Quantum Gravity in a Nutshell 1

This math-free book is a good introduction to quantum gravity and has a lot of interesting history about the development of the theory since 1899. It's an informal introduction to a very difficult and doubtfully intelligible theory.- doubted even by its most ingenious contributors. The reader should expect that he/she will have to concentrate hard on what Balungi says but the rewards are significant. He is a talented physicist and a good writer. If you read it carefully and stop to think about the message as it unfolds then you will get a worthwhile if imperfect picture of what the theory is saying and how it was invented,It's buried treasure and you will have to do some digging. It is a really serious attempt to do all that can be done in an informal style. Balungi explains and re-defines Einstein's theory of general relativity, quantum mechanics, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, elementary particles, gravity, and the nature of the mind. This wonderful and exciting book is optimal for physics graduate students and researchers. Not since Stephen W Hawking's celebrated best-seller Brief History of Time has physics been so vividly, intelligently and entertainingly revealed.

Table of Contents

Dedication vii

Preface viii

Chapter 1.Solving Quantum Gravity 1

Chapter2.Murder of Germans Sacred Cow: Experimental Test of General Relativity 21

Chapter3. How to Calculate a Mysterious Repulsive Force Pulling Galaxies Apart 28

Chapter4: Is There A Limit To How Small Black Holes Can Become? 33

Chapter5. Particle Emission from Black Holes 36

Chapter6. A Brief Account on the Lowest Possible Energy State of the Hydrogen Atom and the Chandrasekhar Mass Limit 44

Chapter7. A Brief Account on the Implications of Quantum Gravity 49

Chapter8. A Semi- Classical Theory of Gravito-Magnetism 53

Chapter9. On The Quantum Electrodynamics And Quantum Gravity Magnetic Field Limits. 58

CHAPTER10. On The Derivation of the Temperature and Entropy of Black Holes 62

Chapter11. A Unique Theory of Black Hole Thermodynamics 67

Chapter12. A Unified Bohr and Quantum Gravity Theory 72

Chapter13. Everything 76

Chapter14. The Theory of Light 80

Chapter15. The Bekenstein-Hawking Area-Entropy Law 88

Chapter16. Making Sense with Semi-Classical Gravity 92

Chapter17. The Art of Reductionism 101

Chapter18. Construction of a Consistent Physical Theory of Nature 103

Chapter19. A Simpler Schrödinger Equation 109

Chapter20. The Earliest Period of Time in the History of the Universe 111

Chapter21. New Physics: Regularization and Physics beyond the Standard Model 113

Chapter22: A Grand Unification 122

Chapter23: Is It Possible That There Is A Universe In Every Particle? 133

Chapter24: The Principle of Least Action: An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Quantum Gravity 136

CHAPTER25: Newton’s Biggest Blunder: Re-defining Gravity 147

Chapter26: on the origin of gravity, electricity and the laws of Newton 151

Final Notice: A Modification of the Newtonian Dynamics and General relativity in a limit of Small Accelerations in the Presence of the Electric and Magnetic Fields 156

Additional Readings161