Bagla, Jasjeet Singh
Gravity and the Quantum
1. Prof. Padmanabhan: A Personal and Professional History
Jasjeet Singh Bagla, Sunu Engineer
2. Measuring Baryon Acoustic Oscillations with Angular Two-Point Correlation Function
Jailson S. Alcaniz, Gabriela C. Carvalho, Armando Bernui, Joel C. Carvalho, Micol Benetti
3. Resonant Disruption of Binary Stars by a Catalytic Black Hole
C. M. Boily
4. Mechanics of Apparent Horizon in Two Dimensional Dilaton Gravity
Rong-Gen Cai, Li-Ming Cao
5. Boundary Terms of the Einstein–Hilbert Action
Sumanta Chakraborty
6. Decay of the Cosmic Vacuum Energy
Timothy Clifton, John D. Barrow
7. Understanding General Relativity After 100 Years: A Matter of Perspective
Naresh Dadhich
8. Piecewise Conserved Quantities
Tevian Dray
9. Units of the Nonlinear Universe
Sunu Engineer
10. Self-similarity and Criticality in Gravitational Collapse
Pankaj S. Joshi
11. Notes on Semiclassical Weyl Gravity
Claus Kiefer, Branislav Nikolić
12. Accelerated Observers, Thermal Entropy, and Spacetime Curvature
Dawood Kothawala
13. 100 Years of the Cosmological Constant: Past, Present and Future
Ofer Lahav
14. Pedagogical and Real Physics
Malcolm S. Longair
15. A Local Stress Tensor for Gravity Fields
D. Lynden-Bell
16. Nonlocal Infrared Modifications of Gravity. A Review
Michele Maggiore
17. Emergence of Gravity and RG Flow
Ayan Mukhopadhyay
18. Modelling Non-paradoxical Loss of Information in Black Hole Evaporation
Sujoy K. Modak, Daniel Sudarsky
19. Relativistic Paths: A Feynman Problem
Jayant V. Narlikar
20. Einstein Equations from/as Thermodynamics of Spacetime
Krishnamohan Parattu
21. Thoughts on 50 Years in Astrophysics and Cosmology and on What Comes Next
Martin J. Rees
22. Area Theorem: General Relativity and Beyond
Sudipta Sarkar
23. What Are the Atoms of the Space Time?
S. Shankaranarayanan
24. From Quantum to Classical in the Sky
Suprit Singh
25. Classical and Quantum: A Conflict of Interest
T. P. Singh
26. Four Principles for Quantum Gravity
Lee Smolin
27. What Do Detectors Detect?
L. Sriramkumar
28. Stability Longevity and All That: False Vacua and Topological Defects
Urjit A. Yajnik
Keywords: Physics, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
- Editor
- Bagla, Jasjeet Singh
- Engineer, Sunu
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2017
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Fundamental Theories of Physics
- Page amount
- 12 pages
- Category
- Natural Sciences
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783319517001
- Printed ISBN
- 978-3-319-51699-8