Beyond the Standard Models Forum

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Undergrad Can Anti-Gravity Physics Become a Reality?

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Graduate Classical Unified Field Theory

  • Schreiberdk
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Graduate Do Standard Model equations presume massless point particles?

  • albroun
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Graduate Information Theory: Beyond the Standard Model

  • Varon
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Graduate Why using quantum group SUq(2) instead of SU(2) makes sense?

  • marcus
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Graduate Cyclic model with matter-antimatter alternation between branes

  • cansay27
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Graduate Does Gauss' law imply that the universe isn't compactified?

  • Rocky Raccoon
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Graduate What is the dimension of LQG (Rovelli's TQFT)?

  • atyy
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Graduate How many dimensions are there, really?

  • Ductaper
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Graduate Building a model out of nothing explains a lot.

  • anomanderrake
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Graduate Could it be that Higgs's boson does not exist, but Higgs mechanism does?

  • agkyriak
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Graduate Speculating on AS/String correspondence

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Graduate Percacci at Woit's on emergence

  • marcus
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Graduate Merging NCG matter with Spinfoam LQG spacetime (new Pfaeffle-Stephan)

  • marcus
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Graduate What is the significance of the Gravity/CFT Correspondence in modern physics?

  • marcus
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Graduate Can string theory be proven like Newton's law of gravity?

  • hyperds
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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 Hamiltonian for a wire coil under reflection transformation

  • zush
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Graduate What Equation Predicts 10 or 11 Dimensions?

  • AstrophysicsX
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Graduate How do vector functions behave under transformations for symmetry?

  • Nikratio
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Graduate Principal failure of canonical quantum gravity (Witten)

  • tom.stoer
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Graduate Mathematical formulation of Kaluza-Klein theory

  • rbtqwt
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Graduate How Does Spin Foam Model Relate to Regge Calculus in Quantum Gravity?

  • marcus
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Graduate Understanding M-theory and Its Implications for Dimensions and Scales

  • narrator
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Graduate Most would I think, see this as a 3 dimensional world. On this

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Graduate What is the Hamiltonian function?

  • jgrossm1
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Graduate Emergent Space/Time: AdS/CFT and dS/CFT

  • atyy
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Graduate Existence of pure quantum gravity

  • atyy
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Graduate Do lattice gauge theories formulated as spin foams have AdS/CFT duals?

  • atyy
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Graduate What are the current developments in spin foam renormalization?

  • atyy
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Graduate Shape Dynamics and GR linked (Gomes Koslowski)

  • marcus
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Graduate Explain to me in the simplest terms triality?

  • Lapidus
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Graduate Black hole with antimatter particle singularity

  • pibb
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Graduate Does anybody here remember Kodama state?

  • zwicky
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Graduate What is the significance of SO(32) in string theory?

  • lkwarren01
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Graduate Have You Skimmed Gerard 't Hooft's Complex Paper on Elementary Particle Models?

  • John86
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Graduate Can time be a generalized coordinate?

  • Visceral
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Graduate What's the modern view on ur theory? (Is there one?)

  • S.Daedalus
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Graduate Does Higgs boson discovery affect string theory?

  • Schreiberdk
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Graduate Object at absolute zero on spacecraft matching universe expansion velocity

  • Rage Crank
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Graduate Is Teleportation Possible? A Hypothesis

  • Argonil
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Graduate Spin Foams and Noncommutative Geometry (video, Marcolli at Perimeter)

  • marcus
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Graduate Can matrix representations be found for higher order Clifford algebras?

  • sjhanjee
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Graduate Turaev-Viro, Levin-Wen, 3D gravity

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Graduate Good references for supersymmetric QCD and superfields

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Graduate Is the gravitational constant actually a variable

  • Brentavo7
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Graduate Unique basis of relativistic field equations for arbitrary spin?

  • tom.stoer
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Graduate Is 3D Quantum Gravity Equivalent to a TQFT?

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Graduate Are the LQG physicist less prepared than the ST physicist?

  • Sardano
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Graduate Modifying the Fine Structure Constant to Incorporate Self-Energy Interactions?

  • Lapidus
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Graduate Bianchi Haggard volume spectrum paper puts UC Berkeley on Lqg map

  • marcus
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Graduate How Does Curved Spacetime Create Ambiguities in Particle Definitions?

  • LAHLH
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Graduate Sideways Time Travel - Could It Happen?

  • Brad12d3
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Graduate Why we cant resolve nonrenormalization problem in gravitation by freely adding?

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Graduate Latest Penrose video on Conformal Cyclic Cosmology

  • marcus
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Graduate Early Universe had just one Spatial Dimension?

  • Pythagorean
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Graduate Why did LQG replace string theory in quantum cosmology research?

  • marcus
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Graduate What Would Negative Mass Look Like and How Would It Behave?

  • Brad12d3
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Graduate The Laws of Physics: Fundamentals or Variations?

  • geordief
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Graduate What is Discrete Scale Relativity?

  • eiyaz
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Undergrad Looking for a fan physics lecture topic for mathematicians

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Graduate What Is the Role of Twistor Space in Quantum Field Theory?

  • atyy
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Graduate What is a Galileon? - Get the Definition Here

  • IRobot
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Graduate Black hole microstate in AdS/CFT

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Graduate What is mass fundamentally, and where does it come from?

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Graduate Off-shell central charge/dimensions in string theory.

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Graduate Experimental support of string theory?

  • PAllen
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Undergrad Are Energy Laws in Physics Really Just Coincidences?

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Graduate Defining length scales without assuming Lorentz invariance breakdown

  • paweld
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Graduate Why did the extra dimensions remain small in M-theory?

  • cansay27
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Graduate Complex Analysis for Integrals in Physics

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Graduate S.J Gates et al - Relating Doubly-Even Error-Correcting Codes (shortened)

  • XenonD
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Graduate Why Do Causal Dynamical Triangulations Utilize a Partition Function?

  • Schreiberdk
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Graduate The notion of Extra Space Dimensions

  • JK423
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Graduate Difference between Lagrange's equation and Euler-Lagrange equations

  • Niles
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Graduate What are Superstrings made of?

  • Zdenka
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Graduate Constructing Chiral Superfield from Vector Superfields

  • Neitrino
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Graduate Anti de Sitter space modelling

  • rodsika
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Graduate How can branes be both objects and spacetime submanifolds?

  • rodsika
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Graduate Connes Rovelli paper on time in gen. cov. quantum theories

  • marcus
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Graduate Can the speed of light be derived from energy and mass?

  • Tyrannical
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Graduate Can Energy Exist Without Mass?

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Graduate What are the latest therories in physics?

  • gomunkul51
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Graduate Is the 5th Fundamental Force Real?

  • I like Serena
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Graduate Could escaping gravitrons be an explanation of dark energy?

  • david.mueller
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Graduate Why use Majorana spinors instead of Weyl spinors in 4D N=1 SYM

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Graduate Many-Body Dynamics: Conserved Hamiltonian?

  • Gear300
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Graduate True Background-Independent Particle Physics

  • rogerl
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Graduate Information Wave: True or False?

  • revo74
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Graduate Strings Double Slit Experiment

  • rogerl
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Graduate Are branes really flat and how do they stack in the 11th dimension?

  • rogerl
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Graduate Meaning of low energy in loop quantum gravity

  • Physics Monkey
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Graduate Our picks for first quarter 2011 MIP (most important QG paper)

  • marcus
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Graduate Our picks for fourth quarter 2010 MIP (most important QG paper)

  • marcus
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Graduate How do we find a Lagrangian for M-theory?

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Graduate Quantum gravity theories that explore sub-Planck scale physics

  • rogerl
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Graduate What is the connection between spin networks and ABJM's dual conformal symmetry?

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Graduate Does time become quantized when combining general relativity and quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Are angle measurements rank 0 tensors?

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