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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)
  • BenTheMan
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Graduate Rovelli's QG: background measures ?
  • Fra
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Graduate Proof of extra dimension from primordial BHs
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High School Is Energy the Key to Understanding the 4th Dimension?
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Graduate Question about QG :books-Rovelli's in particular
  • marcus
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Graduate Matter-like braids in geometry-video talk by Yidun Wan
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Undergrad String Tension and Pitch: Uncovering the Origins of Physics
  • Loren Booda
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Graduate On Snyder's paper on Quantized Space-Time
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Graduate Most General Canonical Transformation?
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Graduate Physics: M-Theory & Its Benefits
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Graduate Has Smolin's Book Influenced the U.S. Academic Monopoly on String Theory?
  • marcus
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Graduate Sectors in String theory and the N-S N-S sector
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Graduate Is String Theory Still the Best Path to a Unified Theory of Everything?
  • Gazee
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Graduate Video: The Problem of Time in Quantum Gravity and Cosmology
  • marcus
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Graduate Nakanishi proves 2-d string theories inconsistent(?)
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Graduate Is Gravity Renormalizable? Insights from the Last Loops Conference
  • BenTheMan
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Graduate Open Strings, D-Branes, and Conservation of Energy
  • Keys
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Thomas Thiemann's Book - Is It Worth the Price?
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Graduate Gauge fixing and residual symmetries
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Graduate My Thoughts on Quantum Uncertainty
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Graduate Q&A: Infinite Probabilities, Relativity & Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Susy introduction paper superspace
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Graduate Help with Poisson Brackets (original paper)
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Graduate Can Compact Dimensions be Explained in Terms of Rudimentary Field Theory?
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Graduate SciAm special report on Future of Physics
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Graduate Question about Noether's Theorem
  • lugita15
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Graduate My thoghts on Quantum Graphity: a model of emergent locality
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Graduate Smolin's - Could quantum mechanics be an approximation to another theory?
  • Fra
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Graduate Hyperspheres describing the universe
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Graduate Analyzing SPIRES Database for String and Non-String QG Cites
  • marcus
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Graduate Is Gravity a Result of Other Forces at Work?
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Graduate Triangulations study group, Spring 2008
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Graduate My thoughts Emergent physics: Fermi point scenario G.E. Volovik
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Graduate Negative Length: Implications & Meaning
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Graduate Supersymmetry: Understanding Weinberg's Formula on Page 78
  • Eisenhorn
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Graduate Superstrings - what happens when a string has no vibration?
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Graduate How Does Hawking Radiation from LHC Experiments Affect Time-Space Dynamics?
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Graduate Can the LHC Detect Gravitons and Reveal New Physics?
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Undergrad Dimensional Analysis: Separating Fact from Fiction
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Graduate Bulk Drive v2.0: FTL & Interuniversal Travel?
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Undergrad String book for the undergrad level
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Graduate Question about Superstring and M-theory
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Graduate Quantum Foam: Could It Be Used for Subspace Communication?
  • Toastus
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Graduate What were the major QG advancements in 2007?
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Graduate Newton's Law starting from no background spacetime
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Graduate Has Recent Research Challenged the Validity of String Theory?
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Graduate What are the principles of our time?
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Graduate Is Space Discrete or Continuous in a Planck World?
  • dst
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Graduate What are the implications of having two dimensions of time?
  • Meatbot
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Graduate LQG: Gauge Theory, Holonomies, Ashtekar's GR, Loop Representation
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Graduate String theory topoogy can change lead to experimentally testable predictions?
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Graduate Supersymmetric Transformations
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Graduate Has string theory been totally written off?
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Graduate Them old quantum gravity, topological quantum field thereah blues
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Graduate Question about Noether's Theorem.
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Graduate Does the Concept of Center of Mass-Energy Exist in Physics?
  • Himanshu
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Graduate Geometrical Structure: Uncovering the Mysteries of Matter?
  • sooperdooper
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Graduate Why Must Extra Spatial Dimensions in String Theory Be Compactified?
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Graduate Question to the String theorists
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Graduate Edward Witten on LQG for lambda > 0, QG does not exist in any dimension
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Graduate Kenneth Lane string theory is not physics
  • ensabah6
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Unlock the Mysteries of Quantum Fuzz and Celebrate Christmas with U
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Graduate Integrable models and the frontiers of physics?
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Two Is Enough: Harmonics and Echoes
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Graduate How Can a Theory of Quantum Gravity or a TOE Impact Science?
  • PhilosophyofPhysics
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Graduate Fecund universes and physical constants
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Graduate Classical interacting random field models
  • Peter Morgan
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Graduate New Warp Drive Paper: Read the Co-Authored Journal Article
  • robousy
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Graduate Map of nonstring QG (as of November 2007)
  • marcus
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Graduate Is There Evidence of a Delay in High-Energy Photons from Distant AGN Flares?
  • marcus
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Graduate What is the Meaning of Entirely New Laws in Phil Anderson's More is Different?
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Undergrad Ridiculous explanation of 'string theory'
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Graduate Lee Smolin's "E8 Unification of Gravity & Yang-Mills Theory
  • marcus
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Graduate Is the Graviton Fundamental in Quantum Gravity Theories?
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Graduate Amplitudes, metrics, and measures
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Graduate If I were Garrett Lisi, I'd postdoc at Nottingham
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Graduate Discrete spacetime (Some contemplations of mine).
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Graduate Question regarding higgs, grravity, and electromagnetic dimensions
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Graduate The (E) theory: A new attempt to unify EM and gravity
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Graduate Internal struggles of ideas in QG
  • marcus
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Graduate What is doubly special relativity?
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Graduate What is the distance between 2 points on a torus?
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Graduate Does Not Seeing a Little Higgs at Tevatron Rule Out SUSY for EW Scale Breaking?
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Graduate What Are the Key Dynamics and Properties of the Higgs Particle?
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Graduate Will CERN Validate the E8 or SO(10) Geometric Models?
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