Conversations on Quantum Gravity
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Conversations on Quantum Gravity

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Conversations on Quantum Gravity

About this book

The holy grail of theoretical physics is to find the theory of everything that combines all the forces of nature, including gravity. This book addresses the question: how far are we from such discovery? Over the last few decades, multiple roads to finding a quantum theory of gravity have been proposed but no obvious description of nature has emerged in this domain. What is to be made of this situation? This volume probes the state-of-the art in this daunting quest of theoretical physics by collecting critical interviews with nearly forty leading theorists in this field. These broad-ranging conversations give important insights and candid opinions on the various approaches to quantum gravity, including string theory, loop quantum gravity, causal set theory and asymptotic safety. This unique, readable overview provides a gateway into cutting edge research for students and others who wish to engage with the open problem of quantum gravity.

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Yes, you can access Conversations on Quantum Gravity by Jácome (Jay) Armas in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Physical Sciences & Mathematical & Computational Physics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface: Why This Book and Why Did It Take So Long?
  8. Introduction
  9. The Interviews
  10. 1 Jan Ambjørn
  11. 2 Nima Arkani-Hamed
  12. 3 Abhay Ashtekar
  13. 4 Jan de Boer
  14. 5 Steven Carlip
  15. 6 Alain Connes
  16. 7 Robbert Dijkgraaf
  17. 8 Bianca Dittrich
  18. 9 Fay Dowker
  19. 10 Laurent Freidel
  20. 11 Steven Giddings
  21. 12 Rajesh Gopakumar
  22. 13 David J. Gross
  23. 14 Gerard ’t Hooft
  24. 15 Petr Hořava
  25. 16 Renate Loll
  26. 17 Juan Maldacena
  27. 18 Shiraz Minwalla
  28. 19 Hermann Nicolai
  29. 20 Roger Penrose
  30. 21 Joseph Polchinski
  31. 22 Alexander Polyakov
  32. 23 Martin Reuter
  33. 24 Carlo Rovelli
  34. 25 Nathan Seiberg
  35. 26 Ashoke Sen
  36. 27 Eva Silverstein
  37. 28 Lee Smolin
  38. 29 Rafael Sorkin
  39. 30 Andrew Strominger
  40. 31 Leonard Susskind
  41. 32 Thomas Thiemann
  42. 33 Cumrun Vafa
  43. 34 Erik Verlinde
  44. 35 Steven Weinberg
  45. 36 Frank Wilczek
  46. 37 Edward Witten
  47. Acknowledgements
  48. Index