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Does the measure of proximity of two theories in “theory space” run?
From reading this article, I have learned that two effective QFTs can be very close together in the "theory space" appropriate to describe for example physics at the LHC scale, whereas the ...
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Why are conformal transformations so prevalent in physics?
What is it about conformal transformations that make them so widely applicable in physics?
These preserve angles, in other words directions (locally), and I can understand that might be useful. Also, ...
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The Reeh-Schlieder theorem and quantum geometry
There have been some very nice discussions recently centered around the question of whether gravity and the geometry and topology of the classical world we see about us, could be phenomena which ...
