Beyond the Standard Models Forum

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Graduate Why do different string vibrations produce massive and massless particles?

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Undergrad What are some difficult concepts in physics that rely heavily on mathematics?

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Graduate Answering the Anthropic Principle

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Graduate Dynamically Triangulating Gravity hep-th/0105267

  • marcus
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Great new Google version (for research)

  • marcus
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Graduate Differences between loop quantum gravity and string theory

  • marlon
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Graduate What is the CDT Approach to Quantum Gravity?

  • marcus
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Graduate On knots, categories and mass gaps

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Graduate Mavromatos-cos. const. + time direction

  • marcus
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Graduate Is ZP Energy mainstream or crockery?

  • TheAntiRelative
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Graduate String Theory Debate: Thomas_Joe Seeks Opinions

  • ThomasJoe40
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Graduate Is There a New Theory of Gravity?

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Graduate Kasner solution and quantum gravity

  • wolram
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Graduate What Is Negative Mass and How Does It Compare to Positive Mass?

  • Matrixman13
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Graduate New universe predictions by GR and LQG

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Graduate Boundary conditions in the Unruh problem

  • Chronos
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Graduate New Ambjorn et al. paper (AJL follow-up)

  • marcus
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Graduate Connes: Physics to Number Theory

  • marcus
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Graduate TWF #208: Latest Updates on Quantum Gravity at Perimeter Institute

  • marcus
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Graduate Is string theory a scientific religion?

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Graduate T-Duality, R vs. /R, really big really small

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Graduate Is Matter Really Everywhere and Gravity Just a Wave?

  • tollroadman
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Graduate Good Book for Loop Quantum Gravity

  • Gecko
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Graduate Blackhole Ex-singularity (Ashtekar + Bojowald)

  • marcus
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Graduate Can Loop Quantum Gravity Explain the Pioneer Anomaly?

  • marcus
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Graduate Smolin 3SR and third scale Quantum Gravity

  • marcus
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Graduate 4D 2-form gravity and topological M-theory framework

  • marcus
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Graduate Reduced phase space quantization with Dirac observables in constrained systems

  • marcus
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Graduate Strings and Einstein's Spacetime

  • DivineNathicana
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Graduate Do virtual particles exist in string theory?

  • Gecko
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Graduate Do extra dimensions explain the strong, weak and EM forces?

  • Enceph
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Graduate Is String Theory a Theory Of Everything?

  • Jake
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Graduate Do Calabi-Yau manifolds overlap between Planck-size points?

  • RingoKid
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Graduate Running Newton Constant (no dark matter)

  • marcus
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Graduate What is the Matter with Einstein?

  • purrcy
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Graduate Why is string theory considered superior to general relativity and quantum theory?

  • Chronos
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Graduate Is Gravity the Pure-Vacuum SINGULAR state?

  • Olias
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Graduate Wheeler-DeWitt equation introductory resources

  • YZer
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Undergrad Are Physical Constants Truly Constant Across All Scales?

  • welcher_weg
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Graduate What is Brian Greene's opinion on LQG and its impact on string theory?

  • PRodQuanta
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Graduate G.M. Hossain new paper on inflation

  • marcus
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Graduate Experimental proof of hyperspace?

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Graduate Timelike tangent vectors in Zwiebach

  • Jimmy Snyder
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Graduate How Does Gambini's Quantum Gravity Approach Compare to Loop Quantum Gravity?

  • marcus
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Graduate Is Gravity a Result of Multifaceted Energetic Interactions?

  • Scott Sieger
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Graduate Is gravity the fundamental force and other forces variations of it?

  • scott_sieger
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Undergrad Arrow paradox and force carrier particles

  • Enceph
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Graduate Birth of Universe from String Landscape

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Cambridge U. Press: Carlo Rovelli's Quantum Gravity Book

  • marcus
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Graduate Do interior points of an open string move at light speed?

  • Jimmy Snyder
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Graduate Christensen Crane: Causal Sites paper

  • marcus
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Graduate Can LQG Explain the EPR Paradox and Instantaneous Action at a Distance?

  • Rothiemurchus
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Graduate How Can String Theory Be Made Accessible to Everyone?

  • Tom McCurdy
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Graduate Dine: SUSY, Naturalness, and Landscape

  • marcus
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Graduate 35-minute string theory introductory lecture with slides and transcript

  • Tom McCurdy
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Graduate Does something like anti-gravity exist, in theory?

  • JV
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Graduate The bones in our throat (Weinberg)

  • marcus
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Graduate Penrose Altered Smolin's Thinking?

  • sol2
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Graduate Gerard 't Hooft on the future of quantum mechanics

  • marcus
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Graduate Philosophical Foundations of Physics

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Graduate New Ashtekar: Gravity and the Quantum

  • marcus
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Graduate Spin networks and quantum computing (curious link-up)

  • marcus
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Graduate Various Critiques of Loop and String

  • marcus
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Graduate The difference between Fourier Series, Fourier Transform and Laplace Transform

  • mathman
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Graduate Planck scale Lorentz-symmetry test theories Amelino-Camelia

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Graduate Question on world-sheet-metric

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Graduate String theory or loop quantum gravity for quantum gravity?

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Graduate Could the GUT be explained by Quarks?

  • Terry Giblin
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Penrose book #14 on Amazon in Britain

  • marcus
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Nobel Prize Stockmarket coming down to the wire

  • marcus
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Interview with Brian Greene from months ago

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Graduate Global particles, local particles (Colosi, Rovelli)

  • marcus
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Graduate Motl and Douglas discuss naturalness

  • marcus
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Graduate Teleportation: via QM,GR, or FMR?

  • Larry717
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Graduate Meaning of carrying a Ramond-Ramond charge ?

  • nrqed
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Bryce DeWitt dies at 81

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Graduate Smolin's quantum gravity research areas at Perimeter Institute

  • marcus
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Graduate Significance of the Lagrangian

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Graduate What is the significance of 2D quantum gravity in theoretical physics?

  • maddy
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Undergrad Why Does e Appear in Nature So Often?

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Graduate Strings as particles. Basic question.

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Graduate Paola Zizzi's computational LQG model of black holes and Hawking radiation

  • meteor
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Graduate How Do Perfect Numbers Influence Planetary Spin and Cosmic Systems?

  • Hossam Aboulfotouh
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Graduate An Infinte Number of Elementary Particles?

  • Curious6
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Graduate Smolin's multiverse theory and falsifiability

  • marcus
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Graduate Simple harmonic oscillator general solution

  • quasar987
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Graduate Help regarding strings and m-theory

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Graduate Is Light Moving Towards Us or Are We Moving Towards Light?

  • RingoKid
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Graduate Is the Concept of Standard Universal Now the Future of Time Perception?

  • Philocrat
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Graduate Amazing bid by Thiemann to absorb string theory into LQG

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Graduate Chaotic Spin Foams: Is There a Preferred Direction?

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Graduate How Can We Visualize Higher Dimensions Like 4D?

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Graduate Matters of Gravity-new issue today

  • marcus
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Graduate Two Landscape Questions: Supersymmetry and M-theory

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Graduate Are There Really 10^100 String Vacua in String Theory?

  • Curious6
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Graduate Spin Foam Research - University of Western Ontario

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Undergrad You guys are gonna think im either stupid or crazy

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Graduate Learning Lessons from String Research Decline

  • marcus
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Graduate An exact? expression for the fine structure constant

  • Hans de Vries
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Graduate Quantum Charges for Knotted Topological Strings?

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