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Approaches to fundamental physics: an assessment of current theoretical ideas

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Author(s): Stamatescu, Ion-Olimpiu; Seiler, Erhard (eds.)
Series: Springer Lecture notes in physics 721
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2007

Language: English
Pages: 413
City: New York, NY etc
Tags: Physics;fysica

Content: - The Many-Fold Way of Contemporary High Energy Theoretical Physics.- Elementary Particle Theory.- The Standard Model of Particle Physics.- Beyond the Standard Model.- Quantum Field Theory.- Quantum Field Theory: Where We Are.- General Relativity Theory.- General Relativity.- Remarks on the Notions of General Covariance and Background Independence.- Quantum Gravity.- Why Quantum Gravity?.- The Canonical Approach to Quantum Gravity: General Ideas and Geometrodynamics.- Loop and Spin Foam Quantum Gravity: A Brief Guide for Beginners.- Loop Quantum Gravity: An Inside View.- Quantum Einstein Gravity: Towards an Asymptotically Safe Field Theory of Gravity.- String Theory.- String Theory: An Overview.- Cosmology.- Dark Energy.