Conversations on Quantum Gravity
- Length: 550 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date: 2021-11-30
- ISBN-10: 1107168872
- ISBN-13: 9781107168879
- Sales Rank: #571191 (See Top 100 Books)
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.
Cover Half-title Title page Copyright information Dedication Contents Preface: Why This Book and Why Did It Take So Long? Introduction The Interviews 1 Jan Ambjørn 2 Nima Arkani-Hamed 3 Abhay Ashtekar 4 Jan de Boer 5 Steven Carlip 6 Alain Connes 7 Robbert Dijkgraaf 8 Bianca Dittrich 9 Fay Dowker 10 Laurent Freidel 11 Steven Giddings 12 Rajesh Gopakumar 13 David J. Gross 14 Gerard ’t Hooft 15 Petr Hořava 16 Renate Loll 17 Juan Maldacena 18 Shiraz Minwalla 19 Hermann Nicolai 20 Roger Penrose 21 Joseph Polchinski 22 Alexander Polyakov 23 Martin Reuter 24 Carlo Rovelli 25 Nathan Seiberg 26 Ashoke Sen 27 Eva Silverstein 28 Lee Smolin 29 Rafael Sorkin 30 Andrew Strominger 31 Leonard Susskind 32 Thomas Thiemann 33 Cumrun Vafa 34 Erik Verlinde 35 Steven Weinberg 36 Frank Wilczek 37 Edward Witten Acknowledgements Index
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