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Graduate Can LSS unification (gravity, gauge, Higgs) be quantized à la new LQG ?

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Graduate Where Can I Find Video Lectures on String Theory?

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Graduate Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics starts a new LQG group

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Graduate Relic Photons and the Far Side of Elsewhere

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Graduate Spin-3 Field: Gauge Invariance & Diffeomorphism?

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Graduate How to avoid singularities in AS Gravity? Find non perturbative inflation

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Graduate LQG and Princeton's institute for Advanced Study

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Graduate Non-perturbative theory and perturbative theory

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Graduate 4d gauge theory: Witten video on his current research

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High School What Are Good Beginner Books for Learning Physics and Cosmology?

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Graduate Has the Classical Motion of Closed String Loops Been Explored in String Theory?

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Mikhail Shaposhnikov's Fascinating Talk - Let's Discuss!

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Graduate Predict Higgs mass by AsymSafety: Shaposhnikov and Wetterich

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Graduate QFT/GR whats the problem? I can't see one

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Graduate The Strand Model of fundamental interactions

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Graduate Can ZETA REGULARIZATION avoid all the UV divergences ?

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics and Strings: A Puzzling Relationship

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Graduate Why are no DIVERGENT quantities (infinities) in String Theory ?

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Graduate Does string theory/LQG predict Hawking radiation?

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Graduate How would a 2 dimensional intelligence find out the world has 3 dimensions

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Graduate Is Information Equivalent to Energy According to Landauer's Principle?

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Graduate Is Doubly Special Relativity a Viable Alternative to String Theory?

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Graduate End of Classical String - Boundary Condition Explained

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Graduate Does string theory merge space and time into spacetime?

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Graduate Using Dirac Delta Function to Determine Point Mass Density

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Graduate What Are the Most Plausible Theories for Time Travel?

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Graduate Traceless metric in string spectrum

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Graduate What kind of extra force could rule out string theory?

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Graduate Is the ground state in LQG a coherent state?

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Graduate What is the uniqueness of Euler angles?

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Graduate Short question about diffeomorphism invariance

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Graduate Unruh effect = Compton effect ?

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Graduate EPRL/FK Group Field Theory (Vincent Rivasseau, Razvan Gurau, Joseph Ben Geloun)

  • marcus
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Graduate Spinfoams are the Feynman diagrams of GFT (V. Rivasseau)

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Graduate Is Calabi-Yau Theory a Valid Concept or Just Speculation?

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Graduate Applications of elliptic integrals

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Graduate Learn Tensor: 4 Books to Start With

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Graduate No prior geometry and the group field theory vehicle

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Graduate Horton Hears a Who and the Whos hear

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Graduate Efficient Energy Generation: Can We Create a Reality Drive?

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Graduate Minimum Size in spin networks/foams.

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Graduate Another short question on Rovelli's book

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Graduate What kind of branes are there in Berkovitz' Twistor Strings?

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Graduate Fermi Gamma Ray Telescope: Ruling Out Lorentz-Violating Theories

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Graduate What is Ed Witten's stance on string theory?

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Graduate A very unlikely theory of everything (I think)

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Graduate How Has Ed Witten Influenced Geometric Langlands and Its Relevance to Physics?

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Graduate How fields control the capacity of the spin network channels?

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Graduate Chern-Simons, LQG black hole entropy, and central intertwiner

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Graduate Can Matter Shape the Metric in Analog Models of Gravity?

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Graduate Is String Theory Valuable if Higher Dimensions and SUSY Are Unphysical?

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Graduate Could there be spin particles in spin networks?

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Graduate AsymSafe, LQG, Verlinde at the Paris ICHEP

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Graduate Beyond the Standard Model-at the Paris ICHEP

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Graduate Is time absolute or dynamical in LQG and string theory?

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Graduate Mathematical Proof of String Theory

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Graduate Is Loop Quantum Gravity Approaching a Breakthrough?

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Graduate Issues with String Theory | PF Answers

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Graduate How Do Twistors Relate to Twisted Geometries in Loop Quantum Gravity?

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Graduate Gauge theories and constraints

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Graduate Lagrangian for a supersymmetric point particle

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Graduate What Happens to a Photon Near the Sun in Quantum Gravity?

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Graduate Dynamical chiral symmetry breaking

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High School Could a Gigantic Straw Really Connect Space and Ocean?

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Graduate Is our universe a mix of both continuous and discrete elements?

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Graduate Why is string theory on the verge of collapse?

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Graduate Harnessing G-Field Energy for Mass Creation

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LQG Resource Site | Quantum Gravity Theory

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Undergrad Neil Turok's All Known Physics Equation

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Graduate Can AdS/CFT Be Established Without String Theory Through Freidel's Approach?

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Graduate Wave equation boundary conditions at infinity

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Graduate M-theory and gravitational waves

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Graduate What Are S-Particles and How Do They Affect Gravity?

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Graduate What is the analogue of 'space is curved' in Quantum Field theory ?

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Graduate Demonstrated convincingly that supergravity gives you GR

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Graduate Can SUSY be true if neutralinos have been ruled out to exist?

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Graduate Why Are Coherent States Essential for Measurement in Loop Quantum Gravity?

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Graduate 4-dimensional topology and physics

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Graduate Is space covariant or contravariant?

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Graduate Hyperspace engine (Heim's Quantum Theory)

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Graduate Three Body Problem (and Chaos Theory, Determinism and Prigogine)

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Theoretical Physics (and Math) genius cult

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New Theory of Gravity? Find Out What It Is!

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Graduate Crazy Theory: Using Fabric to Explain Space/Time

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Graduate What is group field theory? Introduction please?

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Graduate Why spin foams have int/semi-int values?

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Graduate Method for storing infinite energy?

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Graduate Experimental QG Search talks (what does the Stockholm lineup tell us?)

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Graduate Can Horava gravity be formulated in LQG framework?

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Graduate Seething expanding geometry-new LQG view of reality

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Graduate Black holes in AsymSafe gravity (new Easson paper)

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Graduate Gaining Lagrangian Intuition: What Does dT=dV Mean?

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Graduate Is Gravity Just an Extension of the Strong Force?

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Graduate Questions about string theory Black hole entropy results

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Graduate String Theory's Contributions to Mathematics

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Graduate Lightest Supersymmetric electrically charged particle

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Graduate Our picks for first quarter 2010 MIP (most important QG paper)

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Graduate Gravitomagnetic Analog of Electrical Transformers

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Graduate Landau's derivation of the Langangian expression

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Graduate What is the gravitational field ?

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