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What is meant by the following statement which appeared in a physics article yesterday regarding the diphoton hangover? "The absence of new particles almost certainly means that the laws of physics are not natural in the way physicists long assumed they are." [link in comments]	273
What is the origin of the relatively evenly spaced horizontal ridges in the eastern Pacific ocean floor?	18
How does one measure sudden deceleration, such as with a vehicle hitting a wall? At what precise point or event does the beginning of the deceleration period begin and when does it effectively end?	15
Why do ferrofluids create regular spikey features in the presence of magnetic fields?	6
What is it about America that makes it the exception to the rule that the better educated and the wealthier a society, the less likely its people are to believe in a god?	2
What mechanisms govern the mixing or distribution of nitrogen and oxygen (and the other gases) in our atmosphere?	2
I read an article about how hunter gatherers had stronger bones than agriculturalists. I couldn't help wondering, what would we look like if we had evolved to sit behind computers and lead sedentary lives?	1
When a planetary system is in its formative period and clumps of gas and dust within the protoplanetary disk are collapsing into larger and larger bodies, part of the theory states that they eventually clear their orbits of smaller debris. Why is that?	1
What's the current status of string theory? Is it still a contender in the "one-theory-to-rule-them-all" category or was it ruled out by discoveries at the LHC?	1
I live in a Cleveland suburb near a large nature preserve and this past Saturday night was the first night this year that I've heard any nocturnal animal noises (crickets, tree frogs). Where have they been and why did they just come out?	1

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