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Join expert and advanced topics on beyond the standard model of physics. This includes professionally researched theories like strings, branes, and LQG. Mainstream physics only.
General Relativity + Quantum Mechanics?
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Background independence in string theory
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What Are the Best Introductory Resources on Conformal Field Theory?
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No need for dark matter, dark energy, MONDS, ect, nothing exotic?
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Do you have any recommendation of book involving mathematical physcis?
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No infinite gravitation in string theory?
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Can SU(3) be visualized with three belts?
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Disproofs of Bell, GHZ, and Hardy Type Theorems and the Illusion of Entanglement
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Confused about quantum gravity theory?
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Layman's understanding of interactions in string theory
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Only e-, e+, photons. String theory more simple?
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Why masons can be massless but their composite quark and antiquark both massive?
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Looking for a Veneziano paper
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Gravity Waves and Superconductors (Raymond Chiao)
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Could Weak Gravity Be Explained by Long-Wavelength Gravitons from Unruh Effect?
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Any Lattice Model for String Theory?
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From String theory to QFT & SM: What does AdS/CFT theory can do and what cann't do?
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Minimum Fermion Content to Account for Standard Model: 12 of 8
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Higgs Field & Gravity: What's the Connection?
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U(1)XSU(2-N): The Silliest GUT Ever?
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Are there evidences of a discrete space-time
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Cancellation of vacuum energy in Wess-Zumino model
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How Does M Theory Necessitate Gravity in the Standard Model?
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Black hole microstates and string theory
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Does Renormalization group tell you if a theory is Renormalizable or not ?
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Black Holes and Hawking Radiation: The Time Dilation Paradox
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Graininess of Space-Time found at GEO600?
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Virtual Particle Density in Expanding Space Time
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Is a Unified Lepton Field Possible?
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Question about Possible Waveform in the Electromagnetic Spectrum
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Alcubierre's goose is roasted by Hawking's radiation
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Weyl invariant scalar field theory
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Name the 11 dimensions in M-Theory.
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Graviton bosonic degrees of freedom
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Spin 2 graviton will appear to us as spin 0,1 or 2
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Reconciling graviton exchange with a black hole
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Does a Level IV Multiverse Mean Your Favorite Comic Book Characters Are Alive?
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The governance of theoretical physics
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Cantors Influence on Theoretical Physics
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Ideas for first quarter 2009 most important paper (nominations)
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Noether theorem + CP violation -> Energy is not conserved?
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Regge Trajectories: What Are They?
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So what about the FQXi time essay contest? It's February already.
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The role of information in gravity - ( article - food for Fra)
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Symmetry Breaking and the Metric
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Eleven dimensions, too small or too big?
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What Do Dimensions 5-14 in String Theory Really Mean?
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What is group field theory, and its relation LQG, CDT?
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Dimensions Creation: Theory or Always Existed?
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Approaches to Quantum Gravity (now in Cambridge Press catalog)
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Extra dimensions don't go with dark energy (new Steinhardt no-go theorems)
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String theory - what do strings look like?
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The Elegant Universe- string theory documentary
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Path Integral formulation of Loop Cosmology (a first)
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String thoery - extra dimensions
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Noncommutative geometry naturally includes inflation epoch
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Properties of 6 Dimensional Spheres
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Current BH-LQG topics (e.g. quantization of entropy)
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Equivalence of Gravity & Thermodynamics: Einstein Eqs & $\delta Q = T \delta S$
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T-symmetry violation: any leads?
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Why is gravitino a spin 3/2 particle?
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The Relationship between Experience and Theoretical Physics
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How does Dark energy fit into the standard model?
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Does Simulating 3-D Structures Enhance Polymer Solar Cell Efficiency?
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Gravitons corresponding to flat spacetime.
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Some questions about dimensions 5 - 11
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String Theory, M-Theory, whatever
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Where are the particles created in BH evaporation?
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Discussing "Time for a Change: The Non-Existence of Time" by Lynds
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What is the proposed solution to the Vacuum Energy Density Crisis?
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Emergent string based space time
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Is Space-Time Composed of Strings in String Theory?
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Researching LQG: What Disciplines Should I Study?
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Weinberg cites Reuter, Saueressig, also Percacci in Oriti's Quantum Gravity book
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Initial Value for GR /w Ashtekar Var. Eyo EyoIta defies Freidel and Smolin
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Does String Theory Arise from Quantum/Unified Fields?
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New action is key to Loop gains (the Dittrich-Speziale action)
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How Does Quantum Theory Suggest Spacetime Emerges from Simple Triangles?
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Do superstrings exist in two states of spin?
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What is the concept of Dual Special Relativity?
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Explaining the Expanding Universe: A Discussion
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Asymptotic Safety paper thanks Jacques Distler
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Physicists Theorize New Method for FTL Travel
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How does an electron behave in a closed time like curve?
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The email I sent to Petr Horava about CDT, LQG and his new theory. (no answer).
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Covariant loop quantum gravity and its low-energy limit (throwing the eagle)
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Tests of LQG in cosmology (proposals, prospects etc)
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Necessity of theoretical physics and philosophy
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Can Strings Act as Both Particles and Waves Like Quantum Particles?
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How do D-branes fit into closed string theories?
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How Does General Relativity Encode Universal Energy into Mass?
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Diff invariance allows loop variables why?
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Importance of Closing Algebra in Wess-Zumino Lagrangian: Simple SUSY Question
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What is the Conceptual Meaning of Boltzmann's Constant?
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Supersymmetric string theory, what is it?
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Chiral theories and matter gauges
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String theory and Bell's theorem
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Understanding Z2 Symmetry in Models
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Wave function collapse causes gravity? (article title)
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The meaning of time in curved space quantization
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