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Graduate If the Higgs boson is never found, what breaks weak gauge invariance?
- captain
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Undergrad A question on fundamental dimensions
- janakiraman
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Graduate Smolin's list of five physics problems
- marcus
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Graduate How do sources couple in Kaluza-Klein theory?
- kdv
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Graduate Hodge star operator and Faraday 2-forms
- Gianni2k
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Graduate Predictions from loop quantum gravity
- Micha
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Graduate Brane world=non-compact extra dimensions?
- arivero
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Graduate Travelling faster than the speed of light
- phyzmatix
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Do Cosmo08 and Emergent Gravity conferences have live feeds?
- jal
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Graduate Is it possible that there are organisms in higher dimensions?
- Ukitake Jyuushirou
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Undergrad Why did imaginary numbers become accepted despite being useless?
- muser
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Graduate Elegant Universe: No fundamental physical laws beyond strings?
- JustStudent
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Graduate Intro papers to qunatum gravity
- koolmodee
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Graduate Can R symmetry in N=4 SUSY be treated as a gauge symmetry?
- Jim Kata
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Graduate Quantization of Gauge theories ?
- mhill
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Graduate What Are the Key Insights from Goerlich's Slides on Causal Triangulations?
- marcus
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Graduate Paper Pointing To Danger At LHC?
- tayman2037
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Graduate Surface tension and minimal surfaces in soap films and bubbles
- neworder1
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Graduate Can 3D String Theory Overcome UV Divergences Found in 1D String Theory?
- PhilosophyofPhysics
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Graduate The Langlands Correspondence in Physics
- Jim Kata
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Graduate Is there any reason the Universe must have a wave function?
- C Rob
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Graduate Do Mass and Energy Share Vibrational Properties?
- ssqq
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Graduate Copenhagen interpretation QGsquared
- jal
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Graduate Quantization of relativistic point particle, string style
- jostpuur
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2008 Large Grant FQXi Awardees
- ccdantas
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Graduate Best CDT expo so far + new results (Goerlich)
- marcus
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Graduate Causal Dynamical Triangulations
- BenTheMan
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Undergrad Is There a Gauss' Law for Gravitation?
- aniketp
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Graduate Renate Loll's causal dynamical triangulations in SciAm July 2008
- marcus
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The FQXi Inaugural Essay Contest (Summer 2008)
- jal
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Graduate The riddle of longshot links (new version of Smolin's '07 unification paper)
- marcus
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Graduate Lagrangian question. ability to remove time derivative terms.
- Peeter
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Graduate Gauge boson mixing constraints in the Simplest Higgs model
- whynothis
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Graduate Technical question: vanishing of the cosmological constant in Randall Sundrum 1
- nrqed
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Graduate How Does the Higgs Field Influence Antimatter Annihilation?
- Unredeemed
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Graduate Spinfoams as a form of quantization?
- Coin
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Graduate Are Wormholes Truly Impossible According to Latest Theories?
- nomadreid
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Graduate Can Quantum Field Theory Be Applied in Loll's Fractal Universe?
- MTd2
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Graduate Why Are Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity Considered Incompatible?
- Marin
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Graduate Interesting lineup at the Erice school this September
- marcus
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Graduate Suggest good articles on Loop Quantum Cosmology
- SuperStringboy
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Graduate Classical longitudinal wave on taut String
- Gianni2k
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Graduate Could dark matter be gravity from matter in another universe?
- hadronhead
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Graduate Is Tipler's higher-derivative Lagrangian the correct quantum gravity action?
- mhill
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Graduate Major paper by Fairbairn-a way to put matter into 4D quantum gravity
- marcus
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Graduate Why pursue grand unified theory before electrostrong unification
- quantumkiko
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Graduate Extendidng Hamilton's Principle to Non-Holonomic sytems
- pardesi
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Graduate Why do dilute O(n) and Potts models describe the same critical properties?
- jal
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Graduate What is R Symmetry in SUSY and why is it important?
- BenTheMan
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Graduate Could Gravity be an Electrostatic force?
- H.M. Murdock
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Graduate Can String Theory Accurately Predict Quantum and Relativistic Phenomena?
- ronan1
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Graduate What is the Hubble length in centimeters?
- Golfer
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Graduate Vibrating strings and string theory
- math_04
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Graduate Do different quantum mechanics interpretations affect string theory differently?
- Homingbohm
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Graduate Is the Lagrangian a Function of Only Generalized Coordinates and Speed?
- pardesi
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Graduate What ever happened to Scale Relativity?
- Saltlick
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Graduate Gravitons vs Relativity: Einstein or Particle Exchange?
- QUANTUMQ
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Graduate Is Susy a Central Prediction of String Theory?
- ghery
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Graduate Homotopy classes appendix in Weinberg's QFT book, Part I
- jouvelot@cri.ensmp.fr
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Graduate Velocities as function of canonical momenta
- jostpuur
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Graduate How can people predict that the graviton is a particle of spin 2?
- captain
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Graduate How does string field theory relate to M-theory and grand unified theory?
- Englishman
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Graduate Why would expansion at a certain speed unravel extra dimensions in string theory?
- Unredeemed
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Graduate MVP-Junior: second quarter papers by QG grad students and postdocs
- marcus
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Graduate QG Poll: Nominate the Most Valuable Paper of April-June 2008
- marcus
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Graduate Emergent statistical manifolds
- Fra
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Graduate Hints gravity finite (two recent workshops)
- marcus
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Graduate Why do we derive analytic solutions
- ice109
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Graduate Differential equations in physics
- battery
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Undergrad Loop Quantum Gravity/Cosmology ~ for the layman?
- g33kski11z
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Graduate What does tree-level mean in supersymmetry and string theory?
- Golfer
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Graduate Complex stuf Physical Application
- kthouz
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Graduate Perturbative Super-Yang-Mills from the Topological AdS_5xS^5 Sigma Model
- humanino
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Graduate Why is the Majorana mass of a neutrino so big compared to the
- yyoon@fas.harvard.edu
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Graduate How Many Extra Dimensions Are Required for SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1) in String Theory?
- arivero
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Graduate PBS Ghost Particle neutrinos showing Standard Model wrong
- RandallB
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Graduate Is Smolin's Approach to Quantum Gravity Logic Revolutionary?
- Fra
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Graduate Higgs Boson and Space in an Atom
- Noj Werdna
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Graduate Are there solutions available for Zwiebach's string theory book?
- nitin
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Graduate Asymptotic safety of gravity with Wilsonian renormalization group
- marcus
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Graduate Ashtekar Loll Pullin Randono at Salonica gravity meeting in June
- marcus
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Graduate Two best QG papers so far this quarter-other ideas?
- marcus
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Graduate Distances between his hand and the table
- aguycalledwil
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Undergrad New search tool combines CERN and SLAC-Stanford Spires
- marcus
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Graduate Why not modify quantum mechanics for string theory instead of extra dimensions
- mmzaj
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Graduate Wen and Lloyd join emergent geometry bunch
- marcus
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Graduate Looking for Higgs in all the wrong places?
- zankaon
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Graduate Ashtekar: deriving the covariant entropy bound from LQC
- marcus
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Graduate Are We Any Closer to a Unified Theory?
- hadeka
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Graduate Clarifying the SUSY equations in Weinberg III
- Si
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Graduate What is the role of cosmological friction in the formation of our universe?
- Fluxman
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Undergrad Maths in gravitation law equation?
- jacek_curious
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Graduate Randono cashes in on Derek Wise' work
- marcus
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Graduate C, P, and T of Braid Excitations in Quantum Gravity (Song He, Yidun Wan)
- marcus
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Graduate How Does Doubly-Special Relativity Redefine Space and Time?
- granpa
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Graduate What were the conditions before the big bang?
- popopop
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