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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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Undergrad Mirror fermions / mirror families. How does it work?
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Undergrad Can the Electromagnetic Force be Explained by Curving Spacetime?
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Graduate What is the current status of asymptotic safety?
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Undergrad Does the Poisson Equation Have a Unique Solution with Mixed Boundary Conditions?
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Undergrad Can Physics Laws Exist in Different Dimensions?
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Undergrad Can We Create Wormholes to Switch Between Universes?
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Graduate Application of Conformal Mapping in Physics
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Graduate About time to think about Time
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Undergrad Open string end points, their motion in spacetime
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Undergrad Does gravity just emerge out of all the quantum fields?
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Undergrad Check invariance under time-reversal?
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Graduate Quantum Gravity: Renormalization vs. Effective Field Theory
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Undergrad Probability & Time: Is There a Connection?
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Undergrad Does the value of the action S have classical significance?
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Insights My Superparticle Bet with Frank Wilczek - Comments
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Undergrad Anomaly aggregation and confirming old paper validity
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High School M Theory: What's the Consensus?
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Undergrad Compositeness Limits -- Have We Reached Rock Bottom?
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Undergrad New scientist SU(5) Unification without Proton Decay
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High School Can energy change physical laws?
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Undergrad Please suggest whether I should use delta or dx method.
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Undergrad Hamiltonian of a Physical Theory: Lagrangian vs Transformation
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Graduate Ed Witten on Symmetry and Emergence
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Undergrad What does Noether's theorem actually say?
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Undergrad Finding Real and Imaginary Parts of the complex wave number
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Graduate String Vacua and Particle Interactions
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Graduate Are String Theory physicists violating the Scientific Method
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Undergrad Inconsistencies in classical physics
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High School Postulates and pseudoscientific hypothesis difference?
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Graduate Supersymmetry and the EM Force
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Graduate Hawking radiation: pair production?
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Undergrad Why there's No Unified Theory ?
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Undergrad What is the formal definition of a Universality Class?
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Undergrad Can complex spacetime solve the Higgs hierarchy problem?
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Undergrad Can Infinitesimal Volumes Be Arbitrary Shapes?
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Graduate Does an interface necessarily satisfy the KPZ Equation?
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Graduate Max number of extra dimensions
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Undergrad What Are Higher Rank Tensors and When Should You Use Matrices in Physics?
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Undergrad String theory on complex spacetime, twistor string
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High School What are the predicted sizes of elementary particles?
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Graduate What is Non-Abelian Z-theory and how does it relate to gluon amplitudes?
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High School Could Neutrinos Challenge Our Understanding of Physics?
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Undergrad Dirac quantization of gravity e.g. GR in Ashtekar Variables
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Undergrad Delta x in the derivation of Lagrange equation
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High School Unelegant, Unnatural, Ugly BSM theme books
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Insights An Integral Result from Parseval's Theorem - Comments
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Undergrad Is there a fine structure constant running anomaly?
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Undergrad If 11 dimensional supergravity were nonpertubative quantized
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High School Question About Planck Scale Unit
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High School What's the relationship between drop height and induced emf?
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Graduate Is There a Method to the Madness of Theoretical Physics?
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High School M theory, holography, many worlds -- What we do know?
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Undergrad Critical value of homoclinic bifurcation
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Undergrad How do I name a generalisation of the wave equation?
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Graduate Chaos, quantum gravity, theory of everything....
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Graduate Is an Atemporal Universe the Key to Understanding Entropy and Time?
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Graduate The Crisis in Theoretical Physics - Gian Francesco Giudice
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High School Could Negative Mass Particles Really Repel Each Other?
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Undergrad Invariance of the laws of physics
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Undergrad Are Dimensions Real? | Questioning Space Dimensions
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High School Is Backreaction in Curved Spacetime Sufficient Without Quantizing Spacetime?
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Undergrad The unit dyadic.A general expression for?
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Undergrad CPT Violation and Energy Conservation: Explained!
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Graduate What Are the Key Unresolved Issues in the Two-Higgs-Doublet Model?
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Graduate Open problems in mathematical physics
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High School Relationship between anomalous factor and alpha
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Undergrad Antoine Tilloy theory of gravity
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Undergrad In string/m-theory and 3D/4D Controversy of time
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Graduate Numerical solution of Hamiltonian systems
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Undergrad Particular configuration of a system and grand partition fn.
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Graduate Is total Gravitational force quantifiable?
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Undergrad Testing Quantum Gravity paper Bose Einstein helium superfluid
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High School New Theory vs New Force/Field of nature
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Graduate Gravitational anomalies in gauge theory
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High School Branes, gluons, time reversal, and string theory.
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Undergrad How does gravitation fit into this picture of branes?
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Undergrad Solve Exercise 2.4 in Supergravity by Freedman & Van Proeyen
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Graduate Please verify integral and approximation, boundary theory
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High School Why does physics consider only 3 of 6 dimensions
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High School Questions about Quantum Gravity
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High School Planck Length and Lorentz Contraction
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Undergrad Electric and Color charge in String Theory
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Undergrad Triggers and Litmus Tests For BSM Physics Papers
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Undergrad Advancing LQG: Challenges and Possibilities for Experimental Proof
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Undergrad Is my explanation of negative mass's behaviour accurate?
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Graduate Space is "Entangled", says Leonard Susskind
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Graduate Symplectic geometry of phase space
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Graduate Gravity & Quantum Mechanics: Susskind's Letter Explained
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High School Surface volume of 3-sphere with radius of 2 Planck length?
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Undergrad What are the fundamental principles of physics that apply universally?
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Undergrad Other procedures to quantize Ashketer variables
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Undergrad Is Gravity Actually the Result of Quantum Collapses?
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Undergrad Can Muons or Tau Particles Be Explained by Kaluza-Klein Towers?
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Undergrad Geometry of GR v. Spin-2 Massless Graviton Interpretation
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Undergrad Is fine tuning maximized complexity?
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