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Apr
24
comment What is the current state of research in quantum gravity?
@Dinesh The Carlip paper is quite nice because it gives a overview over most of the popular topics. Maybe he should ask for a similar but more up-to-date review paper...
Apr
12
answered List of good classical physics books
Mar
30
revised What is a Killing vector field?
Added a link on how to use killing vector fields
Jan
19
answered Chern-Simons term
Jan
15
revised What is a simple intuitive way to see the relation between imaginary time (periodic) and temperature relation?
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Jan
15
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Jan
12
comment Course advice for someone interested in strings and mathematical physics
I think this question should be on academia.stackexchange.com
Jan
8
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Dec
30
awarded  Critic
Dec
30
comment Is it really a particle?
@Arnold "a unitary representation of the Poincare group, the local symmetry group of the universe" <-- i always thought it is a global symmetry group. Could someone clarify that?
Dec
27
revised Are the principles of space-time homogeneity and Isotropy independent of one another?
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Dec
27
revised Are the principles of space-time homogeneity and Isotropy independent of one another?
Added the link to the free book in the answere
Dec
21
comment Are the principles of space-time homogeneity and Isotropy independent of one another?
But if you ask if "isotropic everywhere" and "homogenous" are related. Then of course the first implies the second. If you can not access the book look at preposterousuniverse.com/grnotes Chapter 8.
Dec
20
revised Are the principles of space-time homogeneity and Isotropy independent of one another?
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Dec
20
comment Are the principles of space-time homogeneity and Isotropy independent of one another?
However I don't think you can have isotropy without homogeneity. <-- that is wrong.
Dec
20
answered Are the principles of space-time homogeneity and Isotropy independent of one another?
Dec
16
comment Space-time geometry and metric
+1 fot the cylinder example. It is often ignored that the metric only tells you about the local geometry.
Dec
16
comment Schrodinger's equation (explanation to non physicist)
6 paragraph: maybe you should add that the equation only holds if H is time-independent.
Dec
13
comment What does AdS/CFT have to say about quantum gravity in our world?
Could you maybe show how one can see the non-local behavior from black hole entropy?
Dec
6
comment What is background independence and how important is it?
For some of the problems with even defining what background-free should even mean see: math.ucr.edu/home/baez/background.html