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How efficient can a Dyson sphere be?

0 answers  ·  last activity 4 months ago by ‭HDE 226868‭

physics dyson-spheres megastructures energy materials
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Is it possible to create a beam of non-relativistic neutrinos?

1 answer  ·  last activity 4 months ago by ‭dmckee‭

physics technology relativity particle-physics
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How fast would strange matter conversion go?

1 answer  ·  last activity 4 months ago by ‭HDE 226868‭

science-based physics quantum astrophysics
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Can pion production effectively shorten the lifetime of neutrons?

0 answers  ·  last activity 4 months ago by ‭HDE 226868‭

physics particle-physics
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How could a bad random number generator explain baryon asymmetry?

3 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by ‭HDE 226868‭

science-based physics antimatter computers
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What would a hard boundary mean in physics on the quantum-mechanical level?

1 answer  ·  last activity 5 months ago by ‭HDE 226868‭

physics universe quantum
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What if the Planck constant was exactly zero?

3 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by ‭HDE 226868‭

physics quantum
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Could there be something like the Higgs field which gives particles their energy in a similar way to how the Higgs boson gives particles their mass?

1 answer  ·  last activity 5 months ago by ‭HDE 226868‭

science-based physics energy science-fiction quantum
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Which of these changes to physics will have the least effect on Earth's biology?

2 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by ‭HDE 226868‭

biology physics
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How long would a planet that losses its gravity take to break up?

1 answer  ·  last activity 5 months ago by ‭HDE 226868‭

physics gravity science-fiction
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How can I expand the definition and some specifics of pyrokinesis?

6 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by ‭quarterEpsilon‭

physics temperature super-powers fire
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To carry a person in its palm (like King Kong) how much pressure and at what speed would a kaiju need to apply?

2 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by ‭Luke Duffy‭

biology physics gravity kaiju
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Could a galaxy of Nicoll-Dyson beams hit a single target?

2 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by ‭RandySavage‭

physics megastructures gas galactic
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An alternative way to rotate or in this case rolltate

5 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by ‭Nanoshadow‭

climate astronomy physics solar-system alternate-reality
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Scources for metastable Metallic Hydrogen

2 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by ‭Seraphim‭

physics materials knowledge
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A clothing material or other method to slow free-fall descent down walls

23 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by ‭Delirium‭

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Superfluid lifeform

1 answer  ·  last activity 5 months ago by ‭Nierninwa‭

biology reality-check physics astrophysics
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Adopting a new calendar for a multi-generational space journey [Generations Novel]

3 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by ‭Noam Josephides‭

physics science-fiction
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Spacewalking in 0.3c - is it feasible? [Generations novel]

6 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by ‭Noam Josephides‭

biology physics
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A Seafloor of Ice and Rock: Ice VI / Water Boundary

1 answer  ·  last activity 6 months ago by ‭TheDyingOfLight‭

water physics underwater ocean
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How deep can the oceans be while still alowing some land?

1 answer  ·  last activity 6 months ago by ‭TheDyingOfLight‭

physics geology ocean astrophysics
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Intermediate Structures Along a Space Elevator

3 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by ‭Rusty‭

science-based physics space-elevators
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What is the tallest mountain possible in any gravitational environment?

2 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by ‭Slarty‭

planets science-based physics gravity alternate-worlds
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How small and fast can a bullet go in atmosphere?

2 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by ‭Seraphim‭

physics kinetic-weapons
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(Semi) Believable way to quickly submerge a large landmass

3 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by ‭Blue Devil‭

geography physics geology tectonics geophysics
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Question about Kessler syndrome

4 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by ‭Dashane Du Plessis‭

space science-based physics space-debris kessler-syndrome
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Could co-orbital planets also be double planets?

2 answers  ·  last activity 7 months ago by ‭Axion‭

space science-based physics orbital-mechanics astrophysics
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Stability in Lowering a Space Elevator

1 answer  ·  last activity 7 months ago by ‭Rusty‭

space reality-check science-based physics space-elevators
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Is it theoreticaly possible to phase shift between alternate universe and/or realities?

3 answers  ·  last activity 7 months ago by ‭Hewholooksskyward‭

space science-based physics technology science-fiction
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How could an iceberg be created quickly?

2 answers  ·  last activity 7 months ago by ‭George Brewington‭

science-based physics technology chemistry
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How big does a pelican type creature need to be to carry a grown up human inside its mouth and still fly?

1 answer  ·  last activity 7 months ago by ‭Li Jun‭

biology reality-check physics creature-design xenobiology
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How could an ability to project fire from your body occur plausibly?

1 answer  ·  last activity 7 months ago by ‭DEMI‭

biology physics super-powers mutation
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Control of atmospheric conditions

1 answer  ·  last activity 7 months ago by ‭Lelu‭

climate physics
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What might be an effective mode of transportation for Giants?

2 answers  ·  last activity 7 months ago by ‭icewar1908‭

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In what conditions could whales fly?

6 answers  ·  last activity 7 months ago by ‭System‭

biology science-based physics science-fiction
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Semi-FTL quantum communications

3 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by ‭Demigan‭

reality-check physics communication quantum
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How massive would a planet need to be to sustain negligible damage from impact with the Earth?

6 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by ‭Wax‭

planets science-based physics astrophysics
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Relativity, Time Dilation and multiple reference frames

3 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by ‭Budders‭

space travel science-based physics space-travel relativity science-fiction
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What is the science behind a wave that changes the laws of physics?

2 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by ‭Nierninwa‭

science-based physics
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Could a hypothetically big enough planet, with an earth-like atmosphere, be big enough so that you cannot see its curvature from above?

2 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by ‭D3lf‭

earth-like physics earth astrophysics
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Feasibility of floating city-sized forests

3 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by ‭user199429‭

biology reality-check science-based physics
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What biological trait could make (certain members of) an insectoid species good at astronomy?

12 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by ‭Iroh‭

biology astronomy physics science-fiction xenobiology astrophysics
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What would happen to a gas giant during a supernova?

2 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by ‭Geroditus‭

astronomy planets science-based physics supernova
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Schwarzschild Metric in a universe with the same space time metric as that described in the orthogonal series, but with massive gravitons?

1 answer  ·  last activity 8 months ago by ‭Anders Gustafson‭

space physics gravity time black-holes spacetime-dimensions alternate-reality dimensions
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Can multiple space habitats be joined by tubes?

1 answer  ·  last activity 8 months ago by ‭RandySavage‭

space physics space-constructs engineering
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Would "land assist" technology be possible in real life?

3 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by ‭Raleigh‭

reality-check science-based physics engineering
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How long to become a habitable planet

0 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by ‭user72655‭

physics orbital-mechanics solar-system habitability astrophysics
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How would a bird's flight change entering the zero gravity axis of an O'neil cylinder?

1 answer  ·  last activity 8 months ago by ‭RandySavage‭

physics gravity flight light microgravity
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Could a more convenient form of energy transfer/storage than electricity be possible?

3 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by ‭A Lambent Eye‭

science-based physics energy far-future future
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Is it possible to ice skate on an ice moon/world?

3 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by ‭Sean Kindle‭

science-based moons physics gravity ice
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