Beyond the Standard Models Forum

Join expert and advanced topics on beyond the standard model of physics. This includes professionally researched theories like strings, branes, and LQG. Mainstream physics only.

Threads

Undergrad Lagrangian - surface of sphere

  • rolotomassi
  • · Replies 13 ·
Replies
13

Graduate Andrei Lebed, equivalence principle

  • bcrowell
  • · Replies 42 ·
2
Replies
42

Graduate Dark Matter as higher-dimensional gravity

  • Chemist@
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate What are the best beginner books on supersymmetry?

  • shereen1
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Undergrad Theoretical Possibility of "Opposite" Gravitational Mass?

  • greswd
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate How Do Internal Symmetry Generators Affect Supersymmetry Algebra?

  • shereen1
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6

Graduate Why not sterile particles as dark matter?

  • bcrowell
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Graduate Papers that combine LQG with twistor theory

  • kodama
  • · Replies 9 ·
Replies
9

Graduate Is the Hamilton-Jacobi Equation Enough for Hamiltonian Dynamics?

  • Sphinx
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Proper movement, reference frames and gravitational waves

  • tim9000
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate Finding the curl in spherical coordinates

  • tasleem moossun
  • · Replies 8 ·
Replies
8

Graduate What's the actual shape of the upper dimensions?

  • Amine_prince
  • · Replies 19 ·
Replies
19

Undergrad Exact solutions for N particles with inverse-square forces

  • alex2066
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Graduate Phase transition at high energies?

  • Maccu
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Undergrad Heat Death of the Universe, Total or Not?

  • greswd
  • · Replies 24 ·
Replies
24

Graduate String theory deviations from GR in strong field regime

  • kodama
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate Can the universe become stable with a new electroweak vacuum

  • Shahrokh
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Undergrad Detecting if the universe is a simulation

  • goran d
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Graduate Can Manifolds Beyond Spacetime Revolutionize Quantum Gravity Unification?

  • jlcd
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Graduate Alain homers with Ali and Slava on base

  • marcus
  • · Replies 22 ·
Replies
22

Graduate LQG has not been shown to violate the holographic principle

  • ohwilleke
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate What do the gravity waves seen by LIGO imply for QG?

  • ohwilleke
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Graduate Is There Really No Grand Unified Theory and Unification of the Three Forces?

  • kodama
  • · Replies 14 ·
Replies
14

Graduate Can we calculate the coupling constants?

  • friend
  • · Replies 8 ·
Replies
8

Graduate Why Is the Physics Community Comfortable with Renormalization in QFT?

  • romsofia
  • · Replies 7 ·
Replies
7

Graduate How can energy be converted into matter?

  • 5echild
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Graduate Stability of Minkowski space in semiclassical gravity?

  • bcrowell
  • · Replies 7 ·
Replies
7

Graduate Can Loop Variables Transform Photons into Closed Flux Lines?

  • HawkI
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6

Graduate Stephen Hawking offers new resolution of black hole paradox

  • marcus
  • · Replies 44 ·
2
Replies
44

Insights The Need of Infinity in Physics - Comments

  • dextercioby
  • · Replies 27 ·
Replies
27

High School Is Black Hole-Generated Dark Energy a Viable Theory?

  • binbots
  • · Replies 7 ·
Replies
7

Graduate Does decoherence explain how improper mixtures become proper mixtures?

  • jlcd
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Graduate What if the Principle of Least Action were different?

  • crastinus
  • · Replies 10 ·
Replies
10

Graduate What does the SPIN in spin foam cosmology refer to?

  • Feeble Wonk
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Graduate Stephen Wolfram's post about spacetime

  • David Neves
  • · Replies 31 ·
2
Replies
31

Graduate Are q and q' dependent variables in Lagrangian or not?

  • DOTDO
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate The GZK-Cutoff, we are living in a simulation

  • Vierstein
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate Subtleties about Hamilton's equation

  • Harry Mason
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate Discretizing a Fluctuation Dissipation Theorem

  • onkel_tuca
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate Why aren't all particles entangled if they originated from the same quantum state?

  • ebos
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Graduate Unifying GR and QM - Reasons for Believing in Unity

  • HAL9000
  • · Replies 8 ·
Replies
8

Graduate Is string theory testable?

  • David Neves
  • · Replies 19 ·
Replies
19

Graduate Event horizon and quantum tunneling

  • sevenperforce
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6

Graduate What does ##\delta F=0## mean?

  • samuelphysics
  • · Replies 15 ·
Replies
15

Graduate Principle of least action in field theory

  • spaghetti3451
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate Does Loop quantum gravity have an effective UV fixed point?

  • kodama
  • · Replies 19 ·
Replies
19

Graduate How Do Photons Influence Mass in the Context of Gravity and Tensor Theory?

  • jerromyjon
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Graduate Is Gravitational Wave a Projection of Quantum Wave if ER = EPR?

  • philton
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Graduate Recent papers on self-dual loop quantum black holes

  • kodama
  • · Replies 28 ·
Replies
28

Graduate Reheating vs particle creation due to acceleration

  • friend
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Large Underground Xenon dark matter experiment/LHC LSP neutr

  • kodama
  • · Replies 16 ·
Replies
16

Graduate P28 of phase transitions and the renormalization group

  • A_B
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Undergrad Do Gödel's incompleteness theorems rule out a theory of everything?

  • greswd
  • · Replies 66 ·
3
Replies
66

Graduate Huygens principle in odd/even dimensional flat space

  • giulio_hep
  • · Replies 8 ·
Replies
8

Graduate Obtaining Euclidean action from Minkowski action

  • spaghetti3451
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate Deriving J=L+S from the Poynting vector integral

  • avikarto
  • · Replies 10 ·
Replies
10

Graduate Why does the relativistic string action ignore tension requirements?

  • Qturtle
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Graduate Fields transforming into Space

  • DuckAmuck
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Graduate Notation for generalized coordinates

  • Isaac0427
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Graduate Sloppy Derivation of Euler-Lagrange.

  • DuckAmuck
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Can Soft Hair Explain the Information Paradox on Black Holes?

  • kodama
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Graduate Is the firewall explained by the Penrose interpretation?

  • T S Bailey
  • · Replies 8 ·
Replies
8

Graduate Do null geodesics in AdS allow causal connection to the boundary?

  • adsquestion
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2
  • Poll Poll

Graduate Poll: Third quarter 2015 MIP (most important QG papers)

  • marcus
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6

Graduate The Laws and Rules of Emergence in Spacetime and Matter Fields

  • jlcd
  • · Replies 8 ·
Replies
8

Graduate Would NMSM or vMSM + 4D QG like LQG or AsG be TOE?

  • kodama
  • · Replies 8 ·
Replies
8

Graduate Postulations and unknown unknowns in physics

  • victorvmotti
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Graduate How Do Bilinears Connect to Killing Vectors and Differential Forms?

  • PhyAmateur
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate How to know which gauge transformation we should use?

  • samuelphysics
  • · Replies 9 ·
Replies
9

Graduate Is QFT on curved spacetime BtSM

  • friend
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Undergrad Is Mathematics Truly Limited by Physics?

  • Gjmdp
  • · Replies 37 ·
2
Replies
37

Graduate Green's Function for Spherical Problem(Jackson)

  • Andreol263
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Graduate Is There a Missing Link Between Spacetime and Fields in Mathematics?

  • jlcd
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

High School A world made of continuous matter

  • black hole 123
  • · Replies 9 ·
Replies
9

Graduate James Webb space telescope and fundamental physics

  • tesselate
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Graduate What Are the Latest Research Topics in Physics Beyond the Standard Model?

  • annihilatorM
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Graduate How Does the Wave Equation Derive and What Solutions Exist?

  • Small bugs
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Graduate Standard model says 17 particals, M theory says 18?

  • rcx299
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate Causal Dynamic Triangulation Question

  • cuallito
  • · Replies 11 ·
Replies
11

Graduate Are there currently any proposals for a complete physics?

  • maline
  • · Replies 11 ·
Replies
11

Graduate What are the prospects for the Causal Fermion System?

  • Finny
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Alex Vilenkin's paper about black holes and the multiverse

  • David Neves
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate Are 10 dimensions related to the tensor of 3d

  • Pjpic
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Graduate Finding the General Solution of a Wave Equation with Fourier Transformations

  • MarkoA
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Do constant arrays satisfy the tensor transformation rule?

  • hokhani
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Help Me Understand This Author's Point: Noether's Theorem

  • TimeRip496
  • · Replies 8 ·
Replies
8

Graduate Natural units and dimensional analysis

  • "Don't panic!"
  • · Replies 12 ·
Replies
12

Graduate Can Quantum Gravity Serve as a Theory of Everything?

  • friend
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Graduate Neutrino miminal standard model vs string/M-theory

  • kodama
  • · Replies 12 ·
Replies
12

Graduate Run 2 initial LHC @13 TEV Supersymmetry results null

  • kodama
  • · Replies 11 ·
Replies
11

Graduate Why do those two terms add here?

  • Emilie.Jung
  • · Replies 18 ·
Replies
18

Graduate What distinguishes a theory from a framework in physics?

  • potato123
  • · Replies 68 ·
3
Replies
68

Graduate Chaos and the Lorenz Equations

  • fayled
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate Do black holes survive the LQC bounce and conserve entropy?

  • maline
  • · Replies 7 ·
Replies
7

Undergrad To create a new model on physics what do i need to have?

  • Jose Leal
  • · Replies 10 ·
Replies
10

Graduate Understanding Symmetry Breaking to Everyday Examples

  • TimeRip496
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Graduate Why Complex Scalars in 4D Supersymmetric Theories?

  • Emilie.Jung
  • · Replies 21 ·
Replies
21

Graduate Simple calculation of Compton scattering in string theory

  • Strum
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Is Space-Time Non-Commutative? Understanding Non-Commutative Geometry in Physics

  • black hole 123
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate The relation between Lie algebra and conservative quantities

  • EnigmaticField
  • · Replies 14 ·
Replies
14