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Graduate Randall-Sundrum Metric: Causes of Warping
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Graduate Surrogate Cosmic Variance Comment thread
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Graduate How Do Curled Up Dimensions in String Theory Affect Matter and Space?
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Graduate Tegmark Manyworld article for Nature magazine
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Why has mathematics worked so far to describe the laws of nature ?
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Graduate What is S^1/Z_2 and its connection to the projective plane?
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Graduate GLAST Launch: Has the Gamma Ray Large Area Telescope Operated as Scheduled?
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Graduate What's wrong with Canonical QG
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Graduate GFT common frame for LQG/SF +Simplex
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Graduate Lee mili-eV ennumeration and see saw
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Graduate Why are generalized momenta cotangent vectors in symplectic manifolds?
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Graduate Edward Witen is not researching LQG-like quantum gravity
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Graduate Nonconservative lagrangian systems
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Graduate What are the key similarities between geometrodynamic and quantum singularities?
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Graduate Appropriate maths for QFT, LQG, strings etc.
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Graduate LHC Doomsday Scenarios: Questions & Answers
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Graduate Universe or Multiverse? (new w/cosmic natural selection chapter)
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Graduate Are Extra Dimensions in String Theory Static or Dynamical?
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Graduate Study of brane decay that results in a brane/antibrane pair ?
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Graduate Lee Smolin's molten gold analogy
  • marcus
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Loops '07 has slides for the talks (some audio as well)
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Graduate Black hole bounce-Vandersloot and Böhmer
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Graduate Are There Extremal Action Paths in Physical Systems Beyond Minimal Action?
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Graduate Gross Tel Aviv perspective on string
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Graduate LQG how do you get the Quantum of Space-time
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Graduate Is Publishing a Discovery on arXiv.org Enough to Establish Priority?
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Graduate Garrett Lisi paper subject of Baez TWF 253
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Graduate List of plenary talks at Loops '07 conference
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Graduate Bojowald's letter in Nature Physics (July 2007)
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Graduate Loop Quantum Gravity and String Theory
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Graduate LQG in the mainstream press Glimpse of Time Before Big Bang Possible
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Graduate Latest from Connes and Chamseddine
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Graduate How to explain the benefits of string theory to my grandmother
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Graduate Single man revolution in Theoretical Physics today?
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Graduate Parallel Universes: Everett vs M-Theory
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Graduate My view on how to achieve the principle of locality in QM
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Undergrad Can We Really Understand the Tenth Dimension?
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Graduate Black hole entropy, curved space and monsters
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Graduate Has the total entropy of the universe remained constant throughout its history?
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Graduate Edward Witten researching non-string LQG-like quantum gravity
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Graduate Process Physics: Examining its Usefulness and Maturity
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Graduate Symplectic structure vs. metric structure
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Graduate Question about the foundations of string theory
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Graduate Quantum Gravity & Quantum Geometry Live
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Graduate Is Mallett's Theory of Time Travel Valid?
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Explore Science at Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie
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Graduate String threory assumptions about spacetime
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Graduate The LQG vertex amplitude (Rovelli, Engle, Pereira)
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Graduate A third road? Strings from a new perspective
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Graduate Trieste QG-testing conference starts 11 June
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Graduate Verify String/Hyperspace/HigherDimension Theory: TREMENDOUS ENERGy
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Graduate Materials and particle coupling
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Graduate Phase transitions of space-time?
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Graduate Coupling gauge theory to spinfoam 3d quantum gravity
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Graduate Gravitons and extra dimensions
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Graduate Unification through probability density gradients
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Graduate Equivalence of DAlembert's principle and Action Principle
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Graduate Spin foam model from canonical quantization
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Graduate Dark Energy & Strings: Does Hooke's Law Apply?
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Graduate Question about the multiverse and infinity
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Graduate Explicitly dependent on time Lagrangian
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Graduate Blog Wars: Woit and Smolin vs Motl
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Graduate Quantum mechanics and relativity
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(Old) Lee Smolin presentation Oct. 26th, 2006
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Gravity Research Foundations Awards 2007
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Graduate Loop Quantum Gravity is a noncommutative geometry?
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Graduate Recent Activity in Smolin/Polchinski Discussion on String Theory Validity
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Graduate Polchinski's Response to Smolin: A Technical Debate
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Graduate How Does Kaluza-Klein Theory Impact Our Understanding of the Universe?
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Graduate Are strings the building blocks of the universe?
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Graduate Can anybody tell me what is Causal Solution
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Graduate Name the Baby Elephant: Vote Now at CERN
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Graduate Quantum relativity at the Marcel and grg
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Graduate String Theory: Background Dependence & Complaints
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Graduate Ashtekar on Recent Advances in LQG
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Graduate A new spinfoam vertex probably MIP for second quarter
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Graduate The Trouble with The Trouble with deSitter Space
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Graduate Freidel and Loll in Fredericton
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Graduate Status of optimal inference methods in physics?
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Graduate Report on QGQG-1 school from Alejandro Satz, with his photos
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Smolin book #1 physics bestseller in UK (#23 in all books)
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Graduate Are there any GUT's that do not violate baryon number?
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Graduate Joris van Hoboken's thesis on Platonic solids,Kleinian singularities and ADE
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Graduate GRG 18-the 18th int. conf. on General Relativity and Gravitation (Sydney 2007)
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Graduate Loop quantum gravity and Planck-size black hole entropy
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Graduate Wiltshire casts doubt on existence of dark energy
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Graduate Selectrons as the particles of Dark Energy
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Graduate Can Null LHC Results Falsify SUSY Theories and Hierarchy Solutions?
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Graduate Is Extrasense's Mathematical Proof Debunking Kurzweil Valid?
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Graduate Relativismo: How Gravity Creates Unique Events
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Graduate Derivation of Grand Canonical Ensemble from scratch?
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Smolin's Response to review by Joe Polchinski
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Graduate How Does Causal Dynamical Triangulations Illuminate (2+1)-D Quantum Gravity?
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Graduate Repercusions of Smolin's book?
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Graduate Is the popularity of string theory declining as seen through Amazon salesranks?
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Graduate What does M-Theory have to do with String Theory, Superstrings,. .?
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Graduate Understanding Metric Tensor in Higher Dimensions
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Graduate What is the significance of generating functions in canonical transformations?
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Graduate World sheet EM tensor in complex coordinates
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Graduate World sheet EM tensor (Hilbert principle?)
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