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Graduate Entropy of a black hole after evaporation
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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?
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Graduate Specific Question about Susskind's Lecture on Tachyons
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Graduate Uncovering the Challenges of Quantum Gravity: A Brief Overview
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Graduate Has String Theory's Mistakes Led to Advancements in Physics and Mathematics?
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Graduate Systematic covariant QG, Engle style
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Graduate Could the Holographic Universe Theory Explain Time Dilation?
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Graduate Is Black hole complementarity incompatible with Block Time?
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Graduate Can Quantum Cosmology Be Saved with the Addition of Matter?
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Graduate Questions about N=1 SUSY and Magnetic Monopoles
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Graduate Average of a tensor composed of unit vectors
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Graduate Time Reborn and the Location of Time
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Graduate Condition of Helmholtz theorem to hold.
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Undergrad Questions About Dimensions & Time
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Graduate The relationship between Mathematics, Physics, and Biology
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Undergrad How to understands natural units
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Graduate Perpetua mobile theoretical misunderstanding
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Graduate Question about Dirac Delta function
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Graduate Can a Universe-Sized Rubber Pipe Exist in Two States at Once?
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Graduate Oeckl positive boundary form of quantum theory
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Graduate Is Physics Becoming a Religion? Examining the Role of Physics in Modern Society
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Graduate Why gravity codes renormalization of conformal field theories
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Graduate What is the expected energy range for discovering SUSY particles?
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Graduate Question on Dirac Delta function in Griffiths
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Graduate Could the Universe's Mass be Defined by Information Bits?
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Graduate Algebra closure in LQC(eff.) w. 1/V and holonomy corrections
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Graduate Group theory question about the N large limit
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Graduate Loops 2013: Talks, Abstracts, Plenary Speakers
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Graduate Exploring Born Reciprocity in String Theory
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Graduate How to deduct the gradient in spherical coordinates?
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Graduate Does the CC depend on symmetry breaking?
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Graduate Doubting the effects of Gödel's incompleteness theorems on Physics
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Graduate LQG Black Hole Model: Sources, Status & Puzzling Quantum States
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Graduate Why is the lagrangian extremized
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Graduate Naturalness, Asymptotic and Sterile Neutrinos
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Graduate Mirror symmetry in String Theory?
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Graduate Science isn't the kind of circular dynamic I thought it was.
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Graduate Is Twistor Network Theory the Future of Loop Quantum Gravity?
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Graduate The Case Against The Word Aether
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Graduate Effective field theory, black hole evaporation, firewalls
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Graduate Finding irreducible representations
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Graduate Is There Perfection in Physical Laws?
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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?
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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?
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Graduate Beyond LHC without a machine (new physics from cosmic rays)
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Graduate What the field of physics knows it doesn't know.
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Graduate In which sense is string theory background-independent?
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Graduate 2013 Zakopane slides (Bianchi, Ashtekar)
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Graduate Do we really need to unify GR and QM?
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Graduate Nice discussion between Rovelli and Smolin
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Graduate Can we consider string theory as a special type of field theory?
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Graduate How Does Philosophy Influence Revolutionary Changes in Physics?
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Undergrad Is It Possible to Destroy the Sun with Just a Beam of Energy?
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Graduate Is space-time discrete or continuum?
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Graduate Update on Loops as of July 2013
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Graduate Lagrange vs Hamilton: What's the Difference?
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Graduate Holonomy spinfoams: convergence of the partition function
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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
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Undergrad Why Use Integrals? 15 Yr Old Asks
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Graduate Can Reactionless Drive be Possible?
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Graduate Can I Modify a PDE Expression If It's Constrained to a Curve?
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Graduate Could Converting Mass into Energy in Space Challenge the Conservation of Energy?
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Graduate Dynamics in non-commutative geometry models
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Graduate How will things change after irrelevant operators are confirmed?
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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
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Graduate 2D life form can exist with alimentary canal
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Graduate Information *between* two systems:what counts in physics (FQXi essay)
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Graduate Our picks for first quarter 2013 MIP (most important QG paper)
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Graduate Roadmap for learning String Theory?
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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?
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Graduate Quant. stat. mech. based on general covariance (BHR's paper)
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Graduate Reformulation of Loop gravity in progress, comment?
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Graduate Stability of Minkowski and deSitter Spaces in GR
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Graduate PCF Pure Connection Formulation of GR now QG: Krasnov Delfino Scarinci
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High School Why is squaring so significant when it comes to basic physical laws?
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Graduate The Dreaded Yasha is coming on Tuesday
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Graduate Which Theoretical Physics Field Should I Research?
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Graduate What Experiments Are Being Discussed for Quantum Gravity Phenomenology?
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Graduate Can matter be defined strictly in terms of mass and energy?
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Graduate Why are stings only one dimension?
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Graduate Could Teleportation Be Achieved Through Matter-Photon Conversion?
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Graduate Question on Chapter 7 : Penrose Road to Reality
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Graduate Can a 4D hyper-alien perceive depth with just two hyperspherical eyes?
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Graduate Feasibility of raising up an object with cord and satellite
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Graduate Constraints on possible fifth fundamental force
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Graduate Do non-Abelian gauge fields takes the same value in the Lie subalgebra
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Graduate Loop Quantum Gravity and entropy
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Graduate Scalar Definition: Transformations & Frames
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Graduate Usefulness of SUSY models when it cant exist at non-zero temperatures
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Graduate What Are the Possible Strategies for the Game of Single-Shot Work Extraction?
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Graduate Eric Weinstein's "Geometric Unity" Hypothesis at Oxford
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Graduate New basis for atoms of spatial geometry (intertwiners)
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Graduate Physical intrepretation of contra-variant and covariant vectors?
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