
Three Roads To Quantum Gravity
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In Three Roads to Quantum Gravity, Lee Smolin provides an accessible overview of the attempts to build a final "theory of everything." He explains in simple terms what scientists are talking about when they say the world is made from exotic entities such as loops, strings, and black holes and tells the fascinating stories behind these discoveries: the rivalries, epiphanies, and intrigues he witnessed firsthand.
"Provocative, original, and unsettling." -- The New York Review of Books
"An excellent writer, a creative thinker." -- Nature
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue: The quest for quantum gravity
- Part I Points of Departure
- 1 There is nothing outside the universe
- 2 In the future we shall know more
- 3 Many observers, not many worlds
- 4 The universe is made of processes, not things
- Part II What We Have Learned
- 5 Black holes and hidden regions
- 6 Acceleration and heat
- 7 Black holes are hot
- 8 Area and information
- 9 How to count space
- 10 Knots, links and kinks
- 11 The sound of space is a string
- Part III The Present Frontiers
- 12 The holographic principle
- 13 How to weave a string
- 14 What chooses the laws of nature?
- Epilogue: A possible future
- Postscript
- Postscript to the 2017 edition
- Glossary
- Suggestions for further reading
- Index
- About the author
- Also by Lee Smolin
- Praise for "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity
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