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Undergrad How do we justify "Natural" Units
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Graduate What Constitutes a Natural Completion of a Physical Theory?
- Auto-Didact
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Undergrad Deriving Geodesic Equation from Lagrangian
- acegikmoqsuwy
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Undergrad Masses of Fermions, string theory, Higgs mechanism
- Spinnor
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Graduate What exactly is the string theory landscape?
- ad infinitum
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Graduate Motivation for positivity constraints in kinematic associahedron
- nrqed
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Undergrad Implications of Nishida's mass/CKM observation
- nikkkom
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Graduate What makes an effective field theory inconsistent in the swampland conjecture?
- Demystifier
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Undergrad Time reversal symmetry in physics
- som
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Graduate Difference between configuration space and phase space
- sams
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High School Justification for emergent anything
- Buckethead
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High School Is string theory a deterministic hidden variable theory?
- Aidyan
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High School String theory equation help
- Akshaya dhakal
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Undergrad Theories where discrete mathematics is fundamental and QM, GR emerge
- waves and change
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Undergrad Derivation of the Euler-Lagrangian
- redtree
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Graduate Has Theoretical Physics met a bit of a roadblock?
- Lunct
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High School Simple thought experiment merging GR and QT
- SlowThinker
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Graduate Emergent Property: Usefulness in Physics
- Twodogs
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High School Graphene Spinning Speed: Theoretical Max RPM of 1m Radius
- Idont Know
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Graduate Is AdS/CFT Theory a Viable Option for Post-Graduate Research in HEP?
- CharlieCW
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Undergrad Speed limit c in the multiverse
- Spinnor
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Undergrad Gauss' law applied on a four-dimensional surface
- helpmepleaseaaaaaaa
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Undergrad Cyclic variables for Hamiltonian
- digogalvao
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High School Was the Big Bang a quantum mechanical vacuum fluctuation?
- mark!
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Undergrad What would the world look like without translational symmetry?
- Robin04
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High School Symmetry in Nature: Is Physical Nature Symmetrical?
- entropy1
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Undergrad Does Physics Allow for a Time Component in Vector Quantities?
- Delta2
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Undergrad Why are the laws of physics what they are?
- ScientificMind
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Graduate Error in Mathematical Methods for Physicist by Arfken, et al
- jinjung
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High School Origin of the SU(3)×SU(2)×U(1) symmetry groups and U(1) asymptotic freedom
- cube137
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Graduate Furey models with Division Algebras
- arivero
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High School Reconciling QM with string theory
- Sophrosyne
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Undergrad Tensor Equations: Invariance Across Different Reference Frames?
- e2m2a
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Undergrad Are Mass, Volume, and MOI Enough to Determine Dimensional Identity?
- Randy Cotteleer
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Undergrad Derivative of a Variation vs Variation of a Derivative
- quickAndLucky
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Undergrad Is Energy Fundamental or Derived?
- LAP3141
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High School A quick theoretical question on dark matter
- BadgerBadger92
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Undergrad What does the total time derivative of a function signify in Noether's Theorem?
- Higgsono
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Undergrad What are the Priority Tasks for High Energy Physics Beyond the Standard Model?
- ohwilleke
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Graduate Negative cosmological constant from string theory
- Demystifier
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Undergrad Deriving Euler-Lagrange equations from electromagnetic Lagrangian density
- grzz
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Undergrad Emmy Noether's Theorem: Learning STEM for Beginners
- gibberingmouther
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Graduate Summing not over configurations, but over theories
- jordi
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Graduate Partial Differentiation in Lagrange's Equations
- sams
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Undergrad Liouville equation with Dirac delta as probability density
- andresB
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Graduate What is the role of homotopy super Lie-n algebras in M-theory?
- mitchell porter
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Graduate Matrix coordinates of D branes
- EternalStudent
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Graduate Canonical transformation - derviation problem
- Vicol
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Graduate Muller's 'Now and the Flow of Time' - what's up?
- asimov42
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Graduate Information encoding in the Holographic principle
- Suekdccia
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Undergrad Physical Interpretation of Compactified Dimensions?
- Islam Hassan
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Graduate Do some vacua in superstring theory reproduce the SM?
- nrqed
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Undergrad Can one get E=mc^2 using classical EM theory?
- snoopies622
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Graduate Asymptotic Safety for Quantum Gravity
- stevendaryl
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Graduate Why Haven't We Observed Heavy Particles from Massive String Theory in Real Life?
- EternalStudent
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Graduate Consequences of unifying Gravity with the other forces?
- Ghost117
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Undergrad Is the Action Always a Minimum in the Principle of Least Action?
- BookWei
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Undergrad Deterministic chaos and randomness
- Giulio Prisco
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Undergrad Are these models true or even relevant?
- FzKl
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Undergrad Line element from Kaluza-Klein for Kids
- Spinnor
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Undergrad Transition between energy and mass
- Robin04
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Undergrad What false hints of new physics were most notable?
- ohwilleke
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Undergrad Has Connes' non-commutative geometry helped advance physical theory?
- nomadreid
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Undergrad Can Two Different Physical Theories Yield the Same Predictions?
- Robin04
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Undergrad Strassler Hidden Valleys Viable?
- jtlz
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Undergrad LHC constraints on preon and subquark models
- Azurite
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Undergrad How can we transform a Lagrangian to obtain a new set of equations of motion?
- arpon
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Undergrad Causal Fermion System and revival of Dirac Sea
- jtlz
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Undergrad What Objects Can Exist in the Quantum Vacuum?
- jtlz
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High School What is the metric tensor g11?
- Mathematicsresear
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Graduate Shaposhnikov and Hossenfelder, Higgs and MOND
- mitchell porter
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High School How do scientists handle incompatible theories like Newtonian mechanics and relativity?
- Schfra
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Undergrad What is the best theory why our vacuum may be in the edge of metastability?
- jtlz
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Undergrad Obtaining covariant components of a vector
- som
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Undergrad Particle Desert and New Physics
- jtlz
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Undergrad Horava Lifschitz theory and Lorentz Invariance
- windy miller
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Graduate Why was the Higgs mechanism chosen over other symmetry breaking models?
- Silviu
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Undergrad Metastability of the Higgs field
- ryan liberty
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Undergrad Freeman Dyson's 1972 paper "Missed Opportunities"
- kith
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Undergrad Radioactive decay caused by WIMPS?
- qbit
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Undergrad Are there classical theories of strong/weak interactions?
- SothSogi
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Undergrad Gravity well model going through a sphere
- ARMYnerdGuy
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Insights Why Higher Category Theory in Physics? - Comments
- Urs Schreiber
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High School Using the words "Formulate" "To imply" "Explain" in Physics
- slow
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Undergrad Why the Lagrangian is the difference of energies?
- MichPod
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Undergrad What Must Abstract Conductors Be Made Of?
- FS98
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Undergrad Other ways to break the Higgs symmetry group
- jtlz
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Undergrad Proton Decay At The Highest Possible Energies
- ohwilleke
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Undergrad Relation between statistics and theoretical physics
- Jianphys17
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Undergrad What physics does this BVP represent?
- member 428835
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High School Constrains in E8xE8 heterotic superstring theory
- bluecap
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Undergrad Vector and Scalar Tensor Invariance
- e2m2a
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High School The values of the fundamental constants
- slow
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Insights Super p-Brane Theory Emerging from Super Homotopy Theory - Comments
- Urs Schreiber
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Graduate Electron charge vs quark charge
- Ratman101
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Undergrad Vector potential A_mu from scalar function theta(x_mu)?
- Spinnor
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Graduate Meaning of phase transitions in lattice gauge theories
- diegzumillo
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Undergrad Why are the different SM Lagrangian components simply summed?
- jouvelot
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High School Quark confinement and the Higgs mechanism
- bluecap
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Graduate The Forgotten Anniversary: 100 Years since Emmy Noether's Theorems
- fresh_42
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