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Graduate A question about fundamental constants in Multiverse idea
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Graduate The gravitational field at a mass point produced by an infinite plane
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Graduate Joe Lykken's 19 March talk at Cern
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Graduate What is the intuitive concept behind the Principle of Least Action?
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Graduate Do we have a theory as to what energy is?
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Graduate Why 10^520 Universes in String Theory Landscape
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Graduate Is Supersymmetry Dead? | Sciencenews.org
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Graduate Could this be of any importance for research nowadays?
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Graduate Application of virial theorem
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Graduate Arrow of time and virtual reality
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Graduate Does the Lagrangian Explicitly Involve Time in Hamiltonian Mechanics?
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Graduate String theory and Statistical Physics
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Graduate Mathematical Difference Between Mean Free Path vs RMS Free Path?
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Graduate Particles in LQG: Are There Alternatives to Braids?
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Graduate Is Kaluza-Klein Theory Proven by Experimental Results?
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Graduate How many spacetime quanta are there? (depends how you count.)
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Graduate M Theory Formulations: Math & Competing Theories
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Graduate Did cosmological natural selection get a reprieve?
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Graduate Does it make sense to study old (stringless) twistor theory nowadays?
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Graduate Is M-Theory the only possible UV completion of Supergravity?
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Graduate Does BICEP2's observation rules out ekpyrotic cosmological model ?
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Graduate How do gravitational fields and waves interact with black holes and FTL travel?
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Graduate Wieland's thesis foreword in rough German-to-English translation
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Graduate Impossibility of having less than 3 dimensions?
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Graduate Do all known quantum gravity theories lead to a true unification?
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Graduate Our picks for fourth quarter 2013 MIP (most important QG paper)
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Graduate Signs of Quantum Gravity in CMB Ancient Light
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Graduate Strumia's dimensionless gravity
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Graduate Freidel Continuum Limit and Renormalization ILQGS 1/4/14
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Graduate Introduction To Loop Quantum Gravity
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Graduate Can We Unify Quantum Gravity with the Other Fundamental Forces?
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Graduate Does Clifford algebra solve both QFT and GR
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Graduate What does a Wolpert's machine do?
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Graduate Viability after BICEP2 of LQC matter bounce
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Graduate Suppose you have an object with infinite mass
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Graduate Unruh and Hawking Radiation Paradoxes?
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Graduate Length and curvature operators in Loop gravity
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Graduate What Are the Top Beginner Resources for Learning Loop Quantum Gravity Online?
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Graduate LQC & Inflation: Dynamics, Spectrum & Benefits
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Graduate System described by probabilities
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Graduate Questions on General Relativity and Beyond
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Graduate Situations with integration over simple poles?
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Graduate What is the use of infinite-dimensional representation of group
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Graduate Quark-Lepton Symmetry: What Happens When Particles Annihilate?
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Graduate What do the fusion rules in CFT mean when coefficients are larger than 1?
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Graduate Cosmic Inflation Discovery: BICEP2 Primordial B-modes
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Graduate How Is Temperature Defined in Kelvin Using Fundamental Units?
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Graduate Can string theory explain the existence of multiple universes?
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Graduate Shaposhnikov Wetterich predicted 126 GeV Higgs in 2009
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Graduate How to differentiate by a vector ?
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Graduate Can a Black Hole Firewall Limit Energy and Entropy?
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Graduate What is the expression of N=2 SUSY transformation
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Graduate GR/StatMech/QM foundations, epistemic views only please
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Graduate Is a Second Temporal Dimension Possible?
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Graduate Global emergent time, how does Tomita flow work?
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Graduate Do Non-Commuting Derivatives Shape New Physical Theories?
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Graduate Unseen Forces: Beyond the 4 We Know?
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Graduate Calculus of Variation: Extrema & Further Variations
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Graduate Scharnhorst effect - faster or slower than c?
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Graduate Database of theories beyond the standard model?
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Graduate Is the universe slowly freezing or experiencing a hot big bang?
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Graduate Understanding the New Theory of UBIT: A Breakthrough in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate A New Vacuum for LQG (Dittrich Geiller)
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Graduate Massive particles in D-brane models ?
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Graduate Can Very Short Gamma-Ray Bursts Be Traced to Primordial Black Hole Explosions?
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Graduate Can AdS/CFT and Holography Be Proven Through t'Hooft Diagrams?
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Graduate What do P, p(subscript r), and L represent in the 2-Body Lagrangian problem?
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Graduate Supersymmetry - current status
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Graduate Understanding BPS States and Their Relation to Supersymmetry Generators
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Graduate What Causes Gravity and Electricity to Act at a Distance Through Vacuum?
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Graduate Is There a Unified Theory for the Other Three Forces?
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Graduate What are the difficulties of gravitational quantization scheme?
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Graduate Has the Firewall Paradox Finally Been Resolved?
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Graduate Fields in physics and fields in group theory, are they related?
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Graduate Gluino hadronization, what do we know?
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Graduate 't Hooft - Polyakov monopole at large distance
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Graduate Are extra dimensions provable?
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Graduate How does M-Theory deal with space time?
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Graduate Symmetry Groups of the Standard Model: SU(3) x SU(2) x U(1)
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Graduate Veracity of Simple Molecular Model
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Graduate Does a symmetry need to leave the whole action invariant?
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Graduate Black holes may not exist after all
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Graduate Extra dimensions and weakness of gravity
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Graduate Transformations that are scalar invariant
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Graduate Degrees of Freedom/Spatial Manifold
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Graduate Reference for N=4 d=3 SuperYangMills
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Graduate Dimensional Analysis with non-dimensional initial parameter
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Graduate Is the Lagrangian Invariant or Variant in a Coordinate System Shift?
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Graduate Particles with complex number mass.
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Graduate Compactification effects in Kaluza-K theory - Gauge away EM?
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Graduate Understanding SU(5) Subgroups and the SM Choice
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Graduate Choose parameters for a system
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Graduate Could Virtual Particles Solve the N-Body Problem?
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Graduate All movement should be impossible (?)
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Graduate Regrettable definition/notation
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Graduate About locality in classical physics
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Graduate String Theory and Evidence of the Multiverse
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Graduate I think I just became a QBist ?
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Graduate Partition Function in Torres-Hernandez "Photon Mass" 1984
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Graduate Gravity as Entanglement Thermodynamics
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