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2001

Quantum Gravity: A Progress Report

Steven Carlip

Surveys the competing programmes for reconciling general relativity with quantum mechanics, and argues the shared open problems matter more than any single approach.

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Too easy? Go hereLoop Quantum GravityCarlo Rovelli, 1998Argues that quantising general relativity directly, without first fixing a background spacetime, gives a theory where space itself is woven from discrete loops.

Filed under Relativity & Gravitation in Physics.