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Graduate Principal failure of canonical quantum gravity (Witten)
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Graduate Mathematical formulation of Kaluza-Klein theory
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Graduate How Does Spin Foam Model Relate to Regge Calculus in Quantum Gravity?
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Graduate Understanding M-theory and Its Implications for Dimensions and Scales
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Graduate Most would I think, see this as a 3 dimensional world. On this
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Graduate Hamiltonian Function - Definition & Explanation
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Graduate Emergent Space/Time: AdS/CFT and dS/CFT
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Graduate Existence of pure quantum gravity
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Graduate Spin Foams & AdS/CFT: Lattice Gauge Theories
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Graduate What are the current developments in spin foam renormalization?
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Graduate Shape Dynamics and GR linked (Gomes Koslowski)
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Graduate Explain to me in the simplest terms triality?
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Graduate Black hole with antimatter particle singularity
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Graduate Does anybody here remember Kodama state?
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Graduate What is the significance of SO(32) in string theory?
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Graduate Have You Skimmed Gerard 't Hooft's Complex Paper on Elementary Particle Models?
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Graduate Can time be a generalized coordinate?
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Graduate What's the modern view on ur theory? (Is there one?)
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Graduate Discovery of Higgs: Does this mean anything to String theory?
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Graduate A question about Absolute Zero
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Graduate Is Teleportation Possible? A Hypothesis
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Graduate Spin Foams and Noncommutative Geometry (video, Marcolli at Perimeter)
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Graduate Clifford Algebras: Matrix Representations & Higher Order
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Graduate Turaev-Viro, Levin-Wen, 3D gravity
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Graduate Supersymmetric QCD: Learn about Particles & Superfields
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Graduate Is the gravitational constant actually a variable
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Graduate Unique basis of relativistic field equations for arbitrary spin?
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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?
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Graduate Modifying the Fine Structure Constant to Incorporate Self-Energy Interactions?
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Graduate Bianchi Haggard volume spectrum paper puts UC Berkeley on Lqg map
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Graduate How Does Curved Spacetime Create Ambiguities in Particle Definitions?
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Graduate Sideways Time Travel - Could It Happen?
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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
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Graduate Early Universe had just one Spatial Dimension?
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Graduate What caused the shift of interest in quantum cosmology?
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Graduate What Would Negative Mass Look Like and How Would It Behave?
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Graduate The Laws of Physics: Fundamentals or Variations?
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Graduate What is Discrete Scale Relativity?
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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?
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Graduate What is a Galileon? - Get the Definition Here
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Graduate Black hole microstate in AdS/CFT
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Graduate What is Mass? Understanding the Concept and Implications in Physics
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Graduate Off-shell central charge/dimensions in string theory.
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Graduate Experimental support of string theory?
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Undergrad Are Energy Laws in Physics Really Just Coincidences?
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Graduate Silly question about quantum gravity
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Graduate The Mysteries of the Other Dimensions: Uncovering the Secrets of M-Theory
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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)
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Graduate Why Do Causal Dynamical Triangulations Utilize a Partition Function?
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Graduate The notion of Extra Space Dimensions
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Graduate Comparing Lagrange's Equation of Motion and Euler-Lagrange Equations
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Graduate What are Superstrings made of?
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Graduate Constructing Chiral Superfield from Vector Superfields
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Graduate Anti de Sitter space modelling
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Graduate How do branes challenge our understanding of spacetime and geometry?
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Graduate Connes Rovelli paper on time in gen. cov. quantum theories
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Graduate Has C ever been derived from knowing E & M?
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Graduate Can Energy Exist Without Mass?
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Graduate What are the latest therories in physics?
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Graduate Is the 5th Fundamental Force Real?
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Graduate Could escaping gravitrons be an explanation of dark energy?
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Graduate Question about Green, Schwarz, Witten Appendix 4.A on N=1SYM
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Graduate Many-Body Dynamics: Conserved Hamiltonian?
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Graduate True Background-Independent Particle Physics
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Graduate Information Wave: True or False?
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Graduate Strings Double Slit Experiment
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Graduate Branes and Worlds: Understanding the Multidimensional Universe
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Graduate Meaning of low energy in loop quantum gravity
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Graduate Our picks for first quarter 2011 MIP (most important QG paper)
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Graduate Our picks for fourth quarter 2010 MIP (most important QG paper)
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Graduate Uncovering the Solution to M-Theory: A Lagrangian Approach?
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Graduate World within Planck Scale & QM/GR Unification
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Graduate What is the connection between spin networks and ABJM's dual conformal symmetry?
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Graduate Is time still undoubtedly continuous?
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Graduate Are angle measurements rank 0 tensors?
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Graduate Continuum Idealization: Treating Properties as Point Functions
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Graduate Any application of AdS/CFT to nucleon structure?
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Graduate Particle Physics in Curved Spacetime (Background Independent)
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Graduate A question on the action as a function of the co-ordinates in Landau 1
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Graduate Does the nabla operator has a unit?
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Graduate How do I know if the Hamiltonian is constant?
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Graduate String Theory State and History
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Graduate Classical Limit in LQG: Has GR Been Shown?
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Graduate Question on transformation of coordinates.
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Graduate Is Quantum Gravity only related to Planck Scale?
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Graduate Closed Strings and Virasoro algebra
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Graduate Progress of Bouncing Universe Theory
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Graduate Is Physics More About Models Than Reality in Explaining Phenomena Like Gravity?
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Graduate Solving a Lagrangian using an Ansatz
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Graduate Experimental Predictions from String Theories
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Graduate Clarifying Open String Hamiltonian for Witten's Book
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Graduate Bogolubov Transformations: How to Normalize the Coefficients?
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Graduate Solving the Mystery of -1/12 in String Theory
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Graduate Dimensional regularization and Fractals - Is it a crackpot idea?
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Graduate Strings as described in Superstring theory
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Graduate What is meant by no complete TOE ?
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