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Graduate Lagrangian Definition and Summary

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Graduate Hamiltonian: Definition, Equations & Explanation

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Graduate What is the Hamilton-Jacobi equation

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Graduate What is the Concept of Gauge Invariance in Physics?

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Graduate What is to differentiate under the integral

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Graduate Question about the Hamilton Jaccobi Equation

  • Zeno Marx
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Graduate Compactification of M Theory on Smooth G2 Manifolds

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Graduate How is the Nambu Goto action proportional to the world sheet area?

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Graduate Could There Be a 5th Force at Lower Energies?

  • Gerinski
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Graduate Is Unitarity Limited by Real Clocks in Quantum Gravity?

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Graduate Expansion of a local dissipation function

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Undergrad Mathematical proofs and an understanding of them for scientists

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Graduate Euler-lagrange, positivity of second order term

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Graduate Is any Hamiltonian system integrable?

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Graduate Regarding the Hawking radiation

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Graduate Let's talk about geometrized units

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Graduate String Theory, Dark Matter And Dark Energy

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Graduate Quantum Inflation of Classical Shapes by Tim Koslowski

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Graduate How much stuff will neutralise the sun's pull on the earth

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Graduate Lagrangian density, regular Lagrangian, E&M

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Graduate Stephen Adler's SU(8) theory of everything

  • mitchell porter
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Graduate Haggard and Rovelli against the Eddington principle

  • Demystifier
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Graduate Can Gauge Theory Successfully Integrate with General Relativity?

  • RiccardoVen
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Graduate Conceptualizing the Big Bounce in LQC

  • Mahesvara
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Graduate Applying of knot theory to string theory

  • shreyakmath
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Graduate Why does this Lagrangian seem "asymmetric"?

  • Alexandre
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Graduate First quarter 2014 MIP (most important QG paper) poll-great selection

  • marcus
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Graduate Hamiltonian for classical harmonic oscillator

  • Jacksond
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Read Witten's Reflections on Spacetime

  • twistor
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Graduate CHR&R answer 20year Jacobson question (GR foundations+Thermo)

  • marcus
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Graduate Cosmology Papers: Interesting Old Papers - Share Your Thoughts

  • twistor
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Graduate Concerning "Multiple Dimensions of Time"

  • FysixFox
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Graduate Time-Dependent Classical Lagrangian with variation of time

  • 586
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Graduate Solving the Most Complex Physical Features of Nature: How Far Off Are We?

  • cjackson
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Undergrad Applications of 4x4 Determinant & Representations of nxn Determinants

  • thefreeman
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Graduate How do D-Brane arrangements affect particle masses and the standard model?

  • latentcorpse
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Graduate Can Quantum Field Theories Exhibit S-Dualities with Distinct Lagrangians?

  • metroplex021
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Graduate Sir Roger Penrose´s contributions

  • twistor
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Graduate Jim Gates live webcast on supersymmetry June 4th

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Undergrad The Lagrange Mesh Method: An Overview

  • nakulphy
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Graduate Bekenstein bound and Cauchy's integral formula

  • haael
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Undergrad Can mathematics explain everything in our universe?

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Graduate Lorentz invariance of Rarita-Schwinger action

  • Bobhawke
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Graduate Green's Function of a homogeneous cylinder

  • PeteyCoco
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Graduate Spin Foam Gravity at new stage of maturity/consistency

  • marcus
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Graduate Visualizing Dimensional MLT quality

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Graduate Is Determinism Challenged by the Brain's Decision-Making Ability?

  • masbt
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Graduate Is the Fine-Tuning Argument Valid Without Sequential Data?

  • noowutah
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Graduate A quick question concerning constants and planck units

  • FysixFox
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Graduate String Theory AP physics project

  • Aznespina
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Graduate How many scalars are needed in GUT theories?

  • Niklas Nielsen
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Graduate How does energy convert into mass?

  • AdrianLuther
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Graduate Should objects that are connected share the same physical laws?

  • thedragonbook
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Graduate Susskind process and holographic principle

  • M. next
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Undergrad Concepts simplified through math

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Graduate BICEP & Planck: Estimating Polarized Galactic Dust Emission

  • MTd2
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Graduate Why do several Lie groups have the same Lie algebra when acting on a space?

  • befj0001
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Undergrad Abuse of Notations: Why Is dy/dx Abused?

  • xphysics
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Program working for simplicity

  • MTd2
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Graduate String Theory and 4 dimensions

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Graduate First variation of convolution of two nonlinear functions

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Graduate 'Constant' vector field is equivalent to some scalar field

  • JanEnClaesen
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Graduate Algebra-geometry equivalence in string theory

  • Logic Cloud
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Graduate Solutions to the string theory landscape

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Graduate Noether's Theorem For Functionals of Several Variables

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Graduate What is the advantage of Hamilton's canonical equations?

  • Zoli
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Graduate Exploring the Limits of Modeling EM Forces as Spatial Curvature

  • Terdbergler
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Graduate Independent variables of the Lagrangian

  • JanEnClaesen
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Graduate Photons from strings, from expert to layman.

  • Spinnor
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Graduate On Fundamental Closed String Solutions

  • m1rohit
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Graduate Physical Interpretation of EM Field Lagrangian

  • bolbteppa
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Undergrad Is Everything Really Energy According to Einstein's E=MC2?

  • Larry Farmer
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Graduate Is Physics Truly Unique in Its Description of Nature?

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Graduate Doubled of Minkowski space and spinor wave function

  • bayak
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Graduate Death and Resurrection of the Zero-th Principle of Thermo

  • julcab12
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Graduate 125 GeV Higgs and Vacuum Instability

  • Coin
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Graduate What is meant by the following 2 statements?

  • M. next
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Graduate Erik Verlinde's paper on Emergent Entropy

  • M. next
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Graduate Predict The Day of Judgment (by real observation) is at hand-Smolin

  • marcus
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Graduate Renormalization Group Approaches to Quantum Gravity (conference at PI)

  • marcus
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Graduate A question about fundamental constants in Multiverse idea

  • ftr
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Graduate The gravitational field at a mass point produced by an infinite plane

  • 3102
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Graduate Joe Lykken's 19 March talk at Cern

  • marcus
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Graduate What is the intuitive concept behind the Principle of Least Action?

  • nomadreid
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Graduate Do we have a theory as to what energy is?

  • Larry Farmer
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Graduate Why 10^520 Universes in String Theory Landscape

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Graduate Is Supersymmetry Dead? | Sciencenews.org

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Graduate Could this be of any importance for research nowadays?

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Graduate Application of virial theorem

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Graduate Arrow of time and virtual reality

  • us40
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Graduate Does the Lagrangian Explicitly Involve Time in Hamiltonian Mechanics?

  • astro2cosmos
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Graduate String theory and Statistical Physics

  • M. next
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Graduate Mathematical Difference Between Mean Free Path vs RMS Free Path?

  • RagincajunLA
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Graduate Particles in LQG: Are There Alternatives to Braids?

  • twistor
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Graduate Is Kaluza-Klein Theory Proven by Experimental Results?

  • Quarlep
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Graduate How many spacetime quanta are there? (depends how you count.)

  • marcus
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Graduate M Theory Formulations: Math & Competing Theories

  • twistor
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Graduate Did cosmological natural selection get a reprieve?

  • bcrowell
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Graduate Does it make sense to study old (stringless) twistor theory nowadays?

  • twistor
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Graduate Is M-Theory the only possible UV completion of Supergravity?

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