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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?

  • 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

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Graduate Does loop quantum gravity recover general relativity in the classical limit?

  • 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 Does physics explain reality or just model measurements?

  • 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 How does the Riemann zeta function give -1/12 for the sum of natural numbers?

  • 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 How are strings related to 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 LHC results challenge supersymmetry theory

  • J.F.
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Graduate Do naked singularities from black string instability rule out extra 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 Why do we multiply by units instead of dividing?

  • puzzler7
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Graduate Interaction energy and gauge invariance

  • arpharazon
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Graduate How do gravitons help prove string theory?

  • 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

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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 theoretical physics more precise than mathematics?

  • raam86
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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 Quantum gravity transition amplitudes from five principles

  • marcus
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Graduate Can Multiple Infinite Quantum Fields Coexist in Spacetime?

  • sci-guy
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Graduate How do I count ghost number and form degree in Beltrami parametrization?

  • christodouloum
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Graduate Henson's ontic definiteness relaxation parallels Rovelli-Smerlak

  • marcus
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Graduate Could a minimum energy threshold for graviton self-interactions enable renormalization?

  • 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 What is supersymmetry and why do physicists use it?

  • Lazernugget
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Graduate Relation between Wen's qubit lattice, spin networks, and spin foam models

  • 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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