Beyond the Standard Models Forum

Join expert and advanced topics on beyond the standard model of physics. This includes professionally researched theories like strings, branes, and LQG. Mainstream physics only.

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Graduate How does string theory explain the two-slit and delayed-choice experiments?

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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 Does string theory explain 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?

  • marcus
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Graduate Is superstringtheory a quantum theory ?

  • vanesch
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Graduate Is Ontology the Hidden Framework of Physics?

  • marcus
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Graduate Do String Theory Dualities Challenge Traditional Ontology?

  • Curious6
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Graduate Quantum Gravity Theory and Interpretations of QM

  • Curious6
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Graduate Background independence and the cosmological constant problem

  • marcus
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Graduate How does string theory describe the wave/particle duality of matter?

  • QuantumDefect
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Graduate Can classical gravity be represented in the loop representation?

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Which theory do you prefer: string field theory or loop quantum gravity?

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Graduate What does rank 0, 1, and 2 field theory mean?

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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 spin foam model from Feynman diagrams

  • marcus
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Graduate Spinfoam idea for energy source (Louis Crane-FQXi)

  • marcus
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Graduate Connes noncommutative geometry unification with neutrino mixing

  • marcus
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Graduate Higgs field, QFT in curved spacetime, and spinfoams

  • Mike2
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Graduate Quantum Gravity and Experimental Data: Lee Smolin in Physics Today"

  • Thomas Larsson
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What happened to Christine's blog?

  • Kea
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Undergrad Most Accessible Fields of Research

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New Perimeter video archive format

  • marcus
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Graduate Particle Overview: Arxiv.org HEP-PH 0611040

  • wolram
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Graduate Can the Ratio of Real to Virtual Particles Influence Quantum Gravity?

  • wolram
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Graduate Stroop Theory - the possible unification of QM with GR through IT and CHO?

  • Dcase
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Graduate Poincare Invariance from General QFT

  • CarlB
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Graduate Polchinski: 2006, the Year in Strings

  • CarlB
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Graduate Bee evaluates multimindedness-its role in science

  • marcus
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Graduate How Did the Understanding of Fundamental Forces Evolve Historically?

  • student007
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Graduate Bee's new paper on QG phenomenology

  • marcus
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Graduate Beautiful Shahar Hod relax time lower bound-connecting to Third Law

  • marcus
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Graduate Can string theory make predictions for particle physics?

  • CarlB
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Graduate Carl Brannen's Triumph in Hawaii: Japanese Physicist Koide Cites 2 Equations

  • marcus
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CBI's One Year Anniversary - Guest Posts Welcome

  • ccdantas
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Graduate Foot-trap rage and spanking the messenger

  • marcus
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Graduate String theory is a complete scientific failure by Daniel Friedan

  • bananan
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Graduate What Came First, Gravity or Mass?

  • nannoh
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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

  • marcus
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Graduate KITP Video w/ David Gross on Background Independence in String Theory

  • marcus
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Briefer bumps Trouble from #1 bestseller spot (after a month)

  • marcus
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Graduate Why should physicists learn topology?

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Graduate Searching for Quantum Gravity in Gamma-Ray Bursts

  • marcus
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Graduate How Physics is Done: The Process of Formulating and Testing Theories

  • pivoxa15
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Zing-Zong. Bee's blog only gets better

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Graduate Talk by Hendryk Pfeiffer today

  • marcus
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Graduate Are mathematical truths inherently unpredictable and incomplete?

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Graduate What Are Examples of Calabi-Yau Four-Folds with H^(1,1)=1?

  • aaron
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Graduate What's the trouble with anthropic reasoning?

  • Chronos
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Graduate Vilenkin claims to have refuted the CNS conjecture

  • marcus
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Graduate Vilenkin's paper doesn't refute the CNS conjecture about stellar collapse

  • marcus
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Graduate Do You Need a Strong Understanding of Quantum Mechanics to Study M-Theory?

  • Swapnil
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Graduate What Are the Theological Implications of the Pre-Big Bang Scenario?

  • pmb_phy
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Is String Theory Explained in an XKCD Comic?

  • neutrino
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Graduate Pre-Quantum theory talk at PI, Wednesday 11 October

  • marcus
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Graduate Smolin's reply to review in the New Scientist

  • marcus
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Smolin and Woit both top physics bestsellers (US and UK)

  • marcus
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Graduate Torelli group and Dehn twists in string theory

  • Darth Sidious
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Graduate Does string number density make sense in string theory?

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Graduate The Paradox of Zeno: An Analysis of the 2000-Year-Old Puzzle

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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

  • selfAdjoint
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Graduate Review in Nature by Geoff Brumfiel

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Graduate The Relationship Between Matter and Energy

  • camanintx
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Graduate The Mathematics of LQG Theory: Topology, Manifolds, and More

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Graduate If spinfoam incorporated unbroken SUSY formalism, would SUSY

  • bananan
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Graduate Spin network euristic for pre-quantum picture

  • marcus
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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 Do tensor waves exist and what are their uses?

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Graduate Not Even Wrong #1 UK bestseller in particle physics

  • marcus
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Graduate Nominate most influential quantum gravity paper for Q3 2006

  • marcus
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Graduate Does String Theory or Preon Theory More Accurately Predict the Higgs Boson Mass?

  • bananan
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Graduate A little question: is x-boson included in su(5)?

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Graduate EPR paradox and quantum nonlocality without hidden variables

  • Egap
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Graduate Would Feynman Embrace Background Independence in Quantum Mechanics Today?

  • George Jones
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Smolin and Woit #1 and #2 bestsellers

  • marcus
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Graduate Is a Fundamental Unit of Length Possible with the Planck Circle Problem?

  • ModernTantalus
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Graduate Penrose's conformal cyclic cosmology and the Big Bang

  • marcus
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Graduate Can unified field theory predict the future and determinism?

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Graduate Does Hawking Radiation Maintain a Black Hole's Maximum Entropy?

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Graduate Is emergent spacetime the same as background independence?

  • touqra
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Graduate The Telephone Seminar was fun (Laurent and Abhay arguing with Carlo)

  • marcus
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Riofrio Cosmology: Evidence of Changing Speed of Light

  • Kea
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Graduate What Are the Implications of the Leech Lattice and Strings in String Theory?

  • arivero
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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

  • marcus
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Graduate Can Energy Be Extracted from Quantum Fields Without Depleting Them?

  • Chaos' lil bro Order
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Amanda Cook and Sara Lippencott edited #1 physics bestseller

  • marcus
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Undergrad Why perpendicular not horizontal for incline force components

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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

  • marcus
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Graduate Can metrics encode evolution rules in spacetime?

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