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Graduate Hadron Mass Spectrum: Can We Calculate It?
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Graduate Are supersymmetric particles needed?
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Graduate Suggestion to discuss arXiv 0804.0252
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Graduate Journal Club: Witten NPB186 (1981) p 412-428
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Graduate Generating Artificial Gravity: Is E=mc2 the Key?
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Graduate How close is LQG/SF to Wen's lattice spin models
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Graduate Question on Greene's explanation
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Graduate Is the Standard Model a M-theory?
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Graduate Most important paper: first quarter 2008 forecast poll
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Graduate Deriving the canonical equations of Hamilton
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Graduate How can curved spacetime creat particles ?
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Graduate What makes string theory more predictive than LQG?
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Graduate Is Time Quantized? Exploring Theories and Possibilities
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Graduate Has String Theory Answered All Unsolved Physics Problems?
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Graduate String theorists, will the LHC see SUSY and if not, will this be a huge blow?
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Graduate Is there physical content in D Branes?
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Graduate Is this an accurate representation?
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Graduate Should Physics Departments Prioritize LQG Research Alongside String Theory?
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Graduate Lorentz Violation and the Second Law
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Graduate How Does Roger Penrose Connect Quantum Mechanics and Gravity?
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Graduate D8-Branes What do they bring?
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Graduate How Dense Can You Get? Science Behind Creating a Gravity Bomb
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Graduate Two questions about SUSY [Greene's book]
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Graduate Calabi Yau compactification and M theory
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Graduate Can Witten's Trick Apply to Any Number of Extra Dimensions?
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John Archibald Wheeler passed away, July 4, 1911, April 13, 2008
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Graduate Studying ADS/CFT correspondence at a graduate level
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Graduate Understanding M Theory's 11 Dimensions
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Graduate Lattice and loop under one roof
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Graduate What objects can be compared to strings in terms of length and energy scales?
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Graduate Non renormalizability non predictiveness
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Graduate The Dark Side of a Patchwork Universe
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Graduate Supersymmetric particles generated?
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Graduate Gauge transformation and Occam's razor
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Graduate Path Integral for curved spacetime
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Graduate Long-awaited braid-matter paper (Bilson-Thompson, Hackett, Kauffman, Smolin)
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Graduate Matter with different constants
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Graduate Quantum Entropy version of Second Law (Bojowald Tavakol)
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Graduate Unraveling the Mysteries of Perfectly Rotating Spheres in a Vacuum
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Graduate What is An Invitation to Noncommutative Geometry and why should you read it?
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Graduate Do New Spinfoam Models Have a Good Semiclassical Limit?
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Graduate Supergravity and local symmetry
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Graduate Can anyone help me make the connection here
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Download Pauli and Fierz 1939 Paper in PDF or PS Format
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Graduate Understanding String Tension in String Theory: Explained and Debunked
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Graduate String Theory: Why not 3d+1 Dimensional?
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Graduate Research on Lambda Evolution: Collider Physics & Cosmology
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Graduate Braid-Matter program still alive and grinding ahead
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Graduate World-line lengths in loop quantum gravity?
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Graduate Is Lubos's Use of the Internet Driving a Scientific Fight with Smolin?
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Graduate Why String theory has so many dimensions
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Graduate Spires 2007 topcite list is posted
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Graduate Q&A on Quantum Gravity: Beginner's Guide
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Graduate Discovering the Fundamental Ideas of Physics: From Atoms to Conservation Laws
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Graduate Loops Foams Workshop (3-8 March Zakopane)
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Graduate QG2 speakers list, for July conference
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Graduate Smolin-TWOP on string theory does not reproduce time dependant phenomenon
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Graduate Exploring the Observer Effect in the Double-Slit Experiment
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Graduate Edward Witten: World-Renowned Superstring Theorist and Fields Medal Winner
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Graduate What is the full EM + matter lagrangian?
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Graduate Paper: Rovelli's What is observable in classical and quantum gravity?
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Graduate Solving the dk Lag: Spires Keywords vs. Desy-Keywords
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Graduate Is string theory deterministic?
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Graduate SO(32) in Superstring Theory: Physical Meaning
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Graduate Understanding the Meaning and Definition of Green's Tensor
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Graduate String theory and Bell's theorem, redux
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Graduate The Bianchi Identity for p-Form Fields: Understanding Its Significance
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Graduate Discover the Unparticle Snowball Phenomenon: Top Cited Research Since 2006"
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Graduate Hamiltonian vs. Total Energy: When Do They Differ in Analytic Mechanics?
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Graduate Maxwell's Equations: Can They Be Summarized?
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Graduate What are the top unsolved mysteries in physics?
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Graduate Three Roads to Quantum Gravity
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Graduate Can the Variational Principle Explain the Laws of Nature for Classic Fields?
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Graduate RS 1, massless scalar field, and sep of vars.
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Graduate Scale Relativity: Exploring Einstein's Extension of Relativity
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Graduate Enigma of the butterfly effect
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Graduate What is the significance of string theory in understanding the universe?
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Undergrad Solving Differential Equations: Understanding Variable Changes
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Graduate Discovering the Mathematics of E8: A Talk by Bertram Kostant at UCR
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Anyone else like CDT and what it is promising?
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Seventh Alexander Friedmann International Seminar On Gravitation And Cosmology
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Graduate Questions about Witten's recent articles
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Graduate HELP Why CS is topological? Why BF is topological?
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Graduate Map of QG (Perimeter view, January 2008 update)
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Graduate How Does Category Theory Enhance Understanding of Physics?
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Graduate Could String Theory Explain the Existence of Parallel Universes?
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Graduate Linking Connes NCG to LQG (new papers by Aastrup et al)
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Graduate As always, if you have any questions, feel free to ask.Claus
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Graduate What fallacies exist in arguments against gravitons?
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Undergrad Taylor Series Expansion of Gravitational Field: Benefits & Uses
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Graduate Does the N-Dimensional Wave Equation Apply Beyond 1-2 Dimensions?
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Graduate Model Universe: Shortest Path to Gravity Corridors
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Graduate Could string theory be the answer to the mystery of inertia?
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Graduate Simpleton question about superstrings
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Graduate Coherent States and the Role of Classical Variables in Quantizing Gravity
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Graduate Are fractals related to string theory?
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Graduate Singular disk of matter in the Cooperstock-Tieu galaxy model
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Graduate Understanding the Witten Index for SU(N)
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