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An atheist once used a metaphor, saying that if you tied a piece of string connecting two balls and waved one ball around, they will never touch, hence why the moon doesn’t hit Earth. If so, where is the piece of string connected from Earth to Moon?

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A stone falls from a cliff and hits the ground below with a velocity of 60m/s. How long does the stone take to hit the ground above?

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According to Newton’s third law when I hit someone the pain must be the same. But we know it isn’t. Why?

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If two objects are dropped at the same time, and there was no air resistance, the objects would hit the ground at the same time. Where does the equation force times mass equals acceleration come into play?

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If two tornadoes that rotate in opposite directions collide, what happens?

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Why doesn't the Sun's light travel in a straight line if the Earth is a perfect sphere?

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Does the speed of a vehicle depend upon the size of the wheels?

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If spacetime has a viscosity, or lack thereof, as in it being a superfluid, how can we determine it from being a non-Newtonian fluid from within its omnipresent, or or its inescapable reference?

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In a proton-proton collision, why does only one charged particle come out?

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What is the distance covered by an object that accelerates at ten metres per square second, and how long will it take?

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