QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
by Richard P. Feynman | 
Physics of the Impossible
by Michio Kaku | 
Black Holes and Time Warps
by Kip S. Thorne | 
Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur
by Tom Lancaster | 
Nightwatch
by Terence Dickinson | 
The Character of Physical Law
by Richard P. Feynman | 
Einstein and the Quantum
by A. Douglas Stone | 
What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods
by Richard Courant | 
The Singularity Is Near
by Ray Kurzweil | 
Universe
by Martin Rees | 
The Machinery of Life
by David S. Goodsell | 
The Music of the Primes
by Marcus du Sautoy | 
Theoretical Physics
by Georg Joos | 
Murmurs of Earth
by Carl Sagan | 
Understanding the Universe
by Don Lincoln | 
Power, Sex, Suicide
by Nick Lane | 
The Ocean World
by Jacques-Yves Cousteau | 
Every Day On Earth
by Steve Murrie | 
The Tangled Web
by Michal Zalewski | 
Nature's Building Blocks
by John Emsley |
Quantum gravity poses 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 first part of the book discusses the reformulation of the basis of classical and quantum Hamiltonian physics required by general relativity. The second part covers the basic technical research directions. Appendices include a detailed history of the subject of quantum gravity, hard-to-find mathematical material, and a discussion of some philosophical issues raised by the subject. This fascinating text is ideal for graduate students entering the field, as well as researchers already working in quantum gravity. It will also appeal to philosophers and other scholars interested in the nature of space and time.