Three roads to quantum gravity /

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"With a new postscript by the author"--Cover.Postscript (p. [212]-225) dated March 3, 2002.Originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000.Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-240) and index.Prologue: The quest for quantum gravity -- Pt. 1. Points of departure. There is nothing outside the universe -- In the future we shall know more -- Many observers, not many worlds -- The universe is made of processes, not things -- Pt. 2. What we have learned. Black holes and hidden regions -- Acceleration and heat -- Black holes are hot -- Area and information -- How to count space -- Knots, links and kinks -- The sound of space is a string -- Pt. 3. The present frontiers. The holographic principle -- How to weave a string -- What chooses the laws of nature? -- Epilogue: A possible future.

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New York, N.Y. : : Basic Books,., [2002]

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viii, 245 p. :ill. ;24 cm.

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English

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0465078362

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unmediated

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unmediated

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Quantum gravity.

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Lee Smolin.

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