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Graduate MG11 will be in Berlin: 23-29 July 2006

marcus
Dec 30, 2005 · Replies 13 · Feb 2, 2006

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Graduate What's the latest title for Oriti's forthcoming book?

marcus
Jan 31, 2006 · Replies 2 · Feb 1, 2006

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Beyond the Standard Model": Reflections on a Hindu Chant

rtharbaugh1
Jan 31, 2006 · Replies 5 · Jan 31, 2006

Replies: 5

Graduate Is There a Twistor Matrix Theory Linked to Complex Projective Spaces?

Ayumi
Jan 29, 2006 · Replies 1 · Jan 31, 2006

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Graduate Lisa Randall's Warped Passages

selfAdjoint
Jan 26, 2006 · Replies 16 · Jan 30, 2006

Replies: 16

Graduate Why Do We Need a Quantum Theory of Gravity?

marcus
Dec 14, 2005 · Replies 48 · Jan 30, 2006

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Graduate List of new quantum spacetime/matter initiatives

marcus
Nov 30, 2005 · Replies 25 · Jan 29, 2006

Replies: 25

Graduate Can 11-Dimensional Theories Accommodate Chirality?

m_brain
Jan 29, 2006 · Replies 1 · Jan 29, 2006

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Graduate Is 11-Dimensional Chirality a Fatal Flaw in Superstring Theory?

m_brain
Mar 11, 2005 · Replies 3 · Jan 29, 2006

Replies: 3

VOTE for the best QG paper, at Christine's blog

marcus
Jan 17, 2006 · Replies 6 · Jan 27, 2006

Replies: 6

Graduate String theory question for a sci fi story

CJ
Jan 26, 2006 · Replies 4 · Jan 26, 2006

Replies: 4

Graduate Can you make anything of either of these two papers?

marcus
Jan 24, 2006 · Replies 0 · Jan 24, 2006

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Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman weighs in at Woit's

marcus
Jan 20, 2006 · Replies 12 · Jan 24, 2006

Replies: 12

Graduate Loop Quantum Cosmology: Martin Bojowald's Awe-Inspiring Work

Chronos
Jan 24, 2006 · Replies 1 · Jan 24, 2006

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Graduate Unraveling the Mysteries of String Theory

varsha
Jan 24, 2006 · Replies 1 · Jan 24, 2006

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Graduate String theory applied to world timeline?

johonvonhauss
Jan 23, 2006 · Replies 1 · Jan 23, 2006

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Question: Where can I find the ebook 'superstring' by Polchinski?

linhtm
Jan 16, 2006 · Replies 2 · Jan 22, 2006

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Graduate What Happens to Mass and Energy as Objects Approach the Speed of Light?

Leonardo Sidis
Jan 16, 2006 · Replies 5 · Jan 22, 2006

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Graduate Garrett Lisi bid to join Std. Model w/ gravity

marcus
Nov 21, 2005 · Replies 43 · Jan 20, 2006

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Graduate Is Dark Matter Just Energy in Hidden Dimensions?

ESchwartz20
Jan 10, 2006 · Replies 3 · Jan 17, 2006

Replies: 3

Undergrad Textbooks for Equations: Amazon Just Picked Up a Bunch

munky99999
Jan 16, 2006 · Replies 2 · Jan 16, 2006

Replies: 2

Graduate Could CSL-1 Be Ruled Out as a Cosmic String?

Kalimaa23
Jan 13, 2006 · Replies 2 · Jan 13, 2006

Replies: 2

Graduate Progress to testable QG/M path integral

marcus
Jan 4, 2006 · Replies 4 · Jan 10, 2006

Replies: 4

Graduate Is Quantum Geometry the Zero Point Energy?

Mike2
Dec 31, 2005 · Replies 56 · Jan 7, 2006

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Graduate Can the Universe Be Described as a Field?

rushil
Dec 13, 2005 · Replies 10 · Jan 6, 2006

Replies: 10

Graduate Brannen@yahoo.comWhat is the content of my first archive paper?

robousy
Dec 29, 2005 · Replies 5 · Jan 5, 2006

Replies: 5

Edge question for 2006 (Lee Smolin's answer)

marcus
Jan 2, 2006 · Replies 30 · Jan 5, 2006

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Graduate Why no supersymmetric partners?

yanniru
Jan 3, 2006 · Replies 11 · Jan 5, 2006

Replies: 11

Graduate What are the ten dimensions of string theory?

Wizardsblade
Jan 4, 2006 · Replies 6 · Jan 4, 2006

Replies: 6

Graduate Biran Greene @ The Edge: The Multiverse Hazard

MistyMountain
Jan 4, 2006 · Replies 4 · Jan 4, 2006

Replies: 4

Graduate Distler's Latest: Quantum Gravity and the Continuum Limit

selfAdjoint
Jan 3, 2006 · Replies 1 · Jan 4, 2006

Replies: 1

Arxiv stats for 2005 are ready

marcus
Jan 2, 2006 · Replies 7 · Jan 3, 2006

Replies: 7

Bojowald now Assistant Professor at Penn State

marcus
Jan 2, 2006 · Replies 1 · Jan 2, 2006

Replies: 1

Graduate Interesting Paper On Quantum Gravity

MistyMountain
Jan 1, 2006 · Replies 16 · Jan 1, 2006

Replies: 16

Graduate String Theory's & LQG's Successes

MistyMountain
Dec 31, 2005 · Replies 19 · Jan 1, 2006

Replies: 19

Graduate Dynamic Topology and the Impact of Expanding Spacetime on Subsets and Dimensions

Mike2
Dec 30, 2005 · Replies 12 · Dec 31, 2005

Replies: 12

Graduate Does String Theory Satisfy Einstein's Conditions for a Physical Theory?

MistyMountain
Dec 27, 2005 · Replies 44 · Dec 31, 2005

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Graduate Gammaray bursts test QG? how and whether.

marcus
Dec 29, 2005 · Replies 2 · Dec 30, 2005

Replies: 2

Graduate New cosmology - dark energy unnecessary

Kea
Mar 24, 2005 · Replies 42 · Dec 29, 2005

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Graduate Max Tegmark, Lee Smolin-polite conversation at Peter's

marcus
Dec 18, 2005 · Replies 20 · Dec 28, 2005

Replies: 20

Graduate Physics cannot be based on the field concept

Nusc
Dec 24, 2005 · Replies 5 · Dec 26, 2005

Replies: 5

Graduate Can Quantum Entanglement Reassign Causality Between Discrete Units of Space?

Ghetalion
Dec 20, 2005 · Replies 7 · Dec 26, 2005

Replies: 7

Graduate Normal Mode ODEs: Uncovering the Mysteries

Diophantus
Dec 19, 2005 · Replies 7 · Dec 22, 2005

Replies: 7

Graduate What is the current scientific consensus on the shape of an electron?

Buckeye
Dec 11, 2005 · Replies 11 · Dec 21, 2005

Replies: 11

Graduate Alain Connes-views on quantum gravity

marcus
Dec 17, 2005 · Replies 1 · Dec 18, 2005

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Graduate Wilczek: Enlightenment, Knowledge, Ignorance, Temptation

marcus
Dec 14, 2005 · Replies 2 · Dec 17, 2005

Replies: 2

Graduate Unruh-ly radiation inside nucleons

marcus
Oct 11, 2005 · Replies 8 · Dec 16, 2005

Replies: 8

Kowalski Glikman Jerzy K-G: Someone to Watch

marcus
Dec 11, 2005 · Replies 1 · Dec 16, 2005

Replies: 1

Undergrad Showing that the inverse sqaure law is true.

misogynisticfeminist
Dec 15, 2005 · Replies 4 · Dec 16, 2005

Replies: 4

Graduate Can Spinfoam Quantum Gravity Naturally Incorporate Feynman Diagrams?

marcus
Dec 15, 2005 · Replies 1 · Dec 15, 2005

Replies: 1

Graduate In Search of GUS (God's Unit System)

dicerandom
Dec 14, 2005 · Replies 11 · Dec 15, 2005

Replies: 11

Graduate A Conspectus on Group Averaging

selfAdjoint
Dec 14, 2005 · Replies 0 · Dec 14, 2005

Replies: 0

Graduate Why Should Outlaws in Quantum Gravity Embrace Constructive Criticism?

marcus
Dec 12, 2005 · Replies 11 · Dec 14, 2005

Replies: 11

Graduate Can Variational Principles Explain All of Physics?

rushil
Dec 13, 2005 · Replies 8 · Dec 14, 2005

Replies: 8

Graduate String Theory: A Call for Innovative Approaches

marcus
Dec 9, 2005 · Replies 7 · Dec 12, 2005

Replies: 7

Graduate Is Noldus's Approach a Radical Redefinition of Quantum Mechanics?

marcus
Dec 11, 2005 · Replies 2 · Dec 11, 2005

Replies: 2

Graduate Wang: Towards Conformal Loop Quantum Gravity

marcus
Dec 7, 2005 · Replies 1 · Dec 7, 2005

Replies: 1

Graduate Problems with modern High Energy Theory?

acme37
Nov 21, 2005 · Replies 9 · Dec 6, 2005

Replies: 9

Graduate Hendryk Pfeiffer has a new preprint on arxiv

marcus
Apr 22, 2004 · Replies 42 · Dec 6, 2005

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Graduate Physicsweb:'t Hooft Witten Dowker Davies

marcus
Dec 5, 2005 · Replies 19 · Dec 6, 2005

Replies: 19

Graduate Anyone want to explain a few things?

Johnson
Nov 27, 2005 · Replies 12 · Dec 5, 2005

Replies: 12

Graduate Are Preons the Key to Combining Gravity and Matter in Loop Quantum Gravity?

marcus
Nov 16, 2005 · Replies 20 · Dec 4, 2005

Replies: 20

J D Christensen's Detailed Paper Discussed by Marcus: A Fascinating Read

Spin_Network
Dec 2, 2005 · Replies 3 · Dec 3, 2005

Replies: 3

Flying cars from string theory ?

Igor_S
Dec 3, 2005 · Replies 2 · Dec 3, 2005

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Graduate 31 Dimensionless Constants-Wilczek, Tegmark, Aguirre, Rees

marcus
Nov 29, 2005 · Replies 9 · Dec 3, 2005

Replies: 9

Graduate QG '05 the other quantum gravity conference

marcus
Dec 1, 2005 · Replies 1 · Dec 1, 2005

Replies: 1

Undergrad Can Someone Really Visualize in the 4th Dimension?

Zeppelin_Child
Nov 27, 2005 · Replies 12 · Dec 1, 2005

Replies: 12

Graduate String Theory Gets Real-Sort Of /article in Science

marcus
Dec 4, 2004 · Replies 17 · Dec 1, 2005

Replies: 17

Foundational Questions fq(x) Smolin and Wilcek on board

marcus
Oct 5, 2005 · Replies 8 · Nov 30, 2005

Replies: 8

Graduate Baez and Schreiber: Higher Gauge Theory

marcus
Nov 29, 2005 · Replies 2 · Nov 29, 2005

Replies: 2

Graduate Questions on Freidel's Group Field Theory (hep-th/050516)

selfAdjoint
Nov 27, 2005 · Replies 3 · Nov 27, 2005

Replies: 3

Mixed States at somethingsimilar.com, web aggregate for physicists

marcus
Nov 22, 2005 · Replies 1 · Nov 26, 2005

Replies: 1

Graduate How Does Christine Dantas Explore Quantum Gravity Through Astrophysics?

marcus
Nov 24, 2005 · Replies 2 · Nov 26, 2005

Replies: 2

Graduate Eager to learn 3+1 decomposition

kakarukeys
Nov 24, 2005 · Replies 5 · Nov 25, 2005

Replies: 5

Graduate Wheeler-Dewitt equation and canonical quantum gravity

ylping
Nov 24, 2005 · Replies 1 · Nov 25, 2005

Replies: 1

Graduate Baez links Standard Model symmetries to Calabi-Yaus

marcus
Nov 8, 2005 · Replies 15 · Nov 23, 2005

Replies: 15

Graduate Would forces act with the same symmetry in 4D as it does in 3D?

Gold Barz
Nov 20, 2005 · Replies 12 · Nov 22, 2005

Replies: 12

Graduate String Theory: peace in our time?

Kea
Nov 2, 2005 · Replies 47 · Nov 22, 2005

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Graduate Can Inflation and Compactification Shed Light on Dark Energy?

yanniru
Nov 10, 2005 · Replies 3 · Nov 22, 2005

Replies: 3

Graduate The space of diff-invariant states

kaufmann
Nov 19, 2005 · Replies 4 · Nov 22, 2005

Replies: 4

Graduate Any better reasons than this one for not believing in the landscape?

josh1
Nov 20, 2005 · Replies 11 · Nov 21, 2005

Replies: 11

Graduate String Theory: Will it Always be a TOENAIL?

George Jones
Nov 21, 2005 · Replies 1 · Nov 21, 2005

Replies: 1

Is M-Theory Holding Up or Going Down the Drain?

Gold Barz
Nov 9, 2005 · Replies 19 · Nov 21, 2005

Replies: 19

Graduate What Happens to Straight Pieces of Cosmic String Compared to Loops?

SkepticJ
Nov 21, 2005 · Replies 1 · Nov 21, 2005

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What is the Connection Between String Theory and Stability?

marcus
Oct 19, 2005 · Replies 12 · Nov 20, 2005

Replies: 12

Graduate How Standard Model numbers arise from LQG

marcus
Nov 12, 2005 · Replies 22 · Nov 17, 2005

Replies: 22

Graduate Good introductory books for string theory?

mathlete
Nov 16, 2005 · Replies 2 · Nov 17, 2005

Replies: 2

Graduate Does this reduces experimental physics to theoretical physics?

samalkhaiat
Oct 22, 2005 · Replies 23 · Nov 15, 2005

Replies: 23

Loops '05 recorded talks now available

marcus
Nov 10, 2005 · Replies 13 · Nov 15, 2005

Replies: 13

Graduate Trying to make sence of m-theory

bayan
Nov 11, 2005 · Replies 4 · Nov 15, 2005

Replies: 4

Graduate Are We Only Seeing the Tip of the Dimensional Iceberg?

reasonmclucus
Nov 13, 2005 · Replies 2 · Nov 14, 2005

Replies: 2

Graduate Smolin letter to a string believer

marcus
Aug 15, 2005 · Replies 22 · Nov 12, 2005

Replies: 22

Graduate Patent 6,960,975: Antigravity machine

tmc
Nov 11, 2005 · Replies 1 · Nov 11, 2005

Replies: 1

Graduate 11 dimensions proposed by string theory

disturbed1
Nov 9, 2005 · Replies 5 · Nov 11, 2005

Replies: 5

Graduate Are Physical Laws Consistent Across Multidimensional Universes?

Gold Barz
Nov 8, 2005 · Replies 8 · Nov 10, 2005

Replies: 8

Graduate Michio Kaku and Multi-dimensional Beings

Gold Barz
Nov 3, 2005 · Replies 11 · Nov 10, 2005

Replies: 11

Graduate Jones gives quantum algorithm for Jones knot polynomial

marcus
Nov 9, 2005 · Replies 1 · Nov 9, 2005

Replies: 1

Undergrad What are the fundamental physics equations?

jhe1984
Nov 7, 2005 · Replies 5 · Nov 8, 2005

Replies: 5

Graduate Could a 4D Universe Achieve Stability Amidst Chaos?

Gold Barz
Nov 5, 2005 · Replies 11 · Nov 8, 2005

Replies: 11

Graduate Introductory explanation about dualities?

Rebel
Nov 3, 2005 · Replies 7 · Nov 8, 2005

Replies: 7

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