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Yang�Mills gravity is a new theory, consistent with experiments, that brings gravity back to the arena of gauge field theory and quantum mechanics in flat space-time. It provides solutions to long-standing difficulties in physics, such as the incompatibility between Einstein’s principle of general coordinate invariance and modern schemes for a quantum mechanical description of nature, and Noether’s �Theorem II� which showed that the principle of general coordinate invariance in general relativity leads to the failure of the law of conservation of energy. Yang�Mills gravity in flat space-time appears to be more physically coherent than conventional gravity in curved space-time. The problems of quantization of the gravitational field, the operational meaning of space-time coordinates and momenta, and the conservation of energy-momentum are all resolved in Yang�Mills gravity.The aim of this book is to provide a treatment of quantum Yang�Mills gravity, with an emphasis on the ideas and evidence that the gravitational field is the manifestation of space-time translational symmetry in flat space-time, and that there exists a fundamental space-time symmetry framework that can encompass all of physics, including gravity, for all inertial and non-inertial frames of reference.Typham this is the title: Space-Time Symmetry and Quantum Yang�Mills Gravity: How Space-Time Translational Gauge Symmetry Enables the Unification of Gravity with Other Forces