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Graduate Help with identifying a reference for the time-invariant Kaluza-Klein metric
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Graduate Calmet & Hsu: Quantum hair and black hole information
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Graduate Is the Higgs really not as heavy as we thought?
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Undergrad Coefficients in expansions of a vector potential
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Graduate SO(3) group, Heisenberg Hamiltonian
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Graduate Gradient of higher rank tensor
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Graduate Lagrange-D’Alembert Principle and random ODE
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Undergrad Canonical transformation vs symplectomorphism
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Undergrad Between a Zeptometer and the Planck length
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Undergrad Building Quantum GR out of quantum rulers and quantum clocks
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Undergrad Looking for a Comprehensive Explanation of Natural Units
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Undergrad What Are the Empirical Challenges Facing Quantum Gravity Theories?
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Undergrad Understanding Tensors & Knot Theory in Physics
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Undergrad The partial time derivative of Hamiltonian vs Lagrangian
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High School Current status of Horava Lifshitz gravity?
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Graduate Grant for Research in Theoretical Physics
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Undergrad Do extra dimensions lead to expansion of our universe?
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Undergrad Lagrangian with generalized positions
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Undergrad Standard designation for generalization of Euler-Lagrange?
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Graduate Can Membrane Field Theory Elucidate M-Theory?
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Graduate Percentage of String Theory Research in Theoretical Physics
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Undergrad Swampland Conjecture: String Theory & Unstable Universes
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Undergrad Action in Lagrangian Mechanics
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Undergrad What Shapes Can Extra Dimensions Take in String Theory?
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Graduate What possible experiments will falsify String Theory?
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Undergrad Is quantum gravity still an immensely popular field?
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Undergrad What is your opinion about Freeman Dyson's opinion on the unification?
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Undergrad Dimensions of our physical world
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Undergrad Can configuration space be observer independent?
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Graduate What are the key contributions of Chris Isham to theoretical physics?
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High School LHCb results and MicroBooNE results
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Graduate Is the self-consistency principle a scientific or philosophical idea?
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Undergrad Confusion between vector components, basis vectors, and scalars
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High School Is Energy Defined by Shape or Matter in General Relativity?
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Undergrad Metrics and conformal transformations
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Graduate Stationary Point of Variation of Action
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Graduate Euler Lagrange and the Calculus of Variations
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Graduate What is k-Minkowski spacetime, and is it a tool in a theory of quantum gravity?
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Undergrad Playing with Lagrangian and I screw up
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Undergrad Where does Hamilton's Principle come from?
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Undergrad Current progress in quantum gravity?
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Graduate Can Gödel's Theorem Inform Our Understanding of Physical Reality?
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Graduate Can holography provide a complete description of a space-time?
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High School Difference between LQC and Causal Sets
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Undergrad Benefits of Lagrangian mechanics with generalised coordinates
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Graduate Doubt in a step while deriving Bertrand theorem
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Undergrad String Basics question from an ABJECT ignoramus
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Graduate Massless electrons stable if the Universe approaches a de Sitter Universe?
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Graduate Charge conjugation in quantum gravity
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High School Does the Laplace operator equal the Del operator squared?
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Undergrad Bohmian mechanics and String theory
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High School What would happen if there were no inertia?
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Undergrad New Lepton Universality Data To Be Announced Tuesday, 18 October 2021
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Graduate Cohomology and fermions in supersymmetry
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High School XENON1T and possible dark energy detection
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Graduate Quantum theory without classical time: quantum gravity and unification
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Undergrad String theory in 4 dimensions?
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Graduate Looking for the earliest articles about Quantum Gravity
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High School What Happens If Tachyons Are Detected?
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Graduate Edward Witten and the Mathematical Multiverse?
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Graduate Any model or theory in physics akin to "Law without law"?
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Undergrad Are these descriptions about extra dimensions really true?
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Undergrad Scalar product and generalised coordinates
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Undergrad Is Supersymmetry required by String theory?
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High School Could atoms be formed from other quarks than up and down?
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Graduate Do you agree with Jeff Bezos on theoretical physics?
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Undergrad Ontology of Causal Dynamical Triangulation
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Undergrad What Explains the Odd Behavior of the Four Fundamental Forces?
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Undergrad Multiverse: How Many Universes Could Exist?
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Undergrad Phase space integral in noninteracting dipole system
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Undergrad More rigorous Euler-Lagrange derivation
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Graduate A question about emergent gravity
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Graduate Why Does Hamilton's Principle Use L=KE-PE Instead of L=KE+PE?
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Graduate New take on Tegmarks MUH --Geometric Transformation Internalization
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Graduate What are the difficulties of the rishon model?
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Undergrad Is the Higgs field in its present form phlogiston-like?
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Undergrad Why are gravitons expected to exist when gravity is just warped spacetime?
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Graduate Is ADS Theory a Quantum Theory? Hawking's Bet and the ADS/CFT Equivalence
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Graduate Is Theoretical Physics Wasting Our Best Living Minds On Nonsense? Moved
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Graduate Nobel laureates for and against string theory?
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Undergrad Flat arena for quantum gravity?
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High School Implication of Goedel's theorems on physics
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High School What's the distance metric for a compactified dimension?
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Undergrad References for Hamiltonian field theory and Dirac Brackets
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Graduate How can modular forms be used in particle physics mass models?
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High School GR and closeness to a black hole singularity
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Graduate MOND Theory Primer: Stacy McGaugh's Research Program Explored
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Graduate Wiesendanger's quantization of an SO(1,3) extension of GR
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Undergrad Are all symmetries in physics just approximations?
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Undergrad Can the Principle of Least Action Unify Different Branches of Physics?
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Graduate What does the equation C = 12 J mean for black holes?
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Graduate Noether's theorem for finite Hamiltonian systems
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Graduate A technical question about the amplituhedron
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High School Supersymetry versus Anti Particles?
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Graduate The equations of variable mass systems
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Graduate Proof of Classical Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem
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Graduate The long awaited F theory book finally set out
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High School Can We Discover Multiple Time Dimensions Like Space?
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Graduate Nobel laureates supporting string theory?
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Undergrad Mass spectrum of open bosonic strings
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