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Kurt Hikes
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Why don't (or can't) stars be more than 325 or so times the mass of the sun? What limits their size?
Jul 24, 2020
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Why doesn't dark matter clump strongly in the center of galaxies, since it doesn't feel either radiation pressure or the Pauli exclusion effect?
Jul 13, 2022
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Why is there so little nitrogen in the Martian and Venusian atmospheres?
Jul 3, 2020
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How can astronomers pinpoint the location of the source of a neutrino?
Mar 23, 2021
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Why isn't most hydrogen in the universe molecular (diatomic), instead of atomic (monoatomic)?
Apr 8, 2021
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Why do cosmologists assume that inflation began shortly after the Big Bang, rather than at the exact start?
Apr 20, 2023
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In the onion-like elemental layers of a large mature star the neon is closer to the surface than oxygen, even though it is more massive... Why?
Jul 14
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How can a black hole have a charge, or be charged?
Jul 12, 2021
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Why is the L3 Lagrangian point not perfectly stable? And why is the Earth-Sun L3 point a bit less than one A.U.?
Sep 20, 2021
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How do we know that objects that appear in duplicate or triplicate, etc. due to strong gravitational lensing aren't actually multiple objects?
Nov 3, 2021
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Why isn't 'chemically-strengthened glass' made with potassium carbonate to begin with?
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Why no proton microscopes? Proton diffraction; or proton scattering experiments? Proton crystallography?
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Why, precisely, is argon used in neutrino experiments?
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Why doesn't NASA or SpaceX use ozone as an oxidizer for rocket fuels?
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Do the SpaceX Falcon-9 rockets use foam insulation similar to the Space Shuttle? Is it still a potential problem?