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Graduate Explaining Dirac Delta Function: \vec A
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Graduate Could Composite Spacetime Explain the 11 Dimensions of Superstring Theory?
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Graduate Is Quantum Computation the Foundation of Quantum Gravity?
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8 Dimension creatures roaming the universe?
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Graduate How Does String Theory Visualize Universes and Black Holes?
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Graduate Why proton's so lite?(Wilczek nobel talk)
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Graduate Arxiv stats as of December 2004
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Undergrad My Own website regarding physics and math.
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Graduate A finite universe: what does it mean for QG?
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Graduate What is the General Solution for the Gradient of r^n?
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Graduate Can Lightning Be Utilized to Create an Anti-Gravitational Device?
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Graduate How Does Loop Quantum Gravity Approach Particle Scattering?
  • marcus
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Graduate Gravitating Matter in LQG & String: How Critical is the Density?
  • wolram
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Graduate The first thirteen questions of David Gross
  • marcus
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Graduate Motl: String theory proved in telescopes?
  • marcus
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Graduate How does LQG theory explain the constant speed of light for all observers?
  • metrictensor
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Graduate Plank Length and String Theory
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Graduate What is Symplectic? Explaining the Group Theory Basics
  • alexepascual
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Graduate BF theory is basic to LQG so we should learn about it
  • marcus
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Graduate What is the impact of higher dimensions on our understanding of space and time?
  • nightcleaner
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Graduate Brane Universes: String Theory Explained
  • Gold Barz
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Undergrad What Are the Dimensions Beyond 3D and How Do They Work?
  • Arsonade
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Graduate What is the mass of a string near c ?
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Graduate The search for quantum gravity signals
  • wolram
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Graduate Phenomenological quantum gravity
  • Chronos
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Graduate An eqation for energy conversion
  • demosthenes_001
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Graduate Is String Theory the Limit of Our Understanding?
  • tozhan
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Graduate Lubos style critique of Strings
  • Kea
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Graduate New Forces of Nature - A Quest for a Grand Unified Theory
  • Hyperreality
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Graduate M-Theory: Are P-Branes & Strings Made of Matter/Energy?
  • Mwyn
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Graduate Is String Theory Truly Predictive? Discussing the Controversy and Challenges
  • marcus
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Graduate Progress on LQG dynamics (the Master Constraint program)
  • marcus
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Graduate String Theory: Multiverse & Dimensions
  • Gold Barz
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Graduate Spontaneous Universe: 10D Static Universe from Quantum Fluctuation
  • wolram
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Graduate Smolin: Falsifiable Predictions from QG
  • marcus
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Graduate The Planck Lambda (Baez question)
  • marcus
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Brian Greene Lecture: Ask Your Questions Here
  • Tom McCurdy
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Graduate Supersymmetry and Superparticles
  • DB
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Undergrad E=MC2: Consequences of Being Wrong
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Graduate Attempt to visualize higher dimensions
  • nightcleaner
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Graduate R.F Streater Critiques Diff M Gauge Group
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Graduate Quantum Gravity In De Sitter Space
  • Ivan Seeking
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Graduate Braneworld vs Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND)
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Graduate Unitary Quantum Mechanics & Black Hole Paradox: Gambini, Pullin, Porto
  • marcus
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Graduate Best thinking about dimensionality
  • nightcleaner
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Graduate Why Do We Need Strings in String Theory?
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Edge essays by Steinhardt and others
  • marcus
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Graduate Mass of Strings and Branes: A Physicist's Perspective
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Graduate Baez and Schreiber paper on 2-bundles
  • marcus
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Undergrad Need Research Topic Ideas for Physics Project
  • Tom McCurdy
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Graduate Philip Anderson on string in the NYT
  • marcus
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High School What is LQG and which book is better: Parallel Worlds or Fabric?
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Hanno Sahlmann video (how to view?)
  • marcus
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Graduate How Does WMAP Data Influence Our Understanding of Inflationary Potential?
  • Kea
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Graduate What are the most memorable quotes about Quantum Theory of Gravity?
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Graduate Unpacking the TOE Solution: Understanding the Multidimensional Universe Theory
  • Glenn
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Graduate Strings: Big and Small - New Evidence Discovered
  • RAD4921
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Can Complex Systems Lead to Emergent Phenomena?
  • Tom McCurdy
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Graduate Marseille workshop on loops and spin foams
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Graduate What is the meaning of 'canonical' in physics?
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Graduate Interview with Theoretical Physicist Michio Kaku
  • Greg Bernhardt
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Graduate The Big Bang: String or Brane?
  • KaneOris
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Graduate Wilczek et al Nobel talk online.
  • marcus
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Graduate Relativistic Kepler Problem: Minimum Momentum & Quantum Gravity
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Graduate What is the Future of String Theory?
  • marcus
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Cute ZPE Article: NASA Funding & EM Fields
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Graduate Twisting knobs on the Std. Muddle
  • marcus
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Graduate Difficulties understanding Green's Functions
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Graduate LAGEOS confirms frame dragging.
  • ohwilleke
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Graduate Conformal Gravity: Understanding Attractive & Repulsive Forces
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Graduate Is it possible to have infinite amount of dimension?
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Graduate Is the math getting more complex?
  • misogynisticfeminist
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Graduate Miguel C. Alvarez thesis posted today (Baez student)
  • marcus
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Graduate Is Our Universe Actually a Hologram?
  • Rasine
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Graduate What is the Historical Development of String Theory?
  • somy
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Graduate String Theory: A Revolutionary View of Atoms
  • Mwyn
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Graduate Bosonic string theory: spectrum of particles
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Graduate Strange Hamilton Jacobi equation
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Graduate Do strings move in spacetime ?
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Graduate Daniele's View on Quantum Gravity and Spinfoam
  • marcus
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Graduate Quantum gravity workshop at perimeter institute
  • john baez
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Undergrad Applications of Euler-Lagrange Equation
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Graduate Unification Explained: The TOE Dilemma in Our Universe | Pentapublishing"
  • Tom McCurdy
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Graduate Why is string theory so complex and difficult to understand?
  • wolram
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Graduate What book on String theory or LQG is recommended for pleasure reading?
  • Tom McCurdy
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Graduate No he does not say that and why bug him?
  • marcus
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Graduate String Theory: Multiverse w/ Same Constants?
  • tribdog
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Graduate Rovelli in effect concedes that lqg is wrong, but still worthwhile
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Graduate Can Different Dimensions Co-Exist and Influence Each Other?
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Graduate Exploring Quantum Gravity: Rovelli's New Book
  • jeff
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Graduate String Gravitons yield GR. NOT
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Graduate Understanding Spinors: Not Your Typical Tensor
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Graduate Brane Gas Cosmology: Calculations & Analysis in 11D Supergravity
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Graduate What Was Before Big Bang? Info Needed
  • sparky8406
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Graduate What Would Happen If Negative Mass Existed?
  • Brane Dead
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Graduate Massless Strings: How Particles Vary in Mass
  • Gecko
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Undergrad What are some difficult concepts in physics that rely heavily on mathematics?
  • TheDonk
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Graduate Answering the Anthropic Principle
  • Kamataat
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Graduate Dynamically Triangulating Gravity hep-th/0105267
  • marcus
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Great new Google version (for research)
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