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Inflation & the Hubble Length in cm
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Vibrating strings and string theory
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Comparing Quantum Mechanics and String Theory
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What ever happened to Scale Relativity?
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Gravitons vs Relativity: Einstein or Particle Exchange?
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Is Susy a Central Prediction of String Theory?
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How can people predict that the graviton is a particle of spin 2?
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String Field Theory: Facts & Grand Unified Theory
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Unraveling of the extra dimensions?
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MVP-Junior: second quarter papers by QG grad students and postdocs
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QG Poll: Nominate the Most Valuable Paper of April-June 2008
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Emergent statistical manifolds
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Hints gravity finite (two recent workshops)
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Loop Quantum Gravity/Cosmology ~ for the layman?
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Supersymmetry and String Theory
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Perturbative Super-Yang-Mills from the Topological AdS_5xS^5 Sigma Model
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Why is the Majorana mass of a neutrino so big compared to the
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How Many Extra Dimensions Are Required for SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1) in String Theory?
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PBS Ghost Particle neutrinos showing Standard Model wrong
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Is Smolin's Approach to Quantum Gravity Logic Revolutionary?
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Higgs Boson and Space in an Atom
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Are there solutions available for Zwiebach's string theory book?
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Investigating the Ultraviolet Properties of Gravity with a Wilsonian RG Equation
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Ashtekar Loll Pullin Randono at Salonica gravity meeting in June
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Two best QG papers so far this quarter-other ideas?
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New search tool combines CERN and SLAC-Stanford Spires
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Non-Expert Q: Why Not Modify QM for Strings Theory?
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Wen and Lloyd join emergent geometry bunch
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Looking for Higgs in all the wrong places?
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Keeping tabs on stringy research output
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Ashtekar: deriving the covariant entropy bound from LQC
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Clarifying the SUSY equations in Weinberg III
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What is the role of cosmological friction in the formation of our universe?
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Randono cashes in on Derek Wise' work
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C, P, and T of Braid Excitations in Quantum Gravity (Song He, Yidun Wan)
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How Does Doubly-Special Relativity Redefine Space and Time?
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What were the conditions before the big bang?
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TOE: Four radical routes to a theory of everything
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Union of LQG and string theory
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What will be the physics content of the eight overview talks at Strings '08?
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Kea's remark about the LHC and 2009
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Can the Electron be a Looped String
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Tracking the Impact of Smolin's April Book: Salesrank Ratio Surprises!
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Physicists Demonstrate How Information Can Escape From Black Holes based in LQG
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Brane Movement Causing Gravity
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Uniqueness of deSitter spacetime and the Standard Model (hints from two papers)
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Are Gamma-Ray Bursts the Key to Confirming LQG Theory?
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How Does String Theory Explain Quark-Gluon Plasma Properties?
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What Causes Vibrations in String Theory?
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What Are Curled-Up Dimensions and Their Implications?
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Gerard 't Hooft video lecture-Perimeter
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Loop Quantum Gravity Explained: Free Online Lectures & Resources
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A smoking gun linking Economics to Physics?
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Modification of Energy-Momentum Relation and UV/IR mixing
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Braid-Matter advance by Song He and Yidun Wan
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Dimentional reduction: branworld or Yau-calibi manifolds?
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Hadron Mass Spectrum: Can We Calculate It?
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Proposal: Sociology Threads Should Have Their Own Subforum
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Are supersymmetric particles needed?
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Suggestion to discuss arXiv 0804.0252
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What questions are you interested on?
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Journal Club: Witten NPB186 (1981) p 412-428
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How close is LQG/SF to Wen's lattice spin models
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Question on Greene's explanation
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Is the Standard Model a M-theory?
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Most important paper: first quarter 2008 forecast poll
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How can curved spacetime creat particles ?
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What makes string theory more predictive than LQG?
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Is Time Quantized? Exploring Theories and Possibilities
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Has String Theory Answered All Unsolved Physics Problems?
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String theorists, will the LHC see SUSY and if not, will this be a huge blow?
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Is there physical content in D Branes?
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Is this an accurate representation?
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Should Physics Departments Prioritize LQG Research Alongside String Theory?
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Lorentz Violation and the Second Law
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How Does Roger Penrose Connect Quantum Mechanics and Gravity?
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D8-Branes What do they bring?
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Two questions about SUSY [Greene's book]
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Calabi Yau compactification and M theory
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Can Witten's Trick Apply to Any Number of Extra Dimensions?
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John Archibald Wheeler passed away, July 4, 1911, April 13, 2008
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Studying ADS/CFT correspondence at a graduate level
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Understanding M Theory's 11 Dimensions
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Lattice and loop under one roof
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What objects can be compared to strings in terms of length and energy scales?
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Non renormalizability non predictiveness
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The Dark Side of a Patchwork Universe
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Supersymmetric particles generated?
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Path Integral for curved spacetime
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Long-awaited braid-matter paper (Bilson-Thompson, Hackett, Kauffman, Smolin)
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Matter with different constants
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Quantum Entropy version of Second Law (Bojowald Tavakol)
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What is An Invitation to Noncommutative Geometry and why should you read it?
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Do New Spinfoam Models Have a Good Semiclassical Limit?
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Supergravity and local symmetry
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Download Pauli and Fierz 1939 Paper in PDF or PS Format
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Understanding String Tension in String Theory: Explained and Debunked
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String Theory: Why not 3d+1 Dimensional?
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Research on Lambda Evolution: Collider Physics & Cosmology
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Braid-Matter program still alive and grinding ahead
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