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Beyond the Standard Models Forum

Join expert and advanced topics on beyond the standard model of physics. This includes professionally researched theories like strings, branes, and LQG. Mainstream physics only.

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Undergrad How does SU(5) explain proton-electron charge equivalence?

Apr 19, 2016 · Replies 2 · May 30, 2016

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Graduate Spontaneous breaking of supersymmetry

Apr 4, 2016 · Replies 2 · May 28, 2016

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Graduate Unifying Forces in the Early Universe: How and Why?

May 24, 2016 · Replies 8 · May 28, 2016

Replies: 8

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High School Can a Universe Exist Without Space and Time?

Apr 15, 2016 · Replies 8 · May 24, 2016

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Graduate Formulating Supergravity Under De Sitter Group: A Comprehensive Reference

May 16, 2016 · Replies 10 · May 20, 2016

Replies: 10

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Graduate Koide, neutrinos, and phenomenology

Jan 6, 2016 · Replies 6 · May 20, 2016

Replies: 6

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Thoughts on Quantum Holonomy Theory?

Apr 29, 2015 · Replies 20 · May 17, 2016

Replies: 20

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Graduate From ##D3-Brane## to ##AdS_5-Schwarzschild##

Apr 28, 2016 · Replies 1 · May 15, 2016

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Undergrad Could the speed of light just be "terminal velocity"?

May 14, 2016 · Replies 8 · May 14, 2016

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Graduate Time integral of worldsheet current

May 7, 2016 · Replies 6 · May 13, 2016

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Graduate Invariance of Wess Zumino Action under SUSY

May 7, 2016 · Replies 2 · May 7, 2016

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Graduate What would happen if only gravitons existed?

Apr 24, 2016 · Replies 2 · May 6, 2016

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Graduate Symplectic Majorana Spinors in 5 Dimension

Apr 30, 2016 · Replies 5 · May 2, 2016

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Graduate Is Torsion Always Zero in Supergravity?

Apr 22, 2016 · Replies 2 · Apr 30, 2016

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Graduate How Does the Infinite Momentum Frame Relate to Differential Forms in Mechanics?

Apr 25, 2016 · Replies 5 · Apr 27, 2016

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High School Hawking radiation / String Hagedorn temperature?

Apr 19, 2016 · Replies 7 · Apr 26, 2016

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High School Have New Particles Beyond the Higgs Been Discovered at CERN?

Apr 15, 2016 · Replies 2 · Apr 15, 2016

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High School Are Strings Really Like Hoola Hoops in Physics?

Mar 29, 2016 · Replies 9 · Apr 13, 2016

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Undergrad Inflation and the false vacuum

Apr 27, 2015 · Replies 87 · Apr 11, 2016

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Graduate Effective cosmo const explained w/o vacuum energy

Mar 14, 2016 · Replies 8 · Apr 6, 2016

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High School String oscillations, not parallel to momentum?

Apr 4, 2016 · Replies 1 · Apr 5, 2016

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Graduate Loop quantum gravity and diffeomorphism group

Mar 29, 2016 · Replies 8 · Apr 4, 2016

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Undergrad Einstein's Unified Field Theory: Approaches Explored

Mar 31, 2016 · Replies 4 · Apr 1, 2016

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Graduate Poll: First quarter 2016 MIP (most important QG papers)

Mar 30, 2016 · Replies 2 · Mar 31, 2016

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High School What kind of experiment is needed to quantize gravity?

Mar 31, 2016 · Replies 4 · Mar 31, 2016

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Graduate Atoms Of Space, Gravity and the Cosmological Constant

Mar 29, 2016 · Replies 1 · Mar 29, 2016

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Graduate Can Theoretical Physicists Discover New Aspects of the Higgs Boson?

Mar 29, 2016 · Replies 5 · Mar 29, 2016

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Ali and Das, "Cosmology from quantum potential"

Feb 11, 2015 · Replies 76 · Mar 29, 2016

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High School Vibrating strings, quark strings more complicated?

Mar 26, 2016 · Replies 1 · Mar 27, 2016

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Undergrad What can we learn from the Carlofest speakers' list?

Mar 4, 2016 · Replies 7 · Mar 24, 2016

Replies: 7

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Undergrad Can Matter Absorb Energy from Gravitational Waves?

Feb 17, 2016 · Replies 11 · Mar 24, 2016

Replies: 11

Views: 4K

High School How does the vibration of a quantum string translate to a "particle's" mass?

Mar 24, 2016 · Replies 2 · Mar 24, 2016

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Graduate Poll: Fourth quarter 2015 MIP (most important QG papers)

Jan 6, 2016 · Replies 6 · Mar 22, 2016

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Views: 3K

Graduate Constructing massive N=1 SUSY Multiplets

Feb 17, 2016 · Replies 5 · Mar 18, 2016

Replies: 5

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Graduate Physical Implications of the Transition from 2 M Branes to 5 M Branes

Mar 12, 2016 · Replies 5 · Mar 14, 2016

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High School Why wouldn't quantum gravity work this way?

Mar 12, 2016 · Replies 9 · Mar 14, 2016

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Undergrad A new blog about LQG and related

Mar 10, 2016 · Replies 1 · Mar 10, 2016

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Graduate Explore "LQG" & "Gravitational Waves" on Amazon

Mar 6, 2016 · Replies 15 · Mar 9, 2016

Replies: 15

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Undergrad Energy density of a 1D string?

Mar 3, 2016 · Replies 2 · Mar 8, 2016

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Undergrad Is Loop Quantum Gravity as Popular as String Theory in Today's Physics Research?

Mar 4, 2016 · Replies 2 · Mar 5, 2016

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Graduate Smolin: Lessons from Einstein's discovery....

Dec 23, 2015 · Replies 31 · Mar 4, 2016

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Graduate Info escape from BH (videos up from Nordita conference)

Mar 3, 2016 · Replies 1 · Mar 4, 2016

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Graduate D Branes and Gluon-Quark Interaction.

Mar 2, 2016 · Replies 2 · Mar 3, 2016

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Graduate Andrei Lebed, equivalence principle

Dec 5, 2015 · Replies 42 · Mar 2, 2016

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Graduate Dark Matter as higher-dimensional gravity

Mar 1, 2016 · Replies 2 · Mar 1, 2016

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What are the best beginner books on supersymmetry?

Feb 9, 2016 · Replies 5 · Feb 28, 2016

Replies: 5

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How Do Internal Symmetry Generators Affect Supersymmetry Algebra?

Feb 18, 2016 · Replies 6 · Feb 24, 2016

Replies: 6

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Why not sterile particles as dark matter?

Feb 21, 2016 · Replies 5 · Feb 22, 2016

Replies: 5

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Papers that combine LQG with twistor theory

Feb 11, 2016 · Replies 9 · Feb 21, 2016

Replies: 9

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Proper movement, reference frames and gravitational waves

Feb 17, 2016 · Replies 1 · Feb 18, 2016

Replies: 1

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Phase transition at high energies?

Feb 8, 2016 · Replies 3 · Feb 16, 2016

Replies: 3

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Undergrad Heat Death of the Universe, Total or Not?

Feb 3, 2016 · Replies 24 · Feb 15, 2016

Replies: 24

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String theory deviations from GR in strong field regime

Feb 13, 2016 · Replies 1 · Feb 15, 2016

Replies: 1

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Can the universe become stable with a new electroweak vacuum

Jan 20, 2016 · Replies 1 · Feb 15, 2016

Replies: 1

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Undergrad Detecting if the universe is a simulation

Feb 14, 2016 · Replies 4 · Feb 15, 2016

Replies: 4

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Can Manifolds Beyond Spacetime Revolutionize Quantum Gravity Unification?

Feb 7, 2016 · Replies 4 · Feb 14, 2016

Replies: 4

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Alain homers with Ali and Slava on base

Dec 31, 2014 · Replies 22 · Feb 13, 2016

Replies: 22

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LQG has not been shown to violate the holographic principle

Sep 28, 2015 · Replies 2 · Feb 11, 2016

Replies: 2

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What do the gravity waves seen by LIGO imply for QG?

Feb 8, 2016 · Replies 4 · Feb 9, 2016

Replies: 4

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Is There Really No Grand Unified Theory and Unification of the Three Forces?

Feb 8, 2016 · Replies 14 · Feb 9, 2016

Replies: 14

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Can we calculate the coupling constants?

Jan 31, 2016 · Replies 8 · Feb 7, 2016

Replies: 8

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Why Is the Physics Community Comfortable with Renormalization in QFT?

Feb 1, 2016 · Replies 7 · Feb 5, 2016

Replies: 7

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Stability of Minkowski space in semiclassical gravity?

Jan 28, 2016 · Replies 7 · Feb 1, 2016

Replies: 7

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Stephen Hawking offers new resolution of black hole paradox

Aug 25, 2015 · Replies 44 · Jan 31, 2016

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Replies: 44

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High School Is Black Hole-Generated Dark Energy a Viable Theory?

Jan 28, 2016 · Replies 7 · Jan 28, 2016

Replies: 7

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Problem of Outcome & Unification Program

Jan 26, 2016 · Replies 3 · Jan 28, 2016

Replies: 3

Views: 2K

Understanding Spin Foam Cosmological Model: Explained in Basic Terms

Jan 26, 2016 · Replies 4 · Jan 27, 2016

Replies: 4

Views: 2K

Stephen Wolfram's post about spacetime

Dec 4, 2015 · Replies 31 · Jan 27, 2016

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Replies: 31

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The GZK-Cutoff, we are living in a simulation

Jun 17, 2013 · Replies 1 · Jan 26, 2016

Replies: 1

Views: 5K

Could the Universe's Origin Hold the Key to Understanding Particle Entanglement?

Jan 25, 2016 · Replies 3 · Jan 25, 2016

Replies: 3

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Unifying GR and QM - Reasons for Believing in Unity

Dec 29, 2015 · Replies 8 · Jan 25, 2016

Replies: 8

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Validating String Theory: A Debate Among Physicists

Dec 27, 2015 · Replies 19 · Jan 25, 2016

Replies: 19

Views: 4K

Event horizon and quantum tunneling

Jan 19, 2016 · Replies 6 · Jan 24, 2016

Replies: 6

Views: 3K

What does ##\delta F=0## mean?

Dec 29, 2015 · Replies 15 · Jan 23, 2016

Replies: 15

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Does Loop quantum gravity have an effective UV fixed point?

Dec 20, 2015 · Replies 19 · Jan 21, 2016

Replies: 19

Views: 4K

How Do Photons Influence Mass in the Context of Gravity and Tensor Theory?

Jan 19, 2016 · Replies 4 · Jan 21, 2016

Replies: 4

Views: 1K

Is Gravitational Wave a Projection of Quantum Wave if ER = EPR?

Jan 18, 2016 · Replies 5 · Jan 21, 2016

Replies: 5

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Recent papers on self-dual loop quantum black holes

Nov 30, 2015 · Replies 28 · Jan 20, 2016

Replies: 28

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Reheating vs particle creation due to acceleration

Jan 20, 2016 · Replies 2 · Jan 20, 2016

Replies: 2

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Large Underground Xenon dark matter experiment/LHC LSP neutr

Dec 23, 2015 · Replies 16 · Jan 19, 2016

Replies: 16

Views: 2K

Undergrad Godel's ITs & the Physical World: Is a ToE impossible?

Nov 16, 2015 · Replies 66 · Jan 18, 2016

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Replies: 66

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Quantization of classical strings - a beginner's question

Jan 15, 2016 · Replies 5 · Jan 15, 2016

Replies: 5

Views: 2K

Fields transforming into Space

Jan 12, 2016 · Replies 3 · Jan 15, 2016

Replies: 3

Views: 1K

Can Soft Hair Explain the Information Paradox on Black Holes?

Jan 6, 2016 · Replies 4 · Jan 11, 2016

Replies: 4

Views: 3K

Is the firewall explained by the Penrose interpretation?

Jan 3, 2016 · Replies 8 · Jan 8, 2016

Replies: 8

Views: 3K

AdS/CFT: Null Geodesics & Causal Connection?

Dec 30, 2015 · Replies 2 · Jan 6, 2016

Replies: 2

Views: 2K

Poll

Poll: Third quarter 2015 MIP (most important QG papers)

Oct 3, 2015 · Replies 6 · Jan 6, 2016

Replies: 6

Views: 2K

The Laws and Rules of Emergence in Spacetime and Matter Fields

Jan 4, 2016 · Replies 8 · Jan 5, 2016

Replies: 8

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Would NMSM or vMSM + 4D QG like LQG or AsG be TOE?

Dec 30, 2015 · Replies 8 · Jan 5, 2016

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Postulations and unknown unknowns in physics

Dec 31, 2015 · Replies 5 · Jan 4, 2016

Replies: 5

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How Do Bilinears Connect to Killing Vectors and Differential Forms?

Jan 3, 2016 · Replies 1 · Jan 4, 2016

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How to know which gauge transformation we should use?

Jan 1, 2016 · Replies 9 · Jan 3, 2016

Replies: 9

Views: 2K

Is QFT on curved spacetime BtSM

Jan 1, 2016 · Replies 1 · Jan 2, 2016

Replies: 1

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Is There a Missing Link Between Spacetime and Fields in Mathematics?

Dec 29, 2015 · Replies 4 · Dec 31, 2015

Replies: 4

Views: 2K

James Webb space telescope and fundamental physics

Dec 30, 2015 · Replies 5 · Dec 30, 2015

Replies: 5

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What Are the Latest Research Topics in Physics Beyond the Standard Model?

Dec 30, 2015 · Replies 3 · Dec 30, 2015

Replies: 3

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Standard model says 17 particals, M theory says 18?

Dec 30, 2015 · Replies 1 · Dec 30, 2015

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Causal Dynamic Triangulation Question

Dec 14, 2015 · Replies 11 · Dec 29, 2015

Replies: 11

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Are there currently any proposals for a complete physics?

Dec 26, 2015 · Replies 11 · Dec 28, 2015

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What are the prospects for the Causal Fermion System?

Aug 22, 2015 · Replies 2 · Dec 27, 2015

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Theoretical Physics

Welcome to the Theoretical Physics forum!

Theoretical physics is a branch of physics that focuses on developing mathematical models and theoretical frameworks to explain and predict physical phenomena. Theoretical physicists strive to understand the fundamental principles that govern the universe, often delving into realms beyond immediate experimental observation.

This field involves the creation of mathematical equations and conceptual frameworks, exploring topics such as quantum mechanics, general relativity, and particle physics.

Theoretical physicists contribute to our understanding of the universe at both the smallest and largest scales, seeking to formulate elegant and comprehensive theories that describe the underlying principles of the cosmos, even if some aspects remain challenging to verify experimentally.

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