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Gravostrong ? TOE advise needed
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Is gauge theory applicable to finite-dimensional Lie groups?
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Can Knotted Closed Strings Exist in Higher Dimensions?
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Is Space-Time Really Like a Liquid, and Why Aren't We Dissolving in It?
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Does someone undesrstand Matti Pitkanen's TGD?
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String Field Theory: Will It Outshine String Theories?
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What are the different approaches to QG and QM without spacetime?
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Petr Horava's quantum Gravity ( without strings)
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Free Papers Intro to 11D Supergravity: ArXiv & Google Scholar
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Conformally inequivalent tori (for one-loop string diagrams)
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Significance of non-linear terms
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Question over dimensions, something that's been bothering me
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Susskind on black hole in collider experiment
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Number of Lepton Generations in string theory
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Advanced published papers regarding valid unification theories?
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Has anyone heard of Anyonic strings?
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Simple question about a calculation in superstring theory
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Strings vs Blocks: Dimensions & Oscillating Volumes
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M-Theory is that same as Superstring Field Theory?
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What is E8 Theory and How Does It Relate to String Theory?
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Is There a Paradox in Amelino-Camelia's Doubly Special Relativity?
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Virasoro operators in bosonic String Theory
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Smolin video LQG online course
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Map of Bagger-Lambert papers-links, interviews
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Why planck scale? let me explain before kill me
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More evidence for asymptotic safety (Saueressig, Machado, Benedetti)
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Emergent matter as form of ramification?
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Arguments Against LQG: Summary & Analysis
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Lqg is still local lorentz invariant?
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How Does String Theory Relate to Mass-Energy Equivalence?
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Stringy corrections to SM propagators
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String Theory & Emergent Spacetime: Investigating a TOE Possibility
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Current state of string theory
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Proofs from Oriti's QG book available in PDF
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String Theory: Understanding Superstring Theory and Its Location
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Request to String Lovers: Classify theories by critical dimensions.
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How Do 1-Dimensional Strings Transform into Point Particles in Physics?
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Martin Kober: The relation of a unified QFT of spinors to the structure of GR
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Hyper-complex fields in Supergravity?
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Extra dimensions -> power law lowering unification?
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New blackhole solution to Einstein eqn, no info paradox (Krzysztof Meissner)
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Our picks for 2008 MIP (most important QG paper)
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Could the quanta of gravity be something other than a spin-2 graviton?
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Second quantization in ashtekar variable
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Possible Lorentz violation measured
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If y've read Wilczek's book (comment on ideas of chapter 8)
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Identifying Regular and Irregular Lattices in the Graphity Model
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Edge predictions related to QG
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Can Quantum Gravity Explain Inflation After the Big Bang?
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Dark matter is a quantum liquid? (buzz over McElrath's paper)
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CMB: Is it a Background & Why Do We Need Alternatives?
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String Field Theory and Background Independence?
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Low background quantum geom/grav (map and current situation)
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Why only three non curled up spatial dimensions?
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How Does Counterfactual Computation Work?
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Explore Parallel Universes: The Universe
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Baratin and Freidel: a spin foam model of ordinary particle physics
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Is Quantum Gravity Revealing a Fractal Microstructure of Space-Time?
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Fractal Space-Time: Theory and Applications
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What is the Hierarchy Problem & How Can it be Solved?
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Unification of guage couplings in the presence of extra dimensions
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Krasnov non-metric quantum gravity
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A Lagrangian approach to the Barrett-Crane spin foam model-Livine Bonzom
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What is the significance of the factor of 2 in the differentiation on orbifolds?
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String Theory & Higgs: Explaining Spin 0
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Is There Time in the Bulk? Understanding Brane Cosmology
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String worldsheets and lqg two-complexes
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What Happens When the Inverse Kahler Metric is Singular?
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2-slit interference in a gravitational field
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Is the concept of strings still relevant in modern physics?
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Benedetti's insight connecting Loll and Reuter continuums
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String Theory and Supersymmetry
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Weyl's take on symmetry and the continuum
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Nature of Time (FQXi competition & Rovelli's paper)
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Diff invariant (measurement theory and observables)
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Quantum Nature of the Big bang in Simple Models (Ashtekar@Perimeter)
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Question on parallel multi. theories
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New stuff happening in Quantum Gravity
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Three Roads to Quantum Gravity: String Theory, Loop Quantum Gravity & ?
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Philosophy of Loop Quantum Gravity
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Group Theory for Unified Model Building
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Quick question: Is the multiverse theorized to have an origin?
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Why does Nima A-H say unlikely to tell us anything about particle physics?
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(UV finite)LQG @Strings 2008-Rovelli's slide #20
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Is M-Theory the Key to Unifying String Theories?
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Quantized spacetime and Special Relativity
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Need some clarificationregarding GRAND UNIFIED THEORY
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9 large dimensions, No curled up ones?
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Loop and central cosmo mingle (Cornish glimpses Gambini)
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Half-Lives according to String Theory?
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What is String Theory and Why is it Important?
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Convergence of Loll's CDT and Assymptotic Safety.
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Choice for 3rd quarter MIP (most important QG paper)
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How Does Differential Geometry Help Calculate the Cosmological Constant?
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Clifford Space and String/M-theory?
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Unambiguous Quantum Gravity Phenomenology: Bonder & Sudarsky
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Minimum Time Interval: Experimental Evidence?
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Derivation of Integration in Spinfoam Model with SU(2) Measure and Intertwiners
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Dark energy as inertia of information-reference?
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Can Einstein's Theory of Force Unification Reveal a Single Fundamental Force?
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