Quantum Gravity
The Quest to Unify PhysicsBy Aira Astralis
Length1h 49m
About this audiobook
Quantum mechanics describes the very small with perfect success; general relativity describes gravity and the cosmos just as well; and the two cannot both be right. Quantum gravity is the theory that must reconcile them, and this book tells the hunt honestly: a century of the trade's finest minds, not one confirmed observation, and a natural scale, the Planck scale, that keeps the answer hidden twenty powers of ten below an atomic nucleus. In plain prose the story runs from the two pillars' quarrel to black holes, Hawking radiation, and the information paradox, through the two great wagers, string theory with its forced graviton and hidden dimensions, and loop quantum gravity with its atoms of space, to the holographic principle, emergent gravity, analog black holes in water and condensates, the sky's relentless nulls, and the growing suspicion that spacetime itself is woven from something deeper. No volume in this series tells a more honest story about the edge of the knowable.
Audiobook details
GenreEducation and Learning
Length1 hr 49 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 14, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Title Page
2Introduction
3Chapter 1: The Problem: Two Theories That Cannot Both Be Right
4Chapter 2: The Two Pillars, Each in Its Own Words
5Chapter 3: Why Naive Combining Fails: The Non-Renormalizable Mess
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6Chapter 4: The Planck Scale: Where the Collision Lives
7Chapter 5: Black Holes: The Collision Made Concrete
8Chapter 6: The Problem of Time
9Chapter 7: The Founding Attempt: The Wave Function of the Universe
10Chapter 8: String Theory I: The Idea
11Chapter 9: String Theory II: The Status and the Landscape
12Chapter 10: Loop Quantum Gravity: The Geometry of Webs
13Chapter 11: The Holographic Principle: Worlds in Flat Surfaces
14Chapter 12: The Other Candidates: A Bestiary
15Chapter 13: Emergent Gravity: The Thermodynamic Suspicion
16Chapter 14: The Graviton: The Quantum Nobody Will See
17Chapter 15: The First Instant: Quantum Gravity and the Origin
18Chapter 16: Analog Gravity: Black Holes in the Laboratory
19Chapter 17: The Experimental Strategies I: Watching the Sky
20Chapter 18: The Experimental Strategies II: The Tabletop
21Chapter 19: The Information Battle: Firewalls, Islands, and the Quantum Redemption
22Chapter 20: The Strings and Loops Culture: A Sociology of Two Wagers
23Chapter 21: What Is Spacetime? The Question Beneath the Physics
24Chapter 22: Fun Facts and Trivia About Quantum Gravity
25Chapter 23: Conclusion: The Significance of Quantum Gravity
26Conclusion
27References: Quantum Gravity
28Glossary
29About the Author
30Series Info
31Copyright
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