Three roads to quantum gravity / Lee Smolin.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Science masters seriesPublication details: New York, N.Y. : Basic Books, c2001.Description: viii, 232 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0465078354
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Prologue: The quest for quantum gravity -- PART I: POINTS OF DEPARTURE: There is nothing outside the universe -- In the future we shall know more -- Many observers, not many worlds -- The universe is made of processes, not things -- PART II: WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED: Black holes and hidden regions -- Acceleration and heat -- Black holes are hot -- Area and information -- How to count space -- Knots, links, and kinks -- The sound of space is a string -- PART III: THE PRESENT FRONTIERS: The holographic principle -- How to weave a string -- What chooses the laws of nature? -- Epilogue: A possible future.
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Originally published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-226) and index.

Prologue: The quest for quantum gravity -- PART I: POINTS OF DEPARTURE: There is nothing outside the universe -- In the future we shall know more -- Many observers, not many worlds -- The universe is made of processes, not things -- PART II: WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED: Black holes and hidden regions -- Acceleration and heat -- Black holes are hot -- Area and information -- How to count space -- Knots, links, and kinks -- The sound of space is a string -- PART III: THE PRESENT FRONTIERS: The holographic principle -- How to weave a string -- What chooses the laws of nature? -- Epilogue: A possible future.

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