Beyond the Standard Models Forum

Join expert and advanced topics on beyond the standard model of physics. This includes professionally researched theories like strings, branes, and LQG. Mainstream physics only.

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TOE: Four radical routes to a theory of everything

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Graduate Union of LQG and string theory

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Graduate What will be the physics content of the eight overview talks at Strings '08?

  • marcus
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Graduate Kea's remark about the LHC and 2009

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Graduate Can the Electron be a Looped String

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Graduate Tracking the Impact of Smolin's April Book: Salesrank Ratio Surprises!

  • marcus
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Graduate Physicists Demonstrate How Information Can Escape From Black Holes based in LQG

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Graduate Brane Movement Causing Gravity

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Graduate Uniqueness of deSitter spacetime and the Standard Model (hints from two papers)

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Graduate What Is String Theory and Can It Be Understood at a Basic Level?

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Graduate Can gamma-ray bursts test loop quantum gravity?

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Graduate How Does String Theory Explain Quark-Gluon Plasma Properties?

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Graduate What Causes Vibrations in String Theory?

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Graduate Anti-gravity calculation for fun

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Graduate What Are Curled-Up Dimensions and Their Implications?

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Graduate Gerard 't Hooft video lecture-Perimeter

  • marcus
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Graduate Loop Quantum Gravity Explained: Free Online Lectures & Resources

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Graduate A smoking gun linking Economics to Physics?

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Graduate Modification of Energy-Momentum Relation and UV/IR mixing

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Graduate Braid-Matter advance by Song He and Yidun Wan

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Graduate Dimentional reduction: branworld or Yau-calibi manifolds?

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Graduate Hadron Mass Spectrum: Can We Calculate It?

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Proposal: Sociology Threads Should Have Their Own Subforum

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Graduate Are supersymmetric particles needed?

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Graduate Suggestion to discuss arXiv 0804.0252

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What questions are you interested on?

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Graduate Journal Club: Witten NPB186 (1981) p 412-428

  • arivero
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Graduate Can concentrated energy generate artificial gravity without mass?

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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

  • kesgab
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Graduate How can curved spacetime creat particles ?

  • mhill
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Graduate What makes string theory more predictive than LQG?

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Graduate Is time quantized?

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Graduate What unsolved physics problems remain in string theory?

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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 Are the dimensions of string theory accurately represented in this video?

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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

  • BenTheMan
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Graduate How Does Roger Penrose Connect Quantum Mechanics and Gravity?

  • Fra
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Graduate D8-Branes What do they bring?

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Graduate Could a chemical reaction create enough density for 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

  • Jim Kata
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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

  • Jim Kata
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Graduate The Dark Side of a Patchwork Universe

  • jal
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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)

  • marcus
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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 Detecting rotation of a sphere with perfect symmetry in a vacuum

  • dst
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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 Deriving the Poisson bracket formula for dF/dt

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Download Pauli and Fierz 1939 Paper in PDF or PS Format

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Graduate Why is string tension called tension in string theory?

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Graduate String Theory: Why not 3d+1 Dimensional?

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Graduate Does the cosmological constant lambda evolve?

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Graduate Braid-Matter program still alive and grinding ahead

  • marcus
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Graduate World-line lengths in loop quantum gravity?

  • Bareil
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Graduate Comparing citation records of Smolin and Motl in high-energy physics

  • arivero
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Graduate Why String theory has so many dimensions

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Graduate Spires 2007 topcite list is posted

  • marcus
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Graduate Why search for quantum gravity if we lack empirical data

  • Helical
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Graduate What are the most fundamental ideas in physics?

  • americanforest
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Graduate Loops and Foams Workshop, Zakopane, 3-8 March 2008

  • marcus
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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 Does string theory support or contradict the observer effect?

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Graduate Edward Witten: World-Renowned Superstring Theorist and Fields Medal Winner

  • Phys988
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Graduate What is the full EM + matter lagrangian?

  • pellman
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Graduate Paper: Rovelli's What is observable in classical and quantum gravity?

  • Fra
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Graduate Solving the dk Lag: Spires Keywords vs. Desy-Keywords

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Graduate Is string theory deterministic?

  • Phys988
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Graduate SO(32) in Superstring Theory: Physical Meaning

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Graduate What does Green's tensor mean in elasticity and physics?

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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 Most cited unparticle 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?

  • Shaun Culver
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Graduate What scientific mysteries are genuinely unsolved 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: how well known is this idea and what is its status?

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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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