Quantum gravity as a theory of quantized area bits fitting together
  Non-Abelian Gauss law is interpreted in terms of area bits described in a local frame which fit together into closed surfaces and the Non-Abelian Stokes law in terms of length bits described in a local frame which fit together into closed loops. A new equation relating the area variables and the phase space variables (or equivalently, angular momentum variables of the lattice Yang-Mills theory and phase space variables of the continuum theory) is obtained. Canonical quantization applied to these variables implies area quantization. A complete orthonormal basis of states satisfying the Gauss constraint is obtained.It has the interpretation of quantized area bits with undefined orientations and edges but fitting together into closed surfaces. 
H.S.Sharatchandra and H.Gopalkrishna Gadiyar