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Hi there! I'm Danu, a Dutch mathematician at the university of Hamburg. Very broadly, I am interested in differential geometry; more specifically, I work on quaternionic manifolds. Another interest of mine is in the interactions between geometry and string (or gauge) theories.

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Layman's explanation and understanding of Einstein's field equations
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Why should any physicist know, to some degree, experimental physics?
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Why is quantum mechanics called 0+1 dimensional QFT?
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Is it a problem with radiometric dating that carbon 14 is found in materials dated to millions of years old?
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Does gravity affect magnetism, vice-versa, or do they "ignore" each other?
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The path integral and Feynman diagrams
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