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Can a radioactive atom be prevented from decaying if it's in a REALLY strong chemical bond?

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Why must the anchor of a merchant ship be slack to keep her in position?

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Why must a physical theory be mathematically self-consistent?

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If a thousand people whisper inaudibly, will the resulting sound be audible?

answered Aug 22, 2017 at 9:17

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What makes a theory "Quantum"?

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Explaining The Unbelievable Pendulum Catch

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Does the halflife time of a radioactive material decrease if its temperature increases?

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Is the universe non-linear?

answered Dec 19, 2016 at 18:15

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Is it possible to confine a photon in less than its* wavelength?

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What exactly is a photon?

answered Aug 8, 2016 at 14:07

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Why don't we use rapidity instead of velocity?

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Entropy is...disorder?

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Does Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle describe real uncertainty or measured uncertainty?

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Why does the tip of an elastic water tube flap when the flow is fast?

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Schrödinger's cat and the difficulty of macroscopic superposition state

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What is QED about "Cavity QED"?

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What does it mean to Fourier transform a ladder operator (in the input-output formalism)?

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Self-consistency of Effective Hamiltonian equation

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Lindblad and Input-Output Formalism in Quantum Optics

answered May 8, 2020 at 22:00

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Will slinky length be different on the moon?

answered Nov 18, 2020 at 12:41

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No-Cloning and Uncertainty: Connections or Misconception

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Newton's 3rd law... hitting drywall (which I break) vs hitting a brick (which breaks me)?

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Demystifying the physics of weightlessness in parabolic flights

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Is Huygens's Wave Theory still correct?

answered Jan 29, 2016 at 9:26

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Heisenberg's uncertainty principle for mean deviation?

answered Apr 6, 2016 at 21:05

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Which is stronger, a rope without knots or a rope with knots?

answered Sep 6, 2016 at 8:08

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What is the physical meaning of ensemble average?

answered Aug 11, 2016 at 15:23

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Thermodynamic equilibrium - will the piston move?

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Unitary operators evolving the set of Pauli matrices

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Why didn't I beat the avalanche?

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Can a radioactive atom be prevented from decaying if it's in a REALLY strong chemical bond?

Why must the anchor of a merchant ship be slack to keep her in position?

Why must a physical theory be mathematically self-consistent?

If a thousand people whisper inaudibly, will the resulting sound be audible?

What makes a theory "Quantum"?

Explaining The Unbelievable Pendulum Catch

Does the halflife time of a radioactive material decrease if its temperature increases?

Is the universe non-linear?

Is it possible to confine a photon in less than its* wavelength?

What exactly is a photon?

Why don't we use rapidity instead of velocity?

Entropy is...disorder?

Does Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle describe real uncertainty or measured uncertainty?

Why does the tip of an elastic water tube flap when the flow is fast?

Schrödinger's cat and the difficulty of macroscopic superposition state

What is QED about "Cavity QED"?

What does it mean to Fourier transform a ladder operator (in the input-output formalism)?

Self-consistency of Effective Hamiltonian equation

Lindblad and Input-Output Formalism in Quantum Optics

Will slinky length be different on the moon?

No-Cloning and Uncertainty: Connections or Misconception

Newton's 3rd law... hitting drywall (which I break) vs hitting a brick (which breaks me)?

Demystifying the physics of weightlessness in parabolic flights

Is Huygens's Wave Theory still correct?

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle for mean deviation?

Which is stronger, a rope without knots or a rope with knots?

What is the physical meaning of ensemble average?

Thermodynamic equilibrium - will the piston move?

Unitary operators evolving the set of Pauli matrices

Why didn't I beat the avalanche?