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Graduate Time Symmetry and Matter/Energy Conservation
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Graduate Public Opinion on Russell's Paradox & Beyond 10 Dimensions
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Graduate Do Pursuit-Evasion Games Hold the Key to Understanding Physics and Nature?
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Graduate Solve Eqns with Lagrangean Action Integrals
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High School Is there a limit to how small distance can be?
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Graduate Leap in the dark by Leonardo Modesto
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Graduate I am having trouble understanding some details of super string theory.
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Graduate Threesphere world could have come from hole ( best-fit radius 130 billion LY)
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Graduate Initial conditions of our universe
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Undergrad Games: Gravity is a chain reaction within an equilibrium of chaos& entro
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Graduate Symmetries and lagrangian formulation
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Graduate Followup on Piombino conference (DICE 2006)
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Graduate Lee Smolin and Daughter universes
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Graduate Interesting quotes by Feynman, da Vinci and Davies
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Graduate GReat talk by Ashtekar at the kitp singularities workshop
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Graduate Is String Theory Still King? A Look at the Top Cited Papers in Particle Physics
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Graduate The self-dual connection in LQG
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Graduate Is it possible that gravitons also orbit nucleons like electrons do?
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Graduate String theory: Not Even Wrong according to Peter Woit
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Graduate How Can We Visualize 4D Shapes in 3D Space?
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Graduate Re: 'Dark Matter'-where is it?
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Graduate Is the Lagrangian a kind of Energy
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What Are Modern Theoretical Physicists Exploring Today?
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Graduate Why is push gravity concept considered not viable by mainstream science?
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Graduate Steinhardt Turok imitate Smolin (to get small Lambda)
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Graduate Category theory and beyond the standard model
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Graduate What Lies Beyond the Standard Model in Particle Physics?
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Graduate What Could Quantum Foam Give Us?
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Graduate Deriving Lagrange's & Hamilton's Equations in 1-Dimension
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Kids must be asking for Smolin for Christmas
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Graduate Most Influential Paper fourth quarter 2006
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Graduate Non-dispersive DSR (personal view of Jerzy K-G)
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Graduate Baez TWF #243 is out (talks about Derek Wise Cartan paper)
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Graduate D-branes (a question for experts)
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Graduate The Status of Cosmological Natural Selection (Smolin rebuts Vilenkin)
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Graduate Einstein was wrong, and should be Cartanized ( this is professional research)
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Graduate Parallel Universes (recent video)
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Graduate Topcites Forecast: How Many String Papers Will Get 100+ Citations in 2006?
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Graduate Most Influential Paper third quarter 2006
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Graduate Imaging the distribution of dark matter-anyone want to expand on this?
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Lisa Randall number one on Amazon physics
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Graduate Covariant Loop Quantum Gravity: Experts' Views
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Graduate New Witten paper (geometric Langlands)
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Graduate N=4 SYM: Extended Superspace, Coloumb Phase
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Graduate JB diary has been getting pretty interesting
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Graduate Two new string books go on sale soon (Becker's and Dine's)
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Graduate Detecting and analyzing higher dimensions via the EM radiation field.
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Graduate Top string theorist gives brief but educational review of smolin and woit
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Graduate Un-Standard Model: Falsifying the 5% Understanding of Mass in the Universe
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Graduate How Does Loop Quantum Gravity Address These Key Questions?
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Graduate Documentary on cutting-edge physics Strings / LQG
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Graduate Who Said With Malice Toward None?
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Ignore Trolls: How to Coexist Peacefully in a Diverse Culture
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Graduate Understand Virtual Particles in Quantum Gravity
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How much money has been invested in ST & LQG
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Graduate Question about holonomy-flux algebra
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Graduate Dr. Hadley's Quest: Parity Conservation in Nature
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Graduate String theory hype, good or bad
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Graduate Can Extra Dimensions Explain Mass Generation Beyond the Higgs Mechanism?
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Graduate An argument against string theory; geometry is dynamic
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Graduate An argument against Background Independence
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Graduate When Do Strings Or Membranes Begin?
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Graduate Is a Grand Unified Theory Really Necessary for Understanding Our Universe?
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Graduate What is each dimension in string theory?
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Graduate Hubble Findings: What Does It Mean for Theories of Everything?
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Graduate Why not two or more time dimensions?
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High School Encouraging My Younger Brother's Passion for Physics
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Graduate String theory and foundations of quantum mechanics
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Graduate Are Extra Dimensions Influencing Our Understanding of Gravity and Other Forces?
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Graduate Kodama means echo or spirit of the trees
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Graduate Young researchers conference
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Graduate What are the key properties and interpretations of the generalized Kodama state?
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Graduate Is the Casimir Effect Evidence of Dark Energy or Vacuum Energy in Cosmology?
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Graduate Kodama Mama: the mother of all quantum states of gravity
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Graduate Black Hole Entropie and Pair Production
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Graduate How Does String Theory Address QFT in Curved Spacetime?
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Graduate Deriving 3+1 Metrics from General P+Q Metric
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Graduate 't Hooft: an original train of thought
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Graduate Twoslit & delayed choice according to string theory
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Graduate What is the Page-Geilker experiment and its implications for quantum gravity?
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Graduate String theory and the wave function
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Graduate String Theory & Wavefunction collapse
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Graduate Can String Theory Explain the Nonlocality of Particles and Waves?
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Graduate Most visual form of quantum GR?
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Graduate Is superstringtheory a quantum theory ?
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Graduate Is Ontology the Hidden Framework of Physics?
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Graduate Do String Theory Dualities Challenge Traditional Ontology?
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Graduate Quantum Gravity Theory and Interpretations of QM
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Graduate Olaf Dreyer: the Cosmological Constant paradox
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Graduate How does string theory describe the wave/particle duality of matter?
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Graduate Is Loop Quantum Gravity Compatible with Classical General Relativity?
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Cast Your Vote: SFT vs. LQG – Join the Discussion!
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Graduate Explaining Rank 0, 1 and 2 Field Theory in Simple Terms
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Graduate Lee Smolin tantalizing hint in TTWT
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Graduate How can we test string theory?
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Graduate Q:What is the analogue of the excitation vector in the case of mass density?
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Graduate Baratin-Freidel: Hidden Quantum Gravity in 4d Feynman diagrams
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Graduate Spinfoam idea for energy source (Louis Crane-FQXi)
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Graduate New Connes: Gravity and the standard model with neutrino mixing
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Graduate Higgs field, QFT in curved spacetime, and spinfoams
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