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Graduate Unruh Effect: When Does an Object Receive Radiation?

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Graduate The classical limit of AdS/CFT

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Graduate Is the Game of Life a metaphor for the search for a Theory of Everything?

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Graduate "The Shape of Inner Space", Shing-Tung Yau, preview or $.47

  • Spinnor
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Graduate Help -- Writing Lagrangian in different Representations

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Graduate Problems with proofs of Robert Geroch mathematical physics

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Graduate Ostrogradski’s theorem's proof

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Graduate Dimension in Physics: Existing vs Non-Existing Points/Events

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Graduate Why do gravitons remain undetected?

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Graduate Particles - subparticles - subsubparticles

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Graduate How can it be deduced general relativity from planck length

  • Garrulo
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Graduate What are the best introductory resources for learning Loop Quantum Gravity?

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Graduate Question regarding the universes origin.

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Graduate First part of fourth quarter 2014 MIP poll

  • marcus
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Graduate Harold White warp drive experiment

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Graduate Unraveling the Mysteries of Relativistic Strings

  • moriheru
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Graduate Could new physical laws be created for large systems?

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Graduate How to start with String Theory

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Undergrad How Does Blood Flow Velocity Relate to Spacetime?

  • David Schutz
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Graduate How does the projective LQG approach shift the traditional formulation of LQG?

  • marcus
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Graduate Understanding Gauge Equivalence in Maxwell-Chern-Simons Action

  • Maybe_Memorie
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Graduate String theory: Nambu Gotto action

  • moriheru
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Graduate Cylindrical coordinate of Galilean transformation

  • Pring
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Undergrad Is Physics Just a Mathematical Model?

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Graduate Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

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Graduate Stress-energy tensor as source of gravity

  • maka89
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Graduate Question on the Inherent Instability of Lagrangian points

  • MaxwellsHammer
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Graduate Does LQG Do Nothing Cool Even If It Is Right?

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Graduate Deriving Calculus of Variations

  • cooev769
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A Paper Manuscript, OLD and FUNNY

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Graduate How to tell the difference between randomness and chaos?

  • Xiaomin Chu
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Graduate Universe : Can time move backward (New theory special)

  • CaptCoonoor
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Graduate Question about mathematical equality

  • Mr. Rho
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Undergrad Intuition behind Hamilton's Variational Principle

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Graduate How does Savas Dimopoulos' latest paper challenge current SUSY collider limits?

  • twistor
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Graduate Understanding Infinitesimal Transformations in Rotational Symmetry

  • PhyAmateur
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Graduate What is the impact of quantum loop gravity on the standard model?

  • Dreed42
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Graduate How does theoretical physics advance?

  • Ponderer
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Graduate Group Theory query based on Green Schwarz Witten volume 2

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Graduate Are Graviton and Standard Model Particles the Only Ones in the Universe?

  • Garrulo
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Graduate How time starts in LQG with onset of Lorentzian phase

  • marcus
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High School Can time be modeled by an asymptote?

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Graduate Kink solution of 2-dimensional equation, how to be stable?

  • Pring
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Graduate Universe Tick Rate: Planck Time?

  • Filip
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Graduate Strings attached to separate branes

  • Aqib
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Graduate Boundary conditions of non relativistic strings

  • moriheru
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Undergrad What MIT OCW courses can help clarify tensor concepts in physics?

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Graduate ΛEPRL quantiz'n of cosmological horizon area in Planck units

  • marcus
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Graduate Negligible terms and Lagrangians

  • ShayanJ
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Graduate Building the E10 lattice with integer octonions

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Graduate Holographic principle and string theory

  • masbt
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Graduate What Determines the Spectrum of Hawking Radiation?

  • tzimie
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Graduate Radical new foundations for both quantum theory and space-time

  • marcus
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Graduate Spontaneous symmetry breaking in SHO

  • Shadumu
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Beautiful ILQGS talk by Hal and Aldo today--LambdaEPRL

  • marcus
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Graduate What Happens If We Change Just One Physical Constant?

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Graduate Can all fundamental forces be fictitious force ?

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Graduate How does dimensional analysis account for additive variables in equations?

  • Mr Davis 97
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Graduate Asymptotic safety and the "no boundary" proposal

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Graduate What Does 5D Existence Mean for Time and Space?

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Graduate Can time have more than one dimension?

  • totalynoob
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Graduate Can a Non-Radiant Force Absorb All Heat in a Radius to Absolute Zero?

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Graduate ER=EPR: Leonard Susskind's FAQ on Black Holes & Quantum Complexity

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Graduate Why must science have an a priori foundation?

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Graduate Is Physicist Lubos Motl's Criticism of Loop Quantum Gravity Valid?

  • ohwilleke
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Graduate Backreaction from Hawking radiation may prevent formation of event horizon?

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Graduate Theory of Everything (TOE) Without a Grand Unified Theory (GUT)

  • ohwilleke
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Graduate Unified Field Theory: Different Principle or Too General?

  • putongren
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Graduate Question about d'Alembert operator

  • Dixanadu
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Graduate Contraction of an asymmetric tensor?

  • Dixanadu
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Graduate Derivative of first term in Lagrangian density for real K-G theory

  • Dixanadu
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Graduate Proving a a pitchfork bifurcation: modified swift-hohenberg

  • onanox
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Graduate Do I understand at all what Verlinde is saying?

  • Jimster41
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Graduate Questions about Neveu-Schwarz B-field

  • synoe
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Graduate Our picks for third quarter 2014 MIP (most important QG paper) Part II

  • marcus
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Graduate D'Alambertian operator on the heaviside function?

  • Dixanadu
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Graduate What Are Large Gauge Transformations and Their Role in Physics?

  • pinu
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Graduate Reconsidering Acceleration and Non-Inertial Frames in Quantum Field Theory

  • tzimie
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Graduate How does the Holographic Principle apply to different scenarios and dimensions?

  • Nim
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Graduate Our picks for third quarter 2014 MIP (most important QG paper) Part I

  • marcus
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Graduate How correct is this paragraph about vacuum zero point energy.

  • Spinnor
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Undergrad What is the Principle of Least Action and why is it vital in physics?

  • adoion
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Graduate Genius in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

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Graduate Grassmann Integration: Clarifying Notation in "hep-th/0108200

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Graduate String Theory & Poincaré Invariance: Why & What?

  • moriheru
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What's the Payoff for All This Waiting?

  • strangerep
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Graduate Wieland's new action for 4d simplicial gravity can be significant

  • marcus
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Graduate Graviton exchange for two freely propagating particle:solution String theory?

  • moriheru
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Graduate What Are Characteristic Scale Arguments in Physics?

  • center o bass
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Graduate The birth of spacetime atoms as the passage of time

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Graduate Are Boltzmann Brains More Likely Than a Fine-Tuned Universe?

  • switz5678
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Graduate QFT & Statistical Physics: Exploring Rough Paths & Constructive CFT

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Undergrad What is the Angular Equivalent of E=mc^2?

  • neuralnova
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Graduate Difference between these 4-vector derivatives?

  • Dixanadu
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Graduate Tests of loop quantum gravity?

  • 21joanna12
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Clear slides online for 10/14 obs. QG talk (do we see BH->WH bounces?)

  • marcus
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Graduate Why is Lorentz Group in 3D SL(2, R)?

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Graduate Transformations for the non-linear sigma action

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Graduate What is the Impact of S. Deser's Work in Modern Physics?

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Graduate Gauge invariance of interaction lagrangian

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