I Questions about quantum cosmology

[kodama]

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what is the current status of the field for quantum cosmology, are there any observations that support any theory of quantum cosmology?

is it just cosmology during the Planck era or does it extend past the Planck era.

what are the leading candidates into research into quantum cosmology and which physics departments research it?

how much respect does loop quantum cosmology has compared to string cosmology with actual cosmologists?

 

[sbrothy]

Since this question is a day old and noone answered you’re gonna get a hack answer:

It’s a diverse field. There’s as you you’ve ascertained LQC. Also Alain Conne’s Noncmmutative geometry, casual dynamical triangulation, twister theory, asymptotic safety and a couple of others. Penrose and Woit seems to be going with the twister idea.

All this is way over my head though, so maybe someone who knows what they’re talking about would like to comment…?

 

[sbrothy]

As far as observations and experiments go I think it’s pretty barren. It’s simply too high energy to probe. LIGO/VIRGO may be the closest yet.

EDIT: But again: I’m just a hack.

 

[sbrothy]

Oh and just for the record. I realize you asked about quantum cosmology but I implicitly took that to mean quantum gravity.

As I said, I’m just a hack.

 

[pinball1970]

https://arxiv.org/list/gr-qc/recent

As per @sbrothy well above my pay grade.