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Daniel
Apr24-04, 08:18 PM
<jabberwocky><div class="vbmenu_control"><a href="jabberwocky:;" onClick="newWindow=window.open('','usenetCode','toolbar=no, location=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,status=no ,width=650,height=400'); newWindow.document.write('<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Usenet ASCII</TITLE></HEAD><BODY topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 BGCOLOR=#F1F1F1><table border=0 width=625><td bgcolor=midnightblue><font color=#F1F1F1>This Usenet message\'s original ASCII form: </font></td></tr><tr><td width=449><br><br><font face=courier><UL><PRE>one of the challenges facing loop quantum gravity LQG is that although\nit is derived from GR, it has not yet been able to show that its\nlow-energy limit is GR.\n\nI wonder if spin networks or spin foam can form a coherent state that\napproximates a string, and i wonder whether the perturbative methods\nemployed in string theory can then be used on such "strings" to show\nGR as its classical limit, and quite possibly, construct other\nparticles.\n\n</UL></PRE></font></td></tr></table></BODY><HTML>');"> <IMG SRC=/images/buttons/ip.gif BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER ALT="View this Usenet post in original ASCII form">&nbsp;&nbsp;View this Usenet post in original ASCII form </a></div><P></jabberwocky>one of the challenges facing loop quantum gravity LQG is that although
it is derived from GR, it has not yet been able to show that its
low-energy limit is GR.

I wonder if spin networks or spin foam can form a coherent state that
approximates a string, and i wonder whether the perturbative methods
employed in string theory can then be used on such "strings" to show
GR as its classical limit, and quite possibly, construct other
particles.