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Graduate Showing that the euler lagrange equations are coordinate independent
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Graduate Quantum Gravity Programme Essentially Complete
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Graduate What is the concept of gauge theory?
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Graduate Spin of a p-Form: 1 or Higher?
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Graduate What is the critical value of the Immirzi parameter in loop quantum gravity?
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Graduate I would like to have a glimpse of understanding of grand unificaction
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Graduate Is Gravity Really a Fundamental Force?
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Graduate Completeness of orthonormal functions
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Graduate Is the Lagrangian for LQG similar to that of Yang-Mills theories?
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Graduate Relation between Verlinde's Entropic gravity and AdS/CFT
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Graduate Signature of a higgselss/bootstrap model at LHC.
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Graduate Must Gravitons Exist? Quantum Gravity Theories
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Graduate Does taking the derivative of time really make sense?
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Graduate Could quantum gravity itself have any answers?
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Graduate Troublesome infinities in physics
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Graduate Gravity: The explanation for quantum statistical effects?
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Graduate Nonexistence of local gravitational energy
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Graduate Was Super String theory specifically designed to explain singularities?
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Graduate Unification of QM and relativity theory
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Graduate What Are Natural Boundary Conditions?
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Graduate What are self-similar pictures of bifurcations and fractals ?
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Graduate Visualizing seven extra dimensions
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Graduate (Im)probability of Inflation (Ashtekar Sloan 1003.2475)
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Graduate Projecting 3-Sphere onto a Plane | Stereographic Projection
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Graduate On the influence of our imaginary on string theory's beauty
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Graduate CP violation explained by Kerr metric
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Graduate What Powers the Vibration of Strings in a Unified Theory of Light and Energy?
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Graduate Does string theory mean that in our universe 1 + 1 = 2 ?
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Graduate Gradient of scalar function discontinuous on boundary
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Graduate The relation between entropy and probability at quantum levelu
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Graduate Supergravity paper on LHC-physics by Chris Austin
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Graduate Prospective grand unifying theory?
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Graduate Integral's Results Challenge Quantum Theory: GR vs. QM
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Graduate What can make a string massless?
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Graduate Verify Laplace equation in rectangular coordinates.
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Graduate Introduction to Group Field Theory: Main Ideas, Formalism, and Origins
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Graduate Trouble with Equation (4.13) in Wess & Bagger?
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Graduate Quantization of mass for black holes?
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Graduate Why Start Theories with SO(n,1) and Compactify to SO(3,1)xG?
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Graduate Why I am REALLY disappointed about string theory
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Graduate Measured vs calculated quantities
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Graduate Our picks for second quarter 2011 MIP (most important QG paper)
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Graduate Strings can vibrate, but do they move?
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Graduate What is meant by 2+1 dimensional
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Graduate Integral challenges physics beyond Einstein
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Graduate Quantum grains (String theory & LQG in trouble?)
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Graduate Can Energy-to-Mass Converters Achieve Near-Perfect Efficiency in the Future?
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Graduate *Hidden Phase Space* at the Holo Cosmo corral (Verlinde video)
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Graduate How Are Vibrating Strings and Branes Related to String Theory Testing?
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Graduate Second quarter 2011 MIP poll-what papers to include?
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Graduate Which conference lineup interests you more? (Strings '11 or mixed-QG 11)
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Graduate LQC Beginner: What Causes a "Bounce" & Its Implications?
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Graduate The meaning of orbifold counting
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Graduate Continuum limit: is it really justifiable?
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Graduate Loops 2011: abstracts of all talks now online
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Graduate Does a GUT have to have gravity involved?
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Graduate Can You Explain The Interactions Of SUSY?
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Graduate Euler-Lagrange equation derivation
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Graduate Physical intuition behind NCG?
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Graduate Elegant Mathematics Leads to Wrong Physics?
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Graduate Modifying Lorentz Transformations for Invariant Length
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Graduate Observations a TOE must agree with?
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Graduate Theories on Dimensions/Time Quantized?
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Graduate How do I derive the step on the formula of distance of source to field point.
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Graduate Is string theory a theory of quantum gravity?
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Graduate Sanoy's question: is the world made of entanglement?
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Graduate Speculative Time Jump Question
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Graduate Could Technicolour Play a Role in Black Hole Collapse?
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Graduate What's higher spin gauge theory all about?
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Graduate Perturbative approach in Loop Quantum Gravity
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Graduate Emergence of Superstring from Pure Spinor
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Graduate Bifundamental wrt two gravities
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Graduate Can We Simulate the Entire Universe on a Supercomputer?
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Graduate Can Quantum Gravity Explain Matter and Gravity as Separate Entities?
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Graduate What is the history of the ADM formalism in quantum gravity?
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Graduate Where can I learn spin connection?
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Graduate Beables in or NOT in Spacetime?
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Graduate Can Koide's yukawaon models explain the neglected clue in particle physics?
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Graduate Has Quantum Mechanics Been Fully Explored in Curved Spacetime?
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Graduate Gravity/Electroweak unification based on generalized Yang-Mills
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Graduate Measurement Problem, Quantum Gravity & Unification
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Graduate John Baez's comments on CDT/Hořava-Lifshitz gravity.
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Graduate An elementary view of duality?
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Graduate In short, I don't know if there is a clear answer to your question at this time.
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Graduate Can Charged Black Holes Propel Interstellar Travel?
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Graduate Could Time Travel Paradoxes Be Resolved by Multi-Worlds Theory?
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Graduate Is Entropic Gravity the Future of Physics?
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Graduate This is perhaps more a maths question, but it's about a piece of maths
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Graduate What Was the Impact of the QG11 Conference in Zurich?
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Graduate Clarification on curl and divergence in cylindrical and spherical coordinates.
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Graduate What is the Connection between Quantum Foam and Wormholes?
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Graduate Unraveling the Conflict between Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity
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Graduate Are there Spin-2 bosons other than graviton?
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Graduate What should the normalization condition be for an energy distribution function?
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Graduate Is Frank Wilczek's The Grid a Modern Take on Ether?
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Graduate String treatment of the quantum graphity model
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Graduate Possible Particle Pairs in Gravitational Pair Production: A Speculative Inquiry
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Graduate How Does Einstein's General Relativity Explain Gravity's Effects on Objects?
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Graduate Space-Time Higgs field interchangability?
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Graduate How does the first-order analysis extend to the (A)dS algebra in supergravity?
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