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Graduate What's happening with Loop? (new potential challenges)

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Graduate Up-tunneling is Impossible for Minkowski, DeSitter, or Anti-de Sitter

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Graduate Is the Quest for a Theory of Everything Getting Out of Hand?

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Graduate How many dimensions are needed to fully describe the electromagnetic force?

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Graduate How to tough to publish string theory topics?

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Graduate Prospects of the canonical formalism in loop quantum gravity [Alexandrov, Roche]

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Undergrad Euler Lagrange derivation in book

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Graduate What is the significance of scale-invariance in asymptotic safety theories?

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Graduate Solving PDE involving Gaussian fields.

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Graduate Why don't they count as physical explanations?

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Graduate Can Lorentz Symmetry be Emergent?

  • marcus
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Graduate Why do R and NS sectors mix bosonic and fermionic oscillators in mass calculations?

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Graduate A question regarding the definition of a tensor

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Graduate Two notions of distance from wrapped and unwrapped strings

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Graduate How are intertwinners related to conservation laws?

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Graduate Is there a unified understanding of time and its dimensions?

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Graduate I don't understand something about the Lagrangian / action?

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Graduate Prospects of the canonical formalism in loop quantum gravity

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Graduate Normal Modes Solution for Two-Body Oscillator

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Graduate Proving Runge-Lenz Vector Time Derivative is Constant

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Graduate Argument for discreteness of spacetime

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Graduate String vibration modes for elementary particles in superstring theory

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Graduate Why does renormalization problem still happen in nonperturbative QG?

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Graduate How many laws explain everything we know about nature, and what are they?

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Graduate Laplace equation in N dimensional space

  • med17k
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Graduate Kaluza-Klein theories in twelve dimensions and F-theory

  • mitchell porter
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Graduate Myth of spacetime (Gomes Koslowski)

  • marcus
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Graduate Why is the gauge group for Ashtekar variable theory for General

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Graduate Symmetry and Causality: are the two connected?

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Graduate Question on higher spatial dimensions

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Graduate Ten Theses on Black Hole Entropy [Sorkin]

  • tom.stoer
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Graduate Weyl version of the Rarita-schwinger equation

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Graduate Can universal Turing machines exist in non-3+1 dimensions?

  • AlpT
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Graduate What is the meaning of 'box' in Wess and Bagger's chiral superfield theory?

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Graduate SBH Entropy: Clarifying the Meaning

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Graduate How to make an action supersymmetric?

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Graduate Time loops, tachyons, and spacelike neutrino effects from OPERA

  • mitchell porter
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Graduate Status of String Random Matrix Models w/ c>1

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Graduate What is the significance of Tim Palmer's Invariant Set Postulate?

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Graduate Inverting atmospheric density for temperature using chi-squared minimization

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Graduate G2-MSSM and Bilson-Thompson braid correspondence comparison

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Graduate QM/GR Wrong about Nature of Time?

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Graduate Hamilton's Variation Principle - Fundamental Questions

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Graduate Nothing? (Beyond the Standard Model)

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Graduate Third quarter MIP poll lineup for loop quantum gravity papers

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Graduate Why choose string theory or loop quantum gravity as a research field

  • Casco
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Graduate Is Local the Same as Isotropic in Physics?

  • Niles
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Graduate Are there theories in physics that suggest matter is an illusion?

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Graduate Orthogonality of Legendre Polynomials from Jackson

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Graduate What is the Current Status of Loop Quantum Gravity and Its Open Issues?

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Graduate Three papers as the tip of an iceberg

  • mitchell porter
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Undergrad Is Gravity a Unified Force Like Electromagnetism and Atomic Forces?

  • mangaroosh
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Graduate How Does the AdS/CFT Correspondence Impact Modern Theoretical Physics?

  • mitchell porter
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Graduate Abstractly thinking outside the box

  • Thal
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Graduate Is Gravity a Dimension: Theoretical Perspectives and Implications?

  • fiber
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Graduate Relationship between SUSY transformations and GSO projection

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Undergrad Neutrinos Break Speed of Light - Physics Findings

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Graduate Quantum field theory and string theory

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Graduate Decomposing Spinor Representation of SO(6,6)

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Graduate Can algorithmic randomness prevent a unified field theory?

  • lanman
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Graduate String theory relativistic equations

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Graduate Neutrinos can travel faster than light

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Graduate Integral Brane World: Why $\oint (A'e^A)' dy = 0$ but $\oint e^A dy \neq 0$?

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Graduate Vacuum permittivity as a fundemental dimensioned unit

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High School Did OPERA's 2011 neutrino measurement exceed light speed?

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Graduate Are John Wheeler's Unconventional Theories Scientifically Valid?

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Graduate What is the Holographic Principle and its Implications for Physics?

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Graduate What are the proposed gauge-symmetry groups for Grand Unified Theories?

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Graduate What is SO(14) or SO*(14) Unification? Appeal to 't Hooft?

  • marcus
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Graduate Triality in beyond standard model physics

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Graduate Is Ads/CFT correspondance the same as gauge /gravity duality?

  • Jack2013
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Graduate String Theory and the Concept of Time

  • Lost in Space
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Undergrad Linear functions/operators conflicting understanding

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Graduate PleasI need so much findings on this topic fellow scientists. I

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Graduate Primary constraints and Nambu-Goto action

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Graduate Evidence of violation of quantum mechanics due to gravity?

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Is Space Continuous or Unknown? Or Do We Have No Idea?

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Graduate Why does Banks compare holography and discreteness in his research?

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Graduate Exotic smoothness and quantum gravity

  • tom.stoer
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Graduate Why focus on strings if other mathematical structures might work

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Graduate Gauge theories labeled by three-manifolds and 3d N=2 dualities

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Graduate Why does gravity forbid local observables?

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Graduate Dawn of the dS/CFT: Higher Spin Realization of the Correspondence

  • mitchell porter
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Graduate Thiemann on the relation between canonical and covariant loop quantum gravity

  • tom.stoer
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Graduate Nonlinear Quantum gravity / Schroedinger Equation

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Graduate Is Dirac delta function dimensionless?

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Graduate Lack of quantum fluctuations rules out holographic principle ?

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Graduate What Are Non-Unitary Euclidean CFTs and Their Implications?

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Graduate Would the absence of the Higgs boson validate particle physics research?

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Graduate How do we know the Hamiltonian is well-defined

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Graduate Errors by great minds in theoretical physics

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Graduate Will string theory ever be proven wrong?

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Graduate Breaking of Lorentz invariance

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Graduate No QG Signature from Farthest Quasars: A Study

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Graduate Loop and spin foam quantum gravity for beginners

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Graduate Why would a Susy signal have been bad news for the Loop program?

  • marcus
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Graduate What is the physical/philosophical motivation for twistors?

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Graduate What are relation between unique describe of world and covariant law?

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Graduate Is the number of strings constant?

  • bostonnew
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Graduate Is Supersymmetry Really the Answer?

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