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The goal of this work is to contribute to the development of a background-independent, non-perturbative approach to quantization of the gravitational field based on the conformal and projective structures of space-time. But first I attempt to dissipate some mystifications about the meaning of quantization, and foster an ecumenical, non-competitive approach to the problem of quantum gravity (QG), stressing the search for relations between different approaches in any overlapping regions of validity. Then I discuss some topics for further research based on the approach we call unimodular conformal and projective relativity (UCPR).
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Stachel, J. (2014). Quantum Gravity: A Heretical Vision. In: Sidharth, B., Michelini, M., Santi, L. (eds) Frontiers of Fundamental Physics and Physics Education Research. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 145. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00297-2_16
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