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Detecting and analyzing higher dimensions via the EM radiation field.
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Top string theorist gives brief but educational review of smolin and woit
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Un-Standard Model: Falsifying the 5% Understanding of Mass in the Universe
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How Does Loop Quantum Gravity Address These Key Questions?
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Documentary on cutting-edge physics Strings / LQG
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Who Said With Malice Toward None?
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Ignore Trolls: How to Coexist Peacefully in a Diverse Culture
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Understand Virtual Particles in Quantum Gravity
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How much money has been invested in ST & LQG
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Question about holonomy-flux algebra
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Dr. Hadley's Quest: Parity Conservation in Nature
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String theory hype, good or bad
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Can Extra Dimensions Explain Mass Generation Beyond the Higgs Mechanism?
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An argument against string theory; geometry is dynamic
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An argument against Background Independence
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When Do Strings Or Membranes Begin?
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Is a Grand Unified Theory Really Necessary for Understanding Our Universe?
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What is each dimension in string theory?
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Hubble Findings: What Does It Mean for Theories of Everything?
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Why not two or more time dimensions?
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String theory and foundations of quantum mechanics
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Are Extra Dimensions Influencing Our Understanding of Gravity and Other Forces?
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Kodama means echo or spirit of the trees
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Young researchers conference
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What are the key properties and interpretations of the generalized Kodama state?
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Is the Casimir Effect Evidence of Dark Energy or Vacuum Energy in Cosmology?
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Kodama Mama: the mother of all quantum states of gravity
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Black Hole Entropie and Pair Production
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How Does String Theory Address QFT in Curved Spacetime?
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Deriving 3+1 Metrics from General P+Q Metric
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't Hooft: an original train of thought
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Twoslit & delayed choice according to string theory
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What is the Page-Geilker experiment and its implications for quantum gravity?
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String theory and the wave function
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String Theory & Wavefunction collapse
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Can String Theory Explain the Nonlocality of Particles and Waves?
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Most visual form of quantum GR?
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Is superstringtheory a quantum theory ?
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Is Ontology the Hidden Framework of Physics?
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Do String Theory Dualities Challenge Traditional Ontology?
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Quantum Gravity Theory and Interpretations of QM
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Olaf Dreyer: the Cosmological Constant paradox
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How does string theory describe the wave/particle duality of matter?
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Is Loop Quantum Gravity Compatible with Classical General Relativity?
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Cast Your Vote: SFT vs. LQG – Join the Discussion!
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Lee Smolin tantalizing hint in TTWT
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How can we test string theory?
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Baratin-Freidel: Hidden Quantum Gravity in 4d Feynman diagrams
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Spinfoam idea for energy source (Louis Crane-FQXi)
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New Connes: Gravity and the standard model with neutrino mixing
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Higgs field, QFT in curved spacetime, and spinfoams
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Quantum Gravity and Experimental Data: Lee Smolin in Physics Today"
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Discover the Mystery of Christine's Missing Blog: A Tale of Dantas and Marcus
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New Perimeter video archive format
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Thinking on a Tangent: Universe & Beyond
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Particle Overview: Arxiv.org HEP-PH 0611040
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Can the Ratio of Real to Virtual Particles Influence Quantum Gravity?
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Stroop Theory - the possible unification of QM with GR through IT and CHO?
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Poincare Invariance from General QFT
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Polchinski: 2006, the Year in Strings
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Bee evaluates multimindedness-its role in science
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Bee's new paper on QG phenomenology
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Beautiful Shahar Hod relax time lower bound-connecting to Third Law
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Can string theory make predictions for particle physics?
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Carl Brannen's Triumph in Hawaii: Japanese Physicist Koide Cites 2 Equations
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CBI's One Year Anniversary - Guest Posts Welcome
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Foot-trap rage and spanking the messenger
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String theory is a complete scientific failure by Daniel Friedan
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Algebraic QFT and Quantum Gravity
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Smolin's book first appearance on UK amazon physics bestseller list
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KITP Video w/ David Gross on Background Independence in String Theory
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Briefer bumps Trouble from #1 bestseller spot (after a month)
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Searching for Quantum Gravity in Gamma-Ray Bursts
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Zing-Zong. Bee's blog only gets better
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Talk by Hendryk Pfeiffer today
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Raft to the Future: Unraveling Math Confusion
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What Are Examples of Calabi-Yau Four-Folds with H^(1,1)=1?
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What's the trouble with anthropic reasoning?
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Vilenkin claims to have refuted the CNS conjecture
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Vilenkin unconvincing: CNS concerns stellar collapse black holes
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Do You Need a Strong Understanding of Quantum Mechanics to Study M-Theory?
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What Are the Theological Implications of the Pre-Big Bang Scenario?
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Is String Theory Explained in an XKCD Comic?
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Pre-Quantum theory talk at PI, Wednesday 11 October
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Smolin's reply to review in the New Scientist
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Smolin and Woit both top physics bestsellers (US and UK)
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Torelli Group: Understanding the Non-Trivial Diffeomorphisms of String Theory
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String number density - does it make sense?
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The Paradox of Zeno: An Analysis of the 2000-Year-Old Puzzle
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Gravitomagnetic effect 10^20 large then predicted by GR ?
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Is 11-Dimensional Spacetime a Valid Explanation of the Universe?
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The Asymptotic Safety Scenario in QG
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Review in Nature by Geoff Brumfiel
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The Mathematics of LQG Theory: Topology, Manifolds, and More
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If spinfoam incorporated unbroken SUSY formalism, would SUSY
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Spin network euristic for pre-quantum picture
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Not Even Wrong #1 UK bestseller in particle physics
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Third quarter QG research poll: nominations
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Does String Theory or Preon Theory More Accurately Predict the Higgs Boson Mass?
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A little question: is x-boson included in su(5)?
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