion reactions are not viable for us?
Awarded Oct 30, 2021 at 13:51
Is the law of conservation of energy broken by the side-effects of heating and cooling a liquid that evaporates and condenses?
Awarded Oct 7, 2021 at 8:40
Why are protons, rather than electrons, the nucleus in atoms?
Awarded Sep 21, 2021 at 9:17
Why are only infrared rays classified as "heat rays"?
Awarded Sep 15, 2021 at 20:11
Why is it said that without quantum mechanics we would not have modern computers?
Awarded Sep 1, 2021 at 17:22
A rigorous definition of the exponential of an operator in QM?
Awarded Aug 25, 2021 at 11:56
Is space really expanding?
Awarded Aug 19, 2021 at 21:11
Why can we see light further than it shines?
Awarded Aug 16, 2021 at 2:42
Why is the time of flight of a projectile on an inclined plane equal to twice the time taken to reach maximum distance normal to incline?
Awarded Aug 15, 2021 at 5:26
When I walk down the stairs where does my potential energy go?
Awarded Jun 17, 2021 at 13:11
Why does an egg boiler require more water to cook fewer eggs?
Awarded Jun 16, 2021 at 4:42
Is the butterfly effect real?
Awarded Mar 17, 2021 at 7:10
Can a broken egg spontaneously reassemble itself (as in the video)?
Awarded Mar 17, 2021 at 3:26
Why the charge of the proton does not transfer to the neutron in the nuclei?
Awarded Feb 25, 2021 at 8:08
Why does water cast a shadow even though it is considered 'transparent'?
Awarded Feb 23, 2021 at 21:56
Why the charge of the proton does not transfer to the neutron in the nuclei?
Awarded Feb 23, 2021 at 16:45
Do wormholes really exist?
Awarded Feb 11, 2021 at 9:51
What actually is white light?
Awarded Jan 11, 2021 at 0:35
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