New Hints from General Relativity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
The search for a quantum theory of gravity has followed two parallel but different paths. One aims at arriving at the final theory starting from a priori assumptions as to its form and building it from the ground up. The other tries to infer as much as possible about the unknown theory from the existing ones and use our current knowledge to constrain the possibilities for the quantum theory of gravity. Probably the biggest success of the second path has been the results of black hole thermodynamics. The subject of this essay is a new, highly promising such result, the application of quasinormal modes in quantum gravity.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0401035,
title = {New Hints from General Relativity},
author = {Olaf Dreyer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0401035},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
This essay received an "honorable mention" in the 2003 Essay Competition of the Gravity Research Foundation