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Theory of everything ? A joke
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Graduate How extensions of relativity apply to quantum gravity (Coin's gambit)
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Graduate Veneziano before the trialogue paper.
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Graduate Understanding TOE & QG: A Comparison for Physicists
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Graduate Tachyons challenge the Standard Model?
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Bee's interview with Garrett. BLAM It connects.
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Graduate LQG BH core diameter calculated
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Graduate Smolin book impact in November
  • marcus
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Undergrad Where do these constants in equations come from?
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Graduate A paper by Garrett Lisi that John Beaz will enjoy
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Graduate Symplectic Geometry in Physics: String Theory & Beyond
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Graduate Sundance preons twists as a higgless source of inertial mass
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Graduate Reality described by geometry or algebra?
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Graduate Smolin rebuts Carroll-try to explain the laws of physics
  • marcus
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Graduate Evolution Function: A Clue to Understanding Self-Similarity
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Graduate Consistency between strong/M-theory and LQG
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Graduate Quantum/ Relativity incompatibility?
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Graduate Flipped-SU(5) Intro: Learn Structure, Phenomenologies and Properties
  • mjsd
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Graduate Sydney Coleman (1937-2007) was a descendant of Gauss
  • marcus
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Graduate Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe with E8 Theory
  • billiards
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Graduate What Is String Theory and How Does It Relate to Parallel Universes?
  • The_Z_Factor
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Graduate ICGC-07: International Conference on Quantum Gravity in December
  • marcus
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Graduate Can de Sitter Relativity Revolutionize Our Understanding of Quantum Gravity?
  • marcus
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Undergrad How can a dimension be small ?
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Graduate How small can the quantum world get?
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Graduate Trying to relate string and inflation
  • marcus
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Graduate 2007 the big year for string theory?
  • pivoxa15
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Graduate Could Alternative Definitions in Physics Revolutionize Our Understanding?
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Graduate Nice article in the Telegraph about G.L. and ToE
  • marcus
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Graduate String Theory Plots: Hans' 3D Modeling & Interacting Strings
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Graduate Can a Group Field Theory Approach Unify Quantum Gravity Approaches?
  • jal
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Graduate Recommended listening: today's GL seminar talk
  • marcus
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Graduate Gang of four-Lisi, Loll, Reuter, Rovelli-make trouble for stringery
  • marcus
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Graduate Can gravity be explained by the concentration of energy rather than mass?
  • dolsen
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Graduate Experimental Search for Quantum Gravity (schedule of talks)
  • marcus
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Graduate What's new in Lego Path gravity?
  • marcus
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Graduate Prerequisite mathematics for string theory and loop quantum gravity
  • Tom1992
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Graduate Do string theorists speculate about unfolding dimensions?
  • oldman
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Graduate More news from PI: UHECR are likely protons from AGN's
  • starkind
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Graduate What is the significance of Calabi-Yau spaces in modern string theory?
  • The hermit
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Graduate 2007 Paper of the Year (A+ for leadership ability )
  • marcus
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Graduate News from P.I. workshop on experimental search for QG
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Graduate The Elegant Universe questions
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Graduate Integrable models in string theory?
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Graduate Can the universe be effectively described using logical axioms?
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Graduate Three papers about the new LQG vertex (Marseille)
  • marcus
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Undergrad Is Gravity Magnetic Attraction?
  • Tom Naprstek
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Graduate What Are Chiral States and Their Role in Quantum Gravity?
  • marcus
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What Are the Perks of Early Registration for Next Year's QG-Squared Conference?
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Graduate LQG corrections to big bang nucleosynthesis
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Graduate Gauge-invariant measure in LQG
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Graduate Several postings about solvable LQC-and other news
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Graduate Postdoctoral Position At Penn State In Fundamental Gravitational Theory
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Graduate Peter Woit comments on technicolor models (and my take on string theory)
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Graduate Beisert v. Seifert citations race, and other signs of the times
  • marcus
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Graduate Hurk4 wins the Smolin/string poll
  • marcus
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Graduate Vibration, density and the aether
  • TR345
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Graduate Red shift and zero point energy
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Graduate Does string theory gravitons have 4D GR as its low energy limit?
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Graduate Alternative Theories to Particle Theory: Doubts & Debunking
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Graduate Controversial Study: Speed of Light May Not Be Constant
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Graduate Which is the actual size of a generic brane?
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Graduate Europe's most influential string theorist has an overview piece in Nature
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Graduate Little question about string theory
  • jostpuur
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Peter Woit's book is out (Thomas Larsson just received a copy)
  • marcus
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Graduate Are American Theoretical Physicists Losing Touch with Reality?
  • marcus
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Graduate Could the Bulk be a Hyperdrive?
  • Toastus
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Graduate How Does Supersymmetry Integrate with Spin Foam Models?
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Graduate LHC, supersymmetry and strings
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Graduate A question on the Radion field
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Graduate Something I don't understand about String Theory
  • Liger20
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Lenny's battle with Stephen Hawking to make the world safe for quantum mechanics
  • marcus
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Graduate Which laws of physics are violated with teleportation?
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Graduate Is AdS Space Present Between Casimir Plates?
  • robousy
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Graduate Commutative Algebra & Geometric Group Theory for String Theory
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Undergrad Differential Equations: Laws of Nature
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Graduate Understanding Abelian Groups, QLG, and Fiber Bundles in String Theory
  • Phred101.2
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Graduate Derek Wise thesis is posted (Baez student, Cartan geometry)
  • marcus
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Graduate Higher Dimensional Green Function
  • robousy
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Graduate Constraints in Hamilton's equations
  • somy
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Graduate Stalemate, or a victory for string theory?
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Graduate Is Geometry Simply a Mathematical Model for Physical Bodies?
  • wolram
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Graduate How do you see the next phase of background independent QG research?
  • marcus
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Graduate Gross Calls String Theory A Bizarre Science That Is A Dangerous Business
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Graduate Applicability of Coleman-Mandula Theorem?
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Graduate What Does It Mean When We Say Empty "Space" is Expanding?
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Graduate Don´t we need quantum gravity to study wormholes ?
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Graduate Why not put gravity on a lattice and be done with it
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Graduate The measurement problem and approaches to quantum gravity
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Undergrad Discrete space <-> graph theory
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Graduate Connect Proportion & Quantum Theory
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Graduate Can we understand the laws of physics without infinitesimals and infinities?
  • geonat
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Graduate Could chirality in LQG break the electroweak symmetry without the higgs?
  • ensabah6
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Undergrad Smolin outsells string average tenfold
  • marcus
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Graduate Non-compact Divergence Theorem: Is it Applicable to Scattering Problems?
  • geonat
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Graduate Experimental evidence that confirms or points toward extraspatial dims
  • Universe_Man
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Graduate Assymptotic Safety (to nonperturbatively renormalize gravity)
  • marcus
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Graduate The Immirzi parameter- the Kodama State - Revisited
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Graduate Corrected third quarter 2007 M.I.P. poll
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Graduate Theoretical Groups: Explaining SU(2), E8XE8 & More
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