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Graduate Why must science have an a priori foundation?
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Graduate Is Physicist Lubos Motl's Criticism of Loop Quantum Gravity Valid?
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Graduate Backreaction from Hawking radiation may prevent formation of event horizon?
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Graduate Theory of Everything (TOE) Without a Grand Unified Theory (GUT)
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Graduate Unified Field Theory: Different Principle or Too General?
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Graduate Question about d'Alembert operator
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Graduate Contraction of an asymmetric tensor?
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Graduate Derivative of first term in Lagrangian density for real K-G theory
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Graduate Proving a a pitchfork bifurcation: modified swift-hohenberg
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Graduate Do I understand at all what Verlinde is saying?
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Graduate Questions about Neveu-Schwarz B-field
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Graduate Our picks for third quarter 2014 MIP (most important QG paper) Part II
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Graduate D'Alambertian operator on the heaviside function?
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Graduate What Are Large Gauge Transformations and Their Role in Physics?
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Graduate Reconsidering Acceleration and Non-Inertial Frames in Quantum Field Theory
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Graduate How does the Holographic Principle apply to different scenarios and dimensions?
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Graduate Our picks for third quarter 2014 MIP (most important QG paper) Part I
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Graduate How correct is this paragraph about vacuum zero point energy.
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Graduate Genius in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
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Graduate Grassmann Integration: Clarifying Notation in "hep-th/0108200
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Graduate String Theory & Poincaré Invariance: Why & What?
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Graduate Wieland's new action for 4d simplicial gravity can be significant
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Graduate Graviton exchange for two freely propagating particle:solution String theory?
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Graduate What Are Characteristic Scale Arguments in Physics?
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Graduate The birth of spacetime atoms as the passage of time
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Graduate Are Boltzmann Brains More Likely Than a Fine-Tuned Universe?
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Graduate QFT & Statistical Physics: Exploring Rough Paths & Constructive CFT
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Graduate Difference between these 4-vector derivatives?
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Graduate Tests of loop quantum gravity?
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Graduate Why is Lorentz Group in 3D SL(2, R)?
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Graduate Transformations for the non-linear sigma action
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Graduate What is the Impact of S. Deser's Work in Modern Physics?
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Graduate Gauge invariance of interaction lagrangian
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Graduate Exploring CDT: Quantum Gravity Theory
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Graduate Why is holomorphic = left moving?
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Graduate Computer Science based physics research?
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Graduate Does string theory need to start with our observable universe?
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Graduate Question About the Hamiltonian
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Graduate Question about the "Bounce" model of BH and Anisotropy
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Graduate Radical new cosmic model (Barrau Linsefors one-up Penrose)
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Graduate Twistor Origin of the Superstring
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Graduate Is Diffeomorphism on Target Space a Symmetry of Polyakov's Action?
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Graduate Dittrich's "Continuum Limit of LQG" is a landmark paper
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Graduate Is String Theory the Ultimate Theory of Everything?
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Graduate Proof of Hamiltonian equations
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Graduate Invariant quantities of a lagrangian?
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Graduate Can B and L Violation Explain Meson to Lepton Decay?
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Graduate Proof That Multiverse Doesn't Exist
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Graduate What Conditions Must Be Met for a Transformation to Be Canonical?
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Graduate Is the simple explanation of modern physics ever the case?
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Graduate Can light produce weak gravity waves?
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Graduate Forming Seed Galaxies in a Bouncing Universe
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Graduate Can Strings Always Split in String Theory?
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Graduate Spin foam phase space, classical action (Wieland's talk is online)
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Graduate Planck Stars: Carlo Rovelli & Francesca Vidotto
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Graduate Time Travel and Multiple universes hypothesis
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Graduate Constraint on conformal transformation (Ketov)
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Graduate What If Glueballs Don't Exist (w/ QG relevance)?
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Graduate Could Gravity Be More About Electromagnetic Forces Than We Think?
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Graduate Our picks for second quarter 2014 MIP (most important QG paper)
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Graduate Can Physical Laws Be Truly Independent?
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Graduate Dark matter, entropy and gravity
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Graduate QFT & String Theory: "Particle First" vs "Field First
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Graduate Connection between particles a field in string theory
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Graduate Supersymmetric Composite Models
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Graduate Is the clustering found in the universe a matter of perspective?
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Graduate Is there really no way to test string theory?
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Graduate Does the Higgs Mechanism Influence Gravity in the Same Way for All Particles?
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Graduate Diffeomorphism invariance of the Polyakov action
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Graduate Is Ultimate Reality Continuous or Discontinuous?
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Graduate Can we get the SM from 11D Kaluza Klein?
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Graduate Renormalizability of the Standard Model
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Graduate Holographic Principle Projection
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Graduate Low curvature effective action in string theory
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Graduate Ad Hoc Lagrangians: Physics & Variational Formulation
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Graduate The Lagrangian Solution of an LC Circuit
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Graduate Local Conformal Transformations:Coordinate or metric transformations?
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Graduate First unification in higher dimensions
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Graduate Open Problems in Theoretical Physics
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Graduate Create Matter: Can it be Reverse Engineered from Nothing?
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Graduate Can the Lieb-Robinson Bound Prove the Speed of Light in Quantum Theory?
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Graduate What ever happened to Yoshifumi Hyakutake theory?
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Graduate Magnetic monopoles, fine structure and String theory
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Graduate Calabu Yau manifold and ten dimension
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Graduate SU(2), SU(3) and other symmetries
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Graduate What are firewalls and why do they think they exist?
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Graduate String Theory Vs Loop Quantum Gravity
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Graduate Understand the major arc connecting two points on a sphere
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Graduate Verlinde's paper "On the origin of gravity and the laws of Newton"
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Graduate Finding Conserved Quantities for Analytical Mechanics Exam Questions
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Graduate Can Gravity be Described by the Square of the Strong Force?
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Graduate Could a 14-Dimensional Theory Unify String Theories and Dualities?
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Graduate Granular space time and frame dragging
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Graduate BH can't evaporate in real surroundings (George Ellis)
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Graduate Rotating/overextreme Planck BH?
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Graduate Deformation quantization (survey, introduction, sources)
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Graduate Ultra-hyperbolic pde and F theory
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Graduate What Is the New Geometry of String/M-Theory?
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Graduate Does Cosmic inflation cause spacetime to move?
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Graduate Understanding Galilean structure
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