| | Carlo Rovelli: Quantum Gravity (review by Lubos Motl) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | The failure of LQG to reproduce anything from physics of gravity (not even local Lorentz invariance) indicates that we are not probably allowed to impose these new periodicities. |
 | | However, Rovelli seems to sell this obvious failure - the inability of LQG to predict anything new and/or explain the relations between anything we already know - as a good feature; in Chapter 10 he even uses the words "we did not have to unify gravity with other fields" as if unification were something undesirable. |
 | | Even before the Polish physicists did their calculation, the connections between the LQG area quantum and the ringing modes were known to be highly problematic: the required constant log(3) only appeared in the neutral fl holes in 4 dimensions, but other fl holes were leading to a different constant or no constant at all. |
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