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Are Arnold Sommerfeld's books still the go-to for understanding the Universe?
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Graduate Legendre Polynomial and Rodrigues' Formula
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Graduate Weinberg-Witten Theorem and Quantum Gravity
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Graduate What are the achievements of AdS/CMT ?
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Graduate Accelerated Expansion from Negative Λ
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Graduate ’t Hooft on the Foundations of Superstring Theory
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Graduate Non-integer value of dimensions?
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Graduate What is the significance of N=8 supergravity in cosmology?
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Graduate Joos's Treatment of Virtual Displacement
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Graduate Do TOE candidates predict SM parameters?
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Graduate Too much mass from confinement
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Graduate Do the premises of a theory have to be empirical?
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Graduate Is the mass conferred by Higgs an 'effective' mass?
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Graduate Is it possible that the Strong Force and gravity are the same thing?
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Graduate If numbers are infinite in both directions, physical contact is impossible.
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Graduate S. Martin's Supersymmetry primer Metric
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Graduate A mathematical explanation of hysteresis?
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Graduate Survey: Scale IN Variance in Physics Education
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Graduate Can Knowledge of the Future Alter Its Course?
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Graduate Gauge theory, string theory, and twistor theory converge
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Graduate Help with expansion of an expression
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Graduate Testing Planck-Scale Gravity with Accelerators - Very interesting Article
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Graduate The logic of the 11 dimensions in M theory
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Graduate Quantum theory vs String theory (Who's the best?)
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Graduate Are String Theory Correction Terms Infintesimal under Supersymmetry Conditions?
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Graduate How to define the Hamiltonian phase space for system?
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Graduate Question regarding two books on quantum gravity
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Graduate Feynman diagrams for Quantum Gravity
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Graduate Beyond the photon starting point and our universe.
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Graduate A code found in equations for superstring theory huh?
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Graduate Does the Bekenstein bound apply to gravitational waves as well?
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Graduate Planck Length Paradox: Radius & Area
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Graduate Unification of gravitation with other forces
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Graduate Converting open strings to closed strings
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Graduate How Does String Theory's Concept of Finite Strings Impact Quantum Field Theory?
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Graduate Is the list of particles complete and unique?
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Graduate Analyzing a coordinate transformation
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Graduate Understanding Lagrange multipliers in the Lagrangian
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Graduate How to construct gamma matrices with two lower spinor indices for any dimension?
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Graduate Uniqueness and origin of physics theorems
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Graduate Time Travel and the space-time continuum
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Graduate Can Isolated Systems Under an Energy Constraint Exhibit Chaotic Behavior?
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Graduate Interesting Claus Kiefer article: fermions decohere geometry
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Graduate The Holonomy Expansion for Hamiltonian in LQG
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Graduate Lifting General Relativity to Observer Space
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Graduate Where and what is the ADS dictionary
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Graduate How Does Ed Witten's Latest Paper Advance Superstring Perturbation Theory?
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Graduate Cycles of time-Penrose says his cyclic cosmology obeys thermodynamics.
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Graduate White-Juday Warp Field Interferometer Experiment
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Graduate Simplifying Index Notation in Vector Calculus
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Graduate Is Susskind's derivation Euler-La Grange rigorous?
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Undergrad Is Warp Drive a Possibility or Just Science Fiction?
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Graduate Our picks for second quarter 2012 MIP (most important QG paper)
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Graduate Understanding the Adjoint Operator in Physics
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Graduate Brains for Theoretical physics
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Graduate Which systems satisfy Hamiltons principle
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Graduate Continuing mobius strip theory idea
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Graduate Chamseddine/Connes new paper on noncommutative geometry standard model
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Graduate Does particle spin depend on background?
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Graduate Tips on writing the Lagrangian
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Graduate Why Does the Integral of Legendre Polynomials Yield a Kronecker Delta?
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Graduate Practical Applications of the 4th Dimension (and beyond)
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Graduate Is action-reaction contained in the Lagrangian
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Graduate If curl A = 0, how is it the gradient of something?
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Graduate Great title (and a nice looking paper)
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Graduate Experimental Search QG (Perimeter Oct. 2012)
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Graduate Critical recorded seminar talk by PF member
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Graduate What Are the Different Definitions of Action in Physics?
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Graduate Uniqueness of canonical transformations
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Graduate Wikipedia misinterpreting neutron experiment as evidence for Quantum Gravity?
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Graduate 2nd event horizon in black holes
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Graduate The Future of LQG - Oldey's Perspective
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Graduate Tom Banks anti-landscape paper
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Graduate Are foundational issues the same as BSM?
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Graduate AdS/CFT and non-perturbative gravity in string theory
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Undergrad Mass of Strings: E=MC2 & Measurable Mass?
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Graduate Classical physics and Group theory
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Graduate Hossenfelder's beautiful idea resolves QG/QFT tension
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Graduate Is spacetime quantized or relative?
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Undergrad Understanding the Chain Rule in Euler-Lagrange Equations
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Undergrad Can Number Theory Enhance Our Understanding of Physics?
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Graduate Loop Quantum Gravity and Correspondence Principle
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Graduate I problem I am struggling: Experiment included.
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Graduate So im a little confused about string theory will give us unification
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Graduate Is a GUT Impossible Due to Godel's Incompleteness Theorem?
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Graduate Unifying gravity with the other four forces
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Graduate Where can I find an accessible resource on ergodicity for physicists?
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Graduate How reliable are Peter Woit and Lee Smolin?
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Graduate Angular momentum coupling with graviton exchange?
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Graduate Is Singular Quantization Still Necessary for Loop Quantum Gravity?
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Graduate New Model Beynod the Standard Model Formulation
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Graduate Are All Canonical Transformations Governed by the Generating Function Relation?
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Graduate Article about symmetries (math problems)
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Graduate Planck's constant as a measure of significance
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Graduate The first superstring revolution
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Graduate Sunset / sunrise diagrams in 2D
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Graduate 11 dimension, what si going on here ?
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Graduate What Should I Study Next: SUSY, LQG, String Theory, or GUT?
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Graduate Are anyons possible in higher dimensions?
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Graduate Can anyone explain to me what is string theory mathematically?
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