Squaring the circle: Gleb Wataghin and the prehistory of quantum gravity

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2013.07.005MaRDI QIDQ2351897zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Amit Hagar

Publication date 26 June 2015

Published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2013.07.005

zbMATH Keywords

absolute uncertaintydiscrete spacetimelocalityLorentz invariancemeasurabilityminimal lengthquantum electrodynamicsquantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Physics (00A79) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Special relativity (83A05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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