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Graduate What were the conditions before the big bang?
- popopop
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Four routes to a theory of everything in New Scientist
- marcus
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Graduate Union of LQG and string theory
- chris_183
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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
- marcus
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Graduate Can the Electron be a Looped String
- Buckeye
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- Poll
Graduate Smolin's book sales rank trending against top string theory books
- marcus
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Graduate Physicists Demonstrate How Information Can Escape From Black Holes based in LQG
- H.M. Murdock
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Graduate Brane Movement Causing Gravity
- -Job-
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Graduate Uniqueness of deSitter spacetime and the Standard Model (hints from two papers)
- marcus
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Graduate What Is String Theory and Can It Be Understood at a Basic Level?
- _Mayday_
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Graduate Can gamma-ray bursts test loop quantum gravity?
- H.M. Murdock
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Graduate How Does String Theory Explain Quark-Gluon Plasma Properties?
- jal
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Graduate What Causes Vibrations in String Theory?
- tooDumb4Math
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Graduate Anti-gravity calculation for fun
- atom888
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Graduate What Are Curled-Up Dimensions and Their Implications?
- Bob3141592
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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
- Unredeemed
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Graduate A smoking gun linking Economics to Physics?
- Dcase
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Graduate Modification of Energy-Momentum Relation and UV/IR mixing
- youngsuby@gmail.com
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Graduate Braid-Matter advance by Song He and Yidun Wan
- marcus
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Graduate Why can't we calculate hadron masses from quark masses and coupling constants?
- jostpuur
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Graduate Are supersymmetric particles needed?
- wolram
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Graduate Suggestion to discuss arXiv 0804.0252
- marcus
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Graduate Witten's 1981 paper on global aspects of gauge theory
- arivero
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Graduate Can concentrated energy generate artificial gravity without mass?
- keithbyron
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Graduate How close is LQG/SF to Wen's lattice spin models
- ensabah6
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Graduate Question on Greene's explanation
- nomadreid
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Graduate Is the Standard Model a M-theory?
- arivero
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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?
- Asaba E
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Graduate Is time quantized?
- Tachyonie
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Graduate What unsolved physics problems remain in string theory?
- SuperStringboy
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- Poll
Graduate String theorists, will the LHC see SUSY and if not, will this be a huge blow?
- ensabah6
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Graduate Is there physical content in D Branes?
- arivero
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Graduate Are the dimensions of string theory accurately represented in this video?
- leftyguitarjo
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- Poll
Graduate Should Physics Departments Prioritize LQG Research Alongside String Theory?
- ensabah6
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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?
- DarKonion
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Graduate Could a chemical reaction create enough density for a gravity bomb?
- JanKo
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Graduate Two questions about SUSY [Greene's book]
- Golfer
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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?
- arivero
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John Archibald Wheeler passed away, July 4, 1911, April 13, 2008
- Hans de Vries
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Graduate Studying ADS/CFT correspondence at a graduate level
- PhysiSmo
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Graduate Understanding M Theory's 11 Dimensions
- vektruscen
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Graduate Lattice and loop under one roof
- jal
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Graduate What objects can be compared to strings in terms of length and energy scales?
- agkyriak
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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?
- shalayka
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Graduate Gauge transformation and Occam's razor
- jostpuur
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Graduate Path Integral for curved spacetime
- friend
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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
- hammertime
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Graduate Quantum Entropy version of Second Law (Bojowald Tavakol)
- marcus
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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?
- marcus
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Graduate Do New Spinfoam Models Have a Good Semiclassical Limit?
- ensabah6
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Graduate Supergravity and local symmetry
- masudr
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Graduate Deriving the Poisson bracket formula for dF/dt
- rayrey
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Download Pauli and Fierz 1939 Paper in PDF or PS Format
- PauliFierz
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Graduate Why is string tension called tension in string theory?
- oldman
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Graduate Why does string theory require extra dimensions beyond 3+1?
- iSlak
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Graduate Does the cosmological constant lambda evolve?
- jal
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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
- siphon
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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
- marcus
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Graduate Smolin-TWOP on string theory does not reproduce time dependant phenomenon
- ensabah6
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Graduate Does string theory support or contradict the observer effect?
- Rossella22
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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 DESY keyword lag and search strategy for string theory
- arivero
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Graduate Is string theory deterministic?
- Phys988
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Graduate SO(32) in Superstring Theory: Physical Meaning
- arivero
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Graduate What does Green's tensor mean in elasticity and physics?
- Mapes
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Graduate String theory and Bell's theorem, redux
- Aeroflech
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Graduate The Bianchi Identity for p-Form Fields: Understanding Its Significance
- Moataz
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Graduate Most cited unparticle research since 2006
- arivero
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Graduate Hamiltonian vs. Total Energy: When Do They Differ in Analytic Mechanics?
- pmb_phy
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Graduate Can Maxwell's four equations be written as a single equation?
- Shaun Culver
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Graduate What scientific mysteries are genuinely unsolved in physics?
- peter0302
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Graduate Three Roads to Quantum Gravity
- Coin
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Graduate Can the Variational Principle Explain the Laws of Nature for Classic Fields?
- Phymath
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Graduate RS 1, massless scalar field, and sep of vars.
- robousy
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Graduate Scale relativity: how well known is this idea and what is its status?
- dx
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Graduate Enigma of the butterfly effect
- giann_tee
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