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Currently a PhD research fellow in maths and CS at Høgskulen på Vestlanded. In the past I have worked as a musician, as a programmer on magnetohydrodynamics number-crunchers, and studied geophysics.

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155 Why does matter exist in 3 states (liquids, solid, gas)? Mar 9 '16
101 Why do shadows from the sun join each other when near enough? Jan 19 '14
68 Why doesn't light, which travels faster than sound, produce a sonic boom? Apr 16 '15
59 Why does the Earth even have a magnetic field? Dec 9 '17
48 Why does a blackboard dry very quickly? Apr 8 '17
30 Given that ice is less dense than water, why doesn't it sit completely atop water (rather than slightly submerged)? Oct 29 '16
22 Will a pure rolling cylinder stop on a rough surface? Mar 27 '17
20 If the wire of the secondary circut is thicker than that of the primary in a transformer, what type of transformer is this and why? Mar 6 '18
20 If strings are solid, why don't they have longitudinal waves? Jan 7
19 Why doesn't light affect a compass? Mar 30 '15
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