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    Graduate Uncovering the Universal Algorithm

    Yeah, interesting stuff, hadn't read about those before! But I think those bits in the string-bits models don't really have that much to do with (digital) algorithms. Of course it depends on how you define an algorithm, I guess any physical system could be called an algorithm, but it wouldn't...
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    Graduate Uncovering the Universal Algorithm

    maybe, maybe not Your post was so vague that it is impossible to say anything about it..I think you should study more quantum mechanics!
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    Graduate Does the Higgs Boson Support or Contradict String Theory?

    Some kind of a Higgs mechanism probably has to exists in string theory if it turns out to be the right theory. I think I've read from Green-Schwartz-Witten's book that if the masses were due to higher vibration modes of the string, then the observed particles would be too heavy. So in string...
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    Graduate Strings vs. Loops-Black Hole Metrics?

    I only know a bit about LQG, and I think currently in LQG it isn't known whether the metric would reduce to the GR metric in the large scale or not. It's possible that it's the same situation in string theory. The LQG computation of the area (which I don't understand perfectly yet, so please...
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    Graduate Why can't we verify string theory with calculations?

    Well I'm not really that much of an expert in string theory, but equations that are too difficult to solve isn't really that big a deal. It happens all the time. But maybe a bigger problem is that we don't have experimental data that we could compare string theory against...General relativity...
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    Graduate Is the SO(2) Connection in Ashtekar's General Relativity Real or Complex?

    An intro "book" on spin foams Daniele Oriti's PhD thesis is pretty good in my opinion...Check it out: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/gr-qc/0311066