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Graduate Has anyone heard of Anyonic strings?
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Undergrad Where Does the Gravitational Constant Come From?
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Graduate Fooling around with Hamilton-Jacobi theory: can this be right?
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Graduate Simple question about a calculation in superstring theory
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Undergrad Whenever energy is added to a system, the system gains mass
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Graduate Strings vs Blocks: Dimensions & Oscillating Volumes
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Graduate M-Theory is that same as Superstring Field Theory?
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Graduate What is E8 Theory and How Does It Relate to String Theory?
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Graduate Is There a Paradox in Amelino-Camelia's Doubly Special Relativity?
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Graduate Virasoro operators in bosonic String Theory
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Graduate Action Definition: Integral of Lagrangian Over Time
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Graduate Smolin video LQG online course
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Graduate Why can we shield some forces but not others?
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Graduate Map of Bagger-Lambert papers-links, interviews
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Graduate Why planck scale? let me explain before kill me
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Graduate More evidence for asymptotic safety (Saueressig, Machado, Benedetti)
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Graduate Emergent matter as form of ramification?
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Graduate Arguments Against LQG: Summary & Analysis
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Graduate Lqg is still local lorentz invariant?
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Graduate How Does String Theory Relate to Mass-Energy Equivalence?
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Graduate Stringy corrections to SM propagators
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Graduate String Theory & Emergent Spacetime: Investigating a TOE Possibility
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Graduate Current state of string theory
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Graduate Proofs from Oriti's QG book available in PDF
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Undergrad Deriving Linear Wave Equation: Step-by-Step Guide
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Graduate String Theory: Understanding Superstring Theory and Its Location
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Graduate Request to String Lovers: Classify theories by critical dimensions.
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Graduate Comparing Gravity to Other Forces in Physics
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Graduate How Do 1-Dimensional Strings Transform into Point Particles in Physics?
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Graduate Martin Kober: The relation of a unified QFT of spinors to the structure of GR
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Graduate Hyper-complex fields in Supergravity?
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Graduate Can EM Waves Enable Warp Drive Technology in Space-Time?
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Graduate Extra dimensions -> power law lowering unification?
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Graduate Simple example of Quaternion intuition
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Graduate New blackhole solution to Einstein eqn, no info paradox (Krzysztof Meissner)
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Graduate Our picks for 2008 MIP (most important QG paper)
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Graduate Could the quanta of gravity be something other than a spin-2 graviton?
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Graduate Second quantization in ashtekar variable
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Graduate Possible Lorentz violation measured
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Graduate If y've read Wilczek's book (comment on ideas of chapter 8)
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Graduate Is Gravity Considered a Dimension in Physics?
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Graduate The math behind a couple of theories
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Graduate Identifying Regular and Irregular Lattices in the Graphity Model
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Graduate Edge predictions related to QG
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Graduate Can Quantum Gravity Explain Inflation After the Big Bang?
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Graduate Exercises with solutions in theoretical physics
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Graduate Dark matter is a quantum liquid? (buzz over McElrath's paper)
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Graduate CMB: Is it a Background & Why Do We Need Alternatives?
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Graduate String Field Theory and Background Independence?
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Graduate Low background quantum geom/grav (map and current situation)
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Graduate Why only three non curled up spatial dimensions?
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Graduate How Does Counterfactual Computation Work?
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Graduate Explore Parallel Universes: The Universe
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Graduate Baratin and Freidel: a spin foam model of ordinary particle physics
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Graduate Is Quantum Gravity Revealing a Fractal Microstructure of Space-Time?
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Graduate Classical Hamiltonian: Energy Conservation?
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Graduate Fractal Space-Time: Theory and Applications
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Graduate What is the Hierarchy Problem & How Can it be Solved?
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Graduate Unification of guage couplings in the presence of extra dimensions
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Graduate Krasnov non-metric quantum gravity
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Graduate A Lagrangian approach to the Barrett-Crane spin foam model-Livine Bonzom
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Graduate What is the significance of the factor of 2 in the differentiation on orbifolds?
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Graduate How Do Gravity and Strong Force Connect at Small Distances?
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Graduate String Theory & Higgs: Explaining Spin 0
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Graduate Is There Time in the Bulk? Understanding Brane Cosmology
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Graduate String worldsheets and lqg two-complexes
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Graduate What Happens When the Inverse Kahler Metric is Singular?
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Graduate 2-slit interference in a gravitational field
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Graduate Metric Tensor of Earth: g11,g21,g31...g33
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Graduate Is the concept of strings still relevant in modern physics?
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Graduate Benedetti's insight connecting Loll and Reuter continuums
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Graduate Why is physical time-asymmetry vs dynamical law time-symmetry a problem?
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Graduate String Theory and Supersymmetry
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Graduate Weyl's take on symmetry and the continuum
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Graduate Nature of Time (FQXi competition & Rovelli's paper)
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Graduate Diff invariant (measurement theory and observables)
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Graduate Similarity transformation, im really confused
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Graduate Quantum Nature of the Big bang in Simple Models (Ashtekar@Perimeter)
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Graduate Question on parallel multi. theories
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Graduate Vector Laplacian in Different Coordinate Systems
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Graduate New stuff happening in Quantum Gravity
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Undergrad What are the most fundamental laws of physics?
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Graduate Three Roads to Quantum Gravity: String Theory, Loop Quantum Gravity & ?
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Graduate Philosophy of Loop Quantum Gravity
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Graduate Group Theory for Unified Model Building
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Graduate Quick question: Is the multiverse theorized to have an origin?
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Graduate Why does Nima A-H say unlikely to tell us anything about particle physics?
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Graduate (UV finite)LQG @Strings 2008-Rovelli's slide #20
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Graduate Sad feeb needs help with magic pixy-dust stardrive math
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Graduate Strange Laplacian of 1/|x-x’| ?
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Graduate Is M-Theory the Key to Unifying String Theories?
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Graduate Quantized spacetime and Special Relativity
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Graduate Is the Universe Fundamentally Composed of Information?
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Graduate Need some clarificationregarding GRAND UNIFIED THEORY
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Graduate Absolute symmetrical sphere become unsymmetry
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Graduate 9 large dimensions, No curled up ones?
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Graduate Loop and central cosmo mingle (Cornish glimpses Gambini)
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Graduate Half-Lives according to String Theory?
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Undergrad What is String Theory and Why is it Important?
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Graduate Understanding Tensor Components: Diagonalization and Physical Reality
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