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We've been invited to a ballroom dance in ten months' time. What is the minimum number of dances to learn to participate most of the time? Can we get away with just two: one in common time and one... ...
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"The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath... Therefore, Jew, though justice be thy plea, consider this: that in the course of justice... ...
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Is there an archive of answerbank questions? I'd like to see a question I asked some years ago about the possibility that dark energy and dark matter could be explained away by modifying the way that...
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It is straightforward to show, using the inverse-square law, that a uniform shell of matter produces no gravitational force in the space within it. However, the inverse-square law assumes Newtonian...
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If we drop a lamp into a black hole, the lamp might reach the event horizon without being crushed. We would see the lamp becoming redder, but if we could observe longer and longer radio waves, it...
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An egg cooked "sunny side up" produces an overcooked yolk if it is cooked long enough for the albumen to set. "Easy over" rarely produces an acceptable result. Is there a name for the way of frying an...
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Ridges sometimes form across gravel roads when there is sufficient traffic. The roads are basically flat with a sprinkling of small stones. The stones group together into bands, about 15cm apart,...
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My optician says that spectacles cannot correct the condition where one eye sees a smaller image than the other. Is it possible to obtain a slight wide-angle lens for one eye, or a slight telephoto...
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What is the name of numbers whose binary codes are minimally different? I'd like to Neeva them to see if they have an addition algorithm. The numbers 1 to 9 are coded 1, 11, 10, 110, 111, 101, 100,...
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After I've been on strike, should I expect my employer to accept me back at the same level of pay, even though I have proved to be unreliable?...
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Entropy does not fall, so what is wrong with the following: In a google years, most matter, black holes etc. will have evaporated and the Universe will 'soon' become a sea of photons. Although it is...
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When two black holes collide they emit a "squark" of gravitational waves. Why? There is conservation of mass, centre of mass, and angular momentum. I assume that tidal disturbance transfers angular...
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A photon has energy. Why does it not generate a gravitational field? Energy = mass....
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If you had designed the Universe, would you have designed this one?
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We used to have just a few genders, then LGB, then LGBT. Recently, I heard something like LGBTQ+. Can't we have a word to describe all these conditions? How about 'parasexuals'?
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If one of a group of n items is distinguishable, then it can be found in (n+1)/2 attempts, on average, by examining a random item from the group, provided that the same item is not chosen twice. How...
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Yesterday, two wind turbines kept in phase for all the time that I watched them. Was turbulence locking their rotations together? One was directly downwind of the other. A third turbine, at the side...
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How long in time (not distance) does it take a river like the Severn to flow from its source to the sea? Of course, this is impossible to answer: some molecules will travel faster than others; some...
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I need a formula that monotonically decreases from f(0)=infinity to f(infinity)=0 and passes through the points f(a)=2 and f(b)=1, where a
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Is it possible to make a compound camera lens, perhaps using materials like Iceland Spar, which could simultaneously focus comparatively well on two objects, one near, one far, while leaving the...

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