Notes for a brief history of quantum gravity

2000/06/16 by Carlo Rovelli, Rovelli, Carlo · 4 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #gr-qc #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/0006061

Presented at the 9th Marcel Grossmann Meeting in Roma, July 2000. New revision, on the basis of numerous new inputs. Many thanks to everybody who wrote

arxiv created 2001/01/23 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

I sketch the main lines of development of the research in quantum gravity, from the first explorations in the early thirties to nowadays.

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