Foundations of Space and Time

Reflections on Quantum Gravity

By: Jeff Murugan (Editor), Amanda Weltman (Editor), George F. R. Ellis (Editor)

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Hardcover | 19 July 2012 | Edition Number 1

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After almost a century, the field of quantum gravity remains as difficult and inspiring as ever. Today, it finds itself a field divided, with two major contenders dominating: string theory, the leading exemplification of the covariant quantization program; and loop quantum gravity, the canonical scheme based on Dirac's constrained Hamiltonian quantization. However, there are now a number of other innovative schemes providing promising new avenues.

Encapsulating the latest debates on this topic, this book details the different approaches to understanding the very nature of space and time. It brings together leading researchers in each of these approaches to quantum gravity to explore these competing possibilities in an open way. Its comprehensive coverage explores all the current approaches to solving the problem of quantum gravity, addressing the strengths and weaknesses of each approach, to give researchers and graduate students an up-to-date view of the field.

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'Encapsulating the latest debates, this book details the different approaches to understanding the nature of space and time. It brings together leading researchers to explore in a comprehensive coverage all of the current approaches to solving the problems of quantum gravity, addressing the strengths and weaknesses of each approach, to give researchers and graduate students an up-to-date view of the world.' CERN Courier

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Non-Fiction Science Physics Applied Physics Geophysics Relativity Physics

The problem with quantum gravity
A dialogue on the nature of gravity
Effective theories and modifications of gravity
The small scale structure of spacetime
Ultraviolet divergences in supersymmetric theories
Cosmological quantum billiards
Progress in RNS string theory and pure spinors
Recent trends in superstring phenomenology
Emergent spacetime Robert
Loop quantum gravity
Loop quantum gravity and cosmology
The microscopic dynamics of quantum space as a group field theory Daniele Oriti
Causal dynamical triangulations and the quest for quantum gravity
Proper time is stochastic time in 2D quantum gravity
Logic is to the quantum as geometry is to gravity
Causal sets: discreteness without symmetry breaking
The Big Bang, quantum gravity, and black-hole information loss
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Foundations of Space and Time

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