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The goal of Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) is to take two extremely well-developed and successful theories, General Relativity and Quantum Field Theory, at “face value” and attempt to combine them into a single theory with a minimum of assumptions and deviations from established physics.

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  1. Department of Physics, National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, Karnataka, India

    Deepak Vaid

  2. School of Chemistry and Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Sundance Bilson-Thompson

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Vaid, D., Bilson-Thompson, S. (2017). Introduction. In: LQG for the Bewildered. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43184-0_1

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