Most viral Theoretical Physics questions on Quora
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What unsolved math equation would change the world if it was solved today?
What unsolved math equation would change the world if it was solved today? The vast majority of math problems are not “equations”. A whole important field of…
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· Anonymous on Quora
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To which degree can quantum mechanics be truly understood (Thinking about what Richard Feynman said about it)?
My background: some research experience in theoretical physics in the 1980s and early 1990s, especially in Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory.It depe…
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· Anonymous on Quora
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Why don't scientists impose attributes of Spacetime and Quantum fields to the Aether? Why did they need different names?
This is actually a fairly interesting question, and it leads into an interesting discussion on the nature of nomenclature — for one very good reason, which i…
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· Anonymous on Quora
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Why do some primordial black holes from the early universe disappear while others survive to this day?
First of all, I would hesitate talking about primordial black holes without conditionals. As far as we know, primordial black holes do not exist. We never sa…
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· Anonymous on Quora
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Why are 'bright ideas' ridiculed by those who know how to manipulate mathematics? Do they want to build authority/monopoly of mathematics?
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· Anonymous on Quora
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What if Interstellar Travel and Interstellar Communication are indeed possible, not impossible, and we are just wrong about physics and the like? What if we have been wrong about physics and we still have more to discover?
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· Doug Callahan on Quora
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Why does the principle of stationary action become so tricky to apply when dealing with quantum gravity?
The “Principle of Stationary Action” isn’t tricky at all when you or I find out what “present spacetime” is at our location while using an interferometer, a…
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· Anonymous on Quora
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If space began with the Big Bang, what was before it?
Question: If space began with the Big Bang, what was before it? Answer: Speculative answer. Space, and more specifically spacetime, may have pre-existed the…
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· Anonymous on Quora
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How does the Hawking-Hartle "no boundaries proposal" describe time without a clear starting point, and why is it significant?
Hello, It turns out that in solving for Einstein’s equations (on spacetime), one can progressively rotate time from what we nominally declare a real-only var…
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· Anonymous on Quora
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What made Einstein confident enough to challenge established theories with his special relativity paper in 1905?
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· Anonymous on Quora
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Is the volume of space infinite or finite?
well… right now this question has no proper answer but there are different ways for both to be possible not at the same time but separate situations. For the…
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· Anonymous on Quora
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Why is it so difficult to find a model that accurately describes both the pre- and post-Big Bang universe, according to current scientific understanding?
Although the pre- and post-Big Bang universal states should philosophically represent specific phases of universal emergence. In principle, this means the st…
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· Anonymous on Quora
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