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Undergrad Philosophy of Science and Symmetry Question
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Graduate Unifying String Theory and SuSy
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Graduate Casual dynamical triangulation?
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Graduate Can strings increase length without changing their energy?
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Graduate What are the current hot topics in phenomenology research?
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Undergrad Question About the signifficance of energy
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Undergrad Why is the SU(3)xU(1) Group Essential for Dirac Fermions?
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Graduate How Does Zero Divergence and Curl Determine Uniqueness in a Manifold?
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Undergrad Dark matter and acoustic peaks in the CMB
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Undergrad Implications of no proton decay, simplest GUT ruled out
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Graduate Loop Quantum Gravity proven wrong?
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Undergrad Does the length of a string depend on it's energy?
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High School Minimal information to make a universe
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Graduate Is loop quantum gravity a non local or local QFT?
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Undergrad The Trade-Off Between Simplicity and Intuition in Scientific Theories
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Graduate Why are open strings vectors or scalars, or massive?
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Graduate Is Negative Mass Real and How Does It Affect Energy in Space?
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Graduate Do higher dimensional branes have wave functions?
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High School Perceiving Higher Dimensions: Understanding the Unknown
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Graduate Problems with quantizing branes in string theory
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Undergrad Most fundamental quantity in physics
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Undergrad Minimizing by trisecting a function dependent on 3 parameters
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Undergrad Derivation of the Fokker-Planck Equation by Continuity
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Graduate Recent papers on particle masses
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Undergrad Can string theory reproduce Hawking radiation in non-extremel black holes in 4D?
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Undergrad Been out of the loop -- Progress on Unifying Equation?
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Undergrad Where do we use infinity in physics, and why?
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Graduate Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe
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Undergrad Origin Point in Chaotic Motion: Conventional vs Relative
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High School Is Entanglement Through Wormholes a Pathway to Understanding Quantum Gravity?
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High School Is Antimatter the Other Half of Particles in Supersymmetry?
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Graduate The de Sitter group and minmal length?
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Undergrad Magueijo paper -- Faster than c light vs inflation
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Undergrad What would the world be like if c→∞ and h=0?
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Graduate Symplectic Condition For Canonical Transformation
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High School Determinism: how important is determinism in physics?
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Undergrad Unraveling the Mysteries of Leptons in String Theory
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Graduate Find S, Hamilton Principal Function from HJE
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Graduate LUX Dark Matter Experiment Ends With No WIMPs Found
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Graduate IceCube search for the 'sterile neutrino' draws a blank
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Graduate Towards a dS/MERA correspondence
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Graduate Why use a Legendre transform instead of a simple change of variable?
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Undergrad How does the residue factorization form arise in BCFW recursion in QFT?
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Graduate Near horizon limit and Hawking Temperature of the horizon
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Graduate Problems between Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity
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Graduate Erik Verlinde's new view on dark matter
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High School The dimension of time in String Theory
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Graduate Is Time Evolution in Phase-Space Equivalent to Canonical Transformations?
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Undergrad Fundamental Forces: Electromagnetic, Gravity, Strong & Weak Interactions
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Graduate Primordial black holes refute Higgs vacuum decay?
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Graduate The Inner Space of Garrett Lisi's E8 Theory
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Graduate Antiparticles in Garrett Lisi's E8 Theory
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Undergrad How Has Mathematics Predicted Major Scientific Discoveries?
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Graduate Has the stability problem of changing entropy and time been resolved?
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Undergrad Liouville's Theorem: Free-Falling Particle in Gravitational Field
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Undergrad Physical meaning of Lagrangian?
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Graduate Verlinde's new entropic gravity paper
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Undergrad Noether theorems, the Lagrangian and energy
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Undergrad About comparison to experimental reference values
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Graduate How do you KNOW the Euler (Tait) angles cover orienations
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Undergrad Help please -- Seeking clear definition of fundamental terms
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Undergrad 5 Higgs-like bosons -- natural supersymmetry required?
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Graduate What Are the Dual Low Energy Limits of Superstring Theory?
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Undergrad Canonical transformations and generating functions
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Undergrad Divergence Theorem not equaling 0
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Undergrad Strength of gravity in asymptotic safe gravity
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Undergrad 4 vector upper and lower indices
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Undergrad Mathematical model of a phenomenon
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Graduate Casimir effect and dimensional analysis
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Undergrad Supersymmetry breaking and hidden sector
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Graduate Can Spin Foams Reveal the Presence of Black Holes in Loop Quantum Gravity?
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Insights Spectral Standard Model and String Compactifications - Comments
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Undergrad Numerical Calculus of Variations
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High School Philosophical Perspective: Need for Properties in a Relativistic Field?
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High School What Approach Tries to Resolve the Quantum Superposition Issue in Gravity?
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High School Is Energy Galilean Invariant?
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Undergrad Self-Dual Gravity and self-dual Yang Mills
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Insights Struggles With the Continuum - Part 1 - Comments
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Insights Why Supersymmetry? Because of Deligne's theorem - Comments
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Undergrad MOND as a purely quantum gravity effect
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Graduate Emergence of spin 2 particles from lowers spin particles
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High School Does Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking Contradict Symmetry?
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Graduate ?Gravity in 3D: Computing Degree of Freedom
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Graduate Strings vs. point interactions in QFT?
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Undergrad LHC run 2, does Supersymmetry worsen hierarchy fine tuning
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High School What is Quintessence and its role in understanding dark energy?
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Graduate Are there BSM which do not predict proton decay?
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Undergrad When natural language fails to explain
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Undergrad What is a Tensor? - Get Help Here
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Undergrad Dark energy and expansion of space
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Graduate What Are Practical Applications of Noether's Theorem for Beginners?
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Graduate Are Mesons in Colour Singlet State?
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Graduate Implications of a new 17 Mev vector boson on Higgs, SUSY
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Graduate What kind of evidence do we have for extra dimenisons?
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Undergrad Is the Universe Deterministic Despite Quantum Mechanics and Thermodynamics?
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Graduate 3 dimensional gauge theory
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Undergrad Relation between spacetime distortion and light
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Undergrad How do string theorists reply to Roger Penrose
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Graduate Finally The Amplituhedron Paper
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Undergrad Found a Planck value that relates to classical gravity
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