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Quantum Fluctuations of Spacetime

By Lawrence B. Crowell

Book information

Publisher
World Scientific Publishing Company
Year
2005
ISBN
9812565159, 9789812565150, 9789812703217
Open Library ID
OL18208142M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (19949178 bytes)
Series
World Scientific Series in Contemporary Chemical Physics
Pages
386\386
Time added
2011-01-08 23:22:23

Description

Three key aspects of quantum gravity are considered in this book: phenomenology, potential experimental aspects and foundational theory. The phenomenology is the treatment of metric quantum fluctuations as torsional curves that deviate from classical expectations. This leads to possible experimental configurations that may detect such fluctuations. Most of these proposed experiments are quantum optical measurements of subtle quantum gravity effects in the interaction of photons and atoms. The foundational discussions attempt to find an substratum to string theories, which are motivated by the phenomenological treatment. Quantum gravity is not the quantization of general relativity, but is instead the embedding of quantum theory and gravitation into a more fundamental field theoretic framework.

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