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Graduate Help a lay person understand this theory of the multiverse
- wagersmith
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Undergrad Use of phasor representation in physics
- Abel I Daniel
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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?
- ilikescience94
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Graduate Applications of orthogonal polynomials
- lonewolf219
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Graduate What's exactly the meaning of Linearization?
- jollage
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Graduate Zero lagrangian and induced gravitation
- Sunfire
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Undergrad Center of Mass Formula: Understanding the Intricacies
- eprparadox
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Graduate Supersymmetry vs minimalism: what is the Higgs mass telling us?
- mitchell porter
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Graduate Why do gauge theories win out?
- marcus
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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?
- Kehsibashok
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High School How can one get from one parallel universe to another?
- Albertgauss
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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?
- zerokool
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Graduate Why string theory doesn't explane all?
- ryanuser
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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
- jimgraber
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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
- wmikewells
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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
- atyy
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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
- copernicus1
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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.
- hankaaron
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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
- Digitalism
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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
- pdxautodidact
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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
- ryanuser
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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?
- fletch-j
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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 Roadmap for learning String Theory?
- patrik1982
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Graduate Classification of manifolds and smoothness structures
- tom.stoer
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String 2012: John Schwarz's Talk | Transcript & Video
- arivero
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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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