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Vanquishing Infinity

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Nicolai,  Hermann
Quantum Gravity & Unified Theories, AEI-Golm, MPI for Gravitational Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Nicolai, H. (2009). Vanquishing Infinity. Physics, 2: 70. doi:DOI: 10.1103/Physics.2.70.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0013-463A-0
Abstract
Quantum field theoretic extensions of Einstein’s theory of gravity tend to suffer from incurable infinities, but a theory called N=8 supergravity may actually avoid them—against expectations held for almost 30 years.