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John Doty
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Are human eyes interferometers?

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Why did NASA need to observationally confirm whether DART successfully redirected Dimorphos?

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Time is the only dimension that has an arrow, and the only dimension which contributes an opposite sign to the metric. Is that just a coincidence?

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Is it possible to statically generate lift with the difference in pressure like wings?

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How can I derive the second law of thermodynamics from Newton's second law of motion?

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If I push someone, what fundamental force do I create?

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The Journey of an Electromagnetic Wave Exiting a Router

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Is electric field inside a conductor really always zero?

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Does Cosmic Background radiation transmit heat?

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Why are there three bright spots in the first picture of Sagittarius A*?

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Why does high frequency have high energy?

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Could the center of the galaxy explode as a result of a chain reaction of stars going supernova?

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What is the cause of the constancy of the speed of light in vacuum?

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Why does an MRI machine or other EMP generating machine not damage humans, but it will fry computers?

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Does substituting electrons with muons change the atomic shell configuration?

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Failure of Newton's corpuscular theory and success of photon theory of light

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Is force really considered a push or a pull?

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How is energy "stored in an electric field"?

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Why does the focus point of the eye does not burn the retina?

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How do non-periodically varying currents produce electromagnetic waves?

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Fourier vs. Laplace transforms

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Why do contact lens work when they're inside out?

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On a magnetar, which force would exert a bigger pull on a 10 kg iron chunk?

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Are all conservation of momentum scenarios simply particles bouncing on walls?

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How do you know mercury changes monotonically with temperature if mercury itself is used to make the thermometer?

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Why do we even need RF cavities to accelerate particles?

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How does it make sense for the universe to have started from a big bang?

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Can we get shock by ionic current?

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Why do silicon photodiodes respond to a wavelength range of 190-1100nm?

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What do I hear when listening to a computer-generated sine wave?

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