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Graduate Is Matter Really Everywhere and Gravity Just a Wave?
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Graduate Blackhole Ex-singularity (Ashtekar + Bojowald)
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Graduate Can Loop Quantum Gravity Explain the Pioneer Anomaly?
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Graduate Smolin 3SR and third scale Quantum Gravity
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Graduate Robbert Dijkgraaf et al: 4D 2-Form Gravity & Topological M-Theory
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Graduate Thomas Thiemann: Reduced Phase Space Quantization & Dirac Observables
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Graduate Strings and Einstein's Spacetime
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Graduate Do virtual particles exist in string theory?
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Graduate Extra Dimensions & Forces: Ask Spencer for Help
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Graduate Is String Theory a Theory Of Everything?
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Graduate Understanding the Overlap of Calabi-Yau Manifolds in String Theory
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Graduate Running Newton Constant (no dark matter)
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Graduate What is the Matter with Einstein?
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Graduate Is String Theory the Key to Unlocking the Universe's Mysteries?
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Graduate Is Gravity the Pure-Vacuum SINGULAR state?
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Graduate What is the Wheeler-DeWitt Equation and Why is it Important?
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Undergrad Are Physical Constants Truly Constant Across All Scales?
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Graduate What is Brian Greene's opinion on LQG and its impact on string theory?
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Graduate G.M. Hossain new paper on inflation
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Graduate Experimental proof of hyperspace?
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Graduate Timelike tangent vectors in Zwiebach
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Graduate How Does Gambini's Quantum Gravity Approach Compare to Loop Quantum Gravity?
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Graduate Is Gravity a Result of Multifaceted Energetic Interactions?
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Graduate Is Gravity the True Fundamental Force Behind All Others?
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Undergrad Calculus & Physics: What Force Particle Carries Action?
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Graduate Birth of Universe from String Landscape
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Cambridge U. Press: Carlo Rovelli's Quantum Gravity Book
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Graduate Speed of Open Strings: A First Course in String Theory
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Graduate Christensen Crane: Causal Sites paper
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Graduate Can LQG Explain the EPR Paradox and Instantaneous Action at a Distance?
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Graduate How Can String Theory Be Made Accessible to Everyone?
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Graduate Dine: SUSY, Naturalness, and Landscape
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Graduate Can You Learn the Basics of String Theory in Just 35 Minutes?
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Graduate Does something like anti-gravity exist, in theory?
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Graduate The bones in our throat (Weinberg)
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Graduate Penrose Altered Smolin's Thinking?
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Graduate What is the Connection Between Unitarity and Anomalies in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Philosophical Foundations of Physics
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Graduate New Ashtekar: Gravity and the Quantum
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Graduate Spin networks and quantum computing (curious link-up)
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Graduate Various Critiques of Loop and String
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Graduate The difference between Fourier Series, Fourier Transform and Laplace Transform
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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 Unifying Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity: A Debate on Strings vs LQG
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Graduate Could the GUT be explained by Quarks?
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Penrose book #14 on Amazon in Britain
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Nobel Prize Stockmarket coming down to the wire
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Interview with Brian Greene from months ago
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Graduate Global particles, local particles (Colosi, Rovelli)
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Graduate Motl and Douglas discuss naturalness
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Graduate Teleportation: via QM,GR, or FMR?
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Graduate Meaning of carrying a Ramond-Ramond charge ?
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Bryce DeWitt: Physicist & UT Austin Professor Dies at 81
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Graduate What Are the Key Issues in Smolin's Quantum Gravity Research?
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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?
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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" | Modeling Black Holes & Hawking Radiation
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Graduate How Do Perfect Numbers Influence Planetary Spin and Cosmic Systems?
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Graduate An Infinte Number of Elementary Particles?
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Graduate A scientific multiverse theory
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Graduate Simple harmonic oscillator general solution
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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?
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Graduate Is the Concept of Standard Universal Now the Future of Time Perception?
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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
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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?
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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
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Graduate An exact? expression for the fine structure constant
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Graduate Quantum Charges for Knotted Topological Strings?
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Undergrad Quaternions & Octonions: Definition & Uses
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Graduate What Are Calabi-Yau Spaces in String Theory?
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Graduate Signs of the Multiverse? Analyzing Unnatural Things
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Graduate Is Background Independence Desirable?
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Graduate String mass - what do we know?
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Graduate How Does Relativity Affect String Mass and Vibration Frequencies?
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Graduate Strings and non-commutative qft
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Graduate Is a Black Hole just a Bose-Einstein Condensate?
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Graduate What is the idea behind the string theories?
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Graduate Physics for Dummies: Understanding Branes, Loop Quantum Gravity & More
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Graduate What is the graviton? Please place your definitions
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Graduate Quantum Geometry-the Brian Greene quote
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Graduate I'm quite certain I've discovered the grand theory
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Graduate Published proof of gravitational mechanism
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Graduate Can All String Shapes Be Derived from a Figure 8 Configuration?
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Graduate String Hypotheses (Post yours also)
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Undergrad Can Dimensional Analysis Determine the Exponent N in y=c^nat^2?
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Graduate String Theory: Energy as Property of Strings?
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Graduate String Interactions: Effects on Matter & More
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Graduate What Is the Geometric Meaning of Stokes' Theorem?
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