Quantum gravity faces reality

Physics Today

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 44-48

  Smolin, Lee ^a  

^a PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; RADIATION EFFECTS;

DEFORMED SPECIAL RELATIVITY; LOOP QUANTUM GRAVITY (LQG); PATH INTEGRAL FORMULATION; SPIN FOAM FORMULATION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 33750919778     PISSN: 00319228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2435646     Document Type: Article

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