2015/07/29 by Steven Carlip, Dah-Wei Chiou, Wei-Tou Ni +1
Physics and Astronomy · #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.1142/s0218271815300281
published as Int. J. Mod. Phys. D, Vol. 24, No. 11 (2015) 1530028 · Invited review article. A few parts based on arXiv:1410.1486 and arXiv:1412.4362. To appear in Int. J. Mod. Phys. D and in "One Hundred Years of General Relativity: From Genesis and Empirical Foundations to Gravitational Waves, Cosmology and Quantum Gravity," edited by Wei-Tou Ni (World Scientific, Singapore, 2015)
arxiv created 2015/07/29 · arxiv updated 2016/02/03
We present a bird's-eye survey on the development of fundamental ideas of quantum gravity, placing emphasis on perturbative approaches, string theory, loop quantum gravity, and black hole thermodynamics. The early ideas at the dawn of quantum gravity as well as the possible observations of quantum gravitational effects in the foreseeable future are also briefly discussed.