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World-line lengths in loop quantum gravity?
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Is Lubos's Use of the Internet Driving a Scientific Fight with Smolin?
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Why String theory has so many dimensions
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Spires 2007 topcite list is posted
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Q&A on Quantum Gravity: Beginner's Guide
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Loops Foams Workshop (3-8 March Zakopane)
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QG2 speakers list, for July conference
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Smolin-TWOP on string theory does not reproduce time dependant phenomenon
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Exploring the Observer Effect in the Double-Slit Experiment
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Edward Witten: World-Renowned Superstring Theorist and Fields Medal Winner
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Paper: Rovelli's What is observable in classical and quantum gravity?
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Solving the dk Lag: Spires Keywords vs. Desy-Keywords
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Is string theory deterministic?
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SO(32) in Superstring Theory: Physical Meaning
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String theory and Bell's theorem, redux
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Discover the Unparticle Snowball Phenomenon: Top Cited Research Since 2006"
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Maxwell's Equations: Can They Be Summarized?
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Three Roads to Quantum Gravity
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RS 1, massless scalar field, and sep of vars.
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Scale Relativity: Exploring Einstein's Extension of Relativity
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What is the significance of string theory in understanding the universe?
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Anyone else like CDT and what it is promising?
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Seventh Alexander Friedmann International Seminar On Gravitation And Cosmology
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Questions about Witten's recent articles
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HELP Why CS is topological? Why BF is topological?
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Map of QG (Perimeter view, January 2008 update)
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Could String Theory Explain the Existence of Parallel Universes?
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Linking Connes NCG to LQG (new papers by Aastrup et al)
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As always, if you have any questions, feel free to ask.Claus
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What fallacies exist in arguments against gravitons?
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Model Universe: Shortest Path to Gravity Corridors
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Could string theory be the answer to the mystery of inertia?
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Simpleton question about superstrings
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Coherent States and the Role of Classical Variables in Quantizing Gravity
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Are fractals related to string theory?
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Singular disk of matter in the Cooperstock-Tieu galaxy model
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Understanding the Witten Index for SU(N)
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Rovelli's QG: background measures ?
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Proof of extra dimension from primordial BHs
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Question about QG :books-Rovelli's in particular
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Matter-like braids in geometry-video talk by Yidun Wan
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On Snyder's paper on Quantized Space-Time
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Physics: M-Theory & Its Benefits
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Has Smolin's Book Influenced the U.S. Academic Monopoly on String Theory?
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Sectors in String theory and the N-S N-S sector
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Is String Theory Still the Best Path to a Unified Theory of Everything?
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Video: The Problem of Time in Quantum Gravity and Cosmology
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Nakanishi proves 2-d string theories inconsistent(?)
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Is Gravity Renormalizable? Insights from the Last Loops Conference
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Open Strings, D-Branes, and Conservation of Energy
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Thomas Thiemann's Book - Is It Worth the Price?
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Gauge fixing and residual symmetries
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My Thoughts on Quantum Uncertainty
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Q&A: Infinite Probabilities, Relativity & Quantum Mechanics
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Susy introduction paper superspace
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Can Compact Dimensions be Explained in Terms of Rudimentary Field Theory?
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SciAm special report on Future of Physics
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My thoghts on Quantum Graphity: a model of emergent locality
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Smolin's - Could quantum mechanics be an approximation to another theory?
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Hyperspheres describing the universe
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Analyzing SPIRES Database for String and Non-String QG Cites
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Triangulations study group, Spring 2008
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My thoughts Emergent physics: Fermi point scenario G.E. Volovik
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Supersymmetry: Understanding Weinberg's Formula on Page 78
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Superstrings - what happens when a string has no vibration?
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How Does Hawking Radiation from LHC Experiments Affect Time-Space Dynamics?
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Can the LHC Detect Gravitons and Reveal New Physics?
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Bulk Drive v2.0: FTL & Interuniversal Travel?
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String book for the undergrad level
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Question about Superstring and M-theory
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Quantum Foam: Could It Be Used for Subspace Communication?
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What were the major QG advancements in 2007?
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Newton's Law starting from no background spacetime
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Has Recent Research Challenged the Validity of String Theory?
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LQG: Gauge Theory, Holonomies, Ashtekar's GR, Loop Representation
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String theory topoogy can change lead to experimentally testable predictions?
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Supersymmetric Transformations
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Has string theory been totally written off?
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Them old quantum gravity, topological quantum field thereah blues
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Why Must Extra Spatial Dimensions in String Theory Be Compactified?
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Question to the String theorists
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Edward Witten on LQG for lambda > 0, QG does not exist in any dimension
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Kenneth Lane string theory is not physics
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Unlock the Mysteries of Quantum Fuzz and Celebrate Christmas with U
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Integrable models and the frontiers of physics?
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Two Is Enough: Harmonics and Echoes
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How Can a Theory of Quantum Gravity or a TOE Impact Science?
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Fecund universes and physical constants
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Classical interacting random field models
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New Warp Drive Paper: Read the Co-Authored Journal Article
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Map of nonstring QG (as of November 2007)
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Is There Evidence of a Delay in High-Energy Photons from Distant AGN Flares?
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Lee Smolin's "E8 Unification of Gravity & Yang-Mills Theory
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Is the Graviton Fundamental in Quantum Gravity Theories?
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Amplitudes, metrics, and measures
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If I were Garrett Lisi, I'd postdoc at Nottingham
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Discrete spacetime (Some contemplations of mine).
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Question regarding higgs, grravity, and electromagnetic dimensions
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Internal struggles of ideas in QG
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What is doubly special relativity?
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