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Why is rainforest topsoil so fertile for rainforests yet so [terrible] for farming?

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Why is stainless steel non-magnetic?

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What does it mean that space is curved?

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Why do cosmologists/particle physicists think that the four fundemental fources are all different aspects of the same force, and why do they act differently at lower energies?

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Why does the uncertainty principle have real life repurcussions rather than just determining how accurately we can measure the location/momentum of something? Should the particle not still have a definite location, we just can't tell where?

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What is the difference between cosmological inflation and expansion of the universe?

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How does smashing stuff together at LHC hope to produce a Higgs boson?

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How was Planck's constant calculated?

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Why does quantum fluctuation at the event horizon cause more "negative mass/energy" particles to fall in?

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What would a bose-einstein condensate look like (supposing you could get several billion atoms in one place)?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Why is rainforest topsoil so fertile for rainforests yet so [terrible] for farming?	32
Why is stainless steel non-magnetic?	27
What does it mean that space is curved?	20
Why do cosmologists/particle physicists think that the four fundemental fources are all different aspects of the same force, and why do they act differently at lower energies?	17
Why does the uncertainty principle have real life repurcussions rather than just determining how accurately we can measure the location/momentum of something? Should the particle not still have a definite location, we just can't tell where?	16
What is the difference between cosmological inflation and expansion of the universe?	15
How does smashing stuff together at LHC hope to produce a Higgs boson?	10
How was Planck's constant calculated?	10
Why does quantum fluctuation at the event horizon cause more "negative mass/energy" particles to fall in?	8
What would a bose-einstein condensate look like (supposing you could get several billion atoms in one place)?	6