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Undergrad Primordial neutron star -- a new candidate for dark matter
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Graduate Double copies and the black hole electron
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Undergrad Trouble for physical collapse models?
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Graduate Current status of Tom Banks' Holographic space time?
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High School Why is Maldacena's paper published in two journals?
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Graduate How do we derive the number of string excitation modes for large N?
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Undergrad New anomaly observed in 12C X17
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Undergrad Multiple (Non-Interacting) Universes?
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Graduate A Proposed Black Hole Entropy Calculation
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Graduate Question about dilaton monopole interaction derivation
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Undergrad "Different" energy eigenstates - clarification of meaning?
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Graduate How are the intertwiners related to Schur's lemma?
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Undergrad Graviweak Unification and Coleman-Mandula theorem
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Undergrad Carlo Rovelli, loop quantum gravity and point particles
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Graduate Non-unitary gauge transformation
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High School What if we cut out the Big Bang and inflation?
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Undergrad Noncommutative geometry and asymptotic safe gravity and MOND
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Undergrad Trying To Conceptualize Two Dimensions Of Time
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Undergrad Can Core Theory Be Derived From Nine Lines?
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Graduate Loop quantum gravity and General relativity
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Undergrad Is the Continuum Limit of Spin Foam Dynamics Equivalent to Massless Gravitons?
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Undergrad Axion Mass Acquisition: Do Axions Acquire Mass?
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Undergrad Has anyone done a PPN formalism on Dark Matter? Or other non-GR?
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Graduate Three generations of Fermions from octonions Clifford alegbras
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Undergrad Explaining how the Higgs fields gives particles mass
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Undergrad Current theory of composite quarks and leptons
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Undergrad Would infinite entropy break all symmetries?
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Undergrad Can Shape Dynamics Be Tested Against Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Why do we need a quantum correction for black hole entropy?
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Undergrad Is a Unified Field Theory the Key to Understanding the Universe?
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Undergrad Could the Lorentz symmetry be theoretically broken in vacuum?
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Graduate Why Can't We Detect Cosmic Rays Beyond the GZK Limit?
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Undergrad Alternative ways to quantize Ashtekar variables
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Graduate Cross section-temperature equivalence
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Graduate Vacuum Transitions and Lorentz Symmetry Breaking
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Roughly how many people in this world actually know about string theory?
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Graduate Volovik vs Witten vs Wen, etc.
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Undergrad From a false vacuum to a true vacuum?
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Undergrad String theory calculation of Extremal black hole entropy problem
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High School Does the quantum vacuum have information?
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Undergrad Spin Foam models in Loop Quantum Gravity
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Undergrad A new concept in Low Mass Dark Matter detection
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Undergrad A new approach to the information Paradox
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Undergrad Possible universes as in Modal Logics
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Help with identifying a reference for the time-invariant Kaluza-Klein metric
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Graduate Calmet & Hsu: Quantum hair and black hole information
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Graduate Is the Higgs really not as heavy as we thought?
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Undergrad Between a Zeptometer and the Planck length
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Undergrad Building Quantum GR out of quantum rulers and quantum clocks
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Undergrad What Are the Empirical Challenges Facing Quantum Gravity Theories?
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High School Current status of Horava Lifshitz gravity?
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Grant for Research in Theoretical Physics
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Undergrad Do extra dimensions lead to expansion of our universe?
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Graduate Can Membrane Field Theory Elucidate M-Theory?
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Graduate Percentage of String Theory Research in Theoretical Physics
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Undergrad Swampland Conjecture: String Theory & Unstable Universes
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Undergrad What Shapes Can Extra Dimensions Take in String Theory?
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Graduate What possible experiments will falsify String Theory?
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Undergrad Is quantum gravity still an immensely popular field?
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Undergrad What is your opinion about Freeman Dyson's opinion on the unification?
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What are the key contributions of Chris Isham to theoretical physics?
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High School LHCb results and MicroBooNE results
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Graduate Is the self-consistency principle a scientific or philosophical idea?
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Undergrad Metrics and conformal transformations
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What is k-Minkowski spacetime, and is it a tool in a theory of quantum gravity?
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Undergrad Current progress in quantum gravity?
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Graduate Can Gödel's Theorem Inform Our Understanding of Physical Reality?
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Graduate Can holography provide a complete description of a space-time?
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High School Difference between LQC and Causal Sets
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Undergrad String Basics question from an ABJECT ignoramus
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Graduate Massless electrons stable if the Universe approaches a de Sitter Universe?
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Graduate Charge conjugation in quantum gravity
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Undergrad Bohmian mechanics and String theory
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Undergrad New Lepton Universality Data To Be Announced Tuesday, 18 October 2021
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Graduate Cohomology and fermions in supersymmetry
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High School XENON1T and possible dark energy detection
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Graduate Quantum theory without classical time: quantum gravity and unification
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Undergrad String theory in 4 dimensions?
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Graduate Any model or theory in physics akin to "Law without law"?
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Undergrad Are these descriptions about extra dimensions really true?
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Undergrad Is Supersymmetry required by String theory?
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High School Could atoms be formed from other quarks than up and down?
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Do you agree with Jeff Bezos on theoretical physics?
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Undergrad Ontology of Causal Dynamical Triangulation
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Undergrad Multiverse: How Many Universes Could Exist?
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Graduate A question about emergent gravity
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Graduate New take on Tegmarks MUH --Geometric Transformation Internalization
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Graduate What are the difficulties of the rishon model?
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Undergrad Is the Higgs field in its present form phlogiston-like?
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Undergrad Why are gravitons expected to exist when gravity is just warped spacetime?
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Graduate Is ADS Theory a Quantum Theory? Hawking's Bet and the ADS/CFT Equivalence
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Is Theoretical Physics Wasting Our Best Living Minds On Nonsense? Moved
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Nobel laureates for and against string theory?
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Undergrad Flat arena for quantum gravity?
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High School What's the distance metric for a compactified dimension?
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Graduate How can modular forms be used in particle physics mass models?
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High School GR and closeness to a black hole singularity
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Graduate MOND Theory Primer: Stacy McGaugh's Research Program Explored
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Graduate Wiesendanger's quantization of an SO(1,3) extension of GR
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Graduate What does the equation C = 12 J mean for black holes?
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