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The quantum gravity is formulated based on principle of local gauge invariance. The model discussed in this paper has local gravitational gauge symmetry and gravitational field appears as gauge field. The problems on quantization and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Ning Wu

The existence of a fundamental scale, a lower bound to any output of a position measurement, seems to be a model-independent feature of quantum gravity. In fact, different approaches to this theory lead to this result. The key ingredients…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Luis J. Garay

Loop quantum gravity, a non-perturbative and manifestly background free, quantum theory of gravity implies that at the kinematical level the spatial geometry is discrete in a specific sense. The spirit of background independence also…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-03-12 Ghanashyam Date , Golam Mortuza Hossain

Since the early days of search for a quantum theory of gravity the attempts have been mostly concentrated on the quantization of an otherwise classical system. The two most contentious candidate theories of gravity, sting theory and quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-24 Houri Ziaeepour

Quantum gravity was born as that branch of modern theoretical physics that tries to unify its guiding principles, i.e., quantum mechanics and general relativity. Nowadays it is providing new insight into the unification of all fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-19 Bernhelm Booss-Bavnbek , Giampiero Esposito , Matthias Lesch

The proper resolution of the so-called measurement problem requires a "top-down" conception of the quantum world that is opposed to the usual "bottom-up" conception, which builds on an intrinsically and maximally differentiated manifold.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-25 Ulrich Mohrhoff

There is a long-standing debate about whether gravity should be quantised. A powerful line of argument in favour of quantum gravity considers models of hybrid systems consisting of coupled quantum-classical sectors. The conclusion is that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-14 Chiara Marletto , Vlatko Vedral

This article introduces Universal Quantum Relativity which is a simple Theory of Everything. It relies on an ultimate doctrine that is the absence of absolute existence. This generalizes relativity principles up to a mother quantum theory.…

General Physics · Physics 2011-08-25 Stephane A. Bronoff

The properties of the quantum universe on extremely small spacetime scales are studied in the semi-classical approach to the well-defined quantum model. It is shown that near the initial cosmological singularity point quantum gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-30 V. E. Kuzmichev , V. V. Kuzmichev

The quantum gravity is formulated based on gauge principle. The model discussed in this paper has local gravitational gauge symmetry and gravitational field is represented by gauge potential. A preliminary study on gravitational gauge group…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Ning Wu

Quantum gravity has matured over the last decade to a theory which can tell in a precise and explicit way how cosmological singularities of general relativity are removed. A branch of the universe "before" the classical big bang is obtained…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Bojowald

General relativity is a background-independent theory of a dynamical classical spacetime geometry. Quantum theory is formulated in a classical spacetime, as an intrinsically probabilistic, contextual theory of non-classical, interfering…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-22 Tristan Hübsch , Djordje Minic

We present a new, falsifiable, quantum theory of gravity, which we name Non-commutative Matter-Gravity. The commutative limit of the theory is classical general relativity. In the first two papers of this series, we have introduced the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-03 Palemkota Maithresh , Tejinder P. Singh

It is argued that (a) In the quantum realm test-particle masses have non-trivial observability which induces a non-geometric element in gravity, (b) Any theory of quantum gravity, on fundamental grounds, must contain an element of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 D. V. Ahluwalia

There ought to exist a reformulation of quantum theory which does not depend on classical time. To achieve such a reformulation, we introduce the concept of an atom of space-time-matter (STM). An STM atom is a classical non-commutative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-17 Shounak De , Tejinder P. Singh , Abhinav Varma

Each approach to the quantum-gravity problem originates from expertise in one or another area of theoretical physics. The particle-physics perspective encourages one to attempt to reproduce in quantum gravity as much as possible of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Giovanni Amelino-Camelia

Scenario of a bouncing universe is one of the most active area of research to arrive at singularity free cosmological models. Different proposals have been suggested to avoid the so called 'big bang' singularity through the quantum aspect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-26 Indrani Banerjee , Tanmoy Paul , Soumitra SenGupta

It is commonly anticipated that gravity is subject to the standard principles of quantum mechanics. Yet some (including Einstein) have questioned that presumption, whose empirical basis is weak. Indeed, recently Freeman Dyson has emphasized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Lawrence M. Krauss , Frank Wilczek

The quantization of gravity offers a solution to the presence of singularities in cosmology. Infinities are removed because of the existence of finite quanta of spacetime. This is one of the most important prediction of Loop Quantum…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2013-05-13 Francesca Vidotto

The formation of singularities in certain situations, such as the collapse of massive stars, is one of the unresolved issues in classical general relativity. Although no complete theory of quantum gravity exists it is often suggested that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Doug Singleton