title: Loop Quantum Gravity: " A Theory of Quantum Space-Time "
author: Edited by Paul F. Kisak
description: The editor has degrees in Engineering Physics & Nuclear Engineering from the University of Michigan and is an Engineer & Former Intelligence Officer for the CIA & US Intelligence Community and was President of an award-winning Defense Contracting Company. He has authored several books, edited numerous other books and has written over 75 Technical, Classified & Unclassified papers, Articles & Essays. He has also been a Contributing Author for The International Encyclopedia on Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence and written several award-winning software manuals that have been sold in more than a dozen countries. He has appeared in Marquis Whos Who in the World & Whos Who in Science & Engineering and continues to edit and write.
zlib_text: Q U A N T U M G R A V I T Y
  
  Loop gravity combines general relativity and quantum theory but it leaves no
  room for space as we know it – only networks of loops that turn space–time
  into spinfoam Loop quantum gravity
  
  Carlo Rovelli
  
  GENERAL relativity and quantum the-
  
  ture – as a sort of “stage” on which mat-
  
  ory have profoundly changed our view
  
  ter moves independently. This way of
  
  of the world. Furthermore, both theo-
  
  understanding space is not, however, as
  
  ries have been verified to extraordinary
  
  old as you might think; it was introduced
  
  accuracy in the last several decades.
  
  by Isaac Newton in the 17th century.
  
  Loop quantum gravity takes this novel
  
  Indeed, the dominant view of space that
  
  view of the world seriously, by incorpo-
  
  was held from the time of Aristotle to
  
  rating the notions of space and time
  
  that of Descartes was that there is no
  
  from general relativity directly into
  
  space without matter. Space was an
  
  quantum field theory. The theory that
  
  abstraction of t