Quantum Gravity: A Brief History of Ideas and Some Prospects
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2016-02-03 v1
Abstract
We present a bird's-eye survey on the development of fundamental ideas of quantum gravity, placing emphasis on perturbative approaches, string theory, loop quantum gravity, and black hole thermodynamics. The early ideas at the dawn of quantum gravity as well as the possible observations of quantum gravitational effects in the foreseeable future are also briefly discussed.
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@article{arxiv.1507.08194,
title = {Quantum Gravity: A Brief History of Ideas and Some Prospects},
author = {Steven Carlip and Dah-Wei Chiou and Wei-Tou Ni and Richard Woodard},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.08194},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
Invited review article. A few parts based on arXiv:1410.1486 and arXiv:1412.4362. To appear in Int. J. Mod. Phys. D and in "One Hundred Years of General Relativity: From Genesis and Empirical Foundations to Gravitational Waves, Cosmology and Quantum Gravity," edited by Wei-Tou Ni (World Scientific, Singapore, 2015)