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Join expert and advanced topics on beyond the standard model of physics. This includes professionally researched theories like strings, branes, and LQG. Mainstream physics only.
A Look at Quantum "Spookiness"
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Would Feynman Embrace Background Independence in Quantum Mechanics Today?
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Smolin and Woit #1 and #2 bestsellers
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Is a Fundamental Unit of Length Possible with the Planck Circle Problem?
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Penrose: Outrageous Solution to Big Bang Cosmology Puzzle
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Question about the Unified Field Theory
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Does Hawking Radiation Maintain a Black Hole's Maximum Entropy?
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Emergent spacetime & Background independence
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The Telephone Seminar was fun (Laurent and Abhay arguing with Carlo)
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Riofrio Cosmology: Evidence of Changing Speed of Light
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What Are the Implications of the Leech Lattice and Strings in String Theory?
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Opinions of ideas in Not Even Wrong
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Smolin at Kepler's in Menlo Park on Wednesday
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Can Energy Be Extracted from Quantum Fields Without Depleting Them?
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Amanda Cook and Sara Lippencott edited #1 physics bestseller
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What is the meaning behind the complex equations in Dyson's 1951 text on arXiv?
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Cambridge Noncommutative Geometry workshop in September
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Space Time & Metric Encoded Evolution: Rules & Principles
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The Trouble with Physics-Woit's review
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And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
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Is Particle-Wave Duality a Topological Transformation?
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Teaching myself supersymmetry and supergravity
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New Cosmology Idea - Is it Too Simple?
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Dcase initiative to discuss Khovanov paper
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Is String Theory Just a Hypothesis or a Viable Theory?
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Can string theory predict particle masses such as neutrinos?
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Dark matter and the 'theory of everything'
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Why Are Quarks and Leptons Grouped in the Antisymmetric Representation of SU(5)?
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Quantum foam producing both particles and spacetime
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Is there a quanta of rest mass? say multiples of electron mass?
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Can Recursive Formulas Help Solve Divergences in Perturbation Theory?
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String Theory: Questions on Realities Beyond Our World
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Kristina Giesel: Algebraic Quantum Gravity seminar talk
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As if summoned from the void (nitin's new blog)
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Experimental evidence has ruled out (falsified) string theory - LQG still viable
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Freidel makes faculty at Perimeter
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Parallel worlds movie on Dr.Kaku's website
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Is There a Rigorous Proof of a Quantum of Space in Quantum Mechanics and GR?
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From Semiclassical to Quantum Approach
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Does string theory/M theory have an explanation for
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Can I Share My Gravity Theory Here?
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Who Is Kristina Giesel?
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The graviton pisses me off.. .
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Calculation of the Cosmological Constant
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Thiemann's Latest - Conroversy
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Steve Hsu and Loop Gravity's black hole bounce
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Is there an upper & lower limit to photon wavelength?
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Third QG-Americas conference 24-26 August
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Not even wrong: a summary of criticism of string theory
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Chandra dark matter announcement could sink MOND
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Response to Smolin and Woit books, and other barometers
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David Finkelstein's no-field theory
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NCG predictions: Alain Connes in SciAm
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A positive cosmological constant * SUSY/string theory
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Unraveling Supersymmetry: Questions and Evidence in Modern Physics
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String theory & standard model & black hole entropy
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Not Even Wrong? I Thought String Theory Was Dead?
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Lee Smolin and Brian Greene on Science Friday show
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Explore the N-Category Cafe: Physics, Math and Philosophy
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New Measurement of Alpha & Peter Woit in FAZ: "Schlimmer als Falsch
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J Noldus might use this new Rieffel theorem
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FQXi project descriptions now online (thx GL)
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A fix for the Cosmological Constant problem?
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Can Loop Quantum Gravity Dismiss the Manifold Structure of S^4?
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Freidel does it: BeeF, it's what's for dinner
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Is Gravity Really a Pseudo-Force in Modern Physics?
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How Can Fresh Graduates Contribute to the NUS LQG Group?
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MG11 video (including Ashtekar's talk)
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Searching for Purely Chaotic Systems
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Help me to introduction in superstring theory what is it ?
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Horgan's review of Not Even Wrong
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Everybody sees the same elephant (says Carlo Rovelli)
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String number density - does it make sense?
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CONGRATULATIONS Ladies and Gentlemen of the Subforum
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Black holes and quantum gravity
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What are some of the notable FQX awardees and their research projects?
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Can Strings in 'Empty Space' Explain Gravitational Pull?
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Updates on String Theory: Progress and Current Status
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Cat -> Quant (TWF 236, Morton's thesis)
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The Paradox of Zeno: A 2000 Year Old Puzzle Resolved by Calculus
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Can Dark Matter be Reproduced by QG or String Theory?
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Professional Ideas Beyond the Standard Model of Dark Matter
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Algebraic Quantum Gravity (Thiemann and Giesel)
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What is the proposed solution for the problem of time in General Relativity?
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MOST06 ANU Conference: Katrin Wendland's Talk on Anomaly Cancellation
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LQG Dirac Quantization in Parametrized Field Theory: Madhavan Varadarajan
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String Theory in the Low Energy Realm
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Wormholes and the casimir effect
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Reducing Research Time: Splitting or Concentrating?
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Unveiling the Origin of Matter: A Geometric Unification in 4D Gravity
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Is Loops '06 the Future Name for Quantum Gravity Conferences?
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Join the Celebration: 't Hooft Birthday Conference on a Beautiful Dutch Island!
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Do we actually need the wavefunction?
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Reducing Symmetry from SU(2) to U(1) | Dear PF
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Can somebody explain the conformal anomaly?
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What's the physical relevance of vacuum energy?
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The Rovelli Point of Wrong Turn
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Rewrite of my assumptions. Was: Mistakes (again)
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Can higgs-like potential be derived from string phenomenology?
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Beautiful/Elegant Mathematics in String Theory
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