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High School Graphene Spinning Speed: Theoretical Max RPM of 1m Radius
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Graduate Is AdS/CFT Theory a Viable Option for Post-Graduate Research in HEP?
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Undergrad Speed limit c in the multiverse
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Undergrad Gauss' law applied on a four-dimensional surface
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Undergrad Cyclic variables for Hamiltonian
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High School Was the Big Bang a quantum mechanical vacuum fluctuation?
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Undergrad Translational Symmetry: Effects on Laws & World
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High School Symmetry in Nature: Is Physical Nature Symmetrical?
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Undergrad Does Physics Allow for a Time Component in Vector Quantities?
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Undergrad Why are the laws of physics what they are?
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Graduate Error in Mathematical Methods for Physicist by Arfken, et al
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High School What Are the Key Questions Surrounding SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1) Symmetry Groups?
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Graduate Furey models with Division Algebras
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High School Reconciling QM with string theory
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Undergrad Tensor Equations: Invariance Across Different Reference Frames?
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Undergrad Are Mass, Volume, and MOI Enough to Determine Dimensional Identity?
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Undergrad Derivative of a Variation vs Variation of a Derivative
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Undergrad Is Energy Fundamental or Derived?
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High School A quick theoretical question on dark matter
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Undergrad What does the total time derivative of a function signify in Noether's Theorem?
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Undergrad What are the Priority Tasks for High Energy Physics Beyond the Standard Model?
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Graduate Negative cosmological constant from string theory
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Undergrad Help required regarding deriving E-L equations for EM
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Undergrad Emmy Noether's Theorem: Learning STEM for Beginners
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Graduate Summing not over configurations, but over theories
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Graduate Partial Differentiation in Lagrange's Equations
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Undergrad Liouville equation with Dirac delta as probability density
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Graduate What is the role of homotopy super Lie-n algebras in M-theory?
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Graduate Matrix coordinates of D branes
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Graduate Canonical transformation - derviation problem
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Graduate Muller's 'Now and the Flow of Time' - what's up?
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Graduate Information encoding in the Holographic principle
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Undergrad Physical Interpretation of Compactified Dimensions?
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Graduate Do some vacua in superstring theory reproduce the SM?
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Undergrad Can one get E=mc^2 using classical EM theory?
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Graduate Asymptotic Safety for Quantum Gravity
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Graduate Why Haven't We Observed Heavy Particles from Massive String Theory in Real Life?
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Graduate Consequences of unifying Gravity with the other forces?
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Undergrad Is the Action Always a Minimum in the Principle of Least Action?
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Undergrad Deterministic chaos and randomness
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Undergrad Are these models true or even relevant?
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Undergrad Line element from Kaluza-Klein for Kids
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Undergrad Transition between energy and mass
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Undergrad What false hints of new physics were most notable?
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Undergrad Connes' non-commutative geometry: useful or just an exercise?
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Undergrad Can Two Different Physical Theories Yield the Same Predictions?
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Undergrad Strassler Hidden Valleys Viable?
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Undergrad How Does the LHC Influence Our Understanding of Subquarks and Preons?
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Undergrad How can we transform a Lagrangian to obtain a new set of equations of motion?
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Undergrad Causal Fermion System and revival of Dirac Sea
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Undergrad What Objects Can Exist in the Quantum Vacuum?
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High School G11 Metric Tensor: What is it & How Does it Work?
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Graduate Shaposhnikov and Hossenfelder, Higgs and MOND
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High School Understanding Incompatible Scientific Theories for Scientists
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Undergrad What is the best theory why our vacuum may be in the edge of metastability?
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Undergrad Covariance & Contravariance of Vectors
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Undergrad Particle Desert and New Physics
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Undergrad Horava Lifschitz theory and Lorentz Invariance
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Graduate What makes a good physics theory
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Undergrad Metastability of the Higgs field
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Undergrad Freeman Dyson's 1972 paper "Missed Opportunities"
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Undergrad Radioactive decay caused by WIMPS?
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Undergrad Are there classical theories of strong/weak interactions?
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Undergrad Gravity well model going through a sphere
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High School Using the words "Formulate" "To imply" "Explain" in Physics
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Undergrad Why the Lagrangian is the difference of energies?
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Undergrad What Must Abstract Conductors Be Made Of?
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Undergrad Other ways to break the Higgs symmetry group
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Undergrad Proton Decay At The Highest Possible Energies
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Undergrad Relation between statistics and theoretical physics
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Undergrad What physics does this BVP represent?
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High School Constrains in E8xE8 heterotic superstring theory
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Undergrad Vector and Scalar Tensor Invariance
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High School The values of the fundamental constants
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Graduate Electron charge vs quark charge
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Undergrad Vector potential A_mu from scalar function theta(x_mu)?
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Graduate Meaning of phase transitions in lattice gauge theories
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Undergrad Uncovering the Mystery Behind SM Lagrangian Sums
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High School Quark confinement and the Higgs mechanism
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Graduate The Forgotten Anniversary: 100 Years since Emmy Noether's Theorems
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High School Is Super Symmetry Dead? | Forbes
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Undergrad Can String Theory Explain the Energy Density of Empty Space?
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Undergrad How Are Base Vectors Defined in Covariance and Contravariance?
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High School String theory, Calabi–Yau manifolds, complex dimensions
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Graduate I want to know the exact problems of Merging GR and QM
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Graduate "UV completion of a theory of Superfluid Dark Matter"
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Graduate How does one "design" a PDE from a physical phenomenon?
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Undergrad Muon g-2 as a constraint on new physics
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High School Decays affected by all new particles/fields?
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Undergrad How Are Definite Integrals Related to the Principle of Least Action?
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Undergrad Calabi-Yau manifold + ideal gas + point disturbance?
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Undergrad Are Planck Units Merely a Pop-Science Fad?
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Undergrad Are the sphaleron & superstring just the epicycles of our era?
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High School Big bang and matter anti-matter inbalance
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Undergrad Do Fundamental Physical Constants Truly Remain Constant Over Time?
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Graduate Best way to learn string theory?
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Undergrad Weak gravity conjecture and strings vs loops
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High School Can the Holographic Principle make predictions
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Undergrad Can Majorana Neutrinos Oscillate Between Neutrino and Antineutrino States?
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Undergrad The ever-increasing proton lifetime
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