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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?
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Graduate Can Quantum Gravity Explain Matter and Gravity as Separate Entities?
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Graduate What is the history of the ADM formalism in quantum gravity?
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Graduate Where can I learn spin connection?
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Graduate Beables in or NOT in Spacetime?
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Graduate Can Koide's yukawaon models explain the neglected clue in particle physics?
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Graduate Has Quantum Mechanics Been Fully Explored in Curved Spacetime?
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Graduate Gravity/Electroweak unification based on generalized Yang-Mills
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Graduate Measurement Problem, Quantum Gravity & Unification
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Undergrad Which Are the Fundamental Universal Constants?
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Graduate John Baez's comments on CDT/Hořava-Lifshitz gravity.
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Graduate An elementary view of duality?
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Graduate In short, I don't know if there is a clear answer to your question at this time.
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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 Is Entropic Gravity the Future of Physics?
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Graduate This is perhaps more a maths question, but it's about a piece of maths
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Graduate What Was the Impact of the QG11 Conference in Zurich?
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Graduate Clarification on curl and divergence in cylindrical and spherical coordinates.
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Graduate What is the Connection between Quantum Foam and Wormholes?
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Graduate Unraveling the Conflict between Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity
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Graduate Are there Spin-2 bosons other than graviton?
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Graduate What should the normalization condition be for an energy distribution function?
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Graduate Is Frank Wilczek's The Grid a Modern Take on Ether?
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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
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Graduate How Does Einstein's General Relativity Explain Gravity's Effects on Objects?
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Graduate Space-Time Higgs field interchangability?
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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?
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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 Extra Dimensions: Real or Mathematical Constructs?
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Graduate Why is the sum of Lyapunov exponents negative in dissipative systems?
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Graduate What Were Einstein's Ideas in His Search for a Unified Theory?
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Graduate Susskind and Bousso's incomprehensible new paper
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Graduate Poisson Brackets / Levi-Civita Expansion
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High School Can a perpetual motion machine truly exist?
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Graduate Does anyone still bother to read papers by the giants of theoretical physics?
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics & General Relativity = Super String Theory
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Graduate Can the Scharnhorst Effect Be Overcome by Gravity in a Long Tube?
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Graduate Getting from (3D gravity + local degrees of freedom) to 4D gravity
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Graduate Topologically Massive Gravity in dS3 (arxiv:1105.4733): detailed analysis
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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
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Graduate Is physics about to hit a dead end, or am I jumping to conclusions?
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Graduate Is the Navier-Stokes Equation Solvable?
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Graduate Exploring Quantum Spacetime: Unifying Matter, Space, and Time in Quantum Gravity
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Graduate Is Rivasseau switching to agriculture?
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Graduate BTSM Review Papers: Guide to Navigating Research Fields
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Graduate Legendre Transformation of the Hamiltonian
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Graduate What is Supersymmetry? Overview & Explanation
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Graduate Can Gravitational Waves Test String Theory?
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Graduate Exploring the Progress and Challenges of Twistor Theory in Quantum Gravity
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Graduate How is Velocity Distributed over 11 Dimensions?
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Graduate Fourier Transform of a Square Annulus
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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 Quantum Gravity Theories: What is UV Complete?
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Graduate An Exceptionally Technical Discussion of AESToE
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Graduate Degrees of Freedom of the Theory of Everything
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Graduate Is Fine-Tuning Really a Fallacy in Physics?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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Graduate 7 papers from Thiemann's Erlangen group, going into Loops 2011 conf.
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Undergrad Can Anti-Gravity Physics Become a Reality?
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Graduate Classical Unified Field Theory
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Graduate Particles in the Standard Model - Mass & Size
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Graduate Information Theory: Beyond the Standard Model
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Graduate Why using quantum group SUq(2) instead of SU(2) makes sense?
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Graduate Can the New Cyclic Model Revolutionize Our Understanding of the Universe?
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Graduate Does Gauss' law imply that the universe isn't compactified?
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Graduate What is the dimension of LQG (Rovelli's TQFT)?
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Graduate How many dimensions are there, really?
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Graduate Building a model out of nothing explains a lot.
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Graduate Could it be that Higgs's boson does not exist, but Higgs mechanism does?
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Graduate Speculating on AS/String correspondence
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Graduate Percacci at Woit's on emergence
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Graduate Merging NCG matter with Spinfoam LQG spacetime (new Pfaeffle-Stephan)
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Graduate What is the significance of the Gravity/CFT Correspondence in modern physics?
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Graduate The Nature of Physical Proof: Is String Theory Proven?
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Graduate Physical interpretation of the Hamiltonian
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Graduate Is gravity an emergent phenomenon?
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Graduate What Is the Hamiltonian for a Wire Coil Under Reflection Transformation?
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Graduate What Equation Predicts 10 or 11 Dimensions?
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Graduate How do vector functions behave under transformations for symmetry?
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