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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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Graduate Quantum Gravity and Experimental Data: Lee Smolin in Physics Today"
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Discover the Mystery of Christine's Missing Blog: A Tale of Dantas and Marcus
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Undergrad Most Accessible Fields of Research
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New Perimeter video archive format
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Graduate Thinking on a Tangent: Universe & Beyond
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Graduate Particle Overview: Arxiv.org HEP-PH 0611040
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Graduate Can the Ratio of Real to Virtual Particles Influence Quantum Gravity?
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Graduate Stroop Theory - the possible unification of QM with GR through IT and CHO?
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Graduate Poincare Invariance from General QFT
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Graduate Polchinski: 2006, the Year in Strings
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Graduate Bee evaluates multimindedness-its role in science
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Graduate How Did the Understanding of Fundamental Forces Evolve Historically?
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Graduate Bee's new paper on QG phenomenology
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Graduate Beautiful Shahar Hod relax time lower bound-connecting to Third Law
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Graduate Can string theory make predictions for particle physics?
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Graduate Carl Brannen's Triumph in Hawaii: Japanese Physicist Koide Cites 2 Equations
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CBI's One Year Anniversary - Guest Posts Welcome
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Graduate Foot-trap rage and spanking the messenger
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Graduate String theory is a complete scientific failure by Daniel Friedan
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Graduate What Came First, Gravity or Mass?
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Graduate Algebraic QFT and Quantum Gravity
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Smolin's book first appearance on UK amazon physics bestseller list
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Graduate KITP Video w/ David Gross on Background Independence in String Theory
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Briefer bumps Trouble from #1 bestseller spot (after a month)
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Graduate Topology & Physics: Motivation & Applications
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Graduate Searching for Quantum Gravity in Gamma-Ray Bursts
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Graduate How Physics is Done: The Process of Formulating and Testing Theories
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Zing-Zong. Bee's blog only gets better
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Graduate Talk by Hendryk Pfeiffer today
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Graduate Raft to the Future: Unraveling Math Confusion
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Graduate What Are Examples of Calabi-Yau Four-Folds with H^(1,1)=1?
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Graduate What's the trouble with anthropic reasoning?
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Graduate Vilenkin claims to have refuted the CNS conjecture
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Graduate Vilenkin unconvincing: CNS concerns stellar collapse black holes
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Graduate Do You Need a Strong Understanding of Quantum Mechanics to Study M-Theory?
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Graduate What Are the Theological Implications of the Pre-Big Bang Scenario?
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Is String Theory Explained in an XKCD Comic?
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Graduate Pre-Quantum theory talk at PI, Wednesday 11 October
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Graduate Smolin's reply to review in the New Scientist
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Smolin and Woit both top physics bestsellers (US and UK)
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Graduate Torelli Group: Understanding the Non-Trivial Diffeomorphisms of String Theory
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Graduate String number density - does it make sense?
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Graduate The Paradox of Zeno: An Analysis of the 2000-Year-Old Puzzle
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Graduate Gravitomagnetic effect 10^20 large then predicted by GR ?
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Graduate Is 11-Dimensional Spacetime a Valid Explanation of the Universe?
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Graduate The Asymptotic Safety Scenario in QG
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Graduate Review in Nature by Geoff Brumfiel
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Graduate The Relationship Between Matter and Energy
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Graduate The Mathematics of LQG Theory: Topology, Manifolds, and More
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Graduate If spinfoam incorporated unbroken SUSY formalism, would SUSY
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Graduate Spin network euristic for pre-quantum picture
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Graduate Zero point energy as 5th fundamental force
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Graduate Is always a Lagrangian L=T-V ?
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Graduate Re there useful links for the definition & use of Tensor Waves?
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Graduate Not Even Wrong #1 UK bestseller in particle physics
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Graduate Third quarter QG research poll: nominations
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Graduate Does String Theory or Preon Theory More Accurately Predict the Higgs Boson Mass?
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Graduate A little question: is x-boson included in su(5)?
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Graduate A Look at Quantum "Spookiness"
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Graduate Would Feynman Embrace Background Independence in Quantum Mechanics Today?
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Smolin and Woit #1 and #2 bestsellers
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Graduate Is a Fundamental Unit of Length Possible with the Planck Circle Problem?
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Graduate Penrose: Outrageous Solution to Big Bang Cosmology Puzzle
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Graduate Question about the Unified Field Theory
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Graduate Does Hawking Radiation Maintain a Black Hole's Maximum Entropy?
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Graduate Emergent spacetime & Background independence
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Graduate The Telephone Seminar was fun (Laurent and Abhay arguing with Carlo)
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Riofrio Cosmology: Evidence of Changing Speed of Light
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Graduate What Are the Implications of the Leech Lattice and Strings in String Theory?
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Undergrad Where can I find a list of physics axioms?
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Graduate Opinions of ideas in Not Even Wrong
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Smolin at Kepler's in Menlo Park on Wednesday
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Graduate Can Energy Be Extracted from Quantum Fields Without Depleting Them?
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Amanda Cook and Sara Lippencott edited #1 physics bestseller
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Undergrad Why Is the Theoretical Triangle Essential in Physics Diagrams?
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Graduate What is the meaning behind the complex equations in Dyson's 1951 text on arXiv?
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Graduate Cambridge Noncommutative Geometry workshop in September
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Graduate Space Time & Metric Encoded Evolution: Rules & Principles
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Graduate The Trouble with Physics-Woit's review
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And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
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Graduate Is Particle-Wave Duality a Topological Transformation?
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Graduate Teaching myself supersymmetry and supergravity
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Graduate New Cosmology Idea - Is it Too Simple?
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Graduate Dcase initiative to discuss Khovanov paper
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Graduate Why Can't We See 3D Shadows of 4D Objects?
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Graduate Is String Theory Just a Hypothesis or a Viable Theory?
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Graduate Can string theory predict particle masses such as neutrinos?
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Graduate Dark matter and the 'theory of everything'
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Graduate Why Are Quarks and Leptons Grouped in the Antisymmetric Representation of SU(5)?
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Graduate Quantum foam producing both particles and spacetime
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Graduate Is there a quanta of rest mass? say multiples of electron mass?
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Graduate What about the physics of Flatland?
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Graduate Can Recursive Formulas Help Solve Divergences in Perturbation Theory?
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Graduate String Theory: Questions on Realities Beyond Our World
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