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Graduate What do the gravity waves seen by LIGO imply for QG?
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Graduate Is There Really No Grand Unified Theory and Unification of the Three Forces?
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Graduate Can we calculate the coupling constants?
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Graduate Why Is the Physics Community Comfortable with Renormalization in QFT?
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Graduate How can energy be converted into matter?
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Graduate Stability of Minkowski space in semiclassical gravity?
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Graduate Can Loop Variables Transform Photons into Closed Flux Lines?
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Graduate Stephen Hawking offers new resolution of black hole paradox
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Insights The Need of Infinity in Physics - Comments
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High School Is Black Hole-Generated Dark Energy a Viable Theory?
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Graduate Problem of Outcome & Unification Program
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Graduate What if the Principle of Least Action were different?
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Graduate Understanding Spin Foam Cosmological Model: Explained in Basic Terms
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Graduate Stephen Wolfram's post about spacetime
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Graduate Are q and q' dependent variables in Lagrangian or not?
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Graduate The GZK-Cutoff, we are living in a simulation
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Graduate Subtleties about Hamilton's equation
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Graduate Discretizing a Fluctuation Dissipation Theorem
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Graduate Could the Universe's Origin Hold the Key to Understanding Particle Entanglement?
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Graduate Unifying GR and QM - Reasons for Believing in Unity
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Graduate Validating String Theory: A Debate Among Physicists
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Graduate Event horizon and quantum tunneling
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Graduate What does ##\delta F=0## mean?
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Graduate Principle of least action in field theory
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Graduate Does Loop quantum gravity have an effective UV fixed point?
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Graduate How Do Photons Influence Mass in the Context of Gravity and Tensor Theory?
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Graduate Is Gravitational Wave a Projection of Quantum Wave if ER = EPR?
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Graduate Recent papers on self-dual loop quantum black holes
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Graduate Reheating vs particle creation due to acceleration
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Graduate Large Underground Xenon dark matter experiment/LHC LSP neutr
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Graduate P28 of phase transitions and the renormalization group
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Undergrad Godel's ITs & the Physical World: Is a ToE impossible?
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Graduate Huygens principle in odd/even dimensional flat space
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Graduate Obtaining Euclidean action from Minkowski action
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Graduate Deriving J=L+S from General Expression: Tips & Tricks
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Graduate Quantization of classical strings - a beginner's question
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Graduate Fields transforming into Space
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Graduate Notation for generalized coordinates
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Graduate Sloppy Derivation of Euler-Lagrange.
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Graduate Can Soft Hair Explain the Information Paradox on Black Holes?
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Graduate Is the firewall explained by the Penrose interpretation?
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Graduate AdS/CFT: Null Geodesics & Causal Connection?
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Graduate Poll: Third quarter 2015 MIP (most important QG papers)
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Graduate The Laws and Rules of Emergence in Spacetime and Matter Fields
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Graduate Would NMSM or vMSM + 4D QG like LQG or AsG be TOE?
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Graduate Postulations and unknown unknowns in physics
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Graduate How Do Bilinears Connect to Killing Vectors and Differential Forms?
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Graduate How to know which gauge transformation we should use?
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Graduate Is QFT on curved spacetime BtSM
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Undergrad Is Mathematics Truly Limited by Physics?
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Graduate Green's Function for Spherical Problem(Jackson)
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Graduate Is There a Missing Link Between Spacetime and Fields in Mathematics?
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High School A world made of continuous matter
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Graduate James Webb space telescope and fundamental physics
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Graduate What Are the Latest Research Topics in Physics Beyond the Standard Model?
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Graduate How Does the Wave Equation Derive and What Solutions Exist?
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Graduate Standard model says 17 particals, M theory says 18?
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Graduate Causal Dynamic Triangulation Question
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Graduate Are there currently any proposals for a complete physics?
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Graduate What are the prospects for the Causal Fermion System?
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Graduate Alex Vilenkin's paper about black holes and the multiverse
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Graduate Are 10 dimensions related to the tensor of 3d
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Graduate Finding the General Solution of a Wave Equation with Fourier Transformations
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Graduate Tensor & Matrix: Cartesian Vector & Transformation Rule?
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Graduate Help Me Understand This Author's Point: Noether's Theorem
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Graduate Natural units and dimensional analysis
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Graduate Can Quantum Gravity Serve as a Theory of Everything?
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Graduate Neutrino miminal standard model vs string/M-theory
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Graduate Run 2 initial LHC @13 TEV Supersymmetry results null
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Graduate Why do those two terms add here?
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Graduate What distinguishes a theory from a framework in physics?
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Graduate Chaos and the Lorenz Equations
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Graduate Old Black Holes in LQC: Entropy & Information During the Bounce?
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Undergrad To create a new model on physics what do i need to have?
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Graduate Understanding Symmetry Breaking to Everyday Examples
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Graduate Why Complex Scalars in 4D Supersymmetric Theories?
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Graduate Simple calculation of Compton scattering in string theory
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Graduate Is Space-Time Non-Commutative? Understanding Non-Commutative Geometry in Physics
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Graduate The relation between Lie algebra and conservative quantities
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Graduate Asymptotic Safety Scenario in QG vs LQG
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Graduate If Sterile neutrino and axions exist, is that standard model
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Graduate Difficulty understanding vector transformation law
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Graduate A few simple questions about Susy
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Graduate What Are the Implications of Domain Wall Problems in L=kρσ Interactions?
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Graduate Why is the Lagrangian Formulated as L = T - V?
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Graduate Complex numbers sometimes *Required* in Classical Physics?
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Graduate Towards self dual Loop Quantum Gravity Jibril Ben Achour
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Graduate Does Past Exist? Conway's Game of Life & Time Travel
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Graduate Spacelike additional time dimensions
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Graduate Derivative of lagrangian density
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Graduate String theory and fundamental physical constants
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Graduate Proving Euler Lagrange equations
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Graduate Example of Susy QM and its partition function
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Graduate Can supersymmetry be considered a falsifiable prediction?
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Graduate Question about time and/or temperature of GUT symmetry breaking
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Graduate Recommended books/papers in SUSY
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Graduate What would walking the Klein Bottle look like to a 3D being?
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Graduate Are All Gauge Groups in the Standard Model Semisimple for a Physical Reason?
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Graduate Are Physical Theories Dependent on the Extended Riemann Hypothesis?
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Graduate Our world as a typical F-theory vacuum?
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