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Why do many people say that virtual particles do not conserve energy?
Dec 2 '15 at 17:46
13
Why is nuclear force spin dependent?
Oct 24 '16 at 2:09
11
If electrons have a negative spin of 1/2 do all particles also have the ability to have a negative spin?
Jun 19 '17 at 20:16
10
Why does an ice-cube turn faster and faster while melting in water?
Dec 31 '18 at 15:37
10
Why do we still use perturbation theory, when we have advanced numerical methods and fast computers?
Dec 26 '15 at 15:26
8
Why is Iron the most stable element?
Jan 31 '16 at 13:54
6
Why do balls go so slow down a ramp in comparison to a plastic car?
Oct 29 at 14:48
6
Why does the Lamb shift only affect s-states?
Jul 21 '17 at 2:36
6
What do physicists contribute (either today or in the past) in the area of neuroscience?
Oct 18 '16 at 2:30
5
Can the decay rate of nuclear decay be proportional to the second/third exponent of number of nuclei?
Jul 9 '17 at 13:19
5
Is this a correct demonstration for why elements above untriseptium cannot exist?
Jan 8 '16 at 19:17
5
Why do Neutrinos pass through us but photons can't pass through us?
Dec 15 '16 at 16:51
5
Why are the elements of the periodic table stable?
Jan 17 '16 at 19:50
5
Why does the Walecka model not include pions?
Apr 8 '15 at 0:45
4
Why must the wavelength of light be smaller than uncertainty in position?
Jan 11 '18 at 16:30
4
Does it take same amount of work to raise or lower a mass the same distance and why?
Jan 26 '17 at 16:09
4
Why is the density of the Fermi gas in a neutron star not changing the potential depth caused by the strong nuclear interaction?
Nov 19 '16 at 5:01
4
Will a giant ball of protons form a black hole?
Jun 21 '16 at 23:38
4
Are there experiments taking place right now that might show evidence for or falsify dark energy or dark matter?
Dec 17 '15 at 4:00
3
Why is order of electron orbital filling not completely sequential?
Aug 1 at 22:39
3
Is it possible to transform energy stored in anti-matter into coherent radiation?
Jan 1 at 18:07
3
What is meant by “non-perturbative” string theory?
Sep 21 '18 at 14:17
3
Tongue and frozen metal
Dec 12 '17 at 15:23
3
Why is a nonlinear crystal necessary to stimulate quantum fluctuations that entangle photons?
Jul 25 '17 at 2:42
3
Noise heard simultaneously with lightning
Jul 13 '17 at 14:20
3
Excitation of an electron
Jul 13 '17 at 17:52
3
What is this notation using $\psi$ and $J$ to represent particles in a quark-based interaction?
Jan 11 '17 at 14:40
3
Pouring problems in physics: minimum opening? A.k.a. the “oatmeal problem”
Jan 9 '17 at 16:08
3
What physical phenomenon best explains the region of very short half-lives on table of nuclides?
Aug 31 '16 at 16:00
3
How big of a neutron star would be needed to form a quark star inside of it?
Aug 22 '16 at 19:02
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