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Graduate Time as a Force: Should There Be a Timetron?
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Undergrad How do the concepts of "boundary"and"infinitesimal" interact
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Graduate Spin 2 theory and connection to GR
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Graduate Alternatives to String theory and loop quantum gravity
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Graduate Resonance Propulsion: Using EM Waves to Induce Movement
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Undergrad Is there a real need for a theory of everything (ToE)?
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Graduate PhD Project Ideas on Beyond Standard Model Physics
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High School Is it possible to do experiment on the Planck scale?
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Undergrad How does SU(5) explain proton-electron charge equivalence?
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Graduate Spontaneous breaking of supersymmetry
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Graduate Unifying Forces in the Early Universe: How and Why?
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High School Can a Universe Exist Without Space and Time?
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Graduate Formulating Supergravity Under De Sitter Group: A Comprehensive Reference
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Graduate Koide, neutrinos, and phenomenology
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Graduate Thoughts on Quantum Holonomy Theory?
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Graduate What is the Effect of a Lorentz Force on a Pendulum's Gyroscopic Stabilization?
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Graduate From ##D3-Brane## to ##AdS_5-Schwarzschild##
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Undergrad Could the speed of light just be "terminal velocity"?
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Graduate Time integral of worldsheet current
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Graduate Invariance of Wess Zumino Action under SUSY
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Graduate What would happen if only gravitons existed?
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High School Gravity Thought Problem: Theoretical System of Electron and Positron"
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Graduate Lagrangian of a monopole (Einstein notation is used)
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Graduate Symplectic Majorana Spinors in 5 Dimension
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Undergrad Symmetry in Physics: Books/Papers for Physical Theories
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Undergrad Is the Hamiltonian always the total energy?
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Graduate Is Torsion Always Zero in Supergravity?
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Undergrad Perfect Spheres: A Theoretical Possibility or an Impossibility?
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Graduate How Does the Infinite Momentum Frame Relate to Differential Forms in Mechanics?
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High School Hawking radiation / String Hagedorn temperature?
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Graduate Research Orthogonal Lie Group for Physics Applications
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Undergrad Is it possible for pure energy to have mass?
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Graduate Why doesn't Noether thm produce exactly the stress-energy tensor?
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High School Have New Particles Beyond the Higgs Been Discovered at CERN?
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High School Are Strings Really Like Hoola Hoops in Physics?
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Graduate Variation of Lagrangian w/r to canonical momenta
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Graduate A fundamental question about research
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Graduate Most General form of Canonical Transformation
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Undergrad Inflation and the false vacuum
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Undergrad Relation between vectors in body coordinates and space coordinates
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Graduate Effective cosmo const explained w/o vacuum energy
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Undergrad Are there global gauge transformations in typical electrodynamics potentials?
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High School String oscillations, not parallel to momentum?
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Undergrad Inverse Square Law and various space dimensions
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Graduate Loop quantum gravity and diffeomorphism group
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Undergrad Is Time Merely a Measurement of Change in Space?
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Undergrad Einstein's Unified Field Theory: Approaches Explored
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Graduate Poll: First quarter 2016 MIP (most important QG papers)
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High School What kind of experiment is needed to quantize gravity?
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Graduate Can a Scalar Field Exist Without a Net Source?
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Graduate Atoms Of Space, Gravity and the Cosmological Constant
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Is There Really a Theory of Everything to Discover?
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Graduate Can Theoretical Physicists Discover New Aspects of the Higgs Boson?
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Graduate Ali and Das, "Cosmology from quantum potential"
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High School Vibrating strings, quark strings more complicated?
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Undergrad General notion of coordinate change
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Undergrad What can we learn from the Carlofest speakers' list?
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Undergrad Can Matter Absorb Energy from Gravitational Waves?
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High School How does the vibration of a quantum string translate to a "particle's" mass?
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High School I and j as subscript and superscript?
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Graduate Poll: Fourth quarter 2015 MIP (most important QG papers)
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Undergrad Intuition for Hamilton's Principle
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Graduate Constructing massive N=1 SUSY Multiplets
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Graduate Physical Implications of the Transition from 2 M Branes to 5 M Branes
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High School Why wouldn't quantum gravity work this way?
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Undergrad A new blog about LQG and related
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Undergrad Why is the Gradient of Displacement Vector Parallel to \( \vec{r} - \vec{r'} \)?
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Graduate Explore "LQG" & "Gravitational Waves" on Amazon
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Undergrad Positive Mass in the Lagrangian from Landau
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High School Is What we Know for Now Certain?
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Undergrad Energy density of a 1D string?
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Undergrad Euler-Lagrange equation even if the action isn't stationary?
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Undergrad Is Loop Quantum Gravity as Popular as String Theory in Today's Physics Research?
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Graduate Smolin: Lessons from Einstein's discovery....
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Undergrad Understanding Hamiltonian Conservation Laws
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Graduate Info escape from BH (videos up from Nordita conference)
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Undergrad Any inflexion-point solutions to Euler-Lagrange equation?
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Graduate D Branes and Gluon-Quark Interaction.
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Undergrad Two stationary values for an action
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Undergrad Lagrangian - surface of sphere
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Graduate Andrei Lebed, equivalence principle
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Graduate Dark Matter as higher-dimensional gravity
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Graduate What are the best beginner books on supersymmetry?
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Undergrad Theoretical Possibility of "Opposite" Gravitational Mass?
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Graduate How Do Internal Symmetry Generators Affect Supersymmetry Algebra?
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Graduate Why not sterile particles as dark matter?
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Graduate Papers that combine LQG with twistor theory
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Graduate Is the Hamilton-Jacobi Equation Enough for Hamiltonian Dynamics?
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Graduate Proper movement, reference frames and gravitational waves
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Graduate Finding the curl in spherical coordinates
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Graduate What's the actual shape of the upper dimensions?
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Undergrad Wanted to see if anyone knew if this was trivial
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Graduate Phase transition at high energies?
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Undergrad Heat Death of the Universe, Total or Not?
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Graduate String theory deviations from GR in strong field regime
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Graduate Can the universe become stable with a new electroweak vacuum
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Undergrad Detecting if the universe is a simulation
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Graduate Can Manifolds Beyond Spacetime Revolutionize Quantum Gravity Unification?
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Graduate Alain homers with Ali and Slava on base
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Graduate LQG has not been shown to violate the holographic principle
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