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Fundamental Physics Prize - $27 million awarded
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Graduate What Makes R-Symmetry Unique in N=4 Supersymmetry?
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Graduate 130 GeV gamma line-new physics? DM-detectivework-Lisanti videos
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Graduate String theory gets you any result you want
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Graduate The 130 GeV gamma-ray line and the 125 GeV Higgs
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Undergrad Definition of a Tensor: Learn Physics Basics
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Graduate Is the LaGrangian tautological?
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Graduate Is SUSY theory necessary at this point?
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Graduate Our picks for third quarter 2011 MIP (most important QG paper)
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Graduate Renate Loll video lectures on quantum gravity (Perimeter Scholars series)
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Graduate Mind-boggled by the string theory
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Graduate Can Detecting Photons from Pion Decay Induce Gravitational Radiation?
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Graduate What Are the Current Trends in String Theory Research?
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Graduate Question about statement of Noether's theorem
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Graduate Speziale-Wieland Twistor LQG paper, July 2012
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Graduate Gravitational Entropy: QFT, String Theory, Spin Networks
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Graduate Idea for experimental test of LQG
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Undergrad What Are Tensors and How Can They Be Easily Understood by High School Students?
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Graduate Is the Quaternion Higgs the Particle Detected at the LHC?
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Graduate What is the Haar Measure on SO(4) and Where Can I Find References?
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Graduate Explain Field Theory in Detail - No Quotes Needed
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Graduate Explicit x dependence in Lagrangian
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Graduate Is the electron a photon with toroidal topology? - what is that?
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Graduate Complex Eigen Values: Physical Insight
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Graduate Coexistence of LQG and String Theory?
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Graduate Discreteness and Determinism in Superstrings?
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Graduate What gives superparticles mass?
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Undergrad Pushing a stick thought experiment
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Graduate Neil Turok: all known physics fits into one equation
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Graduate Strings and elementary particles
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Graduate Why Does Nature Favor the Principle of Least Action?
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Graduate Empirical test for extra curled dimensions.
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Graduate A problem I'm having with Noether's Theorem
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Graduate Where does Hamilton's principle come from?
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Graduate Higgs Boson, String Theory and Gravity
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Graduate About applicability of singularities in Physics
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Graduate Is String Theory worth the resources it's taking?
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Graduate Supergravity, does anyone work on it now?
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Graduate Solving Dark Matter with SUSY Theory
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Graduate Algebra of the generator of supersymmetry transformations?
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Graduate Are Quarks Composed of Strings or Photons?
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Graduate Understand Hamilton's Principle Intuitively
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Graduate Quark and Lepton Mass Matrices, Textures, Horizontal Symmetries
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Graduate Using imaginary time to unify QM and GR
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Graduate Visualising the Hamiltonian constraint in inhomogeneous LQC
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Graduate Particle symmetries and unification
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Graduate Is the schooling necessary to satisfy my curiosity?
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Graduate Mass dimension of a scalar field in two dimensions?
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Undergrad Is the Vacuum of Space Truly Massless?
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Graduate Entropy, Relative entropy, Mutual information
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Graduate Wess Zumino model in two dimentions
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Graduate Is it possible to combine string theory and LQG?
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Graduate Can anyone describe Emergent Space
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Undergrad How accurate is this video about higher dimensions?
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Graduate Grassmann variables and Weyl spinors
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Graduate The dimensions of elementary particles in quantum physics and string theory
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Graduate What would be the pre-requisites to learn Topological Quantum Field Theory?
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Graduate Light fermions and ~125 GeV Higgs from asymptotic safety
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Graduate What is the composition of branes and how are they held together?
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Graduate HIGGS DISCOVERY AT 126GeV Shaposhnikov - Wetterich 100% SPOT ON
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Graduate Explaning gravitation via string theory
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Graduate Why does higher derivatives of displacement not concentrated?
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Graduate Can Unified Physical Theories Predict Interdimensional Travel in a Multiverse?
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Graduate Schiff conjecture and LQG or m-theory?
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Graduate Debunking Kinetic Gravity: Examining Le Sage's Theory of Gravitation
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Graduate What is Heim theory and how does it propose to achieve faster-than-light travel?
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Graduate Non-Relativistic SUSY: Group Theory Motivation
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Graduate Why are the Lagrangian and the Hamiltonian defined as they are?
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Graduate Nominations for 2nd quarter MIP poll: Loop+allied QG
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Stress and Failure in Theoretical Physics
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Graduate Solving the Quantum Zeno problem with path integral QG
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Graduate Which Fields of Physics Utilize Topology and Geometry in Modern Research?
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Graduate Is Thiemann in that group of Madrid skydivers?
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Graduate Why is GR and QM not compatible?
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Graduate How to learn Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation
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Graduate What are the 26 dimensions in the M theory?
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Graduate Any evidence accumulating in favor of technicolor
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Graduate Sources on explicitly time-dependent Hamiltonian formalism
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Graduate Does String Theory explain unexplained phenomina?
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Graduate Understanding the Hamilton-Jacobi Equation in Conservative Systems
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Graduate String theory in arbitrary number of dimensions
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Undergrad Interesting Coincidence with Classical/Modern View of Mass and Energy
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Graduate If String Theory explains/ leads to gravity, how does it not make predictions?
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Graduate Is Proving Canonical Transformations as Challenging as It Seems?
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Graduate What is Maupertuis' Principle and its significance in Lagrangian mechanics?
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Graduate Where did cotQ come from in canonical transformation?
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Graduate Acceleration of a universe with -ve Cosmological Constant
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Graduate Is String Theory Truly the Ultimate Theory of Everything?
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Graduate Deriving the 2D KdV Equation for Overcoming Nonlinear Theory Challenges
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Graduate Poisson Bracket Notation: Understanding Conflicting Values - Tips & Tricks
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Graduate Area Law and accuracy of momentum measurement at plank energies
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Graduate Proving Hamiltonian ≠ Energy for Rotating Ball
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Graduate List of Questions I want to ask regarding physics, philosophy, mathematics, etc.
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Graduate Unitarity in Spin Foams: Canonical LQG vs. Path Integrals
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Graduate The Standard Model from SO(32) superstrings?
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Graduate Does ST provide causation to QM?
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Graduate Master equation for Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process
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Graduate Does cosmic censureship hypothesis avoid incompatibility with QM?
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Graduate Smolin:GR=EoS of SF, if he's right isn't that the ballgame? :-D
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Graduate How Does RCHO Unification Relate to Normed Division Algebras?
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