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Quantum gravity /

Quantum gravity is perhaps the most important open problem in fundamental physics. It is the problem of merging quantum mechanics and general relativity, the two great conceptual revolutions in the physics of the twentieth century. The loop and spinfoam approach, presented in this 2004 book, is one...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rovelli, Carlo, 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Colección:Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / James Bjorken
  • 1. General ideas and heuristic picture
  • 2. General relativity
  • 3. Mechanics
  • 4. Hamiltonian general relativity
  • 5. Quantum mechanics
  • 6. Quantum space
  • 7. Dynamics and matter
  • 8. Applications
  • 9. Quantum spacetime : spinfoams
  • 10. Conclusion
  • App. A.A groups and recoupling theory
  • App. B. History
  • App. C. On method and truth.