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Graduate Help a lay person understand this theory of the multiverse

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Undergrad Use of phasor representation in physics

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Graduate What is Zero Action? What is zero action?

  • Sunfire
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Graduate Approximations and limits in the AdS/CFT correspondence

  • physicus
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Graduate What Are Membranes in String Theory and Their Role in the Universe?

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Graduate Applications of orthogonal polynomials

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Graduate What's exactly the meaning of Linearization?

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Graduate Zero lagrangian and induced gravitation

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Undergrad Center of Mass Formula: Understanding the Intricacies

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Graduate Supersymmetry vs minimalism: what is the Higgs mass telling us?

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Graduate Why do gauge theories win out?

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Graduate Initial-Value Version of Hamilton's Principle?

  • thegreenlaser
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Graduate Does Foam Track Topological Changes in Spin Networks?

  • marcus
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Graduate How Do Planck's Constant and E=mc² Interrelate in Physics?

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High School How can one get from one parallel universe to another?

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Graduate M-Theory Strings: Impermanence and Decay Explored

  • WillyB
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Graduate Can Isotropy of Time Lead to New Conservation Laws in Landau's Mechanics?

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Graduate Why string theory doesn't explane all?

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Graduate Mathmatically, why are parallel universes even theorized?

  • Albertgauss
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Graduate Lagrangian for the Kepler Problem

  • Philosophaie
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Graduate Entropy of a black hole after evaporation

  • trimok
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Graduate Fire Wallow disfavors Event Horizons

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Graduate QFT and QSM in gen. cov. bndry form: ways it could fail?

  • marcus
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Graduate Specific Question about Susskind's Lecture on Tachyons

  • No Upper Bound
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Graduate Uncovering the Challenges of Quantum Gravity: A Brief Overview

  • sadegh4137
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Graduate Has String Theory's Mistakes Led to Advancements in Physics and Mathematics?

  • Beer w/Straw
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Graduate Systematic covariant QG, Engle style

  • marcus
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Graduate Could the Holographic Universe Theory Explain Time Dilation?

  • ibzy
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Graduate Is Black hole complementarity incompatible with Block Time?

  • Dmitry67
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Graduate Can Quantum Cosmology Be Saved with the Addition of Matter?

  • Finbar
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Graduate Questions about N=1 SUSY and Magnetic Monopoles

  • karlzr
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Graduate Average of a tensor composed of unit vectors

  • Irid
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Graduate Time Reborn and the Location of Time

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Graduate Condition of Helmholtz theorem to hold.

  • yungman
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Undergrad Questions About Dimensions & Time

  • michojek
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Graduate The relationship between Mathematics, Physics, and Biology

  • Yelbir
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Undergrad How to understands natural units

  • fet2105
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Graduate Perpetua mobile theoretical misunderstanding

  • joao_pimentel
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Graduate Question about Dirac Delta function

  • yungman
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Graduate Can a Universe-Sized Rubber Pipe Exist in Two States at Once?

  • _StrongArm_
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Graduate Oeckl positive boundary form of quantum theory

  • marcus
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Graduate Is Physics Becoming a Religion? Examining the Role of Physics in Modern Society

  • B4ssHunter
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Graduate Why gravity codes renormalization of conformal field theories

  • marcus
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Graduate What is the expected energy range for discovering SUSY particles?

  • Jimmy84
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Graduate Question on Dirac Delta function in Griffiths

  • yungman
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Graduate Could the Universe's Mass be Defined by Information Bits?

  • jkg0
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Graduate Algebra closure in LQC(eff.) w. 1/V and holonomy corrections

  • marcus
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Graduate Group theory question about the N large limit

  • llorgos
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Graduate Loops 2013: Talks, Abstracts, Plenary Speakers

  • marcus
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Graduate Exploring Born Reciprocity in String Theory

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Graduate How to deduct the gradient in spherical coordinates?

  • igorronaldo
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Graduate Does the CC depend on symmetry breaking?

  • friend
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Graduate Doubting the effects of Gödel's incompleteness theorems on Physics

  • ShayanJ
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Graduate LQG Black Hole Model: Sources, Status & Puzzling Quantum States

  • Jason_0
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Graduate Why is the lagrangian extremized

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Graduate Naturalness, Asymptotic and Sterile Neutrinos

  • the_pulp
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Graduate Mirror symmetry in String Theory?

  • johne1618
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Graduate Science isn't the kind of circular dynamic I thought it was.

  • MinnesotaState
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Graduate Is Twistor Network Theory the Future of Loop Quantum Gravity?

  • marcus
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Graduate The Case Against The Word Aether

  • ohwilleke
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Graduate Effective field theory, black hole evaporation, firewalls

  • atyy
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Graduate Finding irreducible representations

  • llorgos
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Graduate Is There Perfection in Physical Laws?

  • Avichal
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Graduate Does String Theory tell us the size of Extra Dimensions.

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Graduate Can black holes have net color charge? can a BHs help separate quarks?

  • alemsalem
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Graduate Oxford Questions in Physics: Status Quo & Current Methods

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Graduate Significance for LQG of Sen's result on entropy of black holes?

  • bcrowell
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Graduate Beyond LHC without a machine (new physics from cosmic rays)

  • marcus
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Graduate What the field of physics knows it doesn't know.

  • Ubi
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Graduate In which sense is string theory background-independent?

  • tom.stoer
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Graduate 2013 Zakopane slides (Bianchi, Ashtekar)

  • marcus
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Graduate Do we really need to unify GR and QM?

  • Gerinski
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Graduate Nice discussion between Rovelli and Smolin

  • John86
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Graduate Can we consider string theory as a special type of field theory?

  • ndung200790
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Graduate How Does Philosophy Influence Revolutionary Changes in Physics?

  • marcus
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Undergrad Is It Possible to Destroy the Sun with Just a Beam of Energy?

  • jones111
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Graduate Is space-time discrete or continuum?

  • Boy@n
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Graduate Update on Loops as of July 2013

  • marcus
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Graduate Lagrange vs Hamilton: What's the Difference?

  • Sami Ullah
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Graduate Holonomy spinfoams: convergence of the partition function

  • marcus
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Graduate SU(3) and dark U(1) coupling to dark matter

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Graduate Question about SO(32) heterotic - Type I duality, M-theory perspective

  • PelleJW
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Undergrad Why Use Integrals? 15 Yr Old Asks

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Graduate Can Reactionless Drive be Possible?

  • Kasko32
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Graduate Can I Modify a PDE Expression If It's Constrained to a Curve?

  • Sunfire
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Graduate Could Converting Mass into Energy in Space Challenge the Conservation of Energy?

  • beamthegreat
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Graduate Dynamics in non-commutative geometry models

  • Physics Monkey
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Graduate How will things change after irrelevant operators are confirmed?

  • Physics Monkey
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Undergrad Physics nonlinear ODE example for numerical methods project?

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Graduate New Physics Complications Lend Support to Multiverse Hypothesis

  • aquitaine
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Graduate 2D life form can exist with alimentary canal

  • MartinRek
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Graduate Information *between* two systems:what counts in physics (FQXi essay)

  • marcus
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Graduate Our picks for first quarter 2013 MIP (most important QG paper)

  • marcus
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Graduate Roadmap for learning String Theory?

  • patrik1982
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Graduate Classification of manifolds and smoothness structures

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String 2012: John Schwarz's Talk | Transcript & Video

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Graduate Supergravity = local SUSY or gravity mediation?

  • SUSY
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Graduate Quant. stat. mech. based on general covariance (BHR's paper)

  • marcus
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Graduate Reformulation of Loop gravity in progress, comment?

  • marcus
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Graduate Stability of Minkowski and deSitter Spaces in GR

  • marcus
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