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Graduate Can Photons and Inertial Mass Unlock Time Travel Possibilities?

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Graduate Observational Loop QG-your opinion.

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Graduate Major developments LQG a look back 1998-2009

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Graduate Does Lagrangian Mechanics Violate Causality?

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Graduate How Do Quantum Strings Vibrate and Stay Confined in Dimensions?

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Graduate Wetterich's derivation of QM from classical

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Graduate Our picks for first quarter 2009 MIP (most important QG paper)

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Graduate Expectations for LQG in 2009: New Developments and Connections to LQC

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Graduate What do stringy people find interesting about LQG?

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Graduate If someone says something about a fourth-order approximation, does that mean ?

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Graduate What is Oz and the Emerging Quantum Gravity Research in Australia?

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Graduate Why do stringy people don't like LQG?

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Graduate How Does Unimodular Gravity Influence Modern Quantum Gravity Theories?

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Graduate Near term observ. constraints on QG dispersion

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Relaxed informative Witten interview of June 18 at Cern

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Graduate If they are real, what exactly do gravitons do?

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Graduate Current status of twistor theory

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Graduate Refereed publications on Loop/Canonical QG

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Graduate Evolving law, Smolin and others

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Graduate Who are the most respected research groups in QG now?

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High School Can Negating Inertia Grant Special Abilities?

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Graduate Zeta regularization for UV divergences ?

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Graduate How Does Rovelli's Quantum GR Limit Relate to DSR?

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Graduate Hidden dimensions of string theory hiding in 4D spacetime?

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Graduate Antimatter, Negative Mass, & Gravity: Unveiling the Mysteries

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Graduate Difference between Field and Fluid

  • raknath
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Graduate Going Beyond LQG: how to define QFT over Loops?

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Graduate Quantum gravity vs. general relativity

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Graduate Does coordinate system = gauge ?

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Susy2009: June 5-10 | Northeastern University

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Graduate Are 3-vectors Defined by Their Transformation Properties?

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Graduate Statistical moments and multipole moments

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Graduate Gravity Essay Contest Results in; amateur recognized

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Graduate How far does an object traveling slower than light travel in the same distance?

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Graduate What If the North Pole Were Contained Within the LHC at CERN?

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Graduate Gambini & Pullin on measuring time in quantum physics

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Graduate Is there a way to add a time parameter to see how the system evolves over time?

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Graduate Why do physical laws always feature integer indices?

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Graduate How Does Geometry Clarify the Concept of Gauge Fields in Physics?

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Graduate Should Wendelin Werner Be Considered a Physicist Fields Medalist?

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Graduate Quantizing unimod GR and solving the cosmo constant problem

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Graduate WHY dimensional regularization does not work for Gravity ?

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Graduate What Is Energy: Physical Reality or Mathematical Construct?

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Graduate Self-dual Black Holes in LQG: Theory and Phenomenology: (title of the article)

  • MTd2
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Graduate Questions about some basic conceptions

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Graduate No "Theory of Everything" Inside E8: Jacques Distler & Skip Garibaldi

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Graduate Exploring the Content of a New Research Program

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Graduate Freidel, Krasnov and Livine hints of Sring Theory in LQG

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Graduate Could you have BOTH mirror matter and supersymmetry?

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Graduate Where can we go with Relational QM?

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Undergrad Definitions of the Lagrangian and the Hamiltonian

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Graduate Torsion in GR and QG from fermions?

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Graduate Can String Theory Predict the Mass of Leptons?

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Graduate Information Causality: A New Physical Principle by M. Pawlowski et al.

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Graduate Free Parameters In String Theory

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Graduate Relativity from Quantum Entanglement: A Quantum Model for the Universe

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Graduate Manifold Questions: Particle Interaction vs Element Separation

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Graduate Exploring D=9 Supergravity and SU(3)xU(1) Non-Chiral Theory in Four Dimensions

  • arivero
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Graduate Loop Quantum Gravity Resources

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Graduate Center of mass and center of energy

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Graduate Perimeter gets Loll to teach 3-week QG minicourse

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Graduate Electromagnetic force in the fourth spatial dimension?

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Graduate Nature of quantum theory of gravity.

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Graduate Something special about four dimensions?

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Graduate Setting hbar = c = 1 how can you just do that?

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Graduate Can Black Holes Have Hair in Higher Dimensions?

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Graduate Why are complex numbers important in physics?

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Graduate Some basic questions regarding LQG

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Graduate About the notation OSP(8|4) etc.

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Graduate Physical phenomena with complex number solution

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Graduate Nice LQG paper by Modesto about dimension down with scale

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Graduate General Relativity + Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Background independence in string theory

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Graduate What Are the Best Introductory Resources on Conformal Field Theory?

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Graduate No need for dark matter, dark energy, MONDS, ect, nothing exotic?

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Graduate Do you have any recommendation of book involving mathematical physcis?

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Graduate No infinite gravitation in string theory?

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Graduate Can SU(3) be visualized with three belts?

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Graduate Disproofs of Bell, GHZ, and Hardy Type Theorems and the Illusion of Entanglement

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Graduate Confused about quantum gravity theory?

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Graduate Layman's understanding of interactions in string theory

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Graduate Only e-, e+, photons. String theory more simple?

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Graduate Why masons can be massless but their composite quark and antiquark both massive?

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Graduate Looking for a Veneziano paper

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Graduate Simple Derivation of Euler-Lagrange Equations

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Graduate Lagrange multipliers and variation of functions

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Graduate Gravity Waves and Superconductors (Raymond Chiao)

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Graduate Could Weak Gravity Be Explained by Long-Wavelength Gravitons from Unruh Effect?

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Graduate Any Lattice Model for String Theory?

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Graduate From String theory to QFT & SM: What does AdS/CFT theory can do and what cann't do?

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Graduate Minimum Fermion Content to Account for Standard Model: 12 of 8

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Graduate Understanding How the Hubble Re-Orients: The Mathematics Behind It

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Graduate String Theory & Dimensions: Interactions Explained

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Graduate Higgs Field & Gravity: What's the Connection?

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Graduate U(1)XSU(2-N): The Silliest GUT Ever?

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Graduate Are there evidences of a discrete space-time

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Graduate Cancellation of vacuum energy in Wess-Zumino model

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Graduate How Does M Theory Necessitate Gravity in the Standard Model?

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Graduate Black hole microstates and string theory

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Graduate Does Renormalization group tell you if a theory is Renormalizable or not ?

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