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Loop-and-allied QG bibliography
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Insights Why Higher Category Theory in Physics? - Comments
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Insights Super p-Brane Theory Emerging from Super Homotopy Theory - Comments
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Insights Emergence from the Superpoint - Comments
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Undergrad What upcoming experiments hold hope for physics BTSM?
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What is new with Koide sum rules?
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Graduate Dasgupta et al., What is the alternative to a unique dS vacua?
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Graduate How to fix Relativistic QM so it's consistent?
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Undergrad Strings 2025 Conference: Insights, Criticisms, and Key Highlights
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Undergrad A novel explanation of CKM and PMNS matrix parameters
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Graduate The Exceptional Jordan Algebra in physics
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High School The M paradox
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Graduate New ideas on confinement and meson masses from Brazil
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Undergrad On the Quantum Mechanics of Entropic Forces
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Undergrad Is Gravi-GUT a candidate theory of everything?
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Graduate Paper Recommendation Request: on Formation of "Bubble" universes
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Undergrad Infinite number of spatial dimensions (maybe also time dimensions)
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Undergrad The Universe is No Simulation
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The wrong turn of string theory: our world is SUSY at low energies
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High School Black to white transition in LQC
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Graduate The "electroweak eta meson"
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Graduate Discussion of "Two-Time Physics" (I. Bars) and its potential cosmological implications
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Undergrad Gravitational self-interaction: another attempt to replace Dark Matter
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Graduate Twistors and celestial holography
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Undergrad Detecting Gravitons?
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Graduate Inertial mass, the Higgs field, and Mach's Principle
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Graduate Vortex loop stabilization in SU(N) gauge theory - DBI term approach
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Undergrad Wick-rotated Riemannian metric that takes leaky gravity into account
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Undergrad Fermion doubling problem and three generations of standard model
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Undergrad "Violation of the Equivalence Principle in Disk Galaxies" newly interpreted
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Graduate A couple of long questions on positivity bounds for UV-complete EFTs
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Graduate MOND from SU(2) gravitational dipoles
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Undergrad What is the Current Status and Future Perspective on Low's Soft-Photon Puzzle?
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Graduate "Half a century of Supergravity" book
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Graduate Reconciling Determinism, Entropy, and Quantum Statistics
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Graduate Why Does the Standard Model Use Six Dimensions for Probability Calculations?
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Undergrad Updates on the experiments X17
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Graduate Thermodynamic Approaches to Quantum Gravity: Discussion
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Undergrad Do "bubble universes" in eternal inflation have their own spacetime?
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Graduate Furey's superalgebra and the standard model
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Undergrad Is Spacetime infinite dimensional?
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High School What is the Dean Paradox and How Does it Relate to Zeno's Paradox?
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High School Definition of black hole, according to Maldacena
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High School Regular black holes
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Graduate Bivector mediation of standard field equations to form coupled system
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Graduate Trying to explore a theory I have
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Undergrad Lorentz Invariance?
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Undergrad Anomalous Ionization in the Central Molecular Zone by Sub-GeV Dark Matter
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Graduate Decomposition of SU(2)-invariant spin network state in 3 dimensions
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Undergrad Gravitons and General Relativity
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Undergrad Witten’s paper: "A Note On The Canonical Formalism for Gravity" LQG
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Undergrad Physics Review Letters 134: Probing New Bosons and Nuclear Structure with Ytterbium Isotope Shifts
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Undergrad Space and time and human imagination
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Graduate Incorporating Twistor theory into LQG
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Graduate Fermions, Monopoles & Quantum Hall: New Advances
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Undergrad Modeling the Kaluza-Klein theory
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Graduate G. Bianconi: Gravity from Entropy
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Undergrad Some questions about Coleman's Baby Universe model
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Graduate Shahar Hod's bound on the fine-structure constant
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Undergrad Axion production via Bremsstrahlung - Simple maths question
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Graduate Physical meaning of "exotic smoothness" in (and only in) 4D
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Graduate Does Gravity Criticism in Maxwell's Equations Apply to All Gravity-Medium Analogies?
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Graduate Magnetic Monopole's (non)existence
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Graduate "Particle Creation by Black Holes", S. Hawking
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Undergrad Should the third term in equation (3.11.18) be multiplied by half?
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Undergrad Is Gravity a Force or Curvature?
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Graduate How many known Constructive QFTs are there?
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Graduate Could the Gravitational Constant G have a quantum origin?
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Undergrad Was Dyson Correct That Detecting A Single Graviton Theoretically Impossible?
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Graduate The Emergence of Space-time in String Theory
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Undergrad The evaporation of charged black holes
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Graduate Is There a Six-Preon Theory with Specific Charge and Color Assignments?
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Undergrad The standard model from loop quantum gravity via spinors octonions
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String theory: gravitons for closed strings vs. open strings
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Graduate Recent history of minimal length scale?
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Graduate On the same origin of quantum physics and general relativity
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High School On a basic level why aren't loops ##\equiv## strings?
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Undergrad Dimensions: Perpendicular vs. Coiled Up?
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Undergrad Two recent tests of loop quantum gravity theory
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Undergrad Status of the X17 search with the MEG II apparatus
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Undergrad Unifying string theory and loop quantum gravity
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Graduate Singularity structure being valid for all QFTs?
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Undergrad About the results of trying to build quantum gravity from gravito-EM
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Undergrad Evaporating black holes and conservation of charges?
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Undergrad Is this derivation of MOND from General Relativity plausible?
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Undergrad Could the emission of 2 gravitons in orbits possibly be supressed?
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Undergrad Could there be new particles after the Universe reaches heat death?
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Undergrad Will every object in the universe evaporate?
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Graduate Towards a purely gravitational effective theory of dark matter
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Undergrad Can there be quantum fluctuations without spacetime?
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Undergrad Belle II Measurement Makes World Average Tau Mass Match Koide's Rule
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Undergrad Jonathan Oppenheim, "A postquantum theory of classical gravity?"
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Graduate New string formulae for Higgs mass and cosmological constant
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Graduate A possible quantum field theory of tachyons?
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Graduate Does the Maximum Lyapunov exponent depend on the eigenvalues?
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Graduate Discussing the Sachdev–Ye–Kitaev Model
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Undergrad Grand Unified Theory and proton decay
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Graduate "The 7 Strangest Coincidences in the Laws of Nature" (S. Hossenfelder)
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Undergrad Does the EM field arise from the Kalb-Ramond field?
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Undergrad Experiments to check for extra dimensions
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Graduate Photon dilemma for MOND-like dark matter
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Graduate Why is matter-free gravity not ultraviolet finite?
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Graduate New symmetry principles and anomalies
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Undergrad Are There GUTs Where the Proton Never Decays?
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