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Graduate Gravity as the Square of Gauge Theory
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Graduate Can someone explain to me what renormalization is?
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Graduate Virasoro Algebra: Unravelling Its Role in String Theory
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Graduate Change of the Intrinsic value of Spin
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Graduate Can Flat Space Experiments simulate the Big Bang?
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Graduate Group representations/branching rules question
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Graduate Instantons in type IIA theory and correlators
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Graduate Entropy, microscopic quantum theory of space-time, lorentz invariance
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Graduate Can Neutrinos Unlock New Frontiers in Physics?
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Graduate Casimir Effect and Gravity Question
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Graduate Are Extra Non-Planck Dimensions Possible and What Could They Mean for the LHC?
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Graduate Mechanical descriptions of particles
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Graduate Math for Physicists: Preparing for Grad Level Physics
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Graduate Padmanabhan and spacetime microscopic degrees of freedom
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Graduate Einstein-Cartan geometry in CDT?
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Graduate Sifting through the first quarter 2010 papers
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Graduate What Are the Origins of the Wave Equation?
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Graduate Looking for LQG Lecture Notes? Check out Hanno Sahlmann's Crash Course!
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Graduate Can quantized branes restrict the number of dimensions in string theory?
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Graduate Hamiltonian formulation of *classical* field theory
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Graduate Why does dimensional regularization need counterterms ?
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Graduate String theory cosmology on inflation, CMB, gravitional waves?
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Graduate Validity of Randall–Sundrum model
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Graduate A problem with sums 1+2+3+4+5+6
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Graduate Are there any graphene planck-scale quantum gravity?
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Graduate Basic question about small curled dimensions in string theory.
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High School What Dimensions Are There (in Physics) ?
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Graduate Brane World and Gauss-Bonnet Term
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Graduate Popular Books on Quantum Gravity
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Graduate Matter is topological entropy (Fotini disordered locality)
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Graduate Jack Armel's Entropic Space-Time Theory
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Strings 2010: Schedule of Talks
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Graduate New Scientist: Knowing the mind of God: Seven theories of everything
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Graduate Hossenfelder let daylight into the entropic force room
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Graduate Immanuel Kant on Supersymmetry: a Practical Evaluation
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Graduate John Baez' idea: GR described as a 3-group gauge theory.
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Graduate Coulomb interaction and non-trivial topology
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Graduate Physics law evo book (Lee Smolin Bob Unger, in prep)
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Graduate Does the Riemman tensor and the covariant derivate commute?
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Graduate Which way is the best one for studying quantum gravity: LQG or Strings?
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Graduate How will our world be different if supersymmetry is an unbroken symmetry?
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Graduate The theoretical maximum efficiency of silicon solar cells is about 29%. Why?
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Graduate Particle States in Quantum Field Theory: Local vs. Global Approximations
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Graduate LQG, LQC & the Multiverse Theory
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Graduate What's the radius of convergence for 1/N expansion in QCD?
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Undergrad Physical Interpreation of the Laplace Operator
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Graduate Does the Malcadena make experimentally testable and falsifiable predictions?
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Undergrad What does infinity mean to a physicist
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Graduate Homogeneity and isotropy of space and time
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Graduate NPR: Interview with mathematician re string theory
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Graduate Understanding Time and Clocks in Relation to Observers
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Graduate Slides from March 2010 QG school
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Graduate Physical meaning of lagrangian
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Graduate What Are the Mysteries of T-Duality and Wilson Lines in String Theory?
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Graduate Can you verify this calculation ?
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Graduate Entropic Accelerating Universe (Smoot et al)
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Undergrad Why does PI occur so much in physics?
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Graduate Does anyone know about a list of course on Quantum GRavity for the current year?
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Undergrad Basic Forces of Nature: Unifying Electromagnetic & Weak Nuclear
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Graduate When will LIGO be sensitive enough to detect gravitational wave background?
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Graduate Examples of no gravity in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Is Negative Total Energy Possible in Mass-Energy Equivalence?
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Graduate Are quantum gravity theories based on the existence of gravitons?
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Graduate Why superspace formulation works only for at most 4 supersymmetries?
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Graduate Hamiltonian systems, integrability, chaos and MATH
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Graduate Is the unobservable universe free from quantum indeterminism?
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Graduate Imagining the 10th dimension by rob bryanton
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Graduate In search for a holistic perspective on the physical reality
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Graduate Gravitons moving out of our dimension
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Graduate What're the superspace formulations of SUSY Yang-Mills of D=10, N=1,2,4,8,16,32?
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Graduate Is Energy Really Flat? Understanding the Dimensions of e=mc²
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Undergrad Why symmetry is not important in classical physics?
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Graduate Sundance Bilson-Thompson ribbons in LQG soldiers on
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Undergrad What Are the True Dimensions of Physical Units in Physics?
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Graduate What Are the Key Differences Between Space-time Supersymmetry and Supergravity?
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Graduate Topics at this week's QGQG school
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Graduate Petr Horava hints he is going to work with CDT
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If there are an infinite number of universes.
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Graduate Question on liouville's theorem
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Graduate What Role Do Conifolds Play in Superstring Theory?
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Graduate What is the graviton propagator in the first order formalism?
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Graduate Explanation of word foliation in quantum gravity?
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Graduate What is a configuration space?
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Graduate Can anyone suggest a good book or lecture on string theory
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Graduate Lagrangians and conserved quantities
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Graduate Is the lack of infinities in LQG due to quantization of volume and area?
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Graduate Could someone explain this entropic force business to me?
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Graduate Boundary conditions on D-Branes
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Graduate Mass vs Distance: Does Distance Affect Mass?
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Graduate Why don't strings have a huge Planck mass?
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Graduate The Cosmic Landscape: A Review by Patrick
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Graduate What is the relationship between loop quantum gravity and relational spacetime?
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Graduate Is the GLO definition of emergence a good one? (Girelli Livine Oriti)
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Graduate String Theory and Twistor Theory Combined
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Graduate String Theory: Is an Atom Made of 1 or Millions of Quarks?
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Graduate Which Came First: Hawking Radiation or the Big Bang?
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Graduate Any Laboratory Scale Test of GR's correction to Newtonian Gravity?
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Graduate How Does the Dirac Conjugation Operator Affect Majorana Neutrino Mass Terms?
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Graduate Implications of Verlinde entropy on string theory
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Graduate Worldsheet ghost stress-energy tensor
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