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Undergrad Compositeness Limits -- Have We Reached Rock Bottom?
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Undergrad New scientist SU(5) Unification without Proton Decay
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Graduate Ed Witten on Symmetry and Emergence
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Graduate String Vacua and Particle Interactions
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Graduate Are String Theory physicists violating the Scientific Method
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Graduate Supersymmetry and the EM Force
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Graduate Hawking radiation: pair production?
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Undergrad Can complex spacetime solve the Higgs hierarchy problem?
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Graduate Max number of extra dimensions
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Undergrad String theory on complex spacetime, twistor string
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High School What are the predicted sizes of elementary particles?
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Graduate What is Non-Abelian Z-theory and how does it relate to gluon amplitudes?
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High School Could Neutrinos Challenge Our Understanding of Physics?
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Undergrad Dirac quantization of gravity e.g. GR in Ashtekar Variables
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High School Unelegant, Unnatural, Ugly BSM theme books
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Undergrad Is there a fine structure constant running anomaly?
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Undergrad If 11 dimensional supergravity were nonpertubative quantized
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High School 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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High School M theory, holography, many worlds -- What we do know?
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Graduate Chaos, quantum gravity, theory of everything....
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Graduate Is an Atemporal Universe the Key to Understanding Entropy and Time?
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Graduate The Crisis in Theoretical Physics - Gian Francesco Giudice
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High School Is Backreaction in Curved Spacetime Sufficient Without Quantizing Spacetime?
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Undergrad CPT Violation and Energy Conservation: Explained!
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Graduate What Are the Key Unresolved Issues in the Two-Higgs-Doublet Model?
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Undergrad Antoine Tilloy theory of gravity
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Undergrad In string/m-theory and 3D/4D Controversy of time
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Graduate Is total Gravitational force quantifiable?
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Undergrad Testing Quantum Gravity paper Bose Einstein helium superfluid
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High School New Theory vs New Force/Field of nature
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Graduate Gravitational anomalies in gauge theory
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High School Branes, gluons, time reversal, and string theory.
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Undergrad How does gravitation fit into this picture of branes?
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Undergrad Solve Exercise 2.4 in Supergravity by Freedman & Van Proeyen
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High School Questions about Quantum Gravity
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High School Planck Length and Lorentz Contraction
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Undergrad Electric and Color charge in String Theory
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Undergrad Triggers and Litmus Tests For BSM Physics Papers
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Undergrad Advancing LQG: Challenges and Possibilities for Experimental Proof
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Graduate Space is "Entangled", says Leonard Susskind
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Graduate Gravity & Quantum Mechanics: Susskind's Letter Explained
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Undergrad Other procedures to quantize Ashketer variables
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Undergrad Is Gravity Actually the Result of Quantum Collapses?
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Undergrad Can Muons or Tau Particles Be Explained by Kaluza-Klein Towers?
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Undergrad Geometry of GR v. Spin-2 Massless Graviton Interpretation
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Undergrad Is fine tuning maximized complexity?
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High School Why does "gravity" need to be unified?
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Undergrad Is suppressed gravitational pull a possible explanation for dark energy?
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Undergrad Violation of lepton universality theories
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Undergrad Looking for literature re imperfect quantum gravity models
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Graduate Is there a new loophole in the no-go theorem of supersymmetry?
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Graduate (Perturbative) quantum gravity made simple?
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High School Understanding Boson Stars as Potential Dark Matter Candidates
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Graduate String Theory and Einstein-Cartan Gravity
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High School How Does the Higgs Boson Mass Impact Multiverse and Supersymmetry Theories?
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Graduate Joseph Polchinski's physics autobiography
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Undergrad Implications of validating loop quantum cosmology
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Undergrad Inflation "cooled Universe from 10^27 to 10^22 kelvins" why?
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High School No new fundamental particles at CERN until today
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Undergrad Is the new 3.0 TeV bump at ATLAS a fluke?
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Graduate A new hope for ST? Hold the thought of Jonathan J. Heckman
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Graduate Asymmetry parameter while relating proper time with distance
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Undergrad Are there new observables/operators in BSM?
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Graduate Weinberg: Quantum Mechanics Without State Vectors
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Undergrad Overview of Horava Gravity for Laymen
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Undergrad Testing string/m-theory extra dimensions prediction
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Undergrad Is this thesis a plausible explanation for muon weirdness?
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Graduate Erebons: Planck mass Dark Matter particles
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Graduate Is the Plank length the same in every direction?
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Undergrad Micro Black Holes and Dark Matter as fuel for spaceship?
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Undergrad M-theory and loop quantization of higher dimensional SUGRA
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Graduate Symmetry/Conservation Violated in Quantum Anomaly
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Graduate Double field theory: Where is the extra space?
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Graduate 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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Graduate Argument for Holographic Principle
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Undergrad Measurements at the Cosmological Horizon?
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Disoriented with unoriented and oriented open strings
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Graduate The failure to booststrap SU(3).
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Graduate Do you think this year's string conference solved anything
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Graduate String perturbation equations from Polyakov action
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Graduate Massive Bigravity: Unbelievable Harmlessness of a Ghost?
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Graduate Does Shaposhnikov & Wetterich 2009 have a hierarchy problem?
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Massive spin-s representations of the Poincare group
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Undergrad Is GR about fixed curved background or dynamical?
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High School Under LQG is it possible to have an area with just nothing?
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Graduate LHC - absence of supersymmetric particles
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Graduate What are singular and double seesaw?
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High School Can Amplituhedron and E8 Theories Be Unified in String Theory?
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High School Can the vacuum density produce only normal matter?
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High School How can anyone explain the universal equilibrium density problem
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Graduate Gravitational field due to an entity in spatial superposition
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Undergrad Kaluza–Klein metric, space between charged capacitor?
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Undergrad String theory and Lorentz invariance - 10D vs. 4D....
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Undergrad Black holes and extra dimensions
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Graduate Interpretation of the Weinberg-Witten theorem
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Undergrad Is the Holographic Principle the Key to Understanding Our Universe?
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Graduate Shortest distance scales that a string can resolve
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Graduate The Polyakov Action & Weyl Transformations
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