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A lot of questions about acceleration/gravity and light traveling different from c in vacuo

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How close would you have to be to the sun before you could cook a normal bag of microwave popcorn with the microwaves it gives off?

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What is the Milky Way's velocity relative to the reference frame in which the CMB is isotropic?

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When jump-starting a car, you're supposed to connect three of the alligator clips to battery terminals, but the 4th to the engine to ground it. What exactly does it mean to ground it and what could happen if you instead connected all 4 to battery terminals?

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If gravitational time dilation also occurs due to being accelerated (via the Equivalence Principle), why would it occur for something in orbit? Orbit is just free fall and thus there is no proper acceleration felt by the orbiting body.

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I recently had to put my little doggy to sleep. How confident can I be that he was unconscious and felt no pain while dying?

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Question about the accelerating expansion of the universe

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Are we anywhere close to understanding how subjective experience (sometimes called qualia) arises? If not, are any scientists actively working on trying to understand this better?

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Universe condensed to less than the size of pearl in its early moments?

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What is the mechanism by which athlete's foot makes my feet itch? It's a fungal infection, but what actually goes on that causes the itching?

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A lot of questions about acceleration/gravity and light traveling different from c in vacuo	3	askscience
How close would you have to be to the sun before you could cook a normal bag of microwave popcorn with the microwaves it gives off?	3	askscience
What is the Milky Way's velocity relative to the reference frame in which the CMB is isotropic?	3	askscience
When jump-starting a car, you're supposed to connect three of the alligator clips to battery terminals, but the 4th to the engine to ground it. What exactly does it mean to ground it and what could happen if you instead connected all 4 to battery terminals?	3	askscience
If gravitational time dilation also occurs due to being accelerated (via the Equivalence Principle), why would it occur for something in orbit? Orbit is just free fall and thus there is no proper acceleration felt by the orbiting body.	3	askscience
I recently had to put my little doggy to sleep. How confident can I be that he was unconscious and felt no pain while dying?	3	askscience
Question about the accelerating expansion of the universe	2	askscience
Are we anywhere close to understanding how subjective experience (sometimes called qualia) arises? If not, are any scientists actively working on trying to understand this better?	2	askscience
Universe condensed to less than the size of pearl in its early moments?	2	askscience
What is the mechanism by which athlete's foot makes my feet itch? It's a fungal infection, but what actually goes on that causes the itching?	2	askscience