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Graduate Any application of AdS/CFT to nucleon structure?
- petergreat
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Graduate Particle Physics in Curved Spacetime (Background Independent)
- rogerl
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Graduate A question on the action as a function of the co-ordinates in Landau 1
- dfj
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Graduate Does the nabla operator has a unit?
- jwillie2000
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Graduate How do I know if the Hamiltonian is constant?
- komodekork
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Graduate String Theory State and History
- Pythagorean
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Graduate Classical Limit in LQG: Has GR Been Shown?
- Physics Monkey
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Graduate Question on transformation of coordinates.
- yungman
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Graduate Is Quantum Gravity only related to Planck Scale?
- rogerl
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Graduate Closed Strings and Virasoro algebra
- earth2
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Graduate Progress of Bouncing Universe Theory
- wolram
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Graduate Is Physics More About Models Than Reality in Explaining Phenomena Like Gravity?
- rogerl
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Graduate Solving a Lagrangian using an Ansatz
- bantalon
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Graduate Experimental Predictions from String Theories
- ApplePion
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Graduate Clarifying Open String Hamiltonian for Witten's Book
- cuerdero
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Graduate Bogolubov Transformations: How to Normalize the Coefficients?
- LAHLH
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Graduate Solving the Mystery of -1/12 in String Theory
- zaybu
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Graduate Dimensional regularization and Fractals - Is it a crackpot idea?
- petergreat
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Graduate Strings as described in Superstring theory
- robertroman10
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Graduate What is meant by no complete TOE ?
- curtdbz
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Graduate Probability of Inflation in Loop Quantum Cosmology (new Ashtekar Sloan paper)
- marcus
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Graduate A bigger structure than multiverse
- dhillonv10
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Graduate String Theory: Quark/Atom Strings Estimate
- robertroman10
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Undergrad Can't there be no approximation?
- cometzir
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Graduate Foundations of a theory of quantum gravity - Johan Noldus' book.
- MTd2
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Graduate Jacobi least time vs. Fermat Hamilton
- andrewr
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Graduate Is there any definitive answer on unitarity in quantum gravity
- petergreat
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Graduate Are Physics Models Truly Simple or Inherently Complex?
- revo74
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Undergrad Verify Integration and differentiation of a vector.
- yungman
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Undergrad Are strings the key to understanding energy in string theory?
- luan
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Graduate Isn't M-theory and the multiverse idea a bit discouraging?
- reoffender
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Graduate How can we find out from the Lagrangian if energy is conserved?
- czdatka
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Graduate Do the fundamental forces continue to break down at lower energies?
- middistance91
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New FQXI essay contest Is Reality Digital or Analog?
- chronon
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Graduate Understanding Hamiltonian Field Equations and Their Applications in Field Theory
- MManuel Abad
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Graduate 2-form and dissipative systems
- homology
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Graduate Why is QM incompatible with GR and how does string theory solve this? Or M-Theory?
- SeventhSigma
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Graduate Why point particle interaction has UV divergence,but string interaction does not?
- ndung200790
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Graduate Latest results from the LHC are casting doubt on the theory of supersymmetry
- J.F.
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Graduate Naked singularities: evidence against compactified dimensions?
- Lievo
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High School Reason Behind Structure of Equations
- prosteve037
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Graduate Holography and Calabi-Yau compactifications
- crackjack
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Graduate The road to AdS/CFT-Correspondence
- Hymne
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Graduate Best Approach to Quantum Gravity
- rogerl
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Graduate EM Field Lagrangian: What Defines It?
- snoopies622
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Graduate Lectures on Loop Gravity (8 talks on the new version)
- marcus
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Graduate Core lecture abstracts for QG school
- marcus
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Graduate Quantum from classical behavior in higher dimensions?
- SupremeFunky
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Graduate Dimensionless Equations: Understanding the Role of Units in Physical Equations
- puzzler7
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Graduate Interaction energy and gauge invariance
- arpharazon
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Graduate What are gravitons exactly and how will they help us prove string
- d.smith292
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Graduate Information about black branes
- unih
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Graduate The Probing of, Approximation to and Idealization of Structure for Foundations
- bensprott
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Graduate Why is spacetime four-dimensional
- tom.stoer
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Graduate Modular invariance in string theory
- petergreat
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Graduate Hamilton-Jacobi Theory: Why No Time Dependence?
- Zorba
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Graduate Where can I read about the superconformal algebra in 4D?
- petergreat
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Undergrad Book for the application of Calculus in Physics?
- Ashu2912
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Graduate Garett Lisi's 248-dimensional theory?
- Matthewkind
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Graduate Is String Theory the Key to Unifying Quantum Physics and Gravity?
- whatisreality
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Graduate Is Verlinde's Gravity Theory Based on Relativistic Assumptions?
- Pengwuino
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Graduate Ontology of AdS/CFT classical on the bulk?
- SupremeFunky
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Graduate Can Loop Gravity and String Theory be Compared Fairly?
- marcus
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Graduate LQC and string theory combined in one theory
- dhillonv10
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Graduate What is the physical significance of the iFactor?
- purrcy
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Graduate Is Complexity in the Universe Emergent from Simpler Systems?
- BruceNakagawa
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Graduate Semiclassical Limit of Causal Dynamical Triangulations (Ambjorn, Loll et al)
- marcus
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Graduate How could spacetime become discretised at the Planck scale?
- DJsTeLF
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Graduate What is the physical interpretation of this calculus of variations problem?
- catpants
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Graduate AdS/CFT correspondence and the cosmological constant
- dhillonv10
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Graduate Is the Creation of Our Universe from Nothing Truly Viable and Consistent?
- haushofer
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Graduate Century interons and quantum flux
- jonnke123
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Graduate Do gravitons interact with photons?
- johne1618
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Graduate Is speculation in multiverses as immoral as speculation in subprime mortgages?
- D H
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Graduate Why did the other dimensions stay small in M-theory?
- cansay27
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Graduate QG five principles: superpos. locality diff-inv. cross-sym. Lorentz-inv.
- marcus
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Graduate Can Multiple Infinite Quantum Fields Coexist in Spacetime?
- sci-guy
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Graduate Counting Ghost Numbers in String Theory | Beltrami Parametrization
- christodouloum
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Graduate Joe Henson rediscovers Rovelli Smerlak (dropping ontic definiteness assumption)
- marcus
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Graduate A question about graviton self-interactions in QFT
- ensabah6
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Graduate New Limits on Planck Scale Lorentz Violation (Floyd Stecker)
- marcus
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Graduate Signs LQG has the right redefinition (or wrong?)
- marcus
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Graduate How will we know a true T.O.E. when we see it?
- mrspeedybob
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Graduate Nonlinear, nonrelative wavefunction
- Loren Booda
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Graduate Unraveling the Mystery of Super Symmetry
- Lazernugget
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Graduate Clarification: relation spin network/spinfoam and Wen's Qbit lattice
- ensabah6
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Graduate Suppose gravitons and Higgs were quasiparticles like phonons
- ensabah6
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Graduate Relationship between Lagrangian and Energy
- theneedtoknow
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Graduate What is the center of SU(3) group
- sufive
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Graduate How to mobilize solid molecules
- anwerfz
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Graduate If LQG now satisfactory, how to add matter?
- marcus
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Graduate Gravity as a Zitterbewegung Interaction
- Dcase
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Graduate State Sums and (Quantum) Geometry: Frank Hellmann's PhD thesis
- marcus
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Graduate How Much Info for Building a Universe?
- wolram
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Graduate Lecture of Edward Witten and 2nd Dutch-IFT School (BRAZIL)
- ccdantas
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Graduate An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything
- marcus
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Graduate String Theory vs. Superstring theory
- Swapnil
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Graduate EM Lagrangian in terms of E and B
- Rocky Raccoon
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Graduate Noether's Theorem Explained: Symmetric Quantity & Conservation Laws
- unchained1978
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