Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Part I Fundamental ideas and general formalisms
- 1 Unfinished revolution
- 2 The fundamental nature of space and time
- 3 Does locality fail at intermediate length scales?
- 4 Prolegomena to any future Quantum Gravity
- 5 Spacetime symmetries in histories canonical gravity
- 6 Categorical geometry and the mathematical foundations of Quantum Gravity
- 7 Emergent relativity
- 8 Asymptotic safety
- 9 New directions in background independent Quantum Gravity
- Questions and answers
- Part II String/M-theory
- Part III Loop quantum gravity and spin foam models
- Part IV Discrete Quantum Gravity
- Part V Effective models and Quantum Gravity phenomenology
- Index
2 - The fundamental nature of space and time
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Part I Fundamental ideas and general formalisms
- 1 Unfinished revolution
- 2 The fundamental nature of space and time
- 3 Does locality fail at intermediate length scales?
- 4 Prolegomena to any future Quantum Gravity
- 5 Spacetime symmetries in histories canonical gravity
- 6 Categorical geometry and the mathematical foundations of Quantum Gravity
- 7 Emergent relativity
- 8 Asymptotic safety
- 9 New directions in background independent Quantum Gravity
- Questions and answers
- Part II String/M-theory
- Part III Loop quantum gravity and spin foam models
- Part IV Discrete Quantum Gravity
- Part V Effective models and Quantum Gravity phenomenology
- Index
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- Approaches to Quantum GravityToward a New Understanding of Space, Time and Matter, pp. 13 - 25Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009
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