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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)

  • marcus
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Graduate How Are Vibrating Strings and Branes Related to String Theory Testing?

  • Saturnine
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Graduate Second quarter 2011 MIP poll-what papers to include?

  • marcus
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Graduate Which conference lineup interests you more? (Strings '11 or mixed-QG 11)

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Graduate Does LQC require different physical laws before the bounce?

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Graduate The meaning of orbifold counting

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Graduate Continuum limit: is it really justifiable?

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Graduate Loops 2011 conference abstracts available online

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Graduate Does a GUT have to have gravity involved?

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Graduate Can You Explain The Interactions Of SUSY?

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Graduate Euler-Lagrange equation derivation

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Graduate Physical intuition behind NCG?

  • Fra
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Graduate Elegant Mathematics Leads to Wrong Physics?

  • Islam Hassan
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Graduate Modifying Lorentz Transformations for Invariant Length

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Graduate Observations a TOE must agree with?

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Graduate Theories on Dimensions/Time Quantized?

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Graduate How do I derive the step on the formula of distance of source to field point.

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Graduate Is string theory a theory of quantum gravity?

  • marcus
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Graduate Does quantum entanglement create all existing fields?

  • marcus
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Graduate Speculative Time Jump Question

  • Alvinho!
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Graduate Could Technicolour Play a Role in Black Hole Collapse?

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Graduate What's higher spin gauge theory all about?

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Graduate Perturbative approach in Loop Quantum Gravity

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Graduate Emergence of Superstring from Pure Spinor

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Graduate Bifundamental wrt two gravities

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Graduate Can We Simulate the Entire Universe on a Supercomputer?

  • Schreiberdk
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Graduate Can Quantum Gravity Explain Matter and Gravity as Separate Entities?

  • wolram
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Graduate What is the history of the ADM formalism in quantum gravity?

  • louva
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Graduate Where can I learn spin connection?

  • knightq
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Graduate Beables in or NOT in Spacetime?

  • Varon
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Graduate Can Koide's yukawaon models explain the neglected clue in particle physics?

  • mitchell porter
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Graduate Has quantum mechanics in curved spacetime been fully described?

  • Schreiberdk
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Graduate Gravity/Electroweak unification based on generalized Yang-Mills

  • Schreiberdk
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Graduate Are the measurement problem, quantum gravity, and unification related?

  • Varon
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Undergrad Which Are the Fundamental Universal Constants?

  • w.shockley
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Graduate John Baez's comments on CDT/Hořava-Lifshitz gravity.

  • MTd2
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Graduate An elementary view of duality?

  • A. Neumaier
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Graduate In short, I don't know if there is a clear answer to your question at this time.

  • Schreiberdk
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Graduate Can Charged Black Holes Propel Interstellar Travel?

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Graduate Could Time Travel Paradoxes Be Resolved by Multi-Worlds Theory?

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Graduate Issues with entropic gravity as proposed by Verlinde

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Graduate This is perhaps more a maths question, but it's about a piece of maths

  • Philip Wood
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Graduate What Was the Impact of the QG11 Conference in Zurich?

  • marcus
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Graduate Are r and R the distance from origin in divergence and curl formulas?

  • yungman
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Graduate Can wormholes in quantum foam transfer information between universes?

  • Varon
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Graduate Why don't quantum mechanics and general relativity mix?

  • dr. candy
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Graduate Are there Spin-2 bosons other than graviton?

  • ensabah6
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Graduate What should the normalization condition be for an energy distribution function?

  • LuisVela
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Graduate Is Frank Wilczek's The Grid a Modern Take on Ether?

  • PeterPumpkin
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Graduate String treatment of the quantum graphity model

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Graduate Possible Particle Pairs in Gravitational Pair Production: A Speculative Inquiry

  • skippy1729
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Graduate How Does Einstein's General Relativity Explain Gravity's Effects on Objects?

  • Arlene G.
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Graduate Space-Time Higgs field interchangability?

  • Teknolia
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High School What does N-Dimensional mean?

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Graduate How does the first-order analysis extend to the (A)dS algebra in supergravity?

  • haushofer
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Graduate Extending the Symmetry Group: Even/Odd Z2 Symmetry?

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Graduate 'Levels of Reality' on the order of Strings

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Graduate Are extra dimensions in physics real or just mathematical models?

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Graduate Why is the sum of Lyapunov exponents negative in dissipative systems?

  • waofy
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Graduate Sources on Einstein's unified field theory research and why it failed

  • Demystifier
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Graduate Susskind and Bousso's incomprehensible new paper

  • mitchell porter
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Graduate Poisson Brackets / Levi-Civita Expansion

  • Bismar
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High School Can a perpetual motion machine truly exist?

  • fooktade
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Graduate Why are classic papers by Yang, Feynman, and Teller rarely read anymore?

  • Simfish
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Graduate Does string theory unite quantum mechanics and general relativity?

  • Gunner B
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Graduate Can the Scharnhorst Effect Be Overcome by Gravity in a Long Tube?

  • Dmitry67
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Graduate Getting from (3D gravity + local degrees of freedom) to 4D gravity

  • mitchell porter
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Graduate Topologically Massive Gravity in dS3 (arxiv:1105.4733): detailed analysis

  • mitchell porter
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High School Wanted: video by Wilczek on The Grid

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Graduate Quiver path algebra and F-term relations in melting crystals

  • Monocles
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Graduate Can electron sphericity rule out SUSY and string theory?

  • eiyaz
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Graduate Is the Navier-Stokes Equation Solvable?

  • jinchuriki300
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Graduate Is quantum gravity about quantizing gravity or unifying matter, space, and time?

  • Varon
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Graduate Is Rivasseau switching to agriculture?

  • atyy
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Graduate Collection of beyond standard model review papers

  • S.Daedalus
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Graduate Legendre Transformation of the Hamiltonian

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Graduate What is supersymmetry and does it unify quantum theory with relativity?

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Graduate Can Gravitational Waves Test String Theory?

  • Schreiberdk
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Graduate Why is twistor theory stuck in quantum gravity research?

  • tom.stoer
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Graduate How is Velocity Distributed over 11 Dimensions?

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Graduate Fourier Transform of a Square Annulus

  • DrFurious
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Graduate Discrete Force Fields: Quantized or Infinite?

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Graduate Fermionic nature of quantum gravity

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Graduate What theories of quantum gravity are currently UV complete?

  • Kevin_Axion
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Graduate An Exceptionally Technical Discussion of AESToE

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Graduate Degrees of Freedom of the Theory of Everything

  • Varon
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Graduate Is Fine-Tuning Really a Fallacy in Physics?

  • Varon
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Graduate Does string theory and the composition of quarks explain dark matter.

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Graduate Emergence of Special and Doubly Special Relativity: A Statistical Perspective

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Graduate Mass creation from m=e/c^2. is it even possible?

  • avolaster
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Graduate General relativity from string theory

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Undergrad When is a theory a theory and not just a theory?

  • EMFsmith
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Graduate What does Special Relativity tell us about the physical communications system?

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Graduate What software can assist with heavy supersymmetric derivative calculations?

  • Neitrino
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Graduate Is String Theory really a theory?

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Graduate What is the meaning of manifest locality in Lagrangian formalism?

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Graduate Vector calculus question regarding helmholtz theorem

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Graduate Has missing energy been discovered at the LHC?

  • eiyaz
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Graduate Thiemann's Erlangen group presents LQG approach for D > 3 at Loops 2011

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