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Graduate Experimental evidence that confirms or points toward extraspatial dims

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Graduate Assymptotic Safety (to nonperturbatively renormalize gravity)

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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 What are SU(2), E8×E8 and similar groups in physics?

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Graduate Height-height correlation function in surface topography

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Graduate Percacci's home page (brief explanations of asymptotic safety and unification)

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Graduate NCG 07 (Trieste workshop noncommututative manifolds w. appl. physics)

  • marcus
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Smolin at XXVIII Encontro Nacional de Física de Partículas e Campos

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Graduate What Classical Physics Problems Remain Unsolved in Modern Physics?

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Graduate QG student colloquium in London

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Graduate Brian Greene on string theory criticisms at Edge dinner

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Graduate Is Information Theory Driving Astrophysics in the 21st Century?

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Noncommutative Geometry blog has audio of David Hilbert

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Graduate Most Influential Paper, third quarter 2007

  • marcus
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Graduate Which Non-String Quantum Gravity Paper from Q2 2007 Will Shape Future Research?

  • marcus
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Graduate Most Influential Papers second quarter 2006

  • marcus
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Graduate Topological order - string-net condensation + loop quantum gravity

  • jal
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Graduate Grimstrup merger of Loop with Noncommutative Geometry

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Graduate Hints of dispersion (both gravity and EM waves)

  • marcus
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Graduate What Are the Best Introductory Resources for SU(5) GUTs?

  • mjsd
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Graduate Does there exist a state of zero total energy?

  • Loren Booda
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Graduate Could a Black Hole Bounce Lead to a New Universe?

  • marcus
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Graduate Is Gravity Riding Into the 5th Dimension Feasible for FTL Travel?

  • Lostpinky
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Meme Pas Fausse (Not even wrong-French style)

  • marcus
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Graduate Almost-universe-sized black hole

  • Meatbot
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Graduate David Gross: The Last Five Minutes

  • marcus
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Graduate Yidun Wan's talk about new particle model from simple materials

  • marcus
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Graduate Volvovik's Fermi-point scenario of emergent gravity as TOE

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Graduate Has string theory proven anything, or is Hawking radiation the only claim?

  • captain
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Congratulations to Demystifier

  • Thomas Larsson
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Graduate Dark energy from QG in a simple way (Bill Nelson)

  • marcus
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Graduate Laymans question: 2 Why is string theory

  • GUS
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Graduate Why Michelson-Morley Were Wrong (Wind vs Rain)

  • sanman
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Graduate Study topological field theories

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Graduate Anthropics and Myopics: Cosmological Constant

  • marcus
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Graduate Are Einstein's Relativity and String Theory's Gravity Compatible?

  • Joza
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Graduate Asymptotic safety and photon propagation in the MAGIC TeV delay

  • marcus
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Graduate Laymans question. What happened before the big bang ?

  • GUS
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Graduate SUSY vs Extra Dimensions: Collider Signature Differences

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Graduate Lagrangian depend upon upon my choice of generalized coordinates?

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Graduate Views of the Smolin/String controversy

  • marcus
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Graduate Functional determinant approach to perturbation

  • Sangoku
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ArXiv Research Output Trends 2006 - Stats Visualization

  • marcus
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Graduate The assumption that gravity is the same as the 3 quantum forces

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Graduate Minimal length and a new paper on deformed relativity

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Graduate How do MOND-based gravity theories compare to general relativity on classical tests?

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Graduate Can spinfoam/LQG use a G at particle size?

  • jal
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Graduate The MAGIC gammaray flare result, if true, favors Spinfoam LQG

  • marcus
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Graduate What Are the Insights of 2D Physics and Loop Variables in Loop Quantum Gravity?

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Graduate Martin Reuter's asymptotic safety approach at Loops '07

  • marcus
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Graduate Stuff about GRB observations (dispersion?)

  • marcus
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Graduate Pfeiffer et al. on 2-groups and BF theory with topological matter

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Graduate Motivation behind quantum gravity

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Graduate Smilga paper, in which he derives an estimate to the fine structure constant

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Graduate In what sense can Reuter QEG have a minimal length?

  • marcus
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Graduate Dittrich and Thiemann challenge discreteness of LQG area etc operators

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Graduate What if Weinberg had succeeded in 1979?

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Graduate Is Super Symmetry Real: String Theory Predictions

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Undergrad Why do string theorists speak of 4096 colors?

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Graduate What says Reuter re black holes?

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Graduate Smolin's Loops 07 talk on braided particle physics and spinfoam

  • marcus
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Graduate Are lagrangians based on physical observation or mathematics?

  • captain
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Graduate Landmark paper from Freidel and Krasnov

  • marcus
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Graduate Quantum Gravity and the Standard Model (Sundance + PI)

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Graduate Sean's SAP post seems oddly shallow-what's happening?

  • marcus
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Graduate String Theory in Only 4-Dimensions

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Graduate Hamiltonian, Lagrange multipliers and Dirac's Programme

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Graduate Paperback edn. Smolin and other numbers to watch

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Graduate New blog on quantum gravity and alternative physics approaches

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Graduate Evaluating Functional integrals

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Graduate Anthropixia as a mental disorder

  • marcus
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Graduate Space from identifying (x,y) ~ (x+2πR, y+2πR) versus torus identifications

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Undergrad Maximum frequency for a string of given length

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Graduate Will Detection Of Higgs Boson Complete Standard Model?

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Graduate About D-branes in type-II string theory

  • Sauron
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Graduate Entanglement entropy in Loop Quantum Gravity

  • marcus
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Graduate Which Morelia audios are available?

  • marcus
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Graduate An experiment showing a structure from 10^-18

  • jal
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Graduate Height of a Giraffe (hep-th arXiv:0708.0573)

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Graduate Invasive surgery avoided through teleportation or matter-to-energy conversion?

  • azjost
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Graduate Holography in LQG-new result by Gambini and Pullin

  • marcus
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Graduate Bee on Consistency and some interesting comments

  • marcus
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Graduate Is it worth learning Calculus of Variations?

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Graduate Does Penrose theorem about Space-time forbid 'Strings'

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Graduate QMD running G and Lambda challenges Loop Gravity

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Graduate How Does Regge Calculus Define a Minimum Quantum of Spacetime?

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Graduate 4-simplex Regge: Dittrich, Freidel, Speziale

  • marcus
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Graduate Quantum METRO-dynamics-reuter's no-frill QG

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Graduate Can we apply 'Quantization' only from motion equation ?

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Graduate What causes the strings to vibrate?

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Graduate Jacobson renews LQG with a roto-Reuter

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Graduate General covariance be an approximation or violated ?

  • touqra
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Graduate Is the GZK cutoff confirmed by the Auger Observatory?

  • marcus
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Graduate Fermilab's Search for SUSY Particles

  • touqra
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Graduate Detecting Neutral Super-Partner Particles

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Graduate Extra Dimensions: What Do They Look Like?

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Is Rien ne va plus en physique! the Best Physics Book in France?

  • marcus
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Graduate A Question from a Non Scientist

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