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Graduate What is Discrete Scale Relativity?
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Graduate What Is the Role of Twistor Space in Quantum Field Theory?
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Graduate What is a Galileon? - Get the Definition Here
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Graduate Black hole microstate in AdS/CFT
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Graduate What is Mass? Understanding the Concept and Implications in Physics
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Graduate Off-shell central charge/dimensions in string theory.
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Graduate Experimental support of string theory?
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Graduate Silly question about quantum gravity
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Graduate The Mysteries of the Other Dimensions: Uncovering the Secrets of M-Theory
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Graduate Complex Analysis for Integrals in Physics
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Graduate S.J Gates et al - Relating Doubly-Even Error-Correcting Codes (shortened)
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Graduate Why Do Causal Dynamical Triangulations Utilize a Partition Function?
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Graduate The notion of Extra Space Dimensions
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Graduate Comparing Lagrange's Equation of Motion and Euler-Lagrange Equations
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Graduate What are Superstrings made of?
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Graduate Constructing Chiral Superfield from Vector Superfields
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Graduate Anti de Sitter space modelling
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Graduate How do branes challenge our understanding of spacetime and geometry?
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Graduate Connes Rovelli paper on time in gen. cov. quantum theories
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Graduate Has C ever been derived from knowing E & M?
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Graduate Can Energy Exist Without Mass?
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Graduate What are the latest therories in physics?
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Graduate Is the 5th Fundamental Force Real?
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Graduate Could escaping gravitrons be an explanation of dark energy?
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Graduate Question about Green, Schwarz, Witten Appendix 4.A on N=1SYM
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Graduate Many-Body Dynamics: Conserved Hamiltonian?
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Graduate True Background-Independent Particle Physics
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Graduate Information Wave: True or False?
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Graduate Strings Double Slit Experiment
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Graduate Branes and Worlds: Understanding the Multidimensional Universe
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Graduate Meaning of low energy in loop quantum gravity
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Graduate Our picks for first quarter 2011 MIP (most important QG paper)
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Graduate Our picks for fourth quarter 2010 MIP (most important QG paper)
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Graduate Uncovering the Solution to M-Theory: A Lagrangian Approach?
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Graduate World within Planck Scale & QM/GR Unification
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Graduate What is the connection between spin networks and ABJM's dual conformal symmetry?
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Graduate Is time still undoubtedly continuous?
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Graduate Are angle measurements rank 0 tensors?
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Graduate Continuum Idealization: Treating Properties as Point Functions
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Graduate Any application of AdS/CFT to nucleon structure?
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Graduate Particle Physics in Curved Spacetime (Background Independent)
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Graduate A question on the action as a function of the co-ordinates in Landau 1
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Graduate Does the nabla operator has a unit?
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Graduate How do I know if the Hamiltonian is constant?
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Graduate String Theory State and History
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Graduate Classical Limit in LQG: Has GR Been Shown?
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Graduate Question on transformation of coordinates.
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Graduate Is Quantum Gravity only related to Planck Scale?
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Graduate Closed Strings and Virasoro algebra
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Graduate Progress of Bouncing Universe Theory
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Graduate Is Physics More About Models Than Reality in Explaining Phenomena Like Gravity?
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Graduate Solving a Lagrangian using an Ansatz
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Graduate Experimental Predictions from String Theories
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Graduate Clarifying Open String Hamiltonian for Witten's Book
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Graduate Bogolubov Transformations: How to Normalize the Coefficients?
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Graduate Solving the Mystery of -1/12 in String Theory
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Graduate Dimensional regularization and Fractals - Is it a crackpot idea?
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Graduate Strings as described in Superstring theory
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Graduate What is meant by no complete TOE ?
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Graduate Probability of Inflation in Loop Quantum Cosmology (new Ashtekar Sloan paper)
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Graduate A bigger structure than multiverse
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Graduate String Theory: Quark/Atom Strings Estimate
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Graduate Foundations of a theory of quantum gravity - Johan Noldus' book.
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Graduate Jacobi least time vs. Fermat Hamilton
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Graduate Is there any definitive answer on unitarity in quantum gravity
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Graduate Are Physics Models Truly Simple or Inherently Complex?
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Graduate Isn't M-theory and the multiverse idea a bit discouraging?
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Graduate How can we find out from the Lagrangian if energy is conserved?
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Graduate Do the fundamental forces continue to break down at lower energies?
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Graduate Understanding Hamiltonian Field Equations and Their Applications in Field Theory
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Graduate 2-form and dissipative systems
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Graduate Why is QM incompatible with GR and how does string theory solve this? Or M-Theory?
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Graduate Why point particle interaction has UV divergence,but string interaction does not?
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Graduate Latest results from the LHC are casting doubt on the theory of supersymmetry
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Graduate Naked singularities: evidence against compactified dimensions?
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Graduate Holography and Calabi-Yau compactifications
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Graduate The road to AdS/CFT-Correspondence
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Graduate Best Approach to Quantum Gravity
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Graduate EM Field Lagrangian: What Defines It?
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Graduate Lectures on Loop Gravity (8 talks on the new version)
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Graduate Core lecture abstracts for QG school
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Graduate Quantum from classical behavior in higher dimensions?
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Graduate Dimensionless Equations: Understanding the Role of Units in Physical Equations
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Graduate Interaction energy and gauge invariance
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Graduate What are gravitons exactly and how will they help us prove string
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Graduate Information about black branes
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Graduate The Probing of, Approximation to and Idealization of Structure for Foundations
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Graduate Why is spacetime four-dimensional
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Graduate Modular invariance in string theory
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Graduate Hamilton-Jacobi Theory: Why No Time Dependence?
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Graduate Where can I read about the superconformal algebra in 4D?
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Graduate Garett Lisi's 248-dimensional theory?
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Graduate Is String Theory the Key to Unifying Quantum Physics and Gravity?
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Graduate Is Verlinde's Gravity Theory Based on Relativistic Assumptions?
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Graduate Ontology of AdS/CFT classical on the bulk?
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Graduate Can Loop Gravity and String Theory be Compared Fairly?
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Graduate LQC and string theory combined in one theory
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Graduate What is the physical significance of the iFactor?
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Graduate Is Complexity in the Universe Emergent from Simpler Systems?
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Graduate Semiclassical Limit of Causal Dynamical Triangulations (Ambjorn, Loll et al)
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