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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 721)
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This book represents in the ?rst place the desire of the authors of the various contributions to enter a discussion about the research landscape of prese- day fundamental theoretical physics. It documents their attempt, out of their highly specialized scienti?c positions, to ?nd a way of communicating about methods, achievements, and promises of the di?erent approacheswhich shape the development of this ?eld. It is therefore also an attempt to bring out the connections between these approaches, and present them not as disjoint ventures but rather as facets of a common quest for understanding. Whether in competition to each other or in collaboration, the ‘many-fold ways’ of contemporary physics are characterized by a number of exciting ?ndings (and questions) which appear more and more interrelated. Moreover, in the historical development of science, the steadily arriving new empi- cal information partly supports, partly contradicts the existing theories, and partly brings forth unexpected results forcing a total reorientationupon us. If we are lucky, the beginning of this century may prove to be as grand as that of the last one. Itisnotaneasytaskinasituationsomuchinmovementandinwhich variousapproachesstriveforcompletion,topromoteaconstructiveinteraction between these and to achieve a level of mutual understanding on which such an interaction can be fruitful. Nearly all of the authors contributing to this book have been participating in a working group dedicated exactly to this task; this group met in many sessions over several years. This book is to a large extent the result of these discussions.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Front Matter
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Elementary Particle Theory
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Front Matter
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Quantum Field Theory
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Front Matter
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General Relativity Theory
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Front Matter
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Quantum Gravity
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Front Matter
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String Theory
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Cosmology
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Reviews
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"This book is a summary of the latest developments and ideas on the problem of Quantum Gravity. … The author gives an extensive and extremely clear description of the experimental cosmological results. … nicely describes the limitations those experimental results impose on the creativity of the theoretical physicists. … if you want to learn where currently stand the boundaries of knowledge on the quantification of the gravitational field, and if you are not easily afraid of technicalities, this is the book you want to read." (Christophe Laforge, Belgian Physical Society Magazine, Issue 2, June, 2009)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Approaches to Fundamental Physics
Book Subtitle: An Assessment of Current Theoretical Ideas
Editors: Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu, Erhard Seiler
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71117-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-71115-5Published: 09 October 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09021-9Published: 30 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-71117-9Published: 28 September 2007
Series ISSN: 0075-8450
Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 422
Number of Illustrations: 43 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Physics, general