Thomas Thiemann’s “Modern Canonical Quantum General Relativity”

Disclaimer: I’m told that many of the books that I love are considered dry, boring, long, and unexciting in the eyes of others (I certainly don’t think they are in the least!). So my opinions on this book as fascinating ought to be taken in this light. (End of disclaimer.)
I’m not sure how long ago [...]

Interesting Paper on the Immirzi Parameter, and more…

In Loop Quantum Gravity, the Immirzi parameter is somewhat troubling…largely because it’s such an odd value.
It was once calculated to be some ugly value like:

Or something like that. Bizarre!
Well, a paper came out that argued that:
Microscopic state counting for a black hole in Loop Quantum Gravity yields a result proportional to horizon area, [...]