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What is the distance between strings and how are they spread across space?
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Causal Sets lectures have started (video online)
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Lorenz attractor&calabi-yau space
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What Makes Gravity the Ultimate Force in the Universe?
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Graviton: Is It Possible That It Does Not Exist?
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String theory and CP violation
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What is the Fuzzball Hypothesis?
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Progress on braided spin networks?
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Why is String Theory Considered to be a Scientific Theory?
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Progress on M Theory: What We Know So Far
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String Theory: Formula of the Strong Force
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Holography, bekenstein and information distance
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Is the Era of Enlightened Scientific Discovery Over?
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Cross fertilization between string and non string approaches.
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Why do matrix models fail to be The M-Theory?
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Unigrav applied to problems of time and cosmo constant
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Emergent relativity from causal networks
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Mass and gravity originating from the quantum vacuum
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Fermion Cube: Standard Model Lagrangian & Preon Model
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Understanding the Geometric Modulus of Calabi-Yau Spaces
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String creation and destruction
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In LQG, where do things come from to make the Big Bounce?
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Bounce derived in spinfoam cosmology
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Holographic Dualities and the Potential Misdirection of String Theory
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Refreshing paper by Rovelli (nods to filmmaker Khrzhanovsky)
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Ed Witten & M-Theory: Physics I Project Ideas
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Penrose interpretation of quantum gravity
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What's the General Consensus on Heim Theory?
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I understand the main goal of all physicists is to unite quantum
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Poincare conserved currents : Energy-momentum and Angular-momentum tensors
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Seminal Papers in Quantum Gravity?
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Is Holographic Principle a confirmed theory ?
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What Do UV and IR Mean in the Context of Quantum Gravity Theories?
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Are dualities not just an expression of equivalence in physical theories?
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String Theory: a layman's explanation [joke]
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Why strings and not zero dimensional fundumental particles?
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Gravity is not entropic force ?
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Understanding Compactified Dimensions in Superstring and M-Theory
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What are the dimensions beyond 4, 10, and 26?
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Our picks for second quarter 2010 MIP (most important QG paper)
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What Are the Extra Dimensions Beyond Our Familiar Three?
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Compton scattering angle question
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Laws of Nature workshop: what can we tell from the program?
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Experimental Search for Quantum Gravity - Talks online now
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What Determines the Tension of a Brane in Brane-World Cosmology?
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Timeless Path Integral: Dah-Wei Chiou's Latest Paper
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Gravitational force in different dimensions
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Status report on Doubly Special Relativity (Kowalski-Glikman)
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SUSY gauge theories and representations
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Spontaneous dimensional reduction of quantized spacetime
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How does M-theory explain genesis of the 11th dimension?
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Gribov (gauge fixing) ambiguities in quantum gravity
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Foundations of Space and Time (edited by Ellis et al, to appear)
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Can a theory have local Lorentz invariance but not diffeo invariance?
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Post-2004 work on cosmological natural selection?
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Why are theories of QM and relativity not possible to combine?
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What is the CFT equivalent of active diffeomorphisms in AdS?
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Four-qubit entanglement from string theory
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Questions of Conjecture in Physics.
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Is there someone who knows the difference between String Theory and LQG?
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Building space with quantum chunks (Bianchi Doná Speziale)
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Quantum Theory as Inductive Inference: RK Kostecki
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Is the Higgs Boson Misunderstood Due to Misleading Analogies?
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Matter as excitations of spacetime lattice?
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Synchronization method with possible QG applications
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Incorporating 3 Forces Into Relativity: Is It Possible?
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Time as a Dimension or Projection?
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Conrady's animation visualizes chaos cooling and 2D space crystalizing out
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Hi, from newcomer J. interested in string/M
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How Does Causal Dynamical Triangulation Ensure a Single-Direction Spacetime?
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Are congenial constants also holey ?
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Gravity Quantized along Thiemann lines (by Lewandowski's team)
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Why spin is quantized one-dimensionally (spon. dim. red. conjecture)
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Hartle Hawking offer probabilities for observations (eternal inflation picture)
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Non-perturbative string theory from AdS/CFT ?
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Does string/M-theory make falsifiable predictions at planck scale?
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Question about examples used to visualise higher dimensions
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A Theory We're Incapable to Understand?
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Strings still usefull in 4D spacetime?
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Gerard 't Hooft's Probing Canonical Quantum Gravity
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Could N=8 Supergravity Challenge the Foundations of Asymptotic Safety?
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A change of vacuum in string theory?
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Hawking and Spontaneous Creation
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Smolin's Scientific American article on LQG
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Concept for Black Hole explaination
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Exploring the Role of SU(2) in Spin Networks
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Basic LQG questions raised by 1998 LQG Primer article
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Satellite Workshop on Noncommutative Field Theory and Gravity
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What is Heim's theory and how does it relate to Maxwell's equations?
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Entropic force correction to Newton law by Modesto and Randono
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What happens when you try to join QM and GR?
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Can we create a universe in a lab using m-theory and repulsive forces?
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New Study Suggests a Test for String Theory
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Masses of elementary particles
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Can Extra Dimensions Explain Attractive and Repulsive Forces?
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Can overlapping divergences be disentangled ?
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Starting from Discrete or Continuous?
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What is Rovelli's new LQG formulation trying to do?
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Is there a quatum of torsion in Cartan Einstein Gravity? What is its spin?
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ADM formalism in canonical quantum gravity
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