Miguel Campiglia, a postdoc at the Raman Research Institute (RRI), enjoying a traditional south Indian dish: masala dosa.
Madhavan Varadarajan (professor at RRI) not enjoying traditional South American drink: mate.

Isolated gravitating systems are modelled by asymptotically
flat space-times with the classical gravitational field subject to intricate and detailed asymptotic behaviour. The question we are interested in is: Is there a notion of an isolated quantum gravitating system? Specifically, can the classical
asymptotic conditions be suitably incorporated in quantum theory? Our work analyses this issue in the broad context of the Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) approach.

At first it may seem this cannot be possible: The fundamental excitations in LQG are Continue reading →