Approaches to Quantum Gravity: Toward a New Understanding of Space, Time and Matter Export

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TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:4890447 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4890447 N2 - The theory of quantum gravity promises a revolutionary new understanding ofgravity and spacetime, valid from microscopic to cosmological distances.Research in this field involves an exciting blend of rigorous mathematics andbold speculations, foundational questions and technical issues. Containingcontributions from leading researchers in this field, this book presents thefundamental issues involved in the construction of a quantum theory of gravityand building up a quantum picture of space and time. It introduces the mostcurrent approaches to this problem, and reviews their main achievements. Eachpart ends in questions and answers, in which the contributors explore themerits and problems of the various approaches. This book provides a completeoverview of this field from the frontiers of theoretical physics research forgraduate students and researchers. SN - 0521860458 TI - Approaches to Quantum Gravity: Toward a New Understanding of Space, Time and Matter PB - Cambridge University Press KW - lqg KW - quantum_gravity KW - strings AU - Rovelli, C AU - ‘t-Hooft, G AU - Sorkin, R AU - Stachel, J AU - Savvidou, N AU - Crane, L AU - Dreyer, O AU - Percacci, R AU - Markopoulou, F AU - Horowitz, G AU - Polchinski, J AU - Banks, T AU - Taylor, W AU - Thiemann, T AU - Livine, E AU - Perez, A AU - Freidel, L AU - Oriti, D AU - Ambjørn, J AU - Jurkiewicz, J AU - Loll, R AU - Williams, R AU - Gambini, R AU - Pullin, J AU - Henson, J AU - Amelino-Camelia, G AU - Burgess, C AU - Majid, S AU - Kowalski-Glikman, J AU - Girelli, F AU - Collins, J AU - Perez, A AU - Sudarsky, D AU - Smolin, L A2 - Oriti, Daniele PY - 2009/04/27/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&path=ASIN/0521860458 ER -