Three roads to quantum gravity.
Ashtekar formulation of Einstein's theorygeometry of spaceM-theorynoncommutative geometryquantum gravityquantum statespin networksstring theorytwistor theory
Twistor methods in differential geometry (53C28) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-02) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Methods of noncommutative geometry in general relativity (83C65)
This book contains almost no formula, but a lot of figures, one of them relates the notion of causality with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Nevertheless, it is not a popular book in the classical sense: In principle, the reader should know the formulas not written in this book to understand the words written by Smolin, or the reader simply wants to see what kind of questions are discussed in the search for quantum gravity. One learns, for instance, that the ``Ashtekar formulation of Einstein's theory is due to Amitaba Sen; but this is, nevertheless, not a misnomer, because Abhay Ashtekar was the one person to take Sen's equation seriously. From the topics covered, the part on canonical loop quantum gravity is the easiest to follow: The graphs given to present spin networks are drawn; the edges of the graphs are labeled by numbers representing the spin of the corresponding particles. Each spin network represents one possible quantum state for the geometry of space. The nodes of the graph carry discrete units of volume. Other discussed approaches include Roger Penrose's twistor theory, string theory, M-theory, and Alain Connes's noncommutative approach to geometry.
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- Quantum loops, wild topology and fat Cantor sets in transfinite high-energy physics
- Nonobservable space dimensions and the discreteness of time
- Quantum mechanics and gravity.
- On representational redundancy, surplus structure, and the hole argument
- Modified bosonic gas trapped in a generic 3-dim power law potential
- Polymer Bose-Einstein condensates
- Extending dualities to trialities deepens the foundations of dynamics
- Interpreting mathematics in physics: Charting the applications of SU(2) in 20th century physics
- On Penrose view of transfinite sets and computability and the fractal character of \(E\)-infinity spacetime
- Quantum gravity: a brief history of ideas and some prospects
- Quantum gravity in Plebanski formulation
- WHAT WE KNOW AND WHAT WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE UNIVERSE
- The trouble with physics. The rise of string theory, the fall of a science and what comes next.
- Incursive discretization, system bifurcation, and energy conservation
- UNSPEAKABLES AND THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL PATH TOWARD QUANTUM GRAVITY
- Quantum space. Loop quantum gravity and the search for the structure of space, time, and the universe
- Three roads to quantum gravity. With a new postsript by the author
- Conway-Kochen and the finite precision loophole
- Ideal-modified bosonic gas trapped in an arbitrary three-dimensional power-law potential
- What the Applicability of Mathematics Says About Its Philosophy
- Quantum cosmos. From a timeless world to an expanding universe
- Is there an observable limit to Lorentz invariance at the compton wavelength scale?
- Length matters: the Einstein-Swann correspondence and the constructive approach to the special theory of relativity
- The Unruh effect for philosophers
- An approximate application of quantum gravity to the rotation problem
- Pregeometric spaces from Wolfram model rewriting systems as homotopy types
- Black hole singularity resolution in Wheeler-DeWitt quantum gravity
- Loop quantum ontology: spacetime and spin-networks
- Consequences of Gödel's theorems on quantum gravity
- Śūnya-kathā or interplay of being and nothingness
- The rotation problem
- Lorentz invariance violation and symmetry in Randers-Finsler spaces
- On relativistic generalization of gravitational force
- On Diósi-Penrose criterion of gravity-induced quantum collapse
- A pseudo-random network mobile automaton with linear growth
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