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Discrete or continuous? : the quest for fundamental length in modern physics / Amit Hagar, Indiana University.

By: Hagar, Amit 1969- [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: UK : Cambridge University Press , 2014Description: 267 pages : 26 cm.ISBN: 9781107062801 (hardback : alk. paper); 1107062802 (hardback : alk. paper).Subject(s): Space and time -- Philosophy | Length measurementDDC classification: 530.11
Contents:
Arguments from math -- Arguments from philosophy -- Electrodynamics, QED, and early QFT -- Quantum gravity : prehistory -- Einstein on the notion of length -- Quantum gravity : current approaches -- The proof is in the pudding -- Coda.
List(s) this item appears in: New 2020 (Winter & Spring)
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530.11 hag 2014 (Browse shelf) Available donated by Michael Weinman

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-263) and index.

Arguments from math -- Arguments from philosophy -- Electrodynamics, QED, and early QFT -- Quantum gravity : prehistory -- Einstein on the notion of length -- Quantum gravity : current approaches -- The proof is in the pudding -- Coda.

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