Book contents
- Discrete or Continuous?The Quest for Fundamental Length in Modern Physics
- Discrete or Continuous?
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Arguments from math
- 3 Arguments from philosophy
- 4 Electrodynamics, QED, and early QFT
- 5 Quantum gravity: prehistory
- 6 Einstein on the notion of length
- 7 Quantum gravity: current approaches
- 8 The proof is in the pudding
- 9 Coda
- References
- Index
- Discrete or Continuous?The Quest for Fundamental Length in Modern Physics
- Discrete or Continuous?
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Arguments from math
- 3 Arguments from philosophy
- 4 Electrodynamics, QED, and early QFT
- 5 Quantum gravity: prehistory
- 6 Einstein on the notion of length
- 7 Quantum gravity: current approaches
- 8 The proof is in the pudding
- 9 Coda
- References
- Index
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- Type
- Chapter
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- Discrete or Continuous?The Quest for Fundamental Length in Modern Physics, pp. ix - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014