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I'm a physics/math major at MIT, currently dabbling in particle phenomenology, and learning about topology and dynamical systems. I've also competed in and coach for the U.S. Physics Olympiad.

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164 Why are the harmonics of a piano tone not multiples of the base frequency? Jul 17
79 Why does the sun have to be nearly fully covered to notice any darkening in an eclipse? Jun 15
63 Why aren't the lengths of the bars on a toy glockenspiel proportional to the wavelengths? Jul 24
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36 Is there something behind non-commuting observables? Feb 29
34 Is this thought experiment violating the the Second Law of Thermodynamics? Mar 21
29 Why is space a vacuum? Also, why doesn't air from the Earth escape into space? Aug 23 '15
28 Why are muons considered to be “elementary particles” in the Standard Model? Aug 17
23 Does a box containing photons have more inertia than an empty box? May 11
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