Beyond the Standard Models Forum

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Graduate Can Knotted Closed Strings Exist in Higher Dimensions?

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Undergrad Is Space-Time Really Like a Liquid, and Why Aren't We Dissolving in It?

  • verdigris
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Graduate Does someone undesrstand Matti Pitkanen's TGD?

  • Veovis
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Graduate Where do you need topology in physics?

  • Gerenuk
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Graduate String Field Theory: Will It Outshine String Theories?

  • Reedeegi
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Graduate What are the different approaches to QG and QM without spacetime?

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Graduate Petr Horava's quantum Gravity ( without strings)

  • MTd2
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Graduate Finding introductory papers on 11D supergravity

  • Reedeegi
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Graduate Conformally inequivalent tori (for one-loop string diagrams)

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Graduate Significance of non-linear terms

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Graduate What are the 20 fundamental constants Brian Greene mentioned?

  • The Lorax
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Graduate Question over dimensions, something that's been bothering me

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Graduate A request for advice on studying theoretical physics

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Graduate Susskind on black hole in collider experiment

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Graduate Number of Lepton Generations in string theory

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Graduate Advanced published papers regarding valid unification theories?

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Graduate Has anyone heard of Anyonic strings?

  • MTd2
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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?

  • pellman
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Graduate Modular invariance of spin structures in Szabo's superstring theory

  • nrqed
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Undergrad Whenever energy is added to a system, the system gains mass

  • dav2008
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Graduate Why are strings and branes used instead of oscillating volumes?

  • Pjpic
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Graduate M-Theory is that same as Superstring Field Theory?

  • redhedkangaro
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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?

  • aceofspades
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Graduate Virasoro operators in bosonic String Theory

  • Orbb
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Graduate Action Definition: Integral of Lagrangian Over Time

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Graduate Smolin video LQG online course

  • marcus
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Graduate Why can we shield some forces but not others?

  • Naty1
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Graduate Map of Bagger-Lambert papers-links, interviews

  • marcus
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Graduate Why planck scale? let me explain before kill me

  • luxxio
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Graduate More evidence for asymptotic safety (Saueressig, Machado, Benedetti)

  • marcus
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Graduate Emergent matter as form of ramification?

  • Jim Kata
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Graduate What are the main arguments against loop quantum gravity?

  • jdstokes
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Graduate Lqg is still local lorentz invariant?

  • luxxio
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Graduate How Does String Theory Relate to Mass-Energy Equivalence?

  • Naty1
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Graduate Stringy corrections to SM propagators

  • jdstokes
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Graduate Do string theorists research emergent spacetime as part of a TOE?

  • jdstokes
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Graduate Current state of string theory

  • jgens
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Graduate Proofs from Oriti's QG book available in PDF

  • marcus
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Undergrad How do you derive the linear wave equation?

  • Oerg
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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 Why is gravity so much weaker than other fundamental forces?

  • waveicle
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Graduate How Do 1-Dimensional Strings Transform into Point Particles in Physics?

  • WaveJumper
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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?

  • Professor_E
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Graduate Can EM Waves Enable Warp Drive Technology in Space-Time?

  • Tominator
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Graduate Extra dimensions -> power law lowering unification?

  • karnten07
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Graduate Simple example of Quaternion intuition

  • sh1z84
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Graduate New blackhole solution to Einstein eqn, no info paradox (Krzysztof Meissner)

  • marcus
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Graduate Our picks for 2008 MIP (most important QG paper)

  • marcus
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Graduate Could the quanta of gravity be something other than a spin-2 graviton?

  • ensabah6
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Graduate Second quantization in ashtekar variable

  • luxxio
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Graduate Possible Lorentz violation measured

  • MTd2
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Graduate If y've read Wilczek's book (comment on ideas of chapter 8)

  • marcus
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Graduate Is Gravity Considered a Dimension in Physics?

  • daytripper
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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

  • marcus
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Graduate Can Quantum Gravity Explain Inflation After the Big Bang?

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Graduate Websites with theoretical physics exercises and solutions

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Graduate Dark matter is a quantum liquid? (buzz over McElrath's paper)

  • marcus
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Graduate Why do we need background-free theories if we have the CMB?

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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)

  • marcus
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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 Parallel universes video series

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Graduate Baratin and Freidel: a spin foam model of ordinary particle physics

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Graduate Fractal microstructure of spacetime in loop quantum gravity

  • marcus
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Graduate Classical Hamiltonian: Energy Conservation?

  • KFC
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Graduate Fractal Space-Time: Theory and Applications

  • wolram
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Graduate What is the Hierarchy Problem & How Can it be Solved?

  • jdstokes
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Graduate Unification of guage couplings in the presence of extra dimensions

  • karnten07
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Graduate Krasnov non-metric quantum gravity

  • marcus
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Graduate A Lagrangian approach to the Barrett-Crane spin foam model-Livine Bonzom

  • marcus
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Graduate What is the significance of the factor of 2 in the differentiation on orbifolds?

  • jdstokes
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Graduate How Do Gravity and Strong Force Connect at Small Distances?

  • Bengt Nyman
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Graduate How does a string with spin 0 work in string theory?

  • Chewy0087
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Graduate Is There Time in the Bulk? Understanding Brane Cosmology

  • Dmitry67
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Graduate String worldsheets and lqg two-complexes

  • Coin
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Graduate What happens when the inverse Kähler metric is singular?

  • BenTheMan
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Graduate 2-slit interference in a gravitational field

  • Dmitry67
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Graduate Metric tensor components of Earth's gravitational field

  • Jack3145
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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

  • marcus
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Graduate Why is physical time-asymmetry vs dynamical law time-symmetry a problem?

  • ThomasT
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Graduate String Theory and Supersymmetry

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Graduate Weyl's take on symmetry and the continuum

  • Fra
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Graduate FQXi essay contest on the nature of time

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Graduate Diff invariant (measurement theory and observables)

  • Fra
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Graduate Similarity transformations in Hamiltonian mechanics and group theory

  • TheIsingGuy
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Graduate Quantum Nature of the Big bang in Simple Models (Ashtekar@Perimeter)

  • marcus
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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 Third approach in 'Three Roads to Quantum Gravity' besides string theory and LQG

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Graduate Philosophy of Loop Quantum Gravity

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