Three Roads To Quantum Gravity
Three Roads To Quantum Gravity
Three Roads To Quantum Gravity
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INDEX<br />
245<br />
black hole formation, 189±90<br />
consistent/inconsistent, 157<br />
different types of, 157, 159±60<br />
problems with, 149, 159±62,<br />
183±4, 185, 195±6<br />
relationship with loop quantum<br />
gravity, 180±5<br />
uni®cation with loop quantum<br />
gravity, 185±93<br />
as a uni®ed theory, 161±2<br />
superconductors, 107±10, 112<br />
supergravity, 6, 122, 219<br />
superposition, 35±9, 47±8<br />
supersymmetry, 158, 219<br />
Susskind, Leonard, 175<br />
symmetry, 219<br />
Syracuse University, 130<br />
`t Hooft, Gerardus, 6, 90, 118, 175<br />
temperature, 81±3, 97, 98, 219<br />
critical, 108<br />
theory of everything, 194<br />
thermodynamics, 90, 93, 97±9,<br />
173, 218<br />
Thiemann, Thomas, 184<br />
Thing, The, 171±5, 177<br />
time, 23±5, 61<br />
absolute, 23, 212<br />
<strong>To</strong>monaga, Sinitiro, 151<br />
topos theory, 31±2, 46, 219<br />
Trento University, 132<br />
Trias, Anthony, 132±3<br />
twistor theory, 138, 210, 219±20<br />
uncertainty principle, 36, 165,<br />
220<br />
universe<br />
causal, 54±9<br />
as a closed system, 17±18<br />
creation of, 27, 198±201<br />
geometry, 18±19<br />
hidden regions, 70±2, 104<br />
multiple, 198±9<br />
relational, 53<br />
Unruh, Bill, 82, 91<br />
Unruh's law, 86<br />
Uruguay University, 133±4<br />
virtual particles, 155<br />
volume, 106, 132<br />
smallest possible, 106, 137<br />
Warhol, Andy, 50<br />
weave, 186<br />
Weinberg±Salam theory, 156<br />
Wheeler, John, 86, 127, 139, 146<br />
Wheeler±DeWitt equations, 40,<br />
127, 128<br />
Wilson, Kenneth, 115±16<br />
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 99<br />
Yale University, 126, 128<br />
zero point motion, 83