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Graduate Can Gauge Theory Successfully Integrate with General Relativity?
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Graduate Conceptualizing the Big Bounce in LQC
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Graduate Applying of knot theory to string theory
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Graduate Why does this Lagrangian seem "asymmetric"?
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Graduate First quarter 2014 MIP (most important QG paper) poll-great selection
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Graduate Hamiltonian for classical harmonic oscillator
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Read Witten's Reflections on Spacetime
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Graduate CHR&R answer 20year Jacobson question (GR foundations+Thermo)
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Graduate Cosmology Papers: Interesting Old Papers - Share Your Thoughts
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Graduate Concerning "Multiple Dimensions of Time"
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Graduate Time-Dependent Classical Lagrangian with variation of time
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Graduate Solving the Most Complex Physical Features of Nature: How Far Off Are We?
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Undergrad Applications of 4x4 Determinant & Representations of nxn Determinants
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Graduate How do D-Brane arrangements affect particle masses and the standard model?
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Graduate Can Quantum Field Theories Exhibit S-Dualities with Distinct Lagrangians?
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Graduate Sir Roger Penrose´s contributions
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Graduate Jim Gates live webcast on supersymmetry June 4th
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Undergrad The Lagrange Mesh Method: An Overview
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Graduate Bekenstein bound and Cauchy's integral formula
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Undergrad Can mathematics explain everything in our universe?
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Graduate Lorentz invariance of Rarita-Schwinger action
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Graduate Green's Function of a homogeneous cylinder
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Graduate Spin Foam Gravity at new stage of maturity/consistency
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Graduate Visualizing Dimensional MLT quality
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Graduate Is Determinism Challenged by the Brain's Decision-Making Ability?
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Graduate Is the Fine-Tuning Argument Valid Without Sequential Data?
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Graduate A quick question concerning constants and planck units
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Graduate String Theory AP physics project
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Graduate How many scalars are needed in GUT theories?
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Graduate How does energy convert into mass?
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Graduate Should objects that are connected share the same physical laws?
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Graduate Susskind process and holographic principle
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Undergrad Concepts simplified through math
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Graduate BICEP & Planck: Estimating Polarized Galactic Dust Emission
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Graduate Why do several Lie groups have the same Lie algebra when acting on a space?
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Undergrad Abuse of Notations: Why Is dy/dx Abused?
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Program working for simplicity
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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
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Graduate Algebra-geometry equivalence in string theory
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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?
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Graduate Exploring the Limits of Modeling EM Forces as Spatial Curvature
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Graduate Independent variables of the Lagrangian
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Graduate Photons from strings, from expert to layman.
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Graduate On Fundamental Closed String Solutions
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Graduate Physical Interpretation of EM Field Lagrangian
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Undergrad Is Everything Really Energy According to Einstein's E=MC2?
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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
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Graduate Death and Resurrection of the Zero-th Principle of Thermo
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Graduate 125 GeV Higgs and Vacuum Instability
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Graduate What is meant by the following 2 statements?
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Graduate Erik Verlinde's paper on Emergent Entropy
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Graduate Predict The Day of Judgment (by real observation) is at hand-Smolin
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Graduate Renormalization Group Approaches to Quantum Gravity (conference at PI)
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Graduate A question about fundamental constants in Multiverse idea
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Graduate The gravitational field at a mass point produced by an infinite plane
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Graduate Joe Lykken's 19 March talk at Cern
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Graduate What is the intuitive concept behind the Principle of Least Action?
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Graduate Do we have a theory as to what energy is?
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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
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Graduate Does the Lagrangian Explicitly Involve Time in Hamiltonian Mechanics?
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Graduate String theory and Statistical Physics
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Graduate Mathematical Difference Between Mean Free Path vs RMS Free Path?
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Graduate Particles in LQG: Are There Alternatives to Braids?
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Graduate Is Kaluza-Klein Theory Proven by Experimental Results?
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Graduate How many spacetime quanta are there? (depends how you count.)
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Graduate M Theory Formulations: Math & Competing Theories
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Graduate Did cosmological natural selection get a reprieve?
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Graduate Does it make sense to study old (stringless) twistor theory nowadays?
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Graduate Is M-Theory the only possible UV completion of Supergravity?
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Graduate Does BICEP2's observation rules out ekpyrotic cosmological model ?
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Graduate How do gravitational fields and waves interact with black holes and FTL travel?
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Graduate Wieland's thesis foreword in rough German-to-English translation
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Graduate Impossibility of having less than 3 dimensions?
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Graduate Do all known quantum gravity theories lead to a true unification?
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Graduate Our picks for fourth quarter 2013 MIP (most important QG paper)
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Graduate Signs of Quantum Gravity in CMB Ancient Light
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Graduate Strumia's dimensionless gravity
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Graduate Freidel Continuum Limit and Renormalization ILQGS 1/4/14
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Graduate Introduction To Loop Quantum Gravity
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Graduate Can We Unify Quantum Gravity with the Other Fundamental Forces?
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Graduate Does Clifford algebra solve both QFT and GR
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Graduate What does a Wolpert's machine do?
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Graduate Viability after BICEP2 of LQC matter bounce
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Graduate Suppose you have an object with infinite mass
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Graduate Unruh and Hawking Radiation Paradoxes?
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Graduate Length and curvature operators in Loop gravity
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Graduate What Are the Top Beginner Resources for Learning Loop Quantum Gravity Online?
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Graduate LQC & Inflation: Dynamics, Spectrum & Benefits
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Graduate System described by probabilities
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