After almost a century, the field of quantum gravity remains as difficult and inspiring as ever. Today, it finds itself a field divided, with two major contenders dominating: string theory, the leading exemplification of the covariant quantization program; and loop quantum gravity, the canonical scheme based on Dirac's constrained Hamiltonian quantization. However, there are now a number of other innovative schemes providing promising new avenues. Encapsulating the latest debates on this topic, this book details the different approaches to understanding the very nature of space and time. It...
After almost a century, the field of quantum gravity remains as difficult and inspiring as ever. Today, it finds itself a field divided, with two majo...
The Golden Oldies series of the journal General Relativity and Gravitation reprints key papers in general relativity theory that were published 30 or more years ago and are either hard to obtain or were originally printed in a language other than English.
The Golden Oldies series of the journal General Relativity and Gravitation reprints key papers in general relativity theory that were published 30 or ...