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Undergrad End point information in lagrangain variation principle

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Insights Frenet Equations in 2-d Which Result in the Cornu Spiral - Comment

  • Charles Link
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Undergrad If strings are 1D, how do we perceive 3D objects?

  • Dook
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Insights Emergence from the Superpoint - Comments

  • Urs Schreiber
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Undergrad What is the row and column expression for the tensor product in index notation?

  • Kara386
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Graduate Can asymptotic safety in quantum gravity be right?

  • Nickyv2423
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Graduate Can a physics career rest on mathematical speculation without experimental tests?

  • PinkyMcFiddle
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High School Is string theory a real theory of quantum gravity?

  • Mary curie
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Undergrad Laplacian in integration by parts in Jackson

  • Angelo Cirino
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Graduate Mass of the Higgs triplet in type II seesaw neutrino mechanism

  • chym
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Undergrad Anti-gravitons effect on spacetime

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Undergrad How Does Real Analysis Justify Manipulation of Differential Elements in Physics?

  • aliens123
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Undergrad Are Conventional Physics Models Enough to Explain Emergent Theories in Physics?

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Undergrad Is chiral dark matter present in other octonion-based models?

  • arivero
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Graduate Does supersymmetry rule out asymptotic safety?

  • Nickyv2423
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Undergrad How are physics theories discovered?

  • unseeingdog
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Undergrad What approaches to quantum gravity are QFT's?

  • Nickyv2423
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Undergrad How does the Holographic Principle relate to 11 dimensions?

  • FallenApple
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Graduate Understanding Vector Mass in Particle Physics Models

  • spaghetti3451
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Undergrad Why is stress considered a tensor?

  • observer1
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Graduate Is asymptotic safety linear with respect to the wavefunction

  • Nickyv2423
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Undergrad Philosophy of Science and Symmetry Question

  • Zed Redstone
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Graduate Unifying String Theory and SuSy

  • Chip
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Graduate Casual dynamical triangulation?

  • Nickyv2423
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Graduate Can strings increase length without changing their energy?

  • Nickyv2423
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Graduate What are the current hot topics in phenomenology research?

  • spaghetti3451
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Undergrad Why does energy avoid dependence on motion in statistical physics?

  • FNL
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Undergrad Why does the Higgs mechanism force SU(3)×U(1) on low-energy Dirac fermions?

  • arivero
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Graduate How Does Zero Divergence and Curl Determine Uniqueness in a Manifold?

  • SD das
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Undergrad Dark matter and acoustic peaks in the CMB

  • kodama
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Undergrad Implications of no proton decay, simplest GUT ruled out

  • kodama
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Graduate Loop Quantum Gravity proven wrong?

  • Nickyv2423
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Undergrad Does the length of a string depend on it's energy?

  • Nickyv2423
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High School Minimal information to make a universe

  • wolram
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Graduate Is loop quantum gravity a non local or local QFT?

  • Nickyv2423
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Undergrad The Trade-Off Between Simplicity and Intuition in Scientific Theories

  • FallenApple
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Graduate Why are open strings vectors or scalars, or massive?

  • Maurice7510
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Graduate Is Negative Mass Real and How Does It Affect Energy in Space?

  • Kevin1998
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Graduate Do higher dimensional branes have wave functions?

  • Nickyv2423
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High School Why can't we perceive higher dimensions?

  • Subrata Paul
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Graduate Problems with quantizing branes in string theory

  • haushofer
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Undergrad Most fundamental quantity in physics

  • FallenApple
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Undergrad Minimizing by trisecting a function dependent on 3 parameters

  • borson
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Undergrad Derivation of the Fokker-Planck Equation by Continuity

  • fayled
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Graduate Recent papers on particle masses

  • mitchell porter
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Undergrad Can string theory reproduce Hawking radiation in non-extremel black holes in 4D?

  • kodama
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Undergrad Been out of the loop -- Progress on Unifying Equation?

  • K. Doc Holiday
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Undergrad Where do we use infinity in physics, and why?

  • FredLau
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Graduate Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe

  • Natalinatul
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Undergrad Origin Point in Chaotic Motion: Conventional vs Relative

  • nomadreid
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High School Maldacena's entanglement-wormhole connection and spacetime

  • fanieh
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High School Is Antimatter the Other Half of Particles in Supersymmetry?

  • hsdrop
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Graduate The de Sitter group and minmal length?

  • jakob1111
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Undergrad Magueijo paper -- Faster than c light vs inflation

  • kodama
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Undergrad What would the world be like if c→∞ and h=0?

  • GW150914
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Graduate Symplectic Condition For Canonical Transformation

  • CassiopeiaA
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High School Determinism: how important is determinism in physics?

  • Evynct
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Undergrad How does string theory explain leptons?

  • Kevin McHugh
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Graduate Find S, Hamilton Principal Function from HJE

  • bluejay27
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Graduate LUX Dark Matter Experiment Ends With No WIMPs Found

  • kodama
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Graduate IceCube search for the 'sterile neutrino' draws a blank

  • kodama
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Graduate Towards a dS/MERA correspondence

  • mitchell porter
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Graduate Why use a Legendre transform instead of a simple change of variable?

  • madness
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Undergrad How does the residue factorization form arise in BCFW recursion in QFT?

  • Lapidus
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Graduate Near horizon limit and Hawking Temperature of the horizon

  • ShayanJ
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Graduate Problems between Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity

  • PabloAMC
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Graduate Erik Verlinde's new view on dark matter

  • MTd2
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High School The dimension of time in String Theory

  • Julie1703
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Graduate Is Time Evolution in Phase-Space Equivalent to Canonical Transformations?

  • Higgsono
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Undergrad Do we need a new theory for the Coulomb force like general relativity for gravity?

  • Mayan Fung
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Graduate Primordial black holes refute Higgs vacuum decay?

  • mitchell porter
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Graduate The Inner Space of Garrett Lisi's E8 Theory

  • James - STARS
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Graduate Antiparticles in Garrett Lisi's E8 Theory

  • James - STARS
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Undergrad Examples of physics predictions verified by experiment

  • CRichard
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Graduate Has the stability problem of changing entropy and time been resolved?

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Undergrad Liouville's Theorem: Free-Falling Particle in Gravitational Field

  • Higgsono
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Undergrad Physical meaning of Lagrangian?

  • Erland
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Graduate Verlinde's new entropic gravity paper

  • phyzguy
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Undergrad Noether theorems, the Lagrangian and energy

  • Dadface
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Undergrad About comparison to experimental reference values

  • chastiell
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Graduate How do you KNOW the Euler (Tait) angles cover orienations

  • observer1
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Undergrad Clear definitions of relation, function, equation, and formula

  • Zacarias Nason
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Undergrad 5 Higgs-like bosons -- natural supersymmetry required?

  • kodama
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Graduate What Are the Dual Low Energy Limits of Superstring Theory?

  • ShayanJ
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Undergrad Canonical transformations and generating functions

  • Frank Castle
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Undergrad Divergence Theorem not equaling 0

  • xoxomae
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Undergrad Strength of gravity in asymptotic safe gravity

  • kodama
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Undergrad 4 vector upper and lower indices

  • Plaetean
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Undergrad Mathematical model of a phenomenon

  • EdColider
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Graduate Casimir effect and dimensional analysis

  • spaghetti3451
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Undergrad Supersymmetry breaking and hidden sector

  • kodama
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Graduate How can you detect a black hole in a spin foam model?

  • naima
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Insights Spectral Standard Model and String Compactifications - Comments

  • Urs Schreiber
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Undergrad Numerical Calculus of Variations

  • Pablo Brubeck
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High School Philosophical Perspective: Need for Properties in a Relativistic Field?

  • bambambambambam
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High School What Approach Tries to Resolve the Quantum Superposition Issue in Gravity?

  • bluecap
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High School Is Energy Galilean Invariant?

  • Frank Castle
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Undergrad Self-Dual Gravity and self-dual Yang Mills

  • kodama
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Insights Struggles With the Continuum - Part 1 - Comments

  • john baez
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Insights Why Supersymmetry? Because of Deligne's theorem - Comments

  • Urs Schreiber
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