PIRSA ID: 20040088
Series: Quantum Gravity
Event Type: Seminar
Scientific Area(s): Quantum Gravity
End date: 2020-04-16
Speaker(s): Carlo Rovelli
The covariant (spinfoam) formulation of loop gravity is a tentative physical quantum theory of gravity with well defined transition amplitudes. I give my current understanding of the state of the art in this research direction, the issues that are open and need to be explored, and the current attempts to use the theory to compute quantum effects in the early universe and in black hole physics.