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Graduate How does Dark energy fit into the standard model?
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Graduate Does Simulating 3-D Structures Enhance Polymer Solar Cell Efficiency?
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Graduate Gravitons corresponding to flat spacetime.
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Graduate Some questions about dimensions 5 - 11
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Graduate String Theory, M-Theory, whatever
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Graduate Where are the particles created in BH evaporation?
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Graduate Discussing "Time for a Change: The Non-Existence of Time" by Lynds
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Graduate What is the proposed solution to the Vacuum Energy Density Crisis?
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Graduate Emergent string based space time
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Graduate Is Space-Time Composed of Strings in String Theory?
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Graduate Researching LQG: What Disciplines Should I Study?
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Graduate Are Pressure and Energy Density Redundant in Dimensional Equivalence?
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Graduate Weinberg cites Reuter, Saueressig, also Percacci in Oriti's Quantum Gravity book
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Graduate Initial Value for GR /w Ashtekar Var. Eyo EyoIta defies Freidel and Smolin
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Graduate Does String Theory Arise from Quantum/Unified Fields?
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Graduate New action is key to Loop gains (the Dittrich-Speziale action)
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Graduate Could someone please explain this 4-vector/tensor notation?
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Graduate How Does Quantum Theory Suggest Spacetime Emerges from Simple Triangles?
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Graduate Do superstrings exist in two states of spin?
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Graduate What is the concept of Dual Special Relativity?
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Graduate Explaining the Expanding Universe: A Discussion
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Graduate Asymptotic Safety paper thanks Jacques Distler
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Graduate Physicists Theorize New Method for FTL Travel
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Graduate How does an electron behave in a closed time like curve?
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Graduate Can Liouville's theorem apply to dissipative systems
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Graduate The meaning of the relative strength of forces
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Graduate The email I sent to Petr Horava about CDT, LQG and his new theory. (no answer).
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Graduate Covariant loop quantum gravity and its low-energy limit (throwing the eagle)
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Graduate Tests of LQG in cosmology (proposals, prospects etc)
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Graduate Can Strings Act as Both Particles and Waves Like Quantum Particles?
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Graduate How do D-branes fit into closed string theories?
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Graduate How Does General Relativity Encode Universal Energy into Mass?
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Graduate Diff invariance allows loop variables why?
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Graduate Importance of Closing Algebra in Wess-Zumino Lagrangian: Simple SUSY Question
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Graduate What is the Conceptual Meaning of Boltzmann's Constant?
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Graduate Supersymmetric string theory, what is it?
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Graduate Chiral theories and matter gauges
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Graduate String theory and Bell's theorem
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Graduate Understanding Z2 Symmetry in Models
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Graduate Wave function collapse causes gravity? (article title)
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Graduate The meaning of time in curved space quantization
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Graduate Harmonic Functions: Why n>2 Condition Imposed
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Graduate Gravostrong ? TOE advise needed
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Graduate Why Do Some Tensor Functions Appear Isotropic in Component Notation?
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Graduate Is gauge theory applicable to finite-dimensional Lie groups?
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Graduate Can Knotted Closed Strings Exist in Higher Dimensions?
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Graduate Does someone undesrstand Matti Pitkanen's TGD?
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Graduate Where do you need topology in physics?
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Graduate String Field Theory: Will It Outshine String Theories?
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Graduate What are the different approaches to QG and QM without spacetime?
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Graduate Petr Horava's quantum Gravity ( without strings)
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Graduate Free Papers Intro to 11D Supergravity: ArXiv & Google Scholar
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Graduate Conformally inequivalent tori (for one-loop string diagrams)
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Graduate Significance of non-linear terms
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Graduate What Are the Fundamental Numbers Essential for the Universe's Existence?
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Graduate Question over dimensions, something that's been bothering me
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Graduate A request for advice on studying theoretical physics
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Graduate Susskind on black hole in collider experiment
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Graduate Number of Lepton Generations in string theory
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Graduate Advanced published papers regarding valid unification theories?
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Graduate Has anyone heard of Anyonic strings?
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Graduate Fooling around with Hamilton-Jacobi theory: can this be right?
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Graduate Simple question about a calculation in superstring theory
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Graduate Strings vs Blocks: Dimensions & Oscillating Volumes
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Graduate M-Theory is that same as Superstring Field Theory?
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Graduate What is E8 Theory and How Does It Relate to String Theory?
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Graduate Is There a Paradox in Amelino-Camelia's Doubly Special Relativity?
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Graduate Virasoro operators in bosonic String Theory
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Graduate Action Definition: Integral of Lagrangian Over Time
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Graduate Smolin video LQG online course
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Graduate Why can we shield some forces but not others?
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Graduate Map of Bagger-Lambert papers-links, interviews
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Graduate Why planck scale? let me explain before kill me
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Graduate More evidence for asymptotic safety (Saueressig, Machado, Benedetti)
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Graduate Emergent matter as form of ramification?
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Graduate Arguments Against LQG: Summary & Analysis
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Graduate Lqg is still local lorentz invariant?
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Graduate How Does String Theory Relate to Mass-Energy Equivalence?
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Graduate Stringy corrections to SM propagators
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Graduate String Theory & Emergent Spacetime: Investigating a TOE Possibility
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Graduate Current state of string theory
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Graduate Proofs from Oriti's QG book available in PDF
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Graduate String Theory: Understanding Superstring Theory and Its Location
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Graduate Request to String Lovers: Classify theories by critical dimensions.
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Graduate Comparing Gravity to Other Forces in Physics
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Graduate How Do 1-Dimensional Strings Transform into Point Particles in Physics?
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Graduate Martin Kober: The relation of a unified QFT of spinors to the structure of GR
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Graduate Hyper-complex fields in Supergravity?
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Graduate Can EM Waves Enable Warp Drive Technology in Space-Time?
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Graduate Extra dimensions -> power law lowering unification?
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Graduate Simple example of Quaternion intuition
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Graduate New blackhole solution to Einstein eqn, no info paradox (Krzysztof Meissner)
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Graduate Our picks for 2008 MIP (most important QG paper)
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Graduate Could the quanta of gravity be something other than a spin-2 graviton?
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Graduate Second quantization in ashtekar variable
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Graduate Possible Lorentz violation measured
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Graduate If y've read Wilczek's book (comment on ideas of chapter 8)
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Graduate Is Gravity Considered a Dimension in Physics?
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Graduate The math behind a couple of theories
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Graduate Identifying Regular and Irregular Lattices in the Graphity Model
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