Einstein-Online Spotlights: Special Loops '05 Edition

Between October 10 and 14, 2005, the international conference Loops '05 takes place at Albert Einstein Institute in Potsdam, Germany. On this occasion, Einstein-Online has published three spotlight topics (in the category Relativity and the Quantum) highlighting some of the conference's main issues.

	The fabric of space: spin networks The nature of space in loop quantum gravity (includes links to a visualization), by Thomas Thiemann
	Geometry from order: causal sets An overview of the causal set approach to a theory of quantum gravity, by Rafael Sorkin
	Actors on a changing stage : quantum gravity and background independence The principle of background independence - space and time are no fixed structure, but take part in the dynamical evolution of the world - and its consequences for the problem of quantum gravity, by Lee Smolin

More (but also: more technical) information about the talks at the Loops '05 conference can be found on the

Conference website for Loops '05