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Q: According to the Many Worlds Interpretation, every event creates new...
Physicist: There is no new energy or matter (or even new universes), it’s just that how it’s distributed depends on who’s asking, and in what “world” they’re doing the asking. The important thing is:...
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Q: What would Earth be like if it didn’t turn?
Physicist: The side of the Earth facing the sun would quickly become hotter than boiling water, and the side facing away would be cold enough for the atmosphere to freeze solid (condense into nitrogen...
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Q: How does the expansion of space affect the things that inhabit that space?...
Physicist: Way back in the day Edwin Hubble (of telescope fame) noticed that the farther away a galaxy is, the faster it’s moving away from us. From this he figured out that the universe is expanding,...
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Q: Why do nuclear weapons cause EMPs (electromagnetic pulses)?
Physicist: The weapon itself doesn’t cause the EMP (or not much of one). The pulse is actually generated by the weapon’s effect on the Earth’s ionosphere. Nukes: bad piece of business. The explosion...
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Q: How are imaginary exponents defined?
The original question was: How do you do xi (x to the i power), and how on Earth was it developed? There isn’t really anything to base xi on from previous rules of exponents as it is a completely new...
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Entanglement omnibus!
We’ve recently gotten several short questions about entanglement. In keeping with other, better, “ask” services: entanglement omnibus! Q: What is entanglement? (nobody asked this, but it’s a good...
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