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Does the Malcadena make experimentally testable and falsifiable predictions?
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NPR: Interview with mathematician re string theory
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Understanding Time and Clocks in Relation to Observers
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Slides from March 2010 QG school
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What Are the Mysteries of T-Duality and Wilson Lines in String Theory?
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Can you verify this calculation ?
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Entropic Accelerating Universe (Smoot et al)
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Does anyone know about a list of course on Quantum GRavity for the current year?
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When will LIGO be sensitive enough to detect gravitational wave background?
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Examples of no gravity in quantum mechanics?
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Are quantum gravity theories based on the existence of gravitons?
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Why superspace formulation works only for at most 4 supersymmetries?
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Is the unobservable universe free from quantum indeterminism?
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Imagining the 10th dimension by rob bryanton
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Gravitons moving out of our dimension
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What're the superspace formulations of SUSY Yang-Mills of D=10, N=1,2,4,8,16,32?
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Sundance Bilson-Thompson ribbons in LQG soldiers on
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What Are the Key Differences Between Space-time Supersymmetry and Supergravity?
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Topics at this week's QGQG school
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Petr Horava hints he is going to work with CDT
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If there are an infinite number of universes.
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What Role Do Conifolds Play in Superstring Theory?
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Explanation of word foliation in quantum gravity?
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Can anyone suggest a good book or lecture on string theory
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Is the lack of infinities in LQG due to quantization of volume and area?
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Could someone explain this entropic force business to me?
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Boundary conditions on D-Branes
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Why don't strings have a huge Planck mass?
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The Cosmic Landscape: A Review by Patrick
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What is the relationship between loop quantum gravity and relational spacetime?
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Is the GLO definition of emergence a good one? (Girelli Livine Oriti)
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String Theory and Twistor Theory Combined
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String Theory: Is an Atom Made of 1 or Millions of Quarks?
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Which Came First: Hawking Radiation or the Big Bang?
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Any Laboratory Scale Test of GR's correction to Newtonian Gravity?
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How Does the Dirac Conjugation Operator Affect Majorana Neutrino Mass Terms?
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Implications of Verlinde entropy on string theory
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Worldsheet ghost stress-energy tensor
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What Are Tri-Linear Invariants in M-Theory and 3-Algebras?
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Ideas on M-Theory: Credibility & Evidence
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How Does Verlinde's Theory Link LQG with Newtonian Gravity?
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Silly question about n.of dimensions in m-theory
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How to determine the number of supercharges (N) for any dimension (D)?
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Verlinde, LQG, entropy and gravity as a fundamental force vs emergent
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Kowalski path to entropic force
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Intrinsic geometry vs intrinsic information
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Holographic / entropic approaches - why SU(2)?
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Entropic force: I don't get it
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String entropy and black hole entropy
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Silly question about units of Momentum Density from NG Action
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Proofs of Coleman-Mandula & Haag-Lopuszanski-Sohnius Theorems
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Technical question about Hawking radiation
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Understanding Groups in Type IIB Superstring Theory
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What is the Causal Sets Approach to Quantum Gravity?
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How Does Modified Gravity Theory Address Black Holes and the Universe's Origins?
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Remembering Matvei Bronstein: A Forgotten Physicist
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Mode Expansion of Closed String with Compact Dimensions
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Every Wikipedia physics article In need of Attention From Expert ?
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What Does the Kinetic Term of the SO(10) GUT Lagrangian Look Like?
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What Does Tension of Our Universe Mean?
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What are unified theories trying to match at lower energies?
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Beta Function in String Theory
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In how many directions can time move?
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String Theory: The Need for Zero Distances
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Is String Theory the Key to Understanding the Multiverse?
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Yershov's Preon Theory & Bilson-Thompson & LQG & mass prediction
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Does Verlinde argument imply 3 spatial dimensions and rules out String theory?
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Horava Gravity proven wrong, ruled out, etc.
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Can string theory include fermions without supersymmetry?
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P-Brane vs Dp-Brane: Understanding the Differences in Type IIB String Theory
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What are the key differences between BPS black holes and AdS black holes?
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The Elegant Universe (Nova Series) - Thoughts?
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Inside subspace, hyperspace and cosmic strings
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Unparticle Physics and Higgs Sector
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How generally can an AdS/CFT analogy be made?
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I know the main points of string theory, but can someone tell me where
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What are the key concepts of Loop Quantum Cosmology?
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Horizon in AdS/CFT: CFT in Black Hole Spacetime
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How Do Vielbeins Function in Higher-Dimensional Kaluza-Klein Theory?
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Theory of Electron String: Vibration, Parameters & Length
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String theory and 6D Yau-Calibi like protein folding?
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D=11 and almost predictive statements.
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Czes-Arivero discussion re Compton wavelength and new Smolin paper
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List of Compact 7 dimensional Einstein manifolds
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Is There an Accepted Theory for Quantum Gravity?
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LQG and Cramer's Transactional Int.
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Classifying SUGRAs: Reproduce SM & Finiteness
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What role does torsion'' play in string theory?
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Could it just be 4 different dimensions not 11?
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Time, String Theory & Beyond: Brett's Quest for Understanding
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Curled up dimensions and Lorentz invariance
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String theory: fundemental properties of string
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String Theory: Nambu-Goto or Polyakov?
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Are Other Universes Governed by Same Fundamental Forces?
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Could an Infinite Matrix Redefine Our Understanding of Existence?
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Explaining the Holographic Principle - Physics & Math
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Is Ilja Schmelzer's Quantum Gravity Approach a Game Changer?
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How can strings have multiple windings?
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Special Relativity vs. Curled up spacial dimensions
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Explanation why our universe and nature’s laws exist.
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