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It's rather strange, isn't it? I did just fine in Algebra I, and even better in Algebra II, but now that I'm in Calculus I I'm finding that my algebra skills aren't as sharp as I thought they were. Often times i'll get the calculus portions of problems correct, but when it comes down to...

My professor wants me to make a 15 minute oral presentation on black holes for an event we have going on on campus. How should I structure it? I think I have a pretty good understanding of the concept of a black hole, but I don't want to get caught off guard during the 5 minute Q&A section. My...

If the space between any two objects is expanding at a rate faster than light itself can travel, how is it that we're observing light from things so far away? One would think that the expansion of space affects light too, such that the space between the emitted light and the destination of said...

I know this is the Physics Forums and not the Biology Forums, but I feel that this question is more on the physics side of the spectrum than the biology side. What potential effects could the existence of a hypothetical, unusually warped spacetime, where there were naturally-occurring curves...

Let's say we built a tunnel through the (arbitrary) center of the moon, and lined the surfaces of the walls with millions of loops of copper wire. If we dropped a massive magnet in through the moon, would it produce a substantial amount of current due to the magnetic field passing through the...

Do we have any alternative routes to explore besides constructing a particle accelerator that reaches energies on the scale of ~1016 GeV to observe the unification of the electroweak and strong forces? And if not, does that mean we're left with nothing but speculation and mathematics?

If quantum foam particles can exist long enough to interact with other close particles before returning to the vacuum, doesn't this introduce kinetic energy to a system that previously didn't have it before? Does this perhaps imply that a system (such as the universe) cannot actually be isolated...

Is it possible that the forces behind the expansion of space could at some point overcome the fundamental forces holding our molecules together?

At the risk of making my inexperience in quantum mechanics plainly obvious, I have a question to ask. Say you emit a photon from one side of a room. As I've come to learn, light is not only a particle, but a wave. Say there are two photomultipliers, both encompassed within the wave of light...

As a senior in high school, I found my direction in life at just the right time. Unfortunately, my past three years haven't gone so well. Admittedly, I never really tried hard until this year. I've always been naturally talented academically, so maintaining a ~3.0 has been a piece of cake for...