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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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Solution to the Cosmological Constant, Zero-Point Energy, P.D. Mannheim
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Is quantum gravity viable without gravitons?
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Topics in modern theoretical physics with interesting philosophical implications
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1999-2009, key results look back in string & LQG
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History of Loop Quantum Gravity
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Reinforcing the Loop Program: 3 New Papers
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Why not higher dimensions in string is timelike?
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Is Local Poincare Symmetry Exact in All Approaches to Quantum Gravity?
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LQG Workshop: Open Problems & Zakopane Conference
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AdS/CFT: any significant quantitative success?
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Understanding Brane Tension in Cosmology
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Some confusion about asymptotic safety
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Doubt About D0 Branes: Point Particle & String Theory
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Our picks for fourth quarter 2009 MIP (most important QG paper)
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Could M-theory be formuated using loop gravity?
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What is emergent ; what is fundamental ?
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Where Can I Find Beginner-Friendly Resources on Supergravity?
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Berkeley prof contributes LQG paper
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Successors to string scuffle (physical assets/liabilities?)
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Is Everything in the Universe Truly a Mathematical Structure?
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A Single String Conjecture ? -Feynman revisited
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Interesting paper - The Schwarzschild Proton
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Michio Kaku on loop quantum gravity
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So, in string theory, is there such a thing as matter?
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Our picks for third quarter 2009 MIP (most important QG paper)
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Is the Forces by Proxy Theory a Valid Explanation of the 4 Fundamental Forces?
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M-Theory states that there are an infanite amount of other realities
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Could there be an infinite number of dimensions?
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Grav. + GUT (Gravity from a Particle Physicist's perspective)
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The SM finaly realized as particles w/o particle .
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Steven Weinberg offers a way to explain inflation
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Luboš Motl's reference frame down?
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Enough freedom if space is only 3D?
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Links between Everett, Feynman, Kripke?
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Quantum gravity and the 'measurement problem'
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Exploring the Possibilities of Integrating Cosmological Theories
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Kaluza-Klein Theory: Unifying Weak Force and Gravity
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No-frill unification bid to replace string
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Gravitationally trapped photons leads to quantized space-time
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Nicolai digs back into string theory-supergravity, E8, octonions
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Talk by Weinberg about LHC and future of particle physics (video)
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Can Superparticles with Charge be Detected at the LHC?
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Why same object but different space can't be touch?
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What is the motivation of Technicolor?
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(canonical) quantization of teleparallel gravity
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Different number of time dimensions
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Does this paper prove GR emerge from LQG?
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The Unsolved Mystery of the 11th Dimension
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Lewandowski et al's generalized spinfoams
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Why the term cylindrical functions for the states in LQG?
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Tell me how string theory works and about extra dimensions in (laymen terms)
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Is the LSP the Graviton in Particle Physics?
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Particle Mass Prediction in Theoretical Physics: Success Stories
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What makes the strings in string theory vibrate ?
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Minimum volume of LQG corresponds to a minimum energy?
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Alan Guth video on the BIG BANG Theory
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Elaboration on Superstring Theory
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New Unified Theories: Current Research
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Thiemann opens new Center for QG with a stream of papers
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Loop Quantum Gravity: Zurück vor den Urknall" by Martin Bojowald
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Observable QG effects in Chern-Simons gravity-Stephon Alexander
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String theory with points instead of strings, doable?
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Asymptotic darkness in string theory
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Morelia QG School lineup-first US supported QG school
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Two New CDT Papers: AS Disc. & Stochastic Time
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Quantum mechanics and gravity Married?
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String turns forty. (Happy birthday Veneziano model 1969)
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How SUSY solves the hierarchy problem
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Subatomic particles: Comparative sizes
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Why are there exactly 11 dimensions?
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Faster than light time travel through controlled, spatial distortion
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Gravity-Yang-Mills-Higgs unification bid by Krasnov and Gomez
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Master Constraint and canonical LQG
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Questions regarding non-commutative geometry
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Lorentz covariance + Open string
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Any relation between de sitter relativity and LGC?
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Does the big rip happen in LQC?
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Are there geodesics for Calabi–Yau manifold?
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Can Loop Quantum Cosmology Explain Non-Uniform and Asymmetric Universes?
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Quantizing GR: Exact Quantum Loop Results in General Relativity
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The Potential of String Theory: Advancements in Quantum Mechanics and Beyond
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Light-Cone Gauge: Benefits for Quantum Relativistic Particles & Strings
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Horava Gravity talks now available on line
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QG with an Orsay accent (what I got from the Perimeter AsymSafe conference)
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In case you are not a fan of the idea of SUSY, what bothers you about it?
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Videos for Asymptotic Safety conference are online
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Best Intro to String Theory Review Article?
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Is Everything in Our Universe a Hologram According to Susskind and t' Hooft?
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Who is most respected in particle physics?
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Gravity in relation to string theory.
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Does loop quantum gravity hint at the Standard model?
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Lorentz invariance verified almost to Planck scale?
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Can energy be converted back into mass
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Who has done research on the Planck wall
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What are the differences between Volovik & Wen theories?
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Connectedness of Discrete Space-Time Models
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How many universes in a multiverse?
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