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Loop Quantum Gravity for newbies
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Kaminski et al cf Ashtekar et al
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Loop-String goodies in TWF 281 (that MTd2 spotted)
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Questions on Causal Dynamical Triangulations
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New Paper by Manfred Requardt: Wormhole Spaces & Entanglement
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Smolin is working on a new book
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Branches of theoretical physics are the most likely to find a TOE?
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What a world without decoherence would be like
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Can we view the string theory as defined on special 2-D time?
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Topological string theory - how useful is it?
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Space time signature as a quantum number and antigravitaion (nothing crank here)
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What resources are available for the 2009 Loops conference online?
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Trying to understand Loop Quantum Gravity in layman's terms
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Can You Buy a Black Hole for 20 Euros? Understanding Maldacena's Second Slide
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Has SUSY solved Flavor changing neutral current?
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What Are N-Dimensional Objects in Superstring Theories?
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Rachel Lash Maitra's first arxiv paper opens new line
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LHC - the last chance for all theories of everything?
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Is String Theory Real Science or Just Speculation?
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Why string dualities imply unifying M-theory?
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Revolutionizing the Universe: String Theory & Quantum Gravity
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PI talk on Feynman Checkerboard Model and the wave function
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First news from the Corfu School: Baez TWF 280
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A Duality between Strings and Loops in M Theory
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Time in String Theory: Directionality of Time
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Why do strings have to exist in 10 dimensions?
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Object Conceptualization Help Needed - Contact TDYOUNG24@HOTMAIL.COM
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Is Quantum Gravity a Discrete Gauge Theory?
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Could GR's background independence be a theoretical artifact?
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The Emergence of Gravity: The Case for a New Theory of Spacetime Structure
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Can We Prove the Existence of Parallel Universes?
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If GUT are false, are string-based unification also false?
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What Are the Pros and Cons of SUGRA Forking?
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What is Compactified Extra Dimensions?
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Books about string theory, wormholes, black holes, etc
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Kaluza Klein and gauge symmetry breaking.
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Einstein's theory of everything
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Why do we need compactified dimensions?
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Exploring Causal Set Approach to Quantum Gravity
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How to get from representations to finite or infinitesimal transformations?
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If BH do not exist, would string & LQG be falsified?
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Meissner Nicolai conjecture-opening to a 4D ToE
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Geometry both discrete and continuous at once, like information-Kempf
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String Theory: Are Vibrating Strings Tensioned or Free-Floating?
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Why Is It Important to Quantize Gravity?
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Any proof about the equivalance of between theories of R^4 x M and R^10?
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Regge with curved blocks; diffeo symmetry; the Dittrich Bahr papers
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Does string theory predict additional long range forces gravity EM
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What is the quanta in LQG and Spinfoam and BI?
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Our picks for second quarter 2009 MIP (most important QG paper)
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Might be a string theory Question
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Carlip's talk at Berkeley string seminar (featured results CDT et al)
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Cosmological footprints of LQG (Aurelien Barrau and Julien Grain)
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Some questions about Randall Sundrum model
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Matter wave, light wave and water wave
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What is gravity according to string theory?
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Corfu School starts next week, what can we learn from the lineup?
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Gamma Rays Photons Slower?(Quantum Foam)
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Why singularities do not exist
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Non-standard question about the Standard Model
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Emergent Gravity IV - Learning & Questions
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Witten remains a strong string theory believer
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The structure of quantum geometry of spacetime at the Planck scale
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Where Can I Find the Missing Arxiv Paper hep-th/9312153?
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What is the connection between DeSitter group SO(4,1) and Minkowski spacetime?
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Is there a limit to the information contained within the Planck scale?
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Could Space Be Quantised to Create Different Travel Paths?
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Electromagnetism=gravity in higher dimensions
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What if TOE is non-analytic ?
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Could gravity be residual strong force?
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Solving Cosmological Constant, Zero-Point Energy & Quantum Gravity Problems
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Can Gravity Escape Higher Dimensions in String Theory?
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Krasnov action-start of a new spinfoam?
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Time Independence: Modeling the Physical World
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The shape of space-time and physical constants
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Inflation and GUTs: Energy Scales & Model Dependence
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Strings & Manifolds: Do Strings Vibrate in 10-11D?
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Ferrohydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics
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Marcolli Pierpaoli: Early Universe models from Noncommutative Geometry
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Wheeler-deWitt equation; creation ex nihilo
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An issue with time and how we fit in
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Unifying Gravity, Gauge Interactions & Higgs Bosons: Smolin & Speziale
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Learning N=4 SYM for the Uninitiated
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Correct Type IIA supergravity action
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Lorentz violating severely restricted: Mqg/Mplank > 1200
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Important AsymSafe QG development
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Is spacetime a physical entity?
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Programmes that calculate dimensionality
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New TOE announced by Smolin, Spezile and *Garrett Lisi
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Back to the real world re Lorentz bending
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How many string theories with more than one supersymmetry?
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A few questions about perturbation and string theory
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Is spacetime in string theory 4D or 12D?
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N=8 Supergravity: Maximal Supergravity Explained
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Senovilla's Slowing Time Theory
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Which are the constants needed for the universe to exist?
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Why Are Planck Mass and Energy Not Considered Extreme?
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Conformal invariance / reparametrization invariance
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What Are the Symmetries of the Nambu-Goto Action in String Theory?
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Supergeometry and applications in physics
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