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Graduate How could spacetime become discretised at the Planck scale?
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Graduate What is the physical interpretation of this calculus of variations problem?
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Graduate AdS/CFT correspondence and the cosmological constant
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Graduate Theoretical Physics: Most Precise & Powerful Science
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Graduate Is the Creation of Our Universe from Nothing Truly Viable and Consistent?
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Graduate Century interons and quantum flux
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Graduate Do gravitons interact with photons?
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Graduate Is speculation in multiverses as immoral as speculation in subprime mortgages?
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Graduate Why did the other dimensions stay small in M-theory?
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Graduate QG five principles: superpos. locality diff-inv. cross-sym. Lorentz-inv.
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Graduate Can Multiple Infinite Quantum Fields Coexist in Spacetime?
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Graduate Counting Ghost Numbers in String Theory | Beltrami Parametrization
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Graduate Joe Henson rediscovers Rovelli Smerlak (dropping ontic definiteness assumption)
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Graduate A question about graviton self-interactions in QFT
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Graduate New Limits on Planck Scale Lorentz Violation (Floyd Stecker)
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Graduate Signs LQG has the right redefinition (or wrong?)
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Graduate How will we know a true T.O.E. when we see it?
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Graduate Nonlinear, nonrelative wavefunction
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Graduate Unraveling the Mystery of Super Symmetry
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Graduate Clarification: relation spin network/spinfoam and Wen's Qbit lattice
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Graduate Suppose gravitons and Higgs were quasiparticles like phonons
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Graduate Relationship between Lagrangian and Energy
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Graduate What is the center of SU(3) group
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Graduate How to mobilize solid molecules
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Graduate If LQG now satisfactory, how to add matter?
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Graduate Gravity as a Zitterbewegung Interaction
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Graduate State Sums and (Quantum) Geometry: Frank Hellmann's PhD thesis
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Graduate How Much Info for Building a Universe?
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Graduate Lecture of Edward Witten and 2nd Dutch-IFT School (BRAZIL)
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Graduate An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything
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Graduate String Theory vs. Superstring theory
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Graduate EM Lagrangian in terms of E and B
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Graduate Noether's Theorem Explained: Symmetric Quantity & Conservation Laws
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Graduate A Slant on Warped Extra Dimensions
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Graduate Boundary conditions for Laplace's equation
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Graduate Hot QG+M paper by John Barrett
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Graduate Birth Control in Euclidean Quantum Gravity: CDT
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Graduate Interested in Spinfoam Cosmology? Check out Francesca Vidotto's Online Talk!
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Graduate Interesting topics in Beyond the Standard Model
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Graduate John Baez and John Huerta Paper
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Graduate The Vanishing Energy: Mystery of My Imagination
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Graduate BeGroMaS: gravity was renormalizable after all, so why all the fuss?
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Graduate How do you do a gaussian integral when it contains a heaviside function?
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Graduate How can we systematically derive Casimir operators for graded Lie algebras?
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Graduate Fractal Space-Time and Microphysics: Towards a Theory of Scale Relativity
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Graduate FQXi grant awardee abstracts (novel time ideas)
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Graduate Gravity as a diffeomorphism invariant gauge theory (new Krasnov paper)
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Graduate Why has it been so hard to cominbe Gravitational Forces with
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Graduate What is the factor in the definition of [A,A] in differential forms?
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Graduate Constants of nature as determined by string theory
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Graduate Gravitational biot-savart-like force?
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Graduate What dictates the differences between realms within string theory?
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Graduate How does string theory address problem of time GR vs QM?
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Graduate Hamiltonian does NOT equal energy?
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Graduate Why not unify LQG with Superstring\M theory ?
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Graduate Do the extra dimensions really make sense?
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Graduate Are Length and Time Quantized According to Future Theory?
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Graduate What causes topology change in Calabi-Yau manifolds?
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Graduate Decomposition of irrep. of G_2 into irreps. of A_2
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Graduate Gravity Weakness: Explaining Why It's Not as Weak as We Think
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Graduate A crazy idea about strings and energy
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Graduate Spinfoam Fermions, Lqg now has matter
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Graduate Can Spin Networks Overcome the Background Dependence in LQG Theory?
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Graduate Does Gravity Leak into Extra Dimensions and What Would Happen if it Did?
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Graduate Tears in spacetime shielded by strings
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Graduate Why Are There 11 Dimensions in M-Theory?
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Graduate What is the connection between polytopes and string theory in these papers?
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Graduate Supercharges commutation rules
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Graduate Vielbeins as gauge fields of local translations
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Graduate What is the meaning of a fundamental constant? Dimensioned or dimenionless
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Graduate Can Lorentzian Signature Metrics Always Be Continued into Euclidean Signatures?
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Graduate Changing shape of calabi-yau manifolds: flop transitions
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Graduate Is N=4 ONLY a mathematical construct?
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Graduate Time discreteness and lorentz invariance
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Graduate What is the Planck Scale for AS gravity?
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Graduate Impact of Gödel's incompleteness theorems on a TOE
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Graduate Quantum foam and discreteness of spactime for an idiot
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Graduate How does string theory avoids IR divergences
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Graduate String Theory: Minimal Distance Implications
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Graduate What is the role of combinatorics in the depths of string theory?
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Graduate Piareround's questions about LQG
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Graduate GUT Mass Unification Predictions
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Graduate Criticism of LQG - What do we miss?
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Graduate Is the Higgs Field Merely a Dressing Field?
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Graduate Role of in-house concept analysis done by the QG scientists themselves
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Graduate How to understand 11 dimensions
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Graduate Luboš Motl's Criticism of LQG - What Does He Miss?
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Graduate What Does Quantum Gravity Scattering Amplitudes Mean?
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Graduate What is the Precise Meaning of Canonical in Quantum Gravity Context
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Graduate Conceptual ramifications if black holes do not exist.
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Graduate Meaning of diffeomorphism invariance
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Graduate Occam's razor and theoretical physics
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Graduate String theory in dimensions other than 10
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Graduate Exploring Connes' Finite Noncommutative Geometry Model
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Graduate Plug for Bee Hossenfelder blog (QG phenom'ist and conference organizer)
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Graduate Spring schedule for International LQG Seminar
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Graduate Conservation of Angular Momentum And Oscillation of Mass
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Graduate Coupling of energy/matter to spacetime
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Graduate Quantum Gravity and Specific GR Tests
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Graduate Can we comprehend the 4th dimension.
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