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What is the scale of the largest structures that are expected to hold together despite the metric expansion of space?

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If you can add spin to a black hole by slinging matter into it, doesn't that violate the viewpoint of an external observer never seeing the matter pass through the event horizon?

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Some fossils and modern bird skeletons have what appears to be an "eye bone" what is this?

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Would there be any advantages to using the gravitational lensing of the sun as a telescope?

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What differentiates the "start" end of a DNA strand from the "end"? Is information ever encoded in both directions on a strand of DNA?

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Is there a standard way to represent DNA in a computer (e.g. 1 codon per byte)?

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Will the metric expansion of the universe ever remove the cosmic microwave background radiation from view?

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What do we know about how memory works?

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What is the difference, physically, between a dominant gene and a recessive gene?

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Is (safe, low-cost) fusion power a pipe dream?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
What is the scale of the largest structures that are expected to hold together despite the metric expansion of space?	11
If you can add spin to a black hole by slinging matter into it, doesn't that violate the viewpoint of an external observer never seeing the matter pass through the event horizon?	10
Some fossils and modern bird skeletons have what appears to be an "eye bone" what is this?	10
Would there be any advantages to using the gravitational lensing of the sun as a telescope?	9
What differentiates the "start" end of a DNA strand from the "end"? Is information ever encoded in both directions on a strand of DNA?	9
Is there a standard way to represent DNA in a computer (e.g. 1 codon per byte)?	8
Will the metric expansion of the universe ever remove the cosmic microwave background radiation from view?	8
What do we know about how memory works?	7
What is the difference, physically, between a dominant gene and a recessive gene?	7
Is (safe, low-cost) fusion power a pipe dream?	6