Obstacles on the way towards the quantisation of space, time and matter - and possible resolutions

DOI10.1016/S1355-2198(01)00008-9MaRDI QIDQ720460zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Gerard 't Hooft

Publication date 15 October 2011

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/s1355-2198(01)00008-9

zbMATH Keywords

Planck scalequantum gravityblack holesinformation lossdeterministic quantization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Black holes (83C57)

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