/u/RandomExcess's posts in /r/askscience
There is a redditor who attended the CERN OPERA briefing doing an AMA. Can we get a regular contributor to r/askscience to take a look and do a little peer review? (X-post link inside)
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I was told by a nurse she learned in school that male sperm swim faster than female sperm. Is this true? How did they figure that out?
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What is the technical reasoning that the Kelvin scale is not measured in degrees but both C and F are?
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Does String Theory have any guess/explanation where the energy to vibrate their strings comes from? Does the energy just run out? Is somehow fed by some sort of "quantum fluctuation"?
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Has the percent change in land mass been characterized? It seems the Earths surface used to be 0% water and is now about 70%. How has that changed over time?
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Given that the edge of the Observable Universe is receding faster than c, what is the furthest co-moving distance we can expect light leaving Earth right now to reach?
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Doesn't it seem obvious that the Standard Model for the Universe is just the full symmetric group on the set of Fundamental Forces?
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I have a 1 page explanation of what caused the big bang and what exactly a black hole is and the math also happens to be consistent with General Relativity and Quantum mechanics and a college freshman can understand it. What should I do?
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What is the speed of the Earth through space relative to the objects to which we are gravitational bound?
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