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Is there an intuitive explanation for why C^2 is the ratio between mass and energy?

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What is the bottle neck that causes governmental and especially intergovernmental decisions take such an incredibly long time?

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Why can so much of a cat or dog's personality be predicted by genetics yet the same is not true of humans?

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What are the most fundamental assumptions that physicists have to make in order to derive the laws of physics?

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Are virtual particles just a convenient mathematical object or have they been proven to exist?

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How do languages develop unnecessary complications? Why don't they evolve out of the language?

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Is "crowd wisdom" effective for anything other than trivial questions?

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Why do the sun and moon appear so much smaller in photographs than with the naked eye? - Photo illustration in description.

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How viscous is the sun? If stuck your arm into the surface of the sun would you be able to move it about as if it were in water?

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Does the existence of Quantum Mechanics make the universe easier or harder to simulate?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Is there an intuitive explanation for why C^2 is the ratio between mass and energy?	39
What is the bottle neck that causes governmental and especially intergovernmental decisions take such an incredibly long time?	38
Why can so much of a cat or dog's personality be predicted by genetics yet the same is not true of humans?	25
What are the most fundamental assumptions that physicists have to make in order to derive the laws of physics?	24
Are virtual particles just a convenient mathematical object or have they been proven to exist?	6
How do languages develop unnecessary complications? Why don't they evolve out of the language?	5
Is "crowd wisdom" effective for anything other than trivial questions?	5
Why do the sun and moon appear so much smaller in photographs than with the naked eye? - Photo illustration in description.	3
How viscous is the sun? If stuck your arm into the surface of the sun would you be able to move it about as if it were in water?	3
Does the existence of Quantum Mechanics make the universe easier or harder to simulate?	3