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Graduate What is the justification for the variation of the Lagrangian in an action?
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Graduate Notation for Vectors in Different Bases
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Graduate The end of String Theory and Loop Quantum Gravity ?
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Graduate Static gauge for strings in curved background
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Graduate Goldstone bosons in Models with global symmetry, broken by Orbifolding
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Graduate Work of Diana Kaminski (series on algebras of quantum variables)
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Graduate The Immirzi limit-1108.0832, 1105.0216, 1107.1320
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Graduate Can electromagnetism explain gravity?
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Graduate Solve Supersymmetry n=8: Degrees of Freedom for Supergravity
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Graduate Nother's theorem for a static E field
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Graduate The physical meaning of a symmetry
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Graduate Is Black Hole Complementarity the Key to Understanding Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate What is the potential impact of Cristoph Schiller's strand-model in physics?
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Graduate How to go from the configuration space to the phase space?
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Graduate Particle definition in arbitrary spacetimes
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Graduate A PF Challenge to all you PF'ers
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Graduate Lie derivatives of Quantum Fields
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Graduate A critical look at strings - Carlo Rovelli
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Graduate Loop variables for string theory
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Graduate Is Quantum Tunneling a Source of Hawking Radiation?
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Graduate Existence of LQG: Investigating Limits of Spin Foam Models
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Graduate Freidel talk on proposed new physical principle (relative locality)
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Graduate Constructing a hamiltonian for a harmonic oscillator
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Graduate Holographic projections onto the surface of a sphere
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Graduate Are Gravitons Always in a Definite Spin State?
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Graduate Is it possible for the arrow of time to be observed in reverse?
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Graduate Loop quantum cosmology status report
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Graduate What is REALLY the value of the Plank energy?
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Graduate Gravity question, very small distances
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Graduate Clifford vector valued 1-form and gravity
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Graduate How Does Substituting Functions into a Lagrangian Affect Equations of Motion?
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Undergrad If a soda can could contain a vacuum, could it float?
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Graduate Understanding the SU(5) Model: Deriving Equations and Solving Mysteries
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Graduate (A)dS/LQG from Vasiliev gravity
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Graduate Do any of you have a phd in string theory/QED/Theoretical particle physics?
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Graduate Distance not defined in phase spaces?
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Graduate Is my theoretical research testable by experiment?
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Undergrad Allowable Coordinate Transformations?
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Graduate Lagrangians: the obvious questions
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Graduate Where Can I Find Parts IV and V of Momentum Maps and Classical Fields Series?
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Graduate Understanding the M-Theory Equation: Wavefunction and Constant Explained
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Graduate Problem of time: No-time theories?
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Graduate Both continuous and discrete in the same space at the same time (Kempf)
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Graduate BFL Ward's Resummed QG: Renormalizable Theory & Cosmological Constant
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Graduate Showing that the euler lagrange equations are coordinate independent
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Graduate Quantum Gravity Programme Essentially Complete
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Graduate What is the concept of gauge theory?
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Graduate Spin of a p-Form: 1 or Higher?
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Graduate What is the critical value of the Immirzi parameter in loop quantum gravity?
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Graduate I would like to have a glimpse of understanding of grand unificaction
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Graduate Is Gravity Really a Fundamental Force?
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Graduate Completeness of orthonormal functions
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Undergrad What do dimensions physically signifies?how does they affect the
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Graduate Is the Lagrangian for LQG similar to that of Yang-Mills theories?
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Graduate Relation between Verlinde's Entropic gravity and AdS/CFT
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Graduate Signature of a higgselss/bootstrap model at LHC.
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Graduate Must Gravitons Exist? Quantum Gravity Theories
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Graduate Does taking the derivative of time really make sense?
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Graduate Could quantum gravity itself have any answers?
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Graduate Troublesome infinities in physics
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Graduate Gravity: The explanation for quantum statistical effects?
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Graduate Nonexistence of local gravitational energy
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Graduate Was Super String theory specifically designed to explain singularities?
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Graduate Unification of QM and relativity theory
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Graduate What Are Natural Boundary Conditions?
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Graduate What are self-similar pictures of bifurcations and fractals ?
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Graduate Visualizing seven extra dimensions
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Graduate (Im)probability of Inflation (Ashtekar Sloan 1003.2475)
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Graduate Projecting 3-Sphere onto a Plane | Stereographic Projection
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Graduate On the influence of our imaginary on string theory's beauty
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Graduate CP violation explained by Kerr metric
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Graduate What Powers the Vibration of Strings in a Unified Theory of Light and Energy?
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Graduate Does string theory mean that in our universe 1 + 1 = 2 ?
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Graduate Gradient of scalar function discontinuous on boundary
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What is the updated information on Frank Wilczek's talk at Strings 2011?
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Graduate The relation between entropy and probability at quantum levelu
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Graduate Supergravity paper on LHC-physics by Chris Austin
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Graduate Prospective grand unifying theory?
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Graduate Integral's Results Challenge Quantum Theory: GR vs. QM
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Graduate What can make a string massless?
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Graduate Verify Laplace equation in rectangular coordinates.
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Graduate Introduction to Group Field Theory: Main Ideas, Formalism, and Origins
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Graduate Trouble with Equation (4.13) in Wess & Bagger?
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Graduate Quantization of mass for black holes?
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Undergrad Could a 4D Object Appear and Disappear Like a Sphere in Flatland?
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Graduate Why Start Theories with SO(n,1) and Compactify to SO(3,1)xG?
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Graduate Why I am REALLY disappointed about string theory
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Graduate Measured vs calculated quantities
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Graduate Our picks for second quarter 2011 MIP (most important QG paper)
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Graduate Strings can vibrate, but do they move?
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Graduate What is meant by 2+1 dimensional
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Graduate Integral challenges physics beyond Einstein
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Graduate Quantum grains (String theory & LQG in trouble?)
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Graduate Can Energy-to-Mass Converters Achieve Near-Perfect Efficiency in the Future?
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Graduate *Hidden Phase Space* at the Holo Cosmo corral (Verlinde video)
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Graduate How Are Vibrating Strings and Branes Related to String Theory Testing?
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Graduate Second quarter 2011 MIP poll-what papers to include?
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Graduate Which conference lineup interests you more? (Strings '11 or mixed-QG 11)
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Graduate LQC Beginner: What Causes a "Bounce" & Its Implications?
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Graduate The meaning of orbifold counting
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