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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 Using recursive formulas to handle divergences in perturbation theory integrals

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Graduate Is string theory true and are there extra dimensions beyond our braneworld?

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Graduate Kristina Giesel: Algebraic Quantum Gravity seminar talk

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

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

  • bananan
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Freidel makes faculty at Perimeter

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Graduate Parallel worlds movie on Dr.Kaku's website

  • Sir.Aaron
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Graduate Is There a Rigorous Proof of a Quantum of Space in Quantum Mechanics and GR?

  • lokofer
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Graduate From Semiclassical to Quantum Approach

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Graduate Does string theory/M theory have an explanation for

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Graduate Can I Share My Gravity Theory Here?

  • Enos
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Graduate Who Is Kristina Giesel?

  • marcus
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Graduate The graviton pisses me off.. .

  • KingOrdo
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Graduate Calculation of the Cosmological Constant

  • torsten
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Graduate Thiemann's Latest - Conroversy

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Graduate Steve Hsu and Loop Gravity's black hole bounce

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

  • bananan
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Graduate Third QG-Americas conference 24-26 August

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

  • bananan
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Graduate Could Gravity Be a Negative Mass Particle?

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Graduate Chandra dark matter announcement could sink MOND

  • marcus
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Response to Smolin and Woit books, and other barometers

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Graduate David Finkelstein's no-field theory

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Graduate NCG predictions: Alain Connes in SciAm

  • marcus
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Graduate A positive cosmological constant * SUSY/string theory

  • bananan
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Graduate Fermions, bosons, and antiparticles in supersymmetry

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Graduate Can string theory and LQG describe standard model particles and black hole entropy?

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

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

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Lee Smolin and Brian Greene on Science Friday show

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The N-category cafe by Schreiber and Corfield

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Graduate New measurements of alpha and electron magnetic moment

  • marcus
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Graduate J Noldus might use this new Rieffel theorem

  • marcus
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Graduate FQXi project descriptions now online (thx GL)

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Graduate A fix for the Cosmological Constant problem?

  • Mike2
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Graduate Can Loop Quantum Gravity Dismiss the Manifold Structure of S^4?

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

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

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

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How Can Fresh Graduates Contribute to the NUS LQG Group?

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Graduate MG11 video (including Ashtekar's talk)

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Graduate Searching for Purely Chaotic Systems

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

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Graduate Horgan's review of Not Even Wrong

  • marcus
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Graduate Does the physical path extremize the action for small time intervals?

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Graduate Everybody sees the same elephant (says Carlo Rovelli)

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Graduate String number density - does it make sense?

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CONGRATULATIONS Ladies and Gentlemen of the Subforum

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Graduate Black holes and quantum gravity

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

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

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Graduate Why is gravity so much weaker than the strong force?

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Graduate Updates on String Theory: Progress and Current Status

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

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

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

  • wolram
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Graduate Professional Ideas Beyond the Standard Model of Dark Matter

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Graduate Algebraic Quantum Gravity (Thiemann and Giesel)

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

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

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Graduate Dirac quantization of parametrized field theory using LQG techniques

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Graduate String Theory in the Low Energy Realm

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Graduate Wormholes and the casimir effect

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Graduate Reducing Research Time: Splitting or Concentrating?

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Graduate Matter as topological gravitational defects in 4D gravity

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Graduate What should annual quantum gravity conferences be called?

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Graduate Is Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking Truly Random?

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Graduate 't Hooft 60th birthday conference, July 14-16

  • marcus
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Graduate Do we actually need the wavefunction?

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Graduate How to reduce a SU(2) symmetric Lagrangian to U(1)

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Graduate Can somebody explain the conformal anomaly?

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Graduate What's the physical relevance of vacuum energy?

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Graduate The Rovelli Point of Wrong Turn

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

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

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Graduate Beautiful/Elegant Mathematics in String Theory

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Graduate Bojowald on video (Perimeter talk 28 June)

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Graduate Hawking and Hertog's top-down approach to cosmology

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Graduate How Would Confirmed Varying Constants Impact Loop Quantum Gravity?

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Graduate Padmanabhan hologravity thread

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

  • marcus
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Graduate Are strings oscillators with specific gauge properties?

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Graduate Some physics without variational principle ?

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Fh/Distler conversation is interesting

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Graduate The Haag-Lopuszanski-Sohnius theorem

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