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Graduate Are the Foundations of Physics Flawed or Just Limited?
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Graduate Steven Weinberg bets Andrei Linde's life, and one dog
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Graduate Atiyah's Quest for a New Basis of QM
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Graduate Understanding Entropy in LQG: Evidence from Spin Network Systems
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Graduate Can String Theory Explain What Lies Beyond a Black Hole's Event Horizon?
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Graduate Trees to Loops: Computing SUSY Yang-Mills Amplitudes
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Graduate Standard Model particle spectrum from String Theory
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Graduate Can't get Hamilton and Lagrangian stuff
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Graduate Is Renate Loll's Approach to Quantum Gravity the Key to Unifying Physics?
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Graduate How can Gravity have particles.
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Graduate Questions About String Theory: Get Answers Here
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Graduate What Are Voronov's Key Contributions to Operads?
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Graduate Do e Observe Quantum Gravity Effects at Galactic Scales?
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Graduate What Non-commutative Geometry Is and Can Do
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Graduate What is the latest research on spin foam models of quantum gravity?
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Graduate Robert Helling live-blogs Loops 05
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Graduate Vafa: Landscape and Swampland
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Graduate What Insights Does the Toronto String Theory Panel Video Offer?
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Graduate Is the Universe a Fractal According to Einstein's Local Time Theory?
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Graduate Testable analog of Hawking effect-explain?
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Graduate Understanding Randall Sundrum Model: Weakness of Gravity
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Graduate Infinite number of Hamiltonian constraints
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Graduate How do liquid crystals illustrate the properties of cosmic strings?
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Graduate Physics against mathematics. Zeno’s Paradox
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Graduate What does like a fractal mean, talking smallscale spacetime
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Graduate Is the Physics of a Hypersphere in 5-Dimensional Space Fundamentally Different?
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Graduate Is String Theory A Waste Of Time?
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Graduate M-Theory is a theory which 'combines' the five superstring theories
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Graduate Ashtekar-Bojowald hits by year-end
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Graduate Black hole bounce comes out of the closet
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Graduate How many citations to Reuter before yearend?
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Graduate Getting into Loop Quantum Gravity: What You Need to Know
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Graduate M-Theory Basics: Review of 11D Supergravity & LQG
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Graduate Strings and the size of particles
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Graduate Anatomy of a Gauge Theory by D. Kreimer
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Graduate Lagrangian of a system is independent of time
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Graduate Is Black Hole Complementarity Just a Terminology Issue?
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Graduate Are All Objects Accelerating Through the 11 Dimensions?
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Graduate August-September hits on Smolin latest
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Graduate Arxiv: new categories and reorganization
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Graduate How small could the 4Ds be Out of 11Ds?
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Graduate Should the name of the forum change?
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Graduate With all due respect, is there going to be mud wrestling?
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Graduate Stringtheory's Braincell Calculation and Information Entropy: An Exploration
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Graduate Quantum Weirdness: Solving the Measurement Problem?
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Graduate Searching For QG: Is There an End to the Possibilities?
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Graduate Roh-Suan Tung: the Origin of the Immirzi Parameter
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Graduate Definition of light in string theory
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Graduate Geometry in theoretical physics: alternatives having been tried ?
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Graduate Observational Evidence for Extra Dimensions from Dark Matter
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Graduate Interaction of light with the quantum gravitational field
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Graduate John Baez on Quantum Gravity (TWF 31 August)
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Graduate The Universe from Scratch (new AJL paper)
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Graduate What is the reality of string theory in our universe?
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Graduate Asking for Help in Loll's Paper
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Graduate Anthropery voted down in Toronto (Dennis Overbye NYT)
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Graduate What Are the Limitations of Math in Understanding String Theory?
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Graduate What's being taught in schools
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Graduate What is Not Even Wrong, THE BOOK!?
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Graduate Quantum evaporation of a naked singularity
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Graduate Shape Shape-shifting strings solids, liquids, and gasses
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Graduate What impact on QG if the CMB map is revised?
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Graduate Honoring Asher Peres: Reflections on "The Cat Who Walks by Himself
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Graduate Why Are Quantum Theory and General Relativity Not Compatible?
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Graduate Understanding Dimensions: The Interplay of Mathematics and Philosophy
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Graduate Extra Dimesions (the Calabi-Yau shape)
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Graduate Please help me on calculating orbifold euler characteristics
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Graduate Is There a Twistor Matrix Theory Related to CP^3?
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Graduate Gravity Normal At Small Scales.
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Graduate Is Our Universe's Dimensionality Just an Illusion of Information?
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Graduate Is Change an Indicator of Increasing Entropy in Our Universe?
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Graduate Why the need for background independence in String
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Graduate Why is the Planck Mass Surprisingly Large Compared to Other Units?
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Graduate Stargate episode string theory
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Graduate Forecast String Research Citing in 2005: 11 or More?
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Graduate How Does Zeno's Paradox Influence Quantum Gravity and Modern Science?
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Graduate Background independence talks at Strings 06
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Graduate SU(3), U(1), O(3), etc what are they?
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Graduate Find Surface Area of an N-Dimensional Sphere
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Graduate Advice on Casimir PhD Dissertation: String Theory, Cosmology, Inflation
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Graduate Strings and gravitational time dilation
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Graduate Star Trek Transporter Quandary: Take the Risk?
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Graduate How Do Modifications in Microphysics Affect Inflationary Cosmology Predictions?
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Graduate What's meant by- background independence/ dependence-landscape
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Graduate Question about causality in CDT
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Graduate Joe Lykken's List of Stringy Goods and Bads
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Graduate Open Problems of CDT: Unsolved Questions in Causal Dynamical Triangulations
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Graduate Never go up against a Sicilian
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Graduate Understanding Quantum Spacetime: Theories and Evidence
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Graduate Find Legendre Polynomials of Order 15+
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Graduate Coarse Graining: What Does It Mean?
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Graduate Extended Bodies in QFT: String Theory & Phenomenology
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Graduate Inverse Square Law: Gravitational & Electromagnetic Forces
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Graduate Hawking's preprint: Information loss in Black holes
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Graduate What is Supersymmetry and How is it Used in Physics?
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Graduate Can We Access Parallel Universes Through Theories of Dimensional Avenues?
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Graduate Can String Theory Explain the Anomalous Muon Magnetic Moment?
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Graduate Bianca Dittrich saves the loopski bacon?
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Graduate Caliabau-Yau Shapes: What Everyone Knows About These Multidimensional Knots
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Graduate Gravity Debate: Unanswered Questions on String/Loop Theories
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