Exploring the Quantum Universe

Project Information

EQU

Grant agreement ID: 291092

Project closed

Start date 1 July 2012

End date 30 June 2017

Funded under

• Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Total cost € 2 187 285,61

EU contribution € 2 187 285,61

Coordinated by

KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET
Denmark

Objective

"One of the main unsolved problems in theoretical physics today is to reconcile the theories of general relativity and quantum mechanics. The starting point of this proposal is a new background-independent theory of quantum gravity, which has been constructed from first principles as a sum over space-time histories and has already passed its first non-trivial tests. The theory can be investigated analytically as well as by Monte Carlo simulations. The aim is to verify that it is a viable theory of quantum gravity. Thus we want to show that it has the correct long-distance behaviour (classical Einstein gravity) and to investigate its short-distance behaviour in detail. We expect new physics to show up at the shortest distances, physics which might help us understand the origin of our universe and why the universe looks the way we observe today."

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

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• natural sciences › physical sciences › relativistic mechanics
• humanities › history and archaeology › history
• natural sciences › physical sciences › quantum physics
• natural sciences › physical sciences › theoretical physics

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Programme(s)

• FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Topic(s)

• ERC-AG-PE2 - ERC Advanced Grant - Fundamental constituents of matter

Call for proposal

ERC-2011-ADG_20110209
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Funding Scheme

ERC-AG - ERC Advanced Grant

Host institution

KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET

• EU contribution: € 2 187 285,50
• Address: NORREGADE 10 ; 1165 Kobenhavn ; Denmark
• Region: Danmark › Hovedstaden › Byen København
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Total cost: No data

Beneficiaries (1)

KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET

Denmark

• EU contribution: € 2 187 285,50
• Address: NORREGADE 10 ; 1165 Kobenhavn
• Region: Danmark › Hovedstaden › Byen København
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Total cost: No data