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Undergrad The Role of Theories, Models, and Laws in the Scientific Process
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Undergrad Could a Pulling Airplane Propeller Be More Effective Than a Pushing One?
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Graduate What is the current scientific theory for explaining the origins of gravity?
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Graduate What is your guys view on Sylvester James Gates
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Undergrad Godel's ITs & the Physical World: Is a ToE impossible?
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Graduate Are all physical quantities an equivalence relation?
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Graduate How do physicists approach dimensions higher than 3rd?
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Graduate Is there any mathematics to describe neutrinos with mass?
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Graduate New methods to find magnetic monopoles?
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Graduate Noether's theorem -- Time inversion
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Graduate How do scalars determine the geometry of a manifold?
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Graduate Grassmann Integral into Lagrange for scalar superfields
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Graduate Can anyone describe and explain P-branes and D-branes to me?
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Graduate Opinions on whether light can be mass
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Graduate What would Einstein think of string theory?
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Graduate How did S-Matrix theory affect the birth of String Theory?
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Graduate What, really, is the Variational technique?
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Graduate Exploring the Role of Superconformality in Coupling Supergravity to Matter
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Graduate Have Any Conjectures in the Random Matrix Model Been Proven or Disproven?
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High School Do curves, circles and spheres really exist?
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Graduate The spin of an entity, an additional (4th/5th) dimension?
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Graduate Can Lattice Formulations Accommodate Modern Quantum Field Theories?
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Graduate Is a Fundamental 27D Theory Emerging from Recent Research Papers?
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Graduate It is possible from the general relativity reach a ToE?
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Graduate Why a bosonic background in SUGRA?
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Graduate Supertrace Sum Rule and Fermi Constant in Electroweak Standard Model
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Graduate Extra Dimensions: Are They Large or Tiny?
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Graduate Is it possible that strings are higher dimensional branes?
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Graduate Maximizing Information Storage: The Role of Entropy Bound in Modern Physics
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Graduate Please explain gauge invariance un-mathmatically
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Graduate What is the current status of susy and string theory?
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Graduate Uncovering the Mathematical Evidence Behind the Holographic Nature of Our World
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Graduate How do we define the surroundings with the universe as a system?
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Graduate Closed Analytic Form of exp(ξG): Solved!
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Undergrad Dimensionally impossible equation
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Graduate Does time translational symmetry imply H'=0 or E'=0?
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Graduate Physical meaning of field components in "angle" directions
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Graduate Landmark paper by Smolin pulls together recent QG research
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Graduate Gravity around a near maximal black hole
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Graduate Equation linking superstring vibration with mass?
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Graduate Eduard Prugovecki's Quantum General Relativity
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Graduate Please give some hints on the Complex projective group
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Graduate Could photons be 2D objects in String Theory?
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Graduate Is Higgs Inflation Still Viable After Moriond and Planck Data?
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Graduate Removing Static Black Hole Singularity without QM (paper)
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Graduate Spacetime scaling invariance and quantum gravity
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Graduate Optomechanical test of the Schrödinger-Newton equation
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Graduate Quantum Gravity: Explaining the Theory Without Math
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Graduate Why is Baryon and Lepton Number Conservation Important in Theoretical Physics?
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Graduate Could firewalls be real and black holes a chimera? (Hewitt)
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Graduate Holographic and trapped surfaces
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Graduate Do Black Holes End up as Quark Stars? and quantum gravity
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Graduate Exploring the mysteries of two dust-free quasars: J0005-0006 and J0303-0019.
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Graduate Is a Universe Without a Multiverse Even Possible?
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Graduate BMS symmetries and black hole horizons
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Graduate Do Scientists Believe in Tachyons?
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Graduate New developments in QFT beyond the SM
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Graduate Order or Grassmann, vector fields and tensors
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Graduate Renormalization in Background Independent Theories
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Graduate What is the new Hamiltonian constraint operator for loop quantum gravity?
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Graduate Non-Euclidean Physics & Straight Lines: Can They Coexist?
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Graduate D=11 supergravity equations of motion
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Graduate The implications of no gravtational waves on QG, strings, gr
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Graduate What *precisely* makes cause and effect asymmetric?
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Graduate Cherenkov radiation emitted from dark matter
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Graduate How does M theory describe fermions?
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Graduate Composite Gauge Bosons: Supersymmetric SU(4) Example
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Graduate Second law of thermodynamics and the macroscopic world
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Undergrad Interesting solutions to classic physics problems
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Graduate Relation of Noether's theorem and group theory
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Graduate Why are steps not visible in the continuum limit of the Frenkel Kontorova model?
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Graduate Why don't back holes decrease in mass as you add things?
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Graduate Gauge/Gravity duality and evidence for superstring theory
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Graduate Multiple-scale analysis for 2D Hamiltonian?
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Graduate Principle of least action ...some confusion
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Graduate Is Loop Quantum Gravity a Machian theory?
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Graduate A new realization of quantum geometry
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Graduate State-Observable Duality (John Baez series)
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Graduate Does lack of rigour cause problems in Physics?
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Graduate For myKK, in bounce models what drives prior contraction?
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Graduate Tachyons: Properties, Predictions, Detection
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Graduate Can the 5 brane of M theory turn into a 1 string?
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Graduate Horava Lifshitz Gravity: Theory of Quantum Gravity or TOE? Viable Option?
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Graduate What is the relationship between dynamical symmetry and Noether's theorem?
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Graduate Finally, Garrett's model with 3 generations
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Graduate In big bounce models, what drives the contracting phase?
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Graduate What progress has been done on Hilbert's 6th problem?
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Graduate Black hole fireworks: quantum-gravity effects outside the horizon spar
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Graduate How Do Techni-Baryons Transform in SU(N_{TF}) and SU(2)_{spin} Symmetries?
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Graduate I've heard that mass loses energy, but how?
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Graduate Finding Min. Potential Energy: Variation Calculus Method
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Graduate Do All Automorphisms in Physics Imply Symmetries in Equations?
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Graduate How are leaps justified in Physics?
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Graduate How to determine correct Lagrangian?
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Graduate Something like category theory but for physics
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Graduate Our picks for second quarter 2015 MIP (most important QG paper)
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Graduate Why is stress tensor (in this derivation) symmetric?
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Graduate The Bekenstein bound : Area versus Volume
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Graduate Would asymptomatic safe gravity grow weaker like QCD?
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Graduate Mureika-Stojkovic and beyond m
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