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Graduate Strings can be seen? Surely not

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Graduate What is Lee Smolin's Maximal Variety Principle in Quantum Mechanics?

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Can a Person Escape an Endless Fall Through Two Facing Portals?

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Graduate How do you express 3D charge distributions using the Dirac Delta function?

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Graduate What is the quantized form of the strings lagrangian?

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Graduate Conformal gravity vs loop quantum gravity

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Graduate Can string theory be formulated without quantizing a classical Lagrangian?

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Graduate Phlip Mannheim's conformal theory of everything

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Graduate Noether's Theorem and the real world

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Undergrad Are There Ever Multiple Theories That Fully Explain the Same Phenomenon?

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Graduate Is there a reversed GKPW for AdS/CFT?

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Graduate Generating functions and Legendre transforms

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Graduate Why is Supersymmetry Necessary in String Theory?

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Graduate Lagrangian without K.E and any anthromorophic answer

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Graduate What is the recommended resource for learning the basics of AdS/CFT?

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Graduate Analytical continuation free energy

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Graduate Experimental Limits on Spin-Foam Effects From Quasars

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Graduate Seesaw mass matrix and neutrino masses

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Graduate Confirm my reasoning on a generating function proof

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Graduate Is there a scientific hypothesis for spiral-shaped time?

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Graduate Is Isospin Conversation Required In The Standard Model?

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Graduate Exact solutions of the Wheeler–DeWitt equation with Yamabe construction

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Graduate Condition for Phase transition

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Undergrad Which Books Focus on the Formulation of Differential Equations?

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Undergrad Building intuition for rank 2 tensors from vectors

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Graduate Poisson equation with a dirac delta source.

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Graduate What is the meaning of local field theory in classical field theory?

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Graduate New properties of "standard model effective field theory"

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Graduate What does it mean to "minimise" an action ?

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Graduate Causality of the wave equation

  • Coffee_
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Graduate Volume elements of phase space

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Graduate The Role of Hamiltonian Time Dependence in Energy Conservation

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Graduate Marginal stabilty in s domain

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Graduate Magnetic monopoles and Noether theorem

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Graduate Is imaginary time scientifically serious in quantum gravity and relativity?

  • kodama
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Graduate New first order Lagrangian for General Relativity

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Graduate Has Witten announced his new geometry?

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Graduate Is Quantum foam a part of string theory?

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Graduate What would it take to fully simulate a physical system?

  • JamesN
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Graduate What is the physical significance of Poisson brackets?

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Graduate What is the value of theoretical physics without experimental data?

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Graduate Is the Einstein–Cartan theory renormalizable?

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Graduate Physics Mathematics and Analogies

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Graduate What is the most *Fundamental* theory in physics?

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Graduate Multi-scale entanglement renormalization ansatz Tensor network

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Graduate The naturalness of the zeon length scale

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Graduate NS sector and the Numberoperator

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Graduate What makes phase space special?

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Graduate Action integral: Just a constant?

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Graduate Why can't we perceive extra dimensions?

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Graduate The 'time oriented coarse graining' hypothesis -- "Rovelli"

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Graduate Has B-L some role in the mass matrix?

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Graduate Why Don't SUSY Leptons and Quarks Exist Alongside Standard Model Bosons?

  • orricl
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Graduate Is gravity deterministic or probabilistic in String Theory?

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Graduate Does Ads/CFT correspondence apply to LQG Kodama state?

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Graduate Scalar field energy density and pressure in hot universe

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Graduate Why Do String Theory and Fermions Require Different Treatments?

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Graduate Before Vectors, was it Components, and Quaternions?

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Graduate Unpacking the Controversial EmDrive: Explanations and Implications

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Graduate Hypothetical Shape of a Spacetime and Time Travel

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Graduate Meaning of "Bundle Connection" in String Theory?

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Graduate Is the boundary of a spinfoam a spin network?

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Graduate Solving Trivial SUSY Questions: Adel Bidal Introduction to SUSY

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Graduate What Is Loschmidt's Paradox and Its Implications for Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Is a warp drive possible? How long until we develop one?

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Graduate Alain homers with Ali and Slava on base : further thoughts

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Graduate Why is supersymmetry studied if experiments haven't found evidence for it?

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Graduate In what way is M-Theory different from Loop Quantum Gravity?

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Graduate Relating Behaviour of a Driven System to the Undriven Modes

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Graduate If Superstring theory is not a TOE what is it?

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Graduate Is there a holographic principle in loop quantum gravity?

  • kodama
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Graduate Local measurement of the Vacuum Energy?

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Graduate Prerequisites for studying conformal field theory

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Graduate LQG is not proved to be locally lorentz invariant. (Bee)

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Graduate What does it mean for a scalar field to be constant on a surface?

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Graduate Does h-bar change in gravitational waves?

  • friend
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Graduate Why can the Jacobian represent transformations?

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Graduate If SUSY is found, is String Theory the expected why?

  • Jimster41
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Graduate Four-Dimensional Entropy from Three-Dimensional Gravity

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Graduate Smolin's Octopus: Bridging the Standard Model and LQG?

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Graduate Does the Planck Unit of Time Support Julian Barbour's Theory on the End of Time?

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Graduate Evidence Against String Theory? Paper

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Graduate Got asked, "Why does there 'need' to be a UFT"

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Graduate How did the Poisson brackets get derived, and from what.

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Graduate How to drop terms in a Lagrangian?

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Graduate What is String Theory? | Stringtheory

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Graduate Is Goldstein's Classical Mechanics suitable for self-study?

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Graduate A Physical Situation Which Physics Rules Collapse

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Graduate Is Loop Quntuam gravity plausible formulation of quantum gravity

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Graduate Why Does the Lagrangian Depend on Time and Position?

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Graduate Why isn't Landau credited as an author in Vol 4?

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Graduate Green's function + method of images

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Graduate Why must the boundary term in the Euler-Lagrange derivation vanish?

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Graduate A firewall confusion related to disentangling the vacuum

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Graduate How many orthogonal spins can an object have?

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Graduate How quantizable matter gravitates

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Graduate Born-Oppenheimer applied to quantum geometry

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Graduate Are Constraints Necessary in Hamiltonian Dynamics?

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Graduate Lagrangian invariance, short question

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