Obstacles on the Way Towards the Quantisation of Space, Time and Matter - and Possible Resolutions

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B - Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 157-180

  'T Hooft, Gerard ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Spinoza Institute   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Black Holes; Deterministic Quantization; Information Loss.; Planck Scale; Quantum Gravity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041335211     PISSN: 13552198     EISSN: 18792502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1355-2198(01)00008-9     Document Type: Article

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