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Gnarly Problems in Physics

This are puzzles that aren’t very technical at first, that get deeper and more complicated the more you think about them. John Baez has imagined writing a book on these someday.

List of gnarly problems

Revised on September 16, 2009 11:55:22 by Urs Schreiber (195.37.209.182)
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