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Graduate Why do different string vibrations produce massive and massless particles?
- 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)
- 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
- Kea
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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?
- dpeters
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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
- yanniru
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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?
- pelastration
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Graduate T-Duality, R vs. /R, really big really small
- god^2=john
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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?
- misogynisticfeminist
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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
- selfAdjoint
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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
- Doctordick
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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
- marcus
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Graduate Question on world-sheet-metric
- naunzer
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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
- Prion
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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
- robphy
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Graduate Smolin's quantum gravity research areas at Perimeter Institute
- marcus
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Graduate Significance of the Lagrangian
- alexepascual
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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?
- quasar987
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Graduate Strings as particles. Basic question.
- Mean-Hippy
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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
- aekanshchumber
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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
- marcus
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Graduate Chaotic Spin Foams: Is There a Preferred Direction?
- wolram
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Graduate How Can We Visualize Higher Dimensions Like 4D?
- felipefas
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Graduate Matters of Gravity-new issue today
- marcus
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Graduate Two Landscape Questions: Supersymmetry and M-theory
- Curious6
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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
- wolram
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Undergrad You guys are gonna think im either stupid or crazy
- Arsonade
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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?
- humanino
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