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Graduate AsymSafe QG sees a numerical breakthrough (Benedetti, Groh, Machado, Saueressig)

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Graduate Higher Gauge, TQFT, quantum gravity thematic convergence

  • marcus
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Graduate More on Penrose's Conformal Cyclic Cosmology

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Graduate Physical meaning of simplicity constraints in spin foam models

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Graduate Relation between loop quantum gravity and noncommutative geometry

  • tom.stoer
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Graduate Is Gauge-Free Electrodynamics the Solution to Gauge Ambiguities?

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Graduate Primer on conformal / dual conformal symmetry

  • earth2
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Graduate Is Bojowald's Book on Quantum Cosmology a Disappointment?

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Graduate What does the other 7-dimensions represent?

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Graduate Why must the EM stress-energy tensor be symmetric?

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Graduate Why must N=2 SUSY compactifications use Kähler manifolds?

  • GoldPheonix
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Graduate Loeb Weiner YIDM Yukawa-Interacting Dark Matter particle

  • marcus
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Graduate Quantum Uncertainty in the Holographic Principle

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Graduate Emergent geometry and gravity from quantum networks

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Graduate Garrett's article in SciAm December issue

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Graduate How Do We Define and Measure the Extra Spatial Dimensions in String Theory?

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Graduate Solving ODE with Data Points: Finding Equation and Integrating Method

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Graduate Invariants of a characteristic polynomial

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Undergrad Could a Fifth Force of the Universe Exist?

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Graduate Can a Lagrangian be written for a simple RC or RL circuit?

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Graduate Does string theory offer any connection to zero-point energy?

  • Kittel Knight
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Graduate String Theory's implications of ontology

  • Vinegar
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Graduate Looking for M-, F-Theory introduction

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Graduate Supergravity as the low energy effective action of Superstring- / M-theory

  • jcdenton
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Graduate Closed and open strings in M-theory

  • nomadreid
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Graduate Paul Townsend`s 3D Superparticle.

  • MTd2
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Graduate Is Gravitational String Theory the Unified Theory of Everything?

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Graduate Can a Super Grand Canonical Ensemble Exist?

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Graduate Epistemological Role in Science and Synthetic A Priori Knowledge

  • dce
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Undergrad How to describe string theory in one sentence

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Undergrad Mixed Partial and non-partial derivative definition

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Graduate Classical Information: An Exploration of Quantum Mechanics

  • John86
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Graduate Gauge invariance of Euler-Lagrange equations

  • andrewkirk
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Graduate Dax discussions of Beyond SM theories/including newcomer questions

  • marcus
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Graduate Does John H. Schwarz now believe in Verlinde`s gravity?

  • MTd2
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Graduate Deriving the equations of motion in f(T) gravity

  • birdhen
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Graduate The mathematics required for mathematical physics (LQG, ST, FT, etc)?

  • hadsed
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Astrophysics questions for fiction writing

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Graduate What is the importance of the Duffing Differential Equation?

  • nonequilibrium
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Graduate How would gravity or any 1/r^2 force act in one dimension?

  • zeromodz
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Graduate Explicit embedding of gravity+Standard Model in E8 (new Lisi paper)

  • marcus
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Graduate The Multiversians are at the gates

  • marcus
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Elegant Universe TV show streaming Video

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Graduate Question on Witten's paper: Perturbative Gauge Theory As A String Theory

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Graduate Does this rule out cosmic natural selection? (1.97 solar neutron star)

  • marcus
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Graduate Big dimensionless numbers (in Planks units)

  • Dmitry67
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Graduate Classical gravity, Supergravity and strings

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Graduate Matter from misjoints of spinfoams?

  • MTd2
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Undergrad Why Is Action Defined as Energy Minus Potential Energy in Physics?

  • Andrea2
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Graduate Matrix Model for Membranes and D-brane Dynamics

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Graduate How does the axion solution actually work?

  • ingenue
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Graduate Bianchi's PI talk on quantum polyhedra in LQG

  • marcus
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Graduate Why Do Superfields Have Quadratic Terms in Theta and Theta Bar?

  • earth2
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Graduate What Happens to Gravity in Bound States of Hydrogen Atoms?

  • qsa
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Graduate 't Hooft omni-theory proposal looks testable

  • marcus
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Graduate Lagrangian and Action question?

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Graduate Don't mess with the pass integral

  • Micha
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Graduate Does Spin of Particles Change in a Gravity Field?

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Graduate Jfy4 comment sparked by Torsten and Helge's new paper

  • marcus
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Graduate Quantizing Geometry or Geometrizing the Quantum?

  • inflector
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Graduate Understand Vector Product with Levi Civita Symbols

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Graduate Cosmological natural selection and infinite universe regression

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Graduate Self-Completeness of Einstein gravity via Black Hole formation

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Graduate Moduli Space of Tori: Intuitive Understanding in T-Duality

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Graduate What is a bivector and how does it relate to the electromagnetic stress tensor?

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Graduate Finding Solution to Laplace Equation

  • Nick R
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Graduate Inflation requires initial symmetry?

  • bcrowell
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Graduate Is the new spin foam model's graviton behavior problematic?

  • MTd2
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Graduate String Theory and Spacetime - Some Questions

  • inflector
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Graduate What experiments could test quantum gravity models?

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Graduate Theory of everything and unifications

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Undergrad Does gravity depend on electromagnetic force for atoms to exist?

  • AnishG
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Graduate F-string, NS5-brane and D-string as supergravity solutions

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Graduate Is Theoretical Physics Progress Stagnating?

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Graduate Infinite Dimensions: Is M Theory Correct?

  • Nikola Mitic
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Graduate Can Gravity Influence the Flow of Time?

  • lowing99
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Graduate Can String Theory Explain the Relationship Between Frequencies and Particles?

  • lowing99
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Graduate What is the distance between strings and how are they spread across space?

  • mrjonesgl
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Graduate Causal Sets lectures have started (video online)

  • marcus
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Graduate Can Lorenz attractor equations define Calabi-Yau manifold shape?

  • zeroman
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Undergrad Is gravity the force that creates space and time?

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Graduate Why hypothesize the graviton if quantum field theory already works

  • relativityfan
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Graduate String theory and CP violation

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Graduate What is the Fuzzball Hypothesis?

  • relativityfan
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Graduate Progress on braided spin networks?

  • tom.stoer
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Graduate Why is string theory scientific if it cannot be falsified?

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Graduate Progress on M Theory: What We Know So Far

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Graduate String Theory: Formula of the Strong Force

  • kexue
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Graduate Does time quantize at the speed of light?

  • snackster17
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Graduate Holography, bekenstein and information distance

  • Fra
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Graduate Has experimental discovery become secondary to theory in physics?

  • Archosaur
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Graduate Cross fertilization between string and non string approaches.

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Graduate Why do matrix models fail to be The M-Theory?

  • MTd2
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Graduate Unigrav applied to problems of time and cosmo constant

  • marcus
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Graduate Emergent relativity from causal networks

  • The Geoff
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Graduate Mass and gravity originating from the quantum vacuum

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Graduate Standard Model Lagrangian and preon model fermions

  • CarlB
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Graduate Why are Calabi-Yau moduli interpreted as effective field theory fields?

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Graduate String creation and destruction

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Graduate In LQG, where do things come from to make the Big Bounce?

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