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Undergrad What are quaternions and octonions used for?
- marlon
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Graduate What Are Calabi-Yau Spaces in String Theory?
- xj420
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Graduate Can déjà vu and dreams be evidence of the many-worlds interpretation?
- mapper
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Graduate Is Background Independence Desirable?
- jgraber
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Graduate String mass - what do we know?
- Mike2
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Graduate How Does Relativity Affect String Mass and Vibration Frequencies?
- Mike2
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Graduate Strings and non-commutative qft
- naunzer
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Graduate Is a Black Hole just a Bose-Einstein Condensate?
- Scooley01
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Graduate How did string theory originate and why multiple dimensions?
- aekanshchumber
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Graduate Layman's explanations of branes and loop quantum gravity
- Sak
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Graduate Gravitons as quantized gravitational waves and scattering
- sol2
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Graduate Quantum Geometry-the Brian Greene quote
- marcus
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Graduate Distance equals one unit in any scale, energy and time are reciprocal
- PRyckman
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Graduate Published proof of gravitational mechanism
- Nigel
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Graduate Can All String Shapes Be Derived from a Figure 8 Configuration?
- RingoKid
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Graduate String Hypotheses (Post yours also)
- StringCheese
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Undergrad Can Dimensional Analysis Determine the Exponent N in y=c^nat^2?
- Dmt669
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Graduate String Theory: Energy as Property of Strings?
- Curious6
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Graduate How do closed and open strings interact and affect matter?
- Mk
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Graduate What Is the Geometric Meaning of Stokes' Theorem?
- brianparks
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Graduate Why do extra dimensions have to be curled up ?
- Paul Martin
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Graduate Speck of a Universe be Physically Identical to the Great Expanse
- sol2
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Graduate Detection of Macroscopic Strings
- uranium_235
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Graduate Unified field theory and the energies described in yoga
- YOGHI
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Graduate Planck units in quantum gravity and loop quantum gravity
- marcus
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Graduate What Are Some Simple Display Ideas for a Science Fair Project on LQG and ST?
- PRodQuanta
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Graduate String Theorists Finally Admit Defeat
- nitin
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Graduate Are Large Extra Dimensions still acceptable?
- skowalcz
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Graduate What is mass actually measuring in physics?
- kuenmao
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Graduate String Theory: How Close Are We?
- Curious6
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Graduate The 4th superstring revolution.
- arivero
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Graduate Testing String Theory: Implications for Gravitational Redshifting
- Mike2
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Graduate Quantum gravity discussion and resources
- sol2
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Graduate Arun Gupta's post reconstructed
- marcus
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Graduate What Are Branes in Superstring Theory?
- sol2
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Graduate Can String Theory Lead to the Ultimate Unification of Physics?
- sol2
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Graduate QG & Einstein's Low Level Energies: Consequences
- Tom McCurdy
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Graduate What is Alejandro's take on strings, gauge theory, and gravity?
- marcus
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Is Edward Witten More Mathematician or Physicist?
- Lacy33
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Graduate Is there a general equation for finding pth powers when p is greater than 2?
- PFanalog57
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Undergrad Working in the field of theoretical physics
- YZer
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Graduate Could Black Holes and Dark Matter Be Linked by Long Dense Strings?
- RingoKid
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Graduate Questions about AdS/CFT duality and the information paradox
- Fredrik
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Graduate Does LQG explain photon-graviton interactions?
- sol2
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Graduate Rudy Vaas paper time before time
- Olias
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Graduate How Can String Theory and Extra Dimensions Transform Our Experience of Art?
- adam101
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Graduate A collection of questions/ideas
- kjones000
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Graduate Smolin: Anthropery is not science
- marcus
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Graduate Discovering TOE: What Would It Mean?
- Tom McCurdy
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Graduate John Baez on loop quantum gravity, quantum geometry and spin foams
- marcus
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Graduate Are tachyons real and why haven't we found them yet?
- daveed
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Graduate Emergent Realities ( What Lies Beneath)
- sol2
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Graduate How Can We Tap Into The Vacuum?
- PFanalog57
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Peter Woit's Blog: Good Stuff, Not Too Hard on String Theory
- selfAdjoint
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Graduate Exactly what is theory all about?
- Doctordick
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Graduate Length of vectors x, y, z as frequency vector f rotates in plane R
- Physicsfreek
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Graduate Does a 4th spatial dimension with central attraction explain gravity?
- K.J.Healey
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Graduate Constructing a Tensor Formula: 3D Mass to 2D Wave
- C. Michael Turner
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Graduate Who Should I Share My Unique Theory of Everything With?
- tdunc
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Graduate Can a string have multiple simultaneous vibrations in different directions?
- Glenn
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Graduate Black hole formation and gravitational force compared to mass
- aekanshchumber
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Graduate Create or die (a 3 months team mission)
- Lama
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Graduate Action and reaction in pentagon geometry
- yesicanread
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Graduate A possible way to produce thrust from ZPE?
- alpha_wolf
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Graduate How does the concept of mass decay relate to the theory of superstrings?
- Tom McCurdy
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Graduate How Does Geometry Relate to Action in Physics?
- yesicanread
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Graduate Can Mass Be Transformed into Energy Without Antimatter?
- da_willem
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Graduate Energy defined in LQG but not in GR?
- marcus
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Graduate What do Wilson loops and spin networks mean physically?
- marlon
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Undergrad Help checking relativistic equations and LaTeX formatting
- IooqXpooI
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Graduate Wanna check out the string theory?
- infinitemind
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Graduate Quantum gravity theory will become falsifiable?
- Curious6
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Graduate An attempt to unify EM and Grav., just to see if my ideas are in order.
- IooqXpooI
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Graduate Extended idea of diffeomorphism
- marcus
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Graduate Can a simplex exhibit spherical symmetry from point pairs on a plane?
- yesicanread
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Undergrad What is The Theory of Everything?
- JonF
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Graduate Epsilon Pi's ideas on coordinate independence
- Epsilon Pi
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Graduate What causes mass from a topological perspective?
- woodysooner
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Graduate How Are Gravitons Related to Closed Strings in String Theory?
- N.J.R
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Graduate In which string theory model does the Higgs particle-force dwell?
- Olias
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Undergrad Divine proportion in many world theory
- Matrixman13
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Graduate Could gravity actually be a frequency of electromagnetic radiation?
- Dook
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Graduate Could Repulsive Charge and Mass-Giving Particles Explain Mass Creation?
- kurious
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Graduate What is the role of infinity in physics and how is it treated?
- woodysooner
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Graduate Invitation to LQG-Smolin-just out
- marcus
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Graduate Three Little-Known Equalities in Food For TheorDev
- arivero
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Graduate What Mathematical Significance Does the Roots Chain of Shadows Hold?
- Lama
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Graduate What Would a House in More Than Four Dimensions Look Like?
- Feynmanfan
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Graduate Smolin's 1995 Landscape of Physical Law idea
- marcus
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Graduate Background Independence Question
- Curious6
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Graduate Revisiting Einstein's Theory: Perspectives from Theoretical Scientists
- kurious
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Time travel in one direction (Theory)
- Blair
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Graduate Meissner corrects the Immirzi parameter
- marcus
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Graduate My View On Fysics : Away With Distance
- marlon
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Graduate Black hole entropy in string theory since 2003
- Gavin
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Graduate Hypothesis for the nature of gravity
- Metallicbeing
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Graduate How Are Two-Categories Applied in Theoretical Physics?
- Alamino
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Graduate Exotic matter with negative mass repelling normal matter
- Muddler
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Graduate What is the Black Hole Bounce Theory and How Can it Be Tested?
- marcus
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