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Physics meets philosophy at the Planck scale : contemporary theories in quantum gravity /
Collects classic and original contributions from leading experts to discuss one of the greatest challenges in fundamental physics: how quantum mechanics and general relativity can be reconciled in a theory of 'quantum gravity'. A key topic of debate and collaboration between physicists and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Craig Callender and Nick Huggett
- Part 1
- Theories of quantum gravity and their philosophical dimensions
- Spacetime and the philosophical challenge of quantum gravity / Jeremy Butterfield and Christopher Isham
- Naive quantum gravity / Stephen Weinstein
- Quantum spacetime : What do we know? / Carlo Rovelli
- Part II
- Strings
- Reflections on the fate of spacetime / Edward Witten
- A philosopher looks at string theory / Robert Weingard
- Black holes, dumb holes, and entropy / William G. Unruh
- Part III -Topological quantum field theory
- Higher-dimensional algebra and Planck scale physics / John C. Baez
- Part IV
- Quantum gravity and the interpretation of general relativity
- On general covariance and best matching / Julien B. Barbour
- Pre-Socratic quantum gravity / Gorbon Belot and John Earman
- The origin of the spacetime metric : Bell's 'Lorentzian pedagogy' and its significance in general relativity / Harvey R. Brown and Oliver Pooley
- Part V
- Quantum gravity and the interpretation of quantum mechanics
- Quantum spacetime without observers : Onto logical clarity and the conceptual foundations of quantum gravity / Sheldon Goldstein and Stefan Teufel
- On gravity's role in quantum state reduction / Roger Penrose
- Why the quantum must yield to gravity / Joy Christian.