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are the smallest types of satellites, and the Kalam SAT is one of the smallest Femto satellite ever made?
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was secured as the best theory for the origin of the universe by the discovery of the
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Albert Einstein's official portrait after receiving the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics
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held that because an object could not move without an immediate source of
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False-color photo of the Sun as seen in ultraviolet light
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tidal accelerations are the result of the curvature of
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reactions are probably occurring at or above the sun's
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Gold leaf processing at a workshop in Kanazawa, Japan
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Gold leaf processing at a workshop in Kanazawa, Japan
gold leaf
atoms
Large Hadron Collider
protons
speed of light
TeV
299,792,458 m/s
light
Earth
Moon
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The Andromeda Galaxy
Moon
Earth
Femto satellites
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Neptune
Neptune
Uranus
Aristotle
ideas of physics
energy
Theory of everything
String theory

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