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Noncommutative Geometry blog has audio of David Hilbert
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Most Influential Paper, third quarter 2007
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Which Non-String Quantum Gravity Paper from Q2 2007 Will Shape Future Research?
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Most Influential Papers second quarter 2006
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Topological order - string-net condensation + loop quantum gravity
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Grimstrup merger of Loop with Noncommutative Geometry
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Hints of dispersion (both gravity and EM waves)
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What Are the Best Introductory Resources for SU(5) GUTs?
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Could a Black Hole Bounce Lead to a New Universe?
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Is Gravity Riding Into the 5th Dimension Feasible for FTL Travel?
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Meme Pas Fausse (Not even wrong-French style)
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Almost-universe-sized black hole
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David Gross: The Last Five Minutes
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Yidun Wan's talk about new particle model from simple materials
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Volvovik's Fermi-point scenario of emergent gravity as TOE
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Has String Theory Proven Anything? Examining the Evidence and Challenges
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Congratulations to Demystifier
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Dark energy from QG in a simple way (Bill Nelson)
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Laymans question: 2 Why is string theory
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Why Michelson-Morley Were Wrong (Wind vs Rain)
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Study topological field theories
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Anthropics and Myopics: Cosmological Constant
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Quantum Gravity and Photons: Reuter's Fixed Point Theory and the MAGIC Report
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Laymans question. What happened before the big bang ?
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SUSY vs Extra Dimensions: Collider Signature Differences
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Views of the Smolin/String controversy
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Functional determinant approach to perturbation
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ArXiv Research Output Trends 2006 - Stats Visualization
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The assumption that gravity is the same as the 3 quantum forces
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Minimal length and a new paper on deformed relativity
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MOND GR: Bridging the Gap Between Newtonian and General Relativity?
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Can spinfoam/LQG use a G at particle size?
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The MAGIC gammaray flare result, if true, favors Spinfoam LQG
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What Are the Insights of 2D Physics and Loop Variables in Loop Quantum Gravity?
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I'm excited about Martin Reuter's Loops '07 talk, comments on it?
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Stuff about GRB observations (dispersion?)
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Two-groups Pfeiffer scoops Freidel (maybe by a few days)
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Motivation behind quantum gravity
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Smilga paper, in which he derives an estimate to the fine structure constant
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In what sense can Reuter QEG have a minimal length?
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Dittrich and Thiemann challenge discreteness of LQG area etc operators
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What if Weinberg had succeeded in 1979?
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Is Super Symmetry Real: String Theory Predictions
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Unlocking 4096 Colors: What Are the Secrets of String Coding?
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What says Reuter re black holes?
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Smolin's Loops 07 talk is up (slides and audio), looks like a biggie
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Landmark paper from Freidel and Krasnov
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Quantum Gravity and the Standard Model (Sundance + PI)
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Sean's SAP post seems oddly shallow-what's happening?
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String Theory in Only 4-Dimensions
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Paperback edn. Smolin and other numbers to watch
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Is Information Theory the Key to Quantum Gravity? A Rant from an Angry Physicist
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Evaluating Functional integrals
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Anthropixia as a mental disorder
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What Happens When You Identify Points on a Torus and a Rolled Cylinder?
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Max String Frequency: Answers to Beginner Questions
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Will Detection Of Higgs Boson Complete Standard Model?
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About D-branes in type-II string theory
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Entanglement entropy in Loop Quantum Gravity
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Which Morelia audios are available?
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An experiment showing a structure from 10^-18
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Holography in LQG-new result by Gambini and Pullin
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Bee on Consistency and some interesting comments
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Does Penrose theorem about Space-time forbid 'Strings'
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QMD running G and Lambda challenges Loop Gravity
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How Does Regge Calculus Define a Minimum Quantum of Spacetime?
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4-simplex Regge: Dittrich, Freidel, Speziale
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Quantum METRO-dynamics-reuter's no-frill QG
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Can we apply 'Quantization' only from motion equation ?
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What causes the strings to vibrate?
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Jacobson renews LQG with a roto-Reuter
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General covariance be an approximation or violated ?
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Is the GZK cutoff confirmed by the Auger Observatory?
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Fermilab's Search for SUSY Particles
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Detecting Neutral Super-Partner Particles
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Extra Dimensions: What Do They Look Like?
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Is Rien ne va plus en physique! the Best Physics Book in France?
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A Question from a Non Scientist
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Conformal gravity challenges string (Mannheim)
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The impenetrable mysterys of String theory
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Anisotropic LQC bounce: Bianchi-I case (Chiou and Vandersloot)
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Startup Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos (IGC) at Penn State
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Understanding the frontier of physics?
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Randall-Sundrum Metric: Causes of Warping
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Surrogate Cosmic Variance Comment thread
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How Do Curled Up Dimensions in String Theory Affect Matter and Space?
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Tegmark Manyworld article for Nature magazine
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Why has mathematics worked so far to describe the laws of nature ?
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What is S^1/Z_2 and its connection to the projective plane?
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GLAST Launch: Has the Gamma Ray Large Area Telescope Operated as Scheduled?
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What's wrong with Canonical QG
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GFT common frame for LQG/SF +Simplex
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Lee mili-eV ennumeration and see saw
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Edward Witen is not researching LQG-like quantum gravity
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Appropriate maths for QFT, LQG, strings etc.
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LHC Doomsday Scenarios: Questions & Answers
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Universe or Multiverse? (new w/cosmic natural selection chapter)
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Are Extra Dimensions in String Theory Static or Dynamical?
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Study of brane decay that results in a brane/antibrane pair ?
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Lee Smolin's molten gold analogy
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