The Small Scale Structure of Space-Time: A Bibliographical Review

1995/06/26 by Phil E. Gibbs, Gibbs, Phil E. · 1 citation
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Algebraic and Geometric Analysis #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9506171

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Abstract

This essay is a tour around many of the lesser known pregeometric models of physics, as well as the mainstream approaches to quantum gravity, in search of common themes which may provide a glimpse of the final theory which must lie behind them.

Citations

• Event-Symmetric Physics
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• Mathematical Structure of Discrete Space-time

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