内容简介

This book is about only one approach to the subject - loop quantum gravity. It is a subject of considerable technical difficulty, and the literature devoted to it is a formidable one. This feature alone has hindered the cross-fertilization which is, as delineated above, so essential for progress. However, within these pages one will find a much more accessible description of the subject, put forward by one of its leading architects and deepest thinkers. The existence of such a fine book will allow this important subject, quite likely to contribute significantly to the unknown ultimate theory, to be assimilated by a much larger community of the-orists. If this does indeed come to pass, its publication will become one of the most important developments in this very active subfield since its onset.