Three Roads To Quantum Gravity

INDEX
243
black hole, 70, 73±4, 175, 191,
213
Imperial College, 130
in®nities, 131
in¯ation, 205
information, 55±6, 103±5, 216
Institute of Theoretical Physics,
Santa Barbara, 126
intuitionistic logic, 31
Isham, Christopher, 11, 45, 46, 130
Jacobson, Ted, 40, 126, 173
Kauffman, Louis, 129
Kauffman, Stuart, 201
Kent, Adrian, 43, 44
Kepler, Johannes, 150, 182±3
knot theory, 129, 216
Krasnov, Kirill, 191
lattice theory, 115, 118±19, 216
laws of nature, 194±206
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 20
Lewandowski, Jerzy, 191
light, 100
speed of, 218
light cone, 216
future, 58, 215
past, 58, 217
link, 216
logic, 27±32
Loll, Renate, 137, 140
loop, 116, 127, 216
loop quantum gravity, 9, 10, 25,
46, 103, 106, 132, 133, 134,
138, 142, 169, 203, 210, 216
Bekenstein bound derivation,
175
boring nature of, 179
complete formulation, 184
historical development, 107±31
problems with, 184, 185
relationship with string theory,
180±5
uni®cation with string theory,
185±93
M theory, 162±6, 196, 216
Mach, Ernst, 20
magnetic ®eld, 83, 108±10
many-worlds, 216
Margulis, Lynn, 19
Markopoulou-Kalamara, Fotini,
31, 47, 140
Maxwell, James Clerk, 100
Misner, Charles, 41
momentum, angular, 212
Montevideo, 133
Morowitz, Harold, 201
multiverse, 198±9
natural selection, 19, 200±1
nature, laws of, 194±206
Newton, Isaac, 183
gravitational constant, 217
Newtonian physics, 2, 19, 23,
42±3, 52±3, 217
non-commutative geometry, 138,
187±8, 210, 217
observers/observed, 4, 26±30, 33,
40±1, 42, 47, 70±2
and acceleration, 77±83, 86
particle physics, 121
past, 54, 217
past light cone, 58, 217
Pauli exclusion principle, 158,
217
Penn State University, 133
Penrose, Roger, 11, 134, 135, 138,
210
perturbation theory, 152, 217
Peskin, Michael, 118
philosophy, 8
phonons, 151
photons, 100, 143±5, 150
physical theories, 3±4
Planck, Max, 100
Planck scale, 9, 62, 169±70, 217
Planck units, 217
length, 62, 185±6
mass, 157
temperature, 63
time, 62
Planck's constant, 100, 217
planetary orbits, 150, 182
Plato, 72
points, 22