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Graduate Is Light a String in the Vibrating Geometry of the Universe?

  • Chris Walters
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Graduate Find the Value of T3: D3 Brane Tension

  • deadringer
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Graduate Kac's 1968 Replica Trick Seminar: Lost or Found?

  • Alamino
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Graduate Quantum information science and M-theory

  • Boris Leykin
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Graduate Deriving the Planck Length, Time, and Mass

  • Saketh
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Graduate Does matter consist of movement in space rather than particles?

  • ReiaH
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Graduate Converge on new QG formulation

  • marcus
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Email from Jorge Pullin about this seminar ilqgs

  • ccdantas
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Graduate Intuitive meaning of string wavefunction?

  • Sauron
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Graduate String Theory in Two Minutes Or Less (contest)

  • robphy
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Graduate Does Quantum Foam Exist in All Spaces, Challenging the Concept of Vacuum?

  • Born2Perform
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Graduate Of Dice and Divinity-discussion started by MeJennifer

  • marcus
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Graduate Could Theories Beyond the Standard Model Unify Forces in Physics?

  • Mickey
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Graduate What about the absence of a unified field?

  • Fredrick
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Undergrad JB - TWF #244: When was the First Calculus Textbook Written?

  • marcus
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Graduate Is String Theory Finally Testable?

  • sanman
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Graduate Are Euler-Lagrange equations sufficient for least action?

  • ObsessiveMathsFreak
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Graduate What is the current trend in public interest for string theory?

  • marcus
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Graduate Was lqg assessed unfairly at KITP program in quantum nature of singularities?

  • josh1
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Graduate Is the New Format of Spires Topcites 2006 Overlooking Significant Research?

  • marcus
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Graduate The Quantum Nature of Spacetime Singularities-18-day pow-wow

  • marcus
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Graduate Time and space in Quantum gravity

  • Timeismatter
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Graduate Time Symmetry and Matter/Energy Conservation

  • Rodney Flores
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Graduate Russell's paradox and extra dimensions

  • Tommy122
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Graduate Leech lattice connections between string theory and error-correcting codes

  • Al.Rivero@gmail.com
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Graduate Solve Eqns with Lagrangean Action Integrals

  • nolanp2
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High School Is there a limit to how small distance can be?

  • eehiram
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Graduate Leap in the dark by Leonardo Modesto

  • marcus
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Graduate I am having trouble understanding some details of super string theory.

  • orami?
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Graduate Threesphere world could have come from hole ( best-fit radius 130 billion LY)

  • marcus
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Graduate Initial conditions of our universe

  • Helicobacter
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Undergrad Penny game odds improve with initial advantage in 50/50 bets

  • CoreyWhite@gmail.com
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Graduate Symmetries and lagrangian formulation

  • vanesch
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Graduate Followup on Piombino conference (DICE 2006)

  • marcus
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Graduate Lee Smolin and Daughter universes

  • vincentm
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Graduate Interesting quotes by Feynman, da Vinci and Davies

  • nightflyer
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Graduate GReat talk by Ashtekar at the kitp singularities workshop

  • marcus
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Graduate Top cited papers in particle physics

  • marcus
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Graduate The self-dual connection in LQG

  • Perturbation
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Graduate Is it possible that gravitons also orbit nucleons like electrons do?

  • Chaos' lil bro Order
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Graduate Peter Woit's "not even wrong" critique of string theory

  • eehiram
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Graduate How Can We Visualize 4D Shapes in 3D Space?

  • ||spoon||
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Graduate Re: 'Dark Matter'-where is it?

  • Strings
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Graduate Is the Lagrangian a kind of Energy

  • Kevin_spencer2
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What are modern theoretical physicists working on?

  • debayan
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Graduate Why is push gravity concept considered not viable by mainstream science?

  • Blaze Labs
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Graduate Steinhardt Turok imitate Smolin (to get small Lambda)

  • marcus
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Graduate Category theory and beyond the standard model

  • CarlB
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Graduate What Lies Beyond the Standard Model in Particle Physics?

  • selfAdjoint
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Graduate What Could Quantum Foam Give Us?

  • sanman
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Graduate How are Lagrange's and Hamilton's equations derived in one dimension?

  • Ed Quanta
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Kids must be asking for Smolin for Christmas

  • marcus
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Graduate Most Influential Paper fourth quarter 2006

  • marcus
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Graduate Non-dispersive DSR (personal view of Jerzy K-G)

  • marcus
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Graduate Baez TWF #243 is out (talks about Derek Wise Cartan paper)

  • marcus
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Graduate What makes D-branes stable and are they fundamental objects?

  • Demystifier
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Graduate The Status of Cosmological Natural Selection (Smolin rebuts Vilenkin)

  • marcus
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Graduate Einstein was wrong, and should be Cartanized ( this is professional research)

  • marcus
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Graduate Parallel Universes (recent video)

  • Ouabache
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Graduate String theory papers hitting 100+ citations in 2006

  • marcus
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Graduate Most Influential Paper third quarter 2006

  • marcus
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Graduate Methods for imaging dark matter distribution

  • marcus
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Lisa Randall number one on Amazon physics

  • marcus
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Graduate Why is covariant loop quantum gravity more appealing than canonical LQG?

  • Demystifier
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Graduate New Witten paper (geometric Langlands)

  • marcus
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Graduate N=4 SYM: Extended Superspace, Coloumb Phase

  • Squark
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Graduate JB diary has been getting pretty interesting

  • marcus
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Graduate Two new string books go on sale soon (Becker's and Dine's)

  • marcus
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Graduate Higher-dimensional electromagnetic radiation and Coulomb field decay rates

  • Hans de Vries
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Graduate Top string theorist gives brief but educational review of smolin and woit

  • josh1
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Graduate Should the Standard Model be abandoned for explaining only 5% of cosmic mass?

  • Rade
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Graduate How Does Loop Quantum Gravity Address These Key Questions?

  • Karlisbad
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Graduate Documentary on cutting-edge physics Strings / LQG

  • autumnwests
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Graduate Who Said With Malice Toward None?

  • marcus
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Ignoring trolls in a diverse forum community

  • marcus
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Graduate Understand Virtual Particles in Quantum Gravity

  • wolram
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Funding invested in string theory and loop quantum gravity

  • autumnwests
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Graduate Why are Gauss and Hamiltonian constraints not in the holonomy-flux algebra?

  • kakarukeys
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Graduate Dr. Hadley's Quest: Parity Conservation in Nature

  • CarlB
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Graduate String theory hype, good or bad

  • Wiemster
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Graduate Can Extra Dimensions Explain Mass Generation Beyond the Higgs Mechanism?

  • arivero
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Graduate An argument against string theory; geometry is dynamic

  • bananan
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Graduate An argument against Background Independence

  • bananan
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Graduate When Do Strings Or Membranes Begin?

  • Silverbackman
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Graduate Is a Grand Unified Theory Really Necessary for Understanding Our Universe?

  • Lelan Thara
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Graduate What is each dimension in string theory?

  • thegreensquall
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Graduate How do Hubble's latest findings affect theories of everything?

  • alexsok
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Graduate Why not two or more time dimensions?

  • echolocator
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High School Encouraging My Younger Brother's Passion for Physics

  • fileen
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Graduate String theory and foundations of quantum mechanics

  • Demystifier
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Graduate Do extra dimensions explain why gravity appears weaker than other forces?

  • Chaos' lil bro Order
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Graduate Kodama means echo or spirit of the trees

  • marcus
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Graduate Young researchers conference

  • marcus
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Graduate What are the key properties and interpretations of the generalized Kodama state?

  • marcus
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Graduate Is the Casimir Effect Evidence of Dark Energy or Vacuum Energy in Cosmology?

  • marcus
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Graduate The Kodama state in quantum gravity research

  • marcus
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Graduate Black Hole Entropie and Pair Production

  • hossi
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Graduate How Does String Theory Address QFT in Curved Spacetime?

  • hellfire
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Graduate Deriving 3+1 Metrics from General P+Q Metric

  • amnoob
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Graduate Deterministic quantum mechanics and Hamiltonian positivity

  • marcus
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