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Graduate Dcase initiative to discuss Khovanov paper

marcus
Sep 13, 2006 · Replies 1 · Sep 14, 2006

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Graduate Why Can't We See 3D Shadows of 4D Objects?

Virtua
Sep 6, 2006 · Replies 27 · Sep 13, 2006

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Graduate Is String Theory Just a Hypothesis or a Viable Theory?

seth_moupre
Sep 10, 2006 · Replies 3 · Sep 12, 2006

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Graduate Can string theory predict particle masses such as neutrinos?

bananan
Sep 10, 2006 · Replies 2 · Sep 12, 2006

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Graduate Dark matter and the 'theory of everything'

padremo
Sep 11, 2006 · Replies 3 · Sep 12, 2006

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Graduate Why Are Quarks and Leptons Grouped in the Antisymmetric Representation of SU(5)?

Sombrero
Sep 8, 2006 · Replies 3 · Sep 11, 2006

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Graduate Quantum foam producing both particles and spacetime

Mike2
May 20, 2006 · Replies 21 · Sep 9, 2006

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Graduate Is there a quanta of rest mass? say multiples of electron mass?

bananan
Sep 9, 2006 · Replies 1 · Sep 9, 2006

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Graduate What about the physics of Flatland?

DaveC426913
Aug 31, 2006 · Replies 43 · Sep 7, 2006

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Graduate Can Recursive Formulas Help Solve Divergences in Perturbation Theory?

lokofer
Sep 4, 2006 · Replies 6 · Sep 7, 2006

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Graduate String Theory: Questions on Realities Beyond Our World

fedorfan
Sep 2, 2006 · Replies 15 · Sep 6, 2006

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Graduate Kristina Giesel: Algebraic Quantum Gravity seminar talk

marcus
Sep 6, 2006 · Replies 0 · Sep 6, 2006

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As if summoned from the void (nitin's new blog)

marcus
Sep 4, 2006 · Replies 4 · Sep 5, 2006

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Graduate Experimental evidence has ruled out (falsified) string theory - LQG still viable

bananan
Sep 4, 2006 · Replies 3 · Sep 5, 2006

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Freidel makes faculty at Perimeter

marcus
Aug 30, 2006 · Replies 13 · Sep 5, 2006

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Graduate Parallel worlds movie on Dr.Kaku's website

Sir.Aaron
Sep 2, 2006 · Replies 4 · Sep 4, 2006

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Graduate Is There a Rigorous Proof of a Quantum of Space in Quantum Mechanics and GR?

lokofer
Sep 3, 2006 · Replies 3 · Sep 4, 2006

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Graduate From Semiclassical to Quantum Approach

lokofer
Sep 3, 2006 · Replies 1 · Sep 3, 2006

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Graduate Does string theory/M theory have an explanation for

syntacticus
Sep 3, 2006 · Replies 1 · Sep 3, 2006

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Graduate Can I Share My Gravity Theory Here?

Enos
Sep 2, 2006 · Replies 4 · Sep 2, 2006

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Graduate Who Is Kristina Giesel?

marcus
Sep 2, 2006 · Replies 0 · Sep 2, 2006

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Graduate The graviton pisses me off.. .

KingOrdo
Aug 22, 2006 · Replies 24 · Sep 2, 2006

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Graduate Calculation of the Cosmological Constant

torsten
Sep 1, 2006 · Replies 4 · Sep 2, 2006

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Graduate Thiemann's Latest - Conroversy

selfAdjoint
Aug 31, 2006 · Replies 2 · Aug 31, 2006

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Graduate Steve Hsu and Loop Gravity's black hole bounce

marcus
Aug 29, 2006 · Replies 3 · Aug 30, 2006

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Graduate Is there an upper & lower limit to photon wavelength?

bananan
Aug 26, 2006 · Replies 7 · Aug 29, 2006

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Graduate Third QG-Americas conference 24-26 August

marcus
Aug 25, 2006 · Replies 5 · Aug 28, 2006

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Graduate Not even wrong: a summary of criticism of string theory

bananan
Aug 27, 2006 · Replies 4 · Aug 27, 2006

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Graduate Could Gravity Be a Negative Mass Particle?

forgot
Aug 26, 2006 · Replies 1 · Aug 26, 2006

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Graduate Chandra dark matter announcement could sink MOND

marcus
Aug 16, 2006 · Replies 42 · Aug 26, 2006

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Response to Smolin and Woit books, and other barometers

marcus
Aug 20, 2006 · Replies 19 · Aug 26, 2006

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Graduate David Finkelstein's no-field theory

selfAdjoint
Aug 23, 2006 · Replies 6 · Aug 25, 2006

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Graduate NCG predictions: Alain Connes in SciAm

marcus
Jul 27, 2006 · Replies 13 · Aug 24, 2006

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Graduate A positive cosmological constant * SUSY/string theory

bananan
Aug 23, 2006 · Replies 2 · Aug 24, 2006

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Graduate Unraveling Supersymmetry: Questions and Evidence in Modern Physics

Symbreak
Aug 14, 2006 · Replies 2 · Aug 23, 2006

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Graduate String theory & standard model & black hole entropy

bananan
Aug 16, 2006 · Replies 4 · Aug 23, 2006

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Graduate Not Even Wrong? I Thought String Theory Was Dead?

Dr. RMC
Aug 16, 2006 · Replies 8 · Aug 22, 2006

Replies: 8

Graduate Does a Stretched Spring in a Jack-in-the-Box Weigh More Due to Negative Energy?

droog
Aug 21, 2006 · Replies 2 · Aug 22, 2006

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Lee Smolin and Brian Greene on Science Friday show

marcus
Aug 18, 2006 · Replies 6 · Aug 20, 2006

Replies: 6

Explore the N-Category Cafe: Physics, Math and Philosophy

marcus
Aug 17, 2006 · Replies 2 · Aug 17, 2006

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Graduate New Measurement of Alpha & Peter Woit in FAZ: "Schlimmer als Falsch

marcus
Aug 1, 2006 · Replies 6 · Aug 17, 2006

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Graduate J Noldus might use this new Rieffel theorem

marcus
Aug 13, 2006 · Replies 14 · Aug 17, 2006

Replies: 14

Graduate FQXi project descriptions now online (thx GL)

marcus
Aug 16, 2006 · Replies 1 · Aug 16, 2006

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Graduate A fix for the Cosmological Constant problem?

Mike2
Aug 13, 2006 · Replies 3 · Aug 15, 2006

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Graduate Can Loop Quantum Gravity Dismiss the Manifold Structure of S^4?

kakarukeys
Aug 7, 2006 · Replies 21 · Aug 14, 2006

Replies: 21

Graduate Freidel does it: BeeF, it's what's for dinner

marcus
Jul 7, 2006 · Replies 40 · Aug 12, 2006

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Graduate Does the Law of Universal Gravitation Apply to Quantum Levels?

mengshuen
Aug 11, 2006 · Replies 6 · Aug 12, 2006

Replies: 6

Graduate Is Gravity Really a Pseudo-Force in Modern Physics?

PhilosophyofPhysics
Aug 8, 2006 · Replies 1 · Aug 10, 2006

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How Can Fresh Graduates Contribute to the NUS LQG Group?

kakarukeys
May 14, 2006 · Replies 8 · Aug 7, 2006

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Graduate MG11 video (including Ashtekar's talk)

marcus
Jul 30, 2006 · Replies 2 · Aug 6, 2006

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Graduate Searching for Purely Chaotic Systems

eeka chu
Aug 6, 2006 · Replies 1 · Aug 6, 2006

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Graduate Help me to introduction in superstring theory what is it ?

Abdulaziz
Aug 5, 2006 · Replies 3 · Aug 5, 2006

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Graduate Horgan's review of Not Even Wrong

marcus
Jul 27, 2006 · Replies 11 · Aug 5, 2006

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Graduate Understand Lagrange's Equations & Equivalence to Newton's Equations

quasar987
Aug 2, 2006 · Replies 7 · Aug 5, 2006

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Graduate Everybody sees the same elephant (says Carlo Rovelli)

marcus
Apr 11, 2006 · Replies 186 · Aug 4, 2006

7

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Graduate String number density - does it make sense?

frank_k_sheldon@yahoo.co.uk
Jul 24, 2006 · Replies 1 · Aug 4, 2006

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CONGRATULATIONS Ladies and Gentlemen of the Subforum

marcus
Apr 30, 2006 · Replies 16 · Aug 3, 2006

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Graduate Black holes and quantum gravity

wolram
Aug 1, 2006 · Replies 6 · Aug 2, 2006

Replies: 6

What are some of the notable FQX awardees and their research projects?

marcus
Jul 31, 2006 · Replies 3 · Aug 1, 2006

Replies: 3

Graduate Can Strings in 'Empty Space' Explain Gravitational Pull?

Ben*
Jul 28, 2006 · Replies 2 · Jul 31, 2006

Replies: 2

Graduate Understanding the Difference: Gravity vs. Strong Force Explained and Calculated

Evo
Jul 3, 2005 · Replies 20 · Jul 31, 2006

Replies: 20

Graduate Updates on String Theory: Progress and Current Status

Tom McCurdy
Jul 20, 2006 · Replies 2 · Jul 30, 2006

Replies: 2

Graduate Cat -> Quant (TWF 236, Morton's thesis)

marcus
Jul 26, 2006 · Replies 11 · Jul 30, 2006

Replies: 11

Graduate The Paradox of Zeno: A 2000 Year Old Puzzle Resolved by Calculus

Egap
Jul 16, 2006 · Replies 2 · Jul 29, 2006

Replies: 2

Graduate Can Dark Matter be Reproduced by QG or String Theory?

wolram
Jun 10, 2006 · Replies 8 · Jul 28, 2006

Replies: 8

Graduate Professional Ideas Beyond the Standard Model of Dark Matter

abc33333333
Jul 25, 2006 · Replies 3 · Jul 27, 2006

Replies: 3

Graduate Algebraic Quantum Gravity (Thiemann and Giesel)

marcus
Jul 24, 2006 · Replies 4 · Jul 27, 2006

Replies: 4

Graduate What is the proposed solution for the problem of time in General Relativity?

Danny
Jul 26, 2006 · Replies 2 · Jul 26, 2006

Replies: 2

MOST06 ANU Conference: Katrin Wendland's Talk on Anomaly Cancellation

Kea
Jul 13, 2006 · Replies 6 · Jul 25, 2006

Replies: 6

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

Blaze Labs
May 25, 2006 · Replies 9 · Jul 23, 2006

Replies: 9

Graduate LQG Dirac Quantization in Parametrized Field Theory: Madhavan Varadarajan

f-h
Jul 19, 2006 · Replies 18 · Jul 22, 2006

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Graduate String Theory in the Low Energy Realm

maverick280857
Jul 21, 2006 · Replies 6 · Jul 22, 2006

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Graduate Wormholes and the casimir effect

imperium2600
May 11, 2006 · Replies 6 · Jul 21, 2006

Replies: 6

Graduate Reducing Research Time: Splitting or Concentrating?

wolram
Jul 21, 2006 · Replies 3 · Jul 21, 2006

Replies: 3

Graduate Unveiling the Origin of Matter: A Geometric Unification in 4D Gravity

marcus
Jul 6, 2006 · Replies 9 · Jul 21, 2006

Replies: 9

Poll

Graduate Is Loops '06 the Future Name for Quantum Gravity Conferences?

marcus
Oct 25, 2005 · Replies 23 · Jul 20, 2006

Replies: 23

Graduate Is Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking Truly Random?

skywolf
Jul 18, 2006 · Replies 8 · Jul 20, 2006

Replies: 8

Graduate Join the Celebration: 't Hooft Birthday Conference on a Beautiful Dutch Island!

marcus
Jul 16, 2006 · Replies 17 · Jul 18, 2006

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Graduate Do we actually need the wavefunction?

GaryChapman
Jul 17, 2006 · Replies 10 · Jul 18, 2006

Replies: 10

Graduate Reducing Symmetry from SU(2) to U(1) | Dear PF

Neitrino
Jul 17, 2006 · Replies 2 · Jul 18, 2006

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Graduate Can somebody explain the conformal anomaly?

heinrich_neumaier@yahoo.com
Jul 16, 2006 · Replies 1 · Jul 18, 2006

Replies: 1

Graduate What's the physical relevance of vacuum energy?

maxB
Jul 14, 2006 · Replies 9 · Jul 16, 2006

Replies: 9

Poll

Graduate The Rovelli Point of Wrong Turn

Gebar
Jun 30, 2006 · Replies 41 · Jul 16, 2006

2

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Graduate Rewrite of my assumptions. Was: Mistakes (again)

Zitterbewegung
Jun 8, 2006 · Replies 1 · Jul 16, 2006

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Graduate Can higgs-like potential be derived from string phenomenology?

yyoon@fas.harvard.edu
Jun 22, 2006 · Replies 4 · Jul 16, 2006

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Graduate Beautiful/Elegant Mathematics in String Theory

RisingSun
Jul 15, 2006 · Replies 3 · Jul 15, 2006

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Graduate Bojowald on video (Perimeter talk 28 June)

marcus
Jul 14, 2006 · Replies 1 · Jul 14, 2006

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Graduate Stephen Hawking & Thomas Hertog's Top-Down Approach to Universe Theory

alexsok
Jul 1, 2006 · Replies 6 · Jul 14, 2006

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Graduate How Would Confirmed Varying Constants Impact Loop Quantum Gravity?

Sauron
Jul 13, 2006 · Replies 1 · Jul 13, 2006

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Graduate Padmanabhan hologravity thread

marcus
Jun 30, 2006 · Replies 3 · Jul 13, 2006

Replies: 3

Graduate What Are Bee's Top Ten Unsolved Questions in Physics?

marcus
Jul 8, 2006 · Replies 22 · Jul 13, 2006

Replies: 22

Graduate Are strings oscillators with specific gauge properties?

Dcase
Apr 14, 2006 · Replies 1 · Jul 11, 2006

Replies: 1

Graduate Some physics without variational principle ?

lalbatros
Jul 6, 2006 · Replies 18 · Jul 11, 2006

Replies: 18

Fh/Distler conversation is interesting

marcus
Jul 5, 2006 · Replies 16 · Jul 10, 2006

Replies: 16

Graduate The Haag-Lopuszanski-Sohnius theorem

Perturbation
Jul 9, 2006 · Replies 4 · Jul 10, 2006

Replies: 4

Graduate Get a Comprehensive Introduction to String Theory on Our Blog

Kalimaa23
Jul 10, 2006 · Replies 1 · Jul 10, 2006

Replies: 1

Graduate Newton's G or Planck's Length?

arivero
Jul 6, 2006 · Replies 13 · Jul 10, 2006

Replies: 13

Graduate Physics needs new options (Overbye of NYT)

marcus
Jul 4, 2006 · Replies 3 · Jul 10, 2006

Replies: 3

Graduate What Are the Recommended Papers on GZK and Deformed Lorentz Symmetry?

Kea
Jul 6, 2006 · Replies 2 · Jul 9, 2006

Replies: 2

Graduate How Does Category Theory Address Challenges in Quantum Gravity?

Kea
Jul 8, 2006 · Replies 11 · Jul 9, 2006

Replies: 11

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