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Friday, January 21, 2011

Even more physics questions

I posted some more questions at the ever-more-addictive Physics StackExchange site.

* A flyby of orbiting supermassive black holes.

* Photon wave packets from distant stars.
Posted by Nigel Seel at 8:50 pm
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