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1	Three roads to quantum gravity more books like this by Lee Smolin add to wishlist This accessible work discusses two complementary aspects of physics: relativity and quantum theory. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Reinventing Gravity: A Physicist Goes Beyond Einstein more books like this by John W Moffat add to wishlist While supporting his sick parents, Moffat spent his free time in the library, teaching himself in the course of a year both modern physics and the mathematics needed to work in it. Then, daringly, he wrote a letter to Einstein, identifying problems in one of the great man's papers. A correspondence was struck, but, because Moffat couldn't read ... see all copies from $14.62! new only from $14.73! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Physics Meets Philosophy at the Planck Scale more books like this by Nick Huggett (Editor), Craig Callender (Editor) add to wishlist The greatest challenge in fundamental physics is how quantum mechanics and general relativity can be reconciled in a theory of 'quantum gravity'. The project suggests a profound revision of our notions of space, time and matter, and so has become a key topic of debate and collaboration between physicists and philosophers. This timely volume ... see all copies from $38.00! new only from $67.30! \| SVS
4	Quantum Gravity more books like this by Carlo Rovelli add to wishlist Quantum gravity is perhaps the most important open problem in fundamental physics. It is the problem of merging quantum mechanics and general relativity, the two great conceptual revolutions in the physics of the twentieth century. The loop and spinfoam approach, presented in this book, is one of the leading research programs in the field. The ... see all copies from $50.63! new only from $51.72! \| SVS
5	Quantum Gravity more books like this by Claus Kiefer add to wishlist The search for a quantum theory of the gravitational field is one of the great open problems in theoretical physics. This book presents a self-contained discussion of the concepts, methods and applications that can be expected in such a theory. The two main approaches to its construction -- the direct quantisation of Einstein's general theory of ... see all copies from $57.95! new only from $122.87!
6	Lorentzian Wormholes: From Einstein to Hawking more books like this by Matt Visser add to wishlist Wormholes, spacewarps, timewarps and time machines have permeated popular culture. This technical monograph looks at the science behind the science fiction, covering the history and theories of wormholes, spacewarps, and time travel. This work should be of interest to specialists in general relativity, gravitation, or cosmology; graduate students ... see all copies from $28.50! new only from $39.58! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Loops, knots, gauge theories and quantum gravity more books like this by Gambini, Pullin add to wishlist Now in paperback, this text provides a self-contained introduction to applications of loop representations and knot theory in particle physics and quantum gravity. Loop representations (and the related topic of knot theory) are of considerable current interest because they provide a unified arena for the study of the gauge invariant quantization ... see all copies from $35.88! new only from $54.70! \| SVS
8	Introduction to Quantum Effects in Gravity more books like this by Viatcheslav Mukhanov, Sergei Winitzki add to wishlist This is the first introductory textbook on quantum field theory in gravitational backgrounds intended for undergraduate and beginning graduate students in the fields of theoretical astrophysics, cosmology, particle physics, and string theory. The book covers the basic (but essential) material of quantization of fields in an expanding universe and ... see all copies from $78.00! new only from $78.00!
9	Feynman lectures on gravitation. more books like this by Richard P. Feynman add to wishlist The Feynman Lectures on Gravitation are based on notes prepared during a course on gravitational physics that Richard Feynman taught at Caltech during the 1962-63 academic year.. } The Feynman Lectures on Gravitation are based on notes prepared during a course on gravitational physics that Richard Feynman taught at Caltech during the 1962-63 ... see all copies from $12.67! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
10	Advances in the Interplay Between Quantum and Gravity Physics more books like this by Peter Gabriel Bergmann (Editor), V De Sabbata (Editor) add to wishlist This up-to-date survey of the interplay between gravity and particle physics theory contains treatments of cosmological perturbations, trans-Planckian problems in cosmology, the cosmological basis in a framework of projective unified field theory, atom interferometry in black holes and the early universe and semiclassical gravity. There are also ... see all copies from $81.93! new only from $81.93! \| SVS
11 view cover	Towards Quantum Gravity: Proceedings of the XXXV International Winter School on Theoretical Physics, Held in Polanica, Poland, 2-11 February 1999 more books like this by Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman (Editor) add to wishlist The aim of this book is to give graduate students an overview of quantum gravity but it also covers related topics from astrophysics. Some well-written contributions can serve as an introduction into basic conceptual concepts like time in quantum gravity or the emergence of a classical world from quantum cosmology. This makes the volume attractive ... see all copies from $57.56! new only from $57.56! \| SVS
12 view cover	Effective Lagrangians for the Standard Model more books like this by A. Dobado, A. G. Nicola, J. R. Pelaez add to wishlist This is a detailed and pedagogical exposition of the effective Lagrangian techniques and their applications to high-energy physics. It covers the main theoretical ideas and describes how to use them in different fields, such as chiral perturbation theory and the symmetry breaking sector of the standard model and even low-energy quantum gravity. ... see all copies from $63.85! new only from $64.00! \| first editions
13 view cover	Conceptual Problems in Quantum Gravity more books like this by Abhay Ashtekar (Editor), John Stachel (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $59.95! new only from $71.20! \| first editions \| SVS
14	2D-gravity in non-critical strings discrete and continuum approaches more books like this by Abdalla add to wishlist This is a survey of the use of Liouville (and super-Liouville) equations in (super)string theory outside the critical dimension, and of the complementary approach based on the discretized space-time, known as the matrix model approach. Supersymmetry is given particular attention, both in the continuum formulation, by means of the Liouville ... see all copies from $37.00! new only from $37.00!
15 view cover	Topology, Geometry and Quantum Field Theory: Proceedings of the 2002 Oxford Symposium in the Honour of the 60th Birthday of Graeme Segal more books like this by Ulrike Tillmann (Editor) add to wishlist The symposium held in honour of the 60th birthday of Graeme Segal brought together leading physicists and mathematicians. Its topics were centred around string theory, M-theory, and quantum gravity on the one hand, and K-theory, elliptic cohomology, quantum cohomology and string topology on the other. Geometry and quantum physics developed in ... see all copies from $84.84! new only from $84.84!
16 view cover	Heat Kernel and Quantum Gravity more books like this by Ivan G Avramidi add to wishlist This book tackles quantum gravity via the so-called background field method and its effective action functional. The author presents an explicitly covariant and effective technique to calculate the de Witt coefficients and to analyze the Schwinger-de Wit asymptotic expansion of the effective action. He also investigates the ultraviolet behaviour ... see all copies from $57.70! new only from $57.70! \| SVS
17 view cover	The Meaning of Quantum Gravity more books like this by Horst-Heino Von Borzeszkowski, H H Von Borzeszkowski, H J Treder add to wishlist see all copies from $82.00! new only from $98.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Complex General Relativity more books like this by Esposito add to wishlist This volume introduces the application of two-component spinor calculus and fibre-bundle theory to complex general relativity. A review of basic and important topics is presented, such as two-component spinor calculus, conformal gravity, twistor spaces for Minkowski space-time and for curved space-time, Penrose transform for gravitation, the ... see all copies from $124.41! new only from $124.41! \| SVS
19 view cover	Lectures on Quantum Gravity more books like this by Andres Gomberoff (Editor), Donald Marolf (Editor) add to wishlist The 2002 Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute School on Quantum Gravity was held at the Centro de Estudios Cientificos (CECS), Valdivia, Chile, January 4-14, 2002. The school featured lectures by ten speakers, and was attended by nearly 70 students from over 14 countries. A primary goal was to foster interaction and communication between ... see all copies from $59.95! new only from $59.95! \| first editions
20	Quantum Concepts in Space and Time more books like this by Penrose, Isham 1944- add to wishlist Recent developments in quantum gravity have focused attention on the fundamental basis of quantum theory; in particular, whether it might be necessary to modify quantum mechanics in order to reconcile quantum gravity and general relativity. see all copies from $12.00! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
21 view cover	Quantum Theory of the Third Kind: A New Type of Divergence-Free Quantum Field Theory Supporting a Unified Standard Model of Elementary Particles and Quantum Gravity Based on a New Method in the Calculus of Variations more books like this by Stephen Blaha add to wishlist A graduate level text describing a new form of quantum field theory that does not contain divergences. A unified theory of the Standard Model of Elementary Particles and Quantum Gravity is created. Interesting features include anti-gravity at very short distances, and two electron (and other doubly charged) resonances. A minimum size for Black ... see all copies from $15.75! new only from $18.00! \| SVS
22 view cover	Gravity and Strings more books like this by Tomas Ortin add to wishlist One appealing feature of string theory is that it provides a theory of quantum gravity. Gravity and Strings is a self-contained, pedagogical exposition of this theory, its foundations and its basic results. In Part I, the foundations are traced back to the very early special-relativistic field theories of gravity, showing how such theories lead to ... see all copies from $53.90! new only from $72.02! \| SVS
23 view cover	Quantum Gravity, Generalized Theory of Gravitation and Superstring Theory-Based Unification more books like this by Behram Kursunoglu (Editor), Stephan L Mintz (Editor), Arnold Perlmutter (Editor) add to wishlist Held December 16-919, 1999, this proceedings is derived from the Global Foundation Inc.'s Orbis Scientiae 1999. Topics include: cosmological parameters, unifying elementary particle physics, cosmology, superstrings, and black holes. see all copies from $99.00! new only from $181.65! \| first editions \| SVS
24	Matvei Petrovich Bronstein more books like this by Gennady Gorelik add to wishlist see all copies from $116.00! new only from $124.00! \| SVS
25	Random Surfaces and Quantum Gravity more books like this by Orlando Alvarez (Editor), Enzo Marinari (Editor), Paul Windey (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $43.07! new only from $175.00!

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