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Prima facie questions in quantum gravity

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Based on a lecture given at the “Seminar in Memory of David Bohm”, London, May 1993; and lectures given at the UK Institute for Particle Physics, St. Andrews, Scotland, September 1993.

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J. Ehlers H. Friedrich

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Isham, C.J. (1994). Prima facie questions in quantum gravity. In: Ehlers, J., Friedrich, H. (eds) Canonical Gravity: From Classical to Quantum. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 434. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58339-4_13

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