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Role of in-house concept analysis done by the QG scientists themselves
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How to understand 11 dimensions
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Luboš Motl's Criticism of LQG - What Does He Miss?
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What Does Quantum Gravity Scattering Amplitudes Mean?
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What is the Precise Meaning of Canonical in Quantum Gravity Context
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Conceptual ramifications if black holes do not exist.
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Meaning of diffeomorphism invariance
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Occam's razor and theoretical physics
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String theory in dimensions other than 10
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Exploring Connes' Finite Noncommutative Geometry Model
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Plug for Bee Hossenfelder blog (QG phenom'ist and conference organizer)
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Spring schedule for International LQG Seminar
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Conservation of Angular Momentum And Oscillation of Mass
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Coupling of energy/matter to spacetime
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Quantum Gravity and Specific GR Tests
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Can we comprehend the 4th dimension.
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String Theory - Winding Strings
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A string-model case study: hep-th/0703280
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Self-educational book on Supersymmetry/supergravity
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Is a New Principle Necessary to Resolve Quantum Gravity and Unify Interactions?
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Why more than 4 spacetime dimensions
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Lorentzian spinfoam model free of IR divergence (Muxin Han)
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String Theory compact dimensions
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Some questions about String theory
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White Hole: What Is It & How Does It Differ from Black Hole?
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Our picks for third quarter 2010 MIP (most important QG paper)
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What Makes Atoms the Key to Understanding Our Universe?
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Is the Universe's Expansion Linked to Black Holes and New Universes?
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Evidence for UV finiteness of M-theory?
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The anthropic principle(s) and the landscape
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String non-theory failing its tests -we need a replacement
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How do branes emerge in cyclic universe?
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Lecture series on Causal Sets approach to QG
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Dirac algebra of constraints in GR
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Question on alternatives to GR
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Best resources to get up to speed
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What Are the Latest Breakthroughs and Research Topics in M Theory?
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Large extra dimensions ruled out?
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Illegal Danced Horror - a story about the landscape
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Do Parallel Universes Share the Same Timeline?
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AsymSafe QG sees a numerical breakthrough (Benedetti, Groh, Machado, Saueressig)
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Higher Gauge, TQFT, quantum gravity thematic convergence
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More on Penrose's Conformal Cyclic Cosmology
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Simplicity Constraints in Spin Foams: Physical Meaning & Motivation
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Understanding the Relation between LQG and NQC
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Is Gauge-Free Electrodynamics the Solution to Gauge Ambiguities?
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Primer on conformal / dual conformal symmetry
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Is Bojowald's Book on Quantum Cosmology a Disappointment?
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What does the other 7-dimensions represent?
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What is the connection between N=2 SUSY and Kahler Geometry?
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Loeb Weiner YIDM Yukawa-Interacting Dark Matter particle
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Quantum Uncertainty in the Holographic Principle
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Is Fotini Markopoulou Redefining Planckian Physics in Her Latest Paper?
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Garrett's article in SciAm December issue
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How Do We Define and Measure the Extra Spatial Dimensions in String Theory?
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String Theory & ZPE: Is There a Connection?
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String Theory's implications of ontology
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Looking for M-, F-Theory introduction
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Supergravity as the low energy effective action of Superstring- / M-theory
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Closed and open strings in M-theory
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Paul Townsend`s 3D Superparticle.
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Epistemological Role in Science and Synthetic A Priori Knowledge
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String theory in one sentence please
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Classical Information: An Exploration of Quantum Mechanics
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Dax discussions of Beyond SM theories/including newcomer questions
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Does John H. Schwarz now believe in Verlinde`s gravity?
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Deriving the equations of motion in f(T) gravity
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The mathematics required for mathematical physics (LQG, ST, FT, etc)?
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Questions dealing with astrophysics
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Explicit embedding of gravity+Standard Model in E8 (new Lisi paper)
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The Multiversians are at the gates
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Elegant Universe TV show streaming Video
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Question on Witten's paper: Perturbative Gauge Theory As A String Theory
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Does this rule out cosmic natural selection? (1.97 solar neutron star)
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Big dimensionless numbers (in Planks units)
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Classical gravity, Supergravity and strings
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Matter from misjoints of spinfoams?
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Matrix Model for Membranes and D-brane Dynamics
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How does the axion solution actually work?
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Bianchi's PI talk on quantum polyhedra in LQG
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Why Do Superfields Have Quadratic Terms in Theta and Theta Bar?
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What Happens to Gravity in Bound States of Hydrogen Atoms?
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't Hooft omni-theory proposal looks testable
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Don't mess with the pass integral
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Does Spin of Particles Change in a Gravity Field?
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Jfy4 comment sparked by Torsten and Helge's new paper
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Quantizing Geometry or Geometrizing the Quantum?
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Smolin's Cosmological Natural Selection: How does it help the problem?
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Self-Completeness of Einstein gravity via Black Hole formation
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Moduli Space of Tori: Intuitive Understanding in T-Duality
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Inflation requires initial symmetry?
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Is the new spin foam model's graviton behavior problematic?
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String Theory and Spacetime - Some Questions
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Quantum Gravity Experiments: Proposals & Models
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Theory of everything and unifications
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F-string, NS5-brane & D-string
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Is Theoretical Physics Progress Stagnating?
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Infinite Dimensions: Is M Theory Correct?
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Can Gravity Influence the Flow of Time?
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Can String Theory Explain the Relationship Between Frequencies and Particles?
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