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Graduate Are the Foundations of Physics Flawed or Just Limited?

Jonny_trigonometry
Nov 7, 2005 · Replies 5 · Nov 7, 2005

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Graduate Steven Weinberg bets Andrei Linde's life, and one dog

marcus
Nov 3, 2005 · Replies 1 · Nov 5, 2005

Replies: 1

Graduate Atiyah's Quest for a New Basis of QM

marcus
Oct 26, 2005 · Replies 21 · Nov 5, 2005

Replies: 21

Graduate Understanding Entropy in LQG: Evidence from Spin Network Systems

Spin_Network
Nov 2, 2005 · Replies 5 · Nov 5, 2005

Replies: 5

Graduate Can String Theory Explain What Lies Beyond a Black Hole's Event Horizon?

cybernomad
Oct 20, 2005 · Replies 3 · Nov 2, 2005

Replies: 3

Graduate Trees to Loops: Computing SUSY Yang-Mills Amplitudes

Kea
Oct 31, 2005 · Replies 4 · Nov 1, 2005

Replies: 4

Gdaigle's notes on Nobel conference in Minnesota

marcus
Nov 1, 2005 · Replies 0 · Nov 1, 2005

Replies: 0

Shtetl-optimized, an attractive blog

marcus
Oct 27, 2005 · Replies 8 · Oct 30, 2005

Replies: 8

Graduate Standard Model particle spectrum from String Theory

Kalimaa23
Oct 20, 2005 · Replies 25 · Oct 29, 2005

Replies: 25

Graduate Can't get Hamilton and Lagrangian stuff

finchie_88
Oct 24, 2005 · Replies 4 · Oct 28, 2005

Replies: 4

Graduate Is Renate Loll's Approach to Quantum Gravity the Key to Unifying Physics?

marcus
Oct 21, 2005 · Replies 13 · Oct 28, 2005

Replies: 13

Graduate How can Gravity have particles.

Caesar_Rahil
Aug 30, 2005 · Replies 57 · Oct 28, 2005

2

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Graduate Questions About String Theory: Get Answers Here

bigplanet401
Sep 17, 2005 · Replies 55 · Oct 22, 2005

2

Replies: 55

Watch Loops05 Talks Online - No Need to Wait

john baez
Oct 6, 2005 · Replies 30 · Oct 20, 2005

2

Replies: 30

Graduate What Are Voronov's Key Contributions to Operads?

Kea
Oct 18, 2005 · Replies 2 · Oct 19, 2005

Replies: 2

High School Find a Loophole Around Laws: Is It Possible?

Ki Man
Oct 13, 2005 · Replies 3 · Oct 13, 2005

Replies: 3

Graduate Do e Observe Quantum Gravity Effects at Galactic Scales?

marcus
Oct 1, 2005 · Replies 29 · Oct 11, 2005

Replies: 29

Graduate What Non-commutative Geometry Is and Can Do

selfAdjoint
May 26, 2005 · Replies 36 · Oct 11, 2005

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Graduate What is the latest research on spin foam models of quantum gravity?

marcus
Sep 9, 2005 · Replies 36 · Oct 10, 2005

2

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Graduate Robert Helling live-blogs Loops 05

marcus
Oct 10, 2005 · Replies 1 · Oct 10, 2005

Replies: 1

Undergrad Why the concept of tensor was invented

chandran
Oct 7, 2005 · Replies 3 · Oct 9, 2005

Replies: 3

Graduate Vafa: Landscape and Swampland

marcus
Sep 28, 2005 · Replies 11 · Oct 7, 2005

Replies: 11

Graduate What Insights Does the Toronto String Theory Panel Video Offer?

marcus
Aug 8, 2005 · Replies 12 · Oct 7, 2005

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Graduate Is the Universe a Fractal According to Einstein's Local Time Theory?

kleinwolf
Oct 6, 2005 · Replies 2 · Oct 6, 2005

Replies: 2

Graduate Testable analog of Hawking effect-explain?

marcus
Oct 3, 2005 · Replies 4 · Oct 5, 2005

Replies: 4

Graduate Understanding Randall Sundrum Model: Weakness of Gravity

robousy
Sep 28, 2005 · Replies 5 · Oct 4, 2005

Replies: 5

Graduate Infinite number of Hamiltonian constraints

marcus
Oct 4, 2005 · Replies 1 · Oct 4, 2005

Replies: 1

Graduate How do liquid crystals illustrate the properties of cosmic strings?

s3nn0c
Sep 23, 2005 · Replies 2 · Oct 4, 2005

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Graduate Physics against mathematics. Zeno’s Paradox

Vadim Matveev
Oct 22, 2003 · Replies 5 · Oct 4, 2005

Replies: 5

Graduate What does like a fractal mean, talking smallscale spacetime

marcus
Aug 29, 2005 · Replies 58 · Oct 2, 2005

2

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Wonderful wise article about Feynman

marcus
Sep 30, 2005 · Replies 1 · Sep 30, 2005

Replies: 1

SelfAdjoint declared winner of first forecast poll

marcus
Sep 19, 2005 · Replies 14 · Sep 30, 2005

Replies: 14

Graduate Is the Physics of a Hypersphere in 5-Dimensional Space Fundamentally Different?

RonLevy
Sep 25, 2005 · Replies 3 · Sep 29, 2005

Replies: 3

Graduate Is String Theory A Waste Of Time?

Juan R.
Jul 11, 2005 · Replies 149 · Sep 29, 2005

5

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Undergrad Mathematical derivation for gravity

amcavoy
Sep 27, 2005 · Replies 13 · Sep 28, 2005

Replies: 13

Graduate M-Theory is a theory which 'combines' the five superstring theories

drcrabs
Jun 1, 2005 · Replies 62 · Sep 27, 2005

3

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Poll

Graduate Ashtekar-Bojowald hits by year-end

marcus
Sep 21, 2005 · Replies 4 · Sep 26, 2005

Replies: 4

Graduate Black hole bounce comes out of the closet

marcus
Sep 20, 2005 · Replies 11 · Sep 24, 2005

Replies: 11

Poll

Graduate How many citations to Reuter before yearend?

marcus
Sep 19, 2005 · Replies 6 · Sep 23, 2005

Replies: 6

Graduate Getting into Loop Quantum Gravity: What You Need to Know

Son Goku
Sep 9, 2005 · Replies 3 · Sep 22, 2005

Replies: 3

Graduate M-Theory Basics: Review of 11D Supergravity & LQG

s3nn0c
Sep 20, 2005 · Replies 1 · Sep 21, 2005

Replies: 1

Graduate Strings and the size of particles

Moneer81
Sep 18, 2005 · Replies 6 · Sep 20, 2005

Replies: 6

Graduate Anatomy of a Gauge Theory by D. Kreimer

Kea
Sep 19, 2005 · Replies 1 · Sep 20, 2005

Replies: 1

Graduate Lagrangian of a system is independent of time

Reshma
Sep 8, 2005 · Replies 13 · Sep 17, 2005

Replies: 13

Graduate Is Black Hole Complementarity Just a Terminology Issue?

touqra
Sep 16, 2005 · Replies 6 · Sep 17, 2005

Replies: 6

Graduate Are All Objects Accelerating Through the 11 Dimensions?

kneetoe
Sep 17, 2005 · Replies 1 · Sep 17, 2005

Replies: 1

Poll

Graduate August-September hits on Smolin latest

marcus
Jul 29, 2005 · Replies 21 · Sep 15, 2005

Replies: 21

Graduate Arxiv: new categories and reorganization

marcus
Sep 14, 2005 · Replies 7 · Sep 15, 2005

Replies: 7

Graduate How small could the 4Ds be Out of 11Ds?

tardis
Aug 30, 2005 · Replies 6 · Sep 12, 2005

Replies: 6

Graduate Should the name of the forum change?

Alamino
Sep 11, 2005 · Replies 3 · Sep 11, 2005

Replies: 3

Graduate With all due respect, is there going to be mud wrestling?

marcus
Aug 3, 2005 · Replies 46 · Sep 11, 2005

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Replies: 46

Graduate Stringtheory's Braincell Calculation and Information Entropy: An Exploration

Spin_Network
Sep 9, 2005 · Replies 3 · Sep 11, 2005

Replies: 3

Graduate Quantum Weirdness: Solving the Measurement Problem?

Ratzinger
Sep 9, 2005 · Replies 1 · Sep 9, 2005

Replies: 1

Graduate Searching For QG: Is There an End to the Possibilities?

wolram
Sep 8, 2005 · Replies 8 · Sep 9, 2005

Replies: 8

Graduate Roh-Suan Tung: the Origin of the Immirzi Parameter

marcus
Sep 8, 2005 · Replies 2 · Sep 8, 2005

Replies: 2

Graduate Definition of light in string theory

dubmugga
Sep 7, 2005 · Replies 1 · Sep 8, 2005

Replies: 1

Graduate Geometry in theoretical physics: alternatives having been tried ?

lalbatros
Sep 7, 2005 · Replies 1 · Sep 7, 2005

Replies: 1

Graduate Observational Evidence for Extra Dimensions from Dark Matter

Vast
Sep 5, 2005 · Replies 1 · Sep 7, 2005

Replies: 1

Graduate Interaction of light with the quantum gravitational field

marcus
Sep 2, 2005 · Replies 10 · Sep 6, 2005

Replies: 10

Graduate John Baez on Quantum Gravity (TWF 31 August)

marcus
Sep 1, 2005 · Replies 11 · Sep 6, 2005

Replies: 11

Graduate The Universe from Scratch (new AJL paper)

marcus
Sep 1, 2005 · Replies 6 · Sep 4, 2005

Replies: 6

Graduate What is the reality of string theory in our universe?

yu_wing_sin
Sep 2, 2005 · Replies 1 · Sep 3, 2005

Replies: 1

Undergrad Vecctor analysis and got the mathematical formulae for gradient

hershal
Aug 30, 2005 · Replies 4 · Sep 1, 2005

Replies: 4

Graduate Asking for Help in Loll's Paper

Alamino
Aug 21, 2005 · Replies 5 · Aug 31, 2005

Replies: 5

Graduate Anthropery voted down in Toronto (Dennis Overbye NYT)

marcus
Aug 2, 2005 · Replies 24 · Aug 31, 2005

Replies: 24

Graduate What Are the Limitations of Math in Understanding String Theory?

Crazy Moron
Aug 21, 2005 · Replies 28 · Aug 30, 2005

Replies: 28

Graduate What's being taught in schools

Sam Owen
Aug 29, 2005 · Replies 4 · Aug 29, 2005

Replies: 4

Graduate What is Not Even Wrong, THE BOOK!?

marcus
Aug 23, 2005 · Replies 39 · Aug 29, 2005

2

Replies: 39

Graduate Quantum evaporation of a naked singularity

marcus
Jul 1, 2005 · Replies 24 · Aug 28, 2005

Replies: 24

Graduate Shape Shape-shifting strings solids, liquids, and gasses

Silvercloud
Aug 25, 2005 · Replies 2 · Aug 25, 2005

Replies: 2

Graduate What impact on QG if the CMB map is revised?

marcus
Aug 24, 2005 · Replies 4 · Aug 25, 2005

Replies: 4

Graduate Honoring Asher Peres: Reflections on "The Cat Who Walks by Himself

marcus
Aug 23, 2005 · Replies 5 · Aug 24, 2005

Replies: 5

Graduate Why Are Quantum Theory and General Relativity Not Compatible?

Chronos
Aug 19, 2005 · Replies 16 · Aug 24, 2005

Replies: 16

Graduate Understanding Dimensions: The Interplay of Mathematics and Philosophy

Sam Owen
Aug 20, 2005 · Replies 11 · Aug 24, 2005

Replies: 11

Graduate Extra Dimesions (the Calabi-Yau shape)

Yaaks
Aug 17, 2005 · Replies 2 · Aug 24, 2005

Replies: 2

Graduate Please help me on calculating orbifold euler characteristics

dm368
Aug 16, 2005 · Replies 1 · Aug 23, 2005

Replies: 1

Graduate Is There a Twistor Matrix Theory Related to CP^3?

Ayumi
Aug 16, 2005 · Replies 1 · Aug 23, 2005

Replies: 1

Graduate Gravity Normal At Small Scales.

ohwilleke
Aug 22, 2005 · Replies 2 · Aug 23, 2005

Replies: 2

Graduate Is Our Universe's Dimensionality Just an Illusion of Information?

DaveC426913
Jul 29, 2005 · Replies 2 · Aug 22, 2005

Replies: 2

Graduate Is Change an Indicator of Increasing Entropy in Our Universe?

underworld
Aug 17, 2005 · Replies 7 · Aug 21, 2005

Replies: 7

Graduate Why the need for background independence in String

Sam Owen
Aug 20, 2005 · Replies 3 · Aug 21, 2005

Replies: 3

Graduate Why is the Planck Mass Surprisingly Large Compared to Other Units?

Gerinski
Aug 6, 2005 · Replies 25 · Aug 21, 2005

Replies: 25

The famous Institute of Theoretical Physics?

wing of jupiter
Jun 18, 2005 · Replies 4 · Aug 19, 2005

Replies: 4

Graduate Stargate episode string theory

munky99999
Aug 18, 2005 · Replies 2 · Aug 19, 2005

Replies: 2

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Graduate Forecast String Research Citing in 2005: 11 or More?

marcus
Jul 10, 2005 · Replies 30 · Aug 18, 2005

2

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Uh oh, I've started to believe in string theory What do I do?

Telos
Aug 15, 2005 · Replies 14 · Aug 17, 2005

Replies: 14

Graduate How Does Zeno's Paradox Influence Quantum Gravity and Modern Science?

Chronos
Aug 6, 2005 · Replies 22 · Aug 17, 2005

Replies: 22

Poll

Graduate Background independence talks at Strings 06

marcus
Aug 14, 2005 · Replies 17 · Aug 16, 2005

Replies: 17

Graduate SU(3), U(1), O(3), etc what are they?

cefarix
Aug 15, 2005 · Replies 3 · Aug 15, 2005

Replies: 3

Graduate Find Surface Area of an N-Dimensional Sphere

fizixx
Aug 14, 2005 · Replies 2 · Aug 14, 2005

Replies: 2

Graduate Advice on Casimir PhD Dissertation: String Theory, Cosmology, Inflation

robousy
Aug 13, 2005 · Replies 4 · Aug 14, 2005

Replies: 4

Graduate Strings and gravitational time dilation

εllipse
Aug 8, 2005 · Replies 3 · Aug 13, 2005

Replies: 3

Poll

Graduate Star Trek Transporter Quandary: Take the Risk?

DaveC426913
May 26, 2005 · Replies 15 · Aug 12, 2005

Replies: 15

Graduate How Do Modifications in Microphysics Affect Inflationary Cosmology Predictions?

wolram
Aug 12, 2005 · Replies 2 · Aug 12, 2005

Replies: 2

Graduate What's meant by- background independence/ dependence-landscape

Ratzinger
Aug 12, 2005 · Replies 6 · Aug 12, 2005

Replies: 6

Graduate Question about causality in CDT

nightcleaner
Aug 9, 2005 · Replies 3 · Aug 11, 2005

Replies: 3

Graduate Joe Lykken's List of Stringy Goods and Bads

marcus
Aug 6, 2005 · Replies 5 · Aug 9, 2005

Replies: 5

High School Should I Study Physics Without Taking a Class?

Mandelbrot
Aug 6, 2005 · Replies 8 · Aug 7, 2005

Replies: 8

Graduate Open Problems of CDT: Unsolved Questions in Causal Dynamical Triangulations

Alamino
Aug 2, 2005 · Replies 15 · Aug 5, 2005

Replies: 15

Graduate Never go up against a Sicilian

marcus
Jul 28, 2005 · Replies 2 · Aug 4, 2005

Replies: 2

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