Squaring the circle: Gleb Wataghin and the prehistory of quantum gravity |
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| Institution: | 1. State Key Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;2. King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia;1. Center for Geometry and Physics, Institute for Basic Science, Pohang, Republic of Korea;2. Department of Mathematics, University of Hamburg, Germany |
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| Abstract: | The early history of the attempts to unify quantum theory with the general theory of relativity is depicted through the work of the Italian physicist Gleb Wataghin, who, in the context of quantum electrodynamics, has anticipated some of the ideas that the quantum gravity community is entertaining today. |
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| Keywords: | Quantum electrodynamics Quantum gravity Minimal length Discrete spacetime Absolute uncertainty Measurability Locality Lorentz invariance |
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