/u/Stuck_In_the_Matrix's posts in /r/askscience
Is there an example of a mathematical problem that is easy to understand, easy to believe in it's truth, yet impossible to prove through our current mathematical axioms?
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Can a star sit barely on the edge of being able to support fusion such that it will actually oscillate through fusion cycles?
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How long would I have to plug myself into a wall to get the equivalent energy to eating a full day's worth of food?
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What makes GPUs so much faster at some things than CPUs, what are those some things, and why not use GPUs for everything?
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Considering that there are hundreds of billions of galaxies in the known universe, approximately how many times per day does a star somewhere in the universe go supernova? More than once per second?
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What is it about human psychology and the brain that makes cases of road rage so prevalent? Is the brain mismanaging or exaggerating perceived threats?
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Is there an ultimate limit to the the amount of energy per flop in computation? In a perfect system, how little energy could power a 1 teraflop CPU using the limits of physics?
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How are Abigail and Brittany Hensel able to coordinate activities like typing on a keyboard without communicating with each other?
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Does the human brain use any quantum effects during computation? Is there a fundamental difference between how my brain computes and how a digital circuit computes?
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