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A Ed Witten on Symmetry and Emergence
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A String Vacua and Particle Interactions
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A Are String Theory physicists violating the Scientific Method
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A Supersymmetry and the EM Force
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A Hawking radiation: pair production?
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I Can complex spacetime solve the Higgs hierarchy problem?
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A Max number of extra dimensions
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I String theory on complex spacetime, twistor string
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B What are the predicted sizes of elementary particles?
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A What is Non-Abelian Z-theory and how does it relate to gluon amplitudes?
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B Could Neutrinos Challenge Our Understanding of Physics?
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I Dirac quantization of gravity e.g. GR in Ashtekar Variables
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B Unelegant, Unnatural, Ugly BSM theme books
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I Is there a fine structure constant running anomaly?
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I If 11 dimensional supergravity were nonpertubative quantized
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B What's the relationship between drop height and induced emf?
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Is There a Method to the Madness of Theoretical Physics?
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B M theory, holography, many worlds -- What we do know?
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A Chaos, quantum gravity, theory of everything....
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A Is an Atemporal Universe the Key to Understanding Entropy and Time?
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A The Crisis in Theoretical Physics - Gian Francesco Giudice
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B Is Backreaction in Curved Spacetime Sufficient Without Quantizing Spacetime?
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I CPT Violation and Energy Conservation: Explained!
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A What Are the Key Unresolved Issues in the Two-Higgs-Doublet Model?
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I Antoine Tilloy theory of gravity
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I In string/m-theory and 3D/4D Controversy of time
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A Is total Gravitational force quantifiable?
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I Testing Quantum Gravity paper Bose Einstein helium superfluid
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B New Theory vs New Force/Field of nature
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A Gravitational anomalies in gauge theory
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B Branes, gluons, time reversal, and string theory.
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I How does gravitation fit into this picture of branes?
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I Solve Exercise 2.4 in Supergravity by Freedman & Van Proeyen
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B Questions about Quantum Gravity
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B Planck Length and Lorentz Contraction
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I Electric and Color charge in String Theory
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I Triggers and Litmus Tests For BSM Physics Papers
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I Advancing LQG: Challenges and Possibilities for Experimental Proof
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A Space is "Entangled", says Leonard Susskind
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A Gravity & Quantum Mechanics: Susskind's Letter Explained
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I Other procedures to quantize Ashketer variables
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I Is Gravity Actually the Result of Quantum Collapses?
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I Can Muons or Tau Particles Be Explained by Kaluza-Klein Towers?
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I Geometry of GR v. Spin-2 Massless Graviton Interpretation
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I Is fine tuning maximized complexity?
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B Why does "gravity" need to be unified?
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I Is suppressed gravitational pull a possible explanation for dark energy?
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I Violation of lepton universality theories
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I Looking for literature re imperfect quantum gravity models
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A Is there a new loophole in the no-go theorem of supersymmetry?
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A (Perturbative) quantum gravity made simple?
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B Understanding Boson Stars as Potential Dark Matter Candidates
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A String Theory and Einstein-Cartan Gravity
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B How Does the Higgs Boson Mass Impact Multiverse and Supersymmetry Theories?
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A Joseph Polchinski's physics autobiography
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I Implications of validating loop quantum cosmology
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I Inflation "cooled Universe from 10^27 to 10^22 kelvins" why?
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B No new fundamental particles at CERN until today
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I Is the new 3.0 TeV bump at ATLAS a fluke?
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A A new hope for ST? Hold the thought of Jonathan J. Heckman
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A Asymmetry parameter while relating proper time with distance
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I Are there new observables/operators in BSM?
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A Weinberg: Quantum Mechanics Without State Vectors
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I Overview of Horava Gravity for Laymen
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I Testing string/m-theory extra dimensions prediction
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I Is this thesis a plausible explanation for muon weirdness?
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A Erebons: Planck mass Dark Matter particles
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A Is the Plank length the same in every direction?
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I Micro Black Holes and Dark Matter as fuel for spaceship?
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I M-theory and loop quantization of higher dimensional SUGRA
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A Symmetry/Conservation Violated in Quantum Anomaly
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A Double field theory: Where is the extra space?
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A What Happens to Information When a Star Becomes a Black Hole?
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Jack Smith: A Life in Theoretical Physics
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A Argument for Holographic Principle
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I Measurements at the Cosmological Horizon?
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Disoriented with unoriented and oriented open strings
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A The failure to booststrap SU(3).
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A Do you think this year's string conference solved anything
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A String perturbation equations from Polyakov action
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A Massive Bigravity: Unbelievable Harmlessness of a Ghost?
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A Does Shaposhnikov & Wetterich 2009 have a hierarchy problem?
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Massive spin-s representations of the Poincare group
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I Is GR about fixed curved background or dynamical?
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B Under LQG is it possible to have an area with just nothing?
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A LHC - absence of supersymmetric particles
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A What are singular and double seesaw?
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B Can Amplituhedron and E8 Theories Be Unified in String Theory?
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B Can the vacuum density produce only normal matter?
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B How can anyone explain the universal equilibrium density problem
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A Gravitational field due to an entity in spatial superposition
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I Kaluza–Klein metric, space between charged capacitor?
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I String theory and Lorentz invariance - 10D vs. 4D....
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I Black holes and extra dimensions
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A Interpretation of the Weinberg-Witten theorem
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I Is the Holographic Principle the Key to Understanding Our Universe?
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A Shortest distance scales that a string can resolve
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A The Polyakov Action & Weyl Transformations
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I Neutrino Mass, Baryogenesis, Dark Matter (Beyond the SM)
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I Is it Impossible for Entanglement > FTL Communication?
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