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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 Why are supersymmetry generators restricted to powers of 2?

  • nrqed
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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?

  • LarryS
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Graduate Towards self dual Loop Quantum Gravity Jibril Ben Achour

  • kodama
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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

  • ftr
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Graduate Proving Euler Lagrange equations

  • Frank Einstein
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Graduate Example of Susy QM and its partition function

  • nrqed
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Graduate Can supersymmetry be considered a falsifiable prediction?

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Graduate GUT symmetry breaking temperature and timescale predictions by model

  • Buzz Bloom
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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?

  • AtlasSniperma
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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?

  • mitchell porter
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Undergrad The Role of Theories, Models, and Laws in the Scientific Process

  • Frasch
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Undergrad Could a Pulling Airplane Propeller Be More Effective Than a Pushing One?

  • EnigmaStigma
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Graduate How does science explain gravity if we don't know why mass attracts mass?

  • Alexander*GR*
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Graduate What is your guys view on Sylvester James Gates

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

  • greswd
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Graduate Are all physical quantities an equivalence relation?

  • Happiness
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Graduate How do physicists approach dimensions higher than 3rd?

  • ElDiplodocus
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Graduate Is there any mathematics to describe neutrinos with mass?

  • MacRudi
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Graduate New methods to find magnetic monopoles?

  • greswd
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Graduate Noether's theorem -- Time inversion

  • LagrangeEuler
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Graduate How do scalars determine the geometry of a manifold?

  • Emilie.Jung
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Graduate Grassmann Integral into Lagrange for scalar superfields

  • MacRudi
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Graduate What are P-branes and D-branes in string theory?

  • potato123
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Graduate Opinions on whether light can be mass

  • Dephenistrator2
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Graduate What would Einstein think of string theory?

  • jeffery_winkle
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Graduate How did S-Matrix theory affect the birth of String Theory?

  • Ted Baas
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Graduate What, really, is the Variational technique?

  • ognik
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Graduate What is a vector multiplet in N=2 supergravity?

  • Emilie.Jung
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Graduate Have Any Conjectures in the Random Matrix Model Been Proven or Disproven?

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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High School Do curves, circles and spheres really exist?

  • Cody Richeson
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Graduate The spin of an entity, an additional (4th/5th) dimension?

  • Matth.ew
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Graduate Can Lattice Formulations Accommodate Modern Quantum Field Theories?

  • Gvido_Anselmi
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Graduate Is a Fundamental 27D Theory Emerging from Recent Research Papers?

  • jeffery_winkle
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Graduate It is possible from the general relativity reach a ToE?

  • Cosmology2015
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Graduate Why a bosonic background in SUGRA?

  • Emilie.Jung
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Graduate Supertrace Sum Rule and Fermi Constant in Electroweak Standard Model

  • mitchell porter
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Graduate Can extra dimensions be large instead of curled up tiny?

  • Paul Muad'Dib
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Graduate Is it possible that strings are higher dimensional branes?

  • Nav
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Graduate Does the entropy bound analogy with data storage explain holography correctly?

  • ShayanJ
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Graduate Gauge invariance and why massless vector bosons lack timelike polarization

  • kimcj
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Graduate What is the current status of susy and string theory?

  • potato123
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Graduate How does mathematics support the holographic principle?

  • thinkandmull
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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!

  • hemza
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Undergrad Dimensionally impossible equation

  • Granger
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Graduate Does time translational symmetry imply H'=0 or E'=0?

  • davidbenari
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Graduate Physical meaning of field components in "angle" directions

  • TubbaBlubba
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Graduate Landmark paper by Smolin pulls together recent QG research

  • marcus
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Graduate Gravity around a near maximal black hole

  • dendros
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Graduate Equation linking superstring vibration with mass?

  • R. E. Nettleton
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Graduate Eduard Prugovecki's Quantum General Relativity

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Graduate Homotopy groups of CP^{N-1} in sigma model theory

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Graduate Could photons be 2D objects in String Theory?

  • blah19
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Graduate Is Higgs Inflation Still Viable After Moriond and Planck Data?

  • mitchell porter
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Graduate Removing Static Black Hole Singularity without QM (paper)

  • MTd2
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Graduate Spacetime scaling invariance and quantum gravity

  • kodama
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Graduate Optomechanical test of the Schrödinger-Newton equation

  • marcus
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Graduate How does quantum gravity work without the mathematics?

  • TimeRip496
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Graduate Why is Baryon and Lepton Number Conservation Important in Theoretical Physics?

  • BiGyElLoWhAt
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Graduate Could firewalls be real and black holes a chimera? (Hewitt)

  • marcus
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Graduate Holographic and trapped surfaces

  • MTd2
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Graduate Do Black Holes End up as Quark Stars? and quantum gravity

  • kodama
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Graduate Do primordial black holes exist and lead to quantum gravity?

  • wolram
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Graduate Is a Universe Without a Multiverse Even Possible?

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Graduate BMS symmetries and black hole horizons

  • Physics Monkey
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Graduate Do Scientists Believe in Tachyons?

  • ScientificMind
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Graduate New developments in QFT beyond the SM

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Graduate Order or Grassmann, vector fields and tensors

  • marir
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Graduate Renormalization in Background Independent Theories

  • marcus
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Graduate What is the new Hamiltonian constraint operator for loop quantum gravity?

  • palmer eldtrich
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Graduate Does non-Euclidean physics mean there are no straight lines?

  • thinkandmull
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Graduate D=11 supergravity equations of motion

  • JorisL
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Graduate The implications of no gravtational waves on QG, strings, gr

  • kodama
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Graduate What *precisely* makes cause and effect asymmetric?

  • Whitefire
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Graduate Cherenkov radiation emitted from dark matter

  • Garlic
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Graduate How does M theory describe fermions?

  • Nav
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Graduate Composite Gauge Bosons: Supersymmetric SU(4) Example

  • mitchell porter
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Graduate Second law of thermodynamics and the macroscopic world

  • kodama
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Undergrad Interesting solutions to classic physics problems

  • Totally
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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?

  • LagrangeEuler
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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

  • ShayanJ
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Graduate Multiple-scale analysis for 2D Hamiltonian?

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Graduate Why is action defined as the integral of the Lagrangian?

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Graduate Is Loop Quantum Gravity a Machian theory?

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Graduate A new realization of quantum geometry

  • marcus
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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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