Notes for a brief history of quantum gravity

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I sketch the main lines of development of the research in quantum gravity, from the first explorations in the early thirties to nowadays.

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The Universe in a Helium Droplet (2003, background): “The ultraviolet divergences in the quantum theory of gravity are even more crucial, and after 70 years of research quantum gravity is still far from realization in spite of numerous magnificent achievements (Rovelli 2000).”
Dark matter and fundamental physics with the Cherenkov Telescope Array (2012, background): “A fully quantum theory of gravity (QG) is still beyond our grasp although there has been significant progress towards this goal in various approaches such as superstring theory and loop quantum gravity [155].”
TASI lectures on black holes in string theory (2000, background): “as the best candidate for a uniﬁed quantum theory of all interactions including gravity. Other approaches to quantum gravity, such as “quantum geometry”, have been recently discussed in works such as [1, 2, 3]. Other relatively recent reviews of black hole entropy in string theory have appeared in [”