  We argue that String Theory and Loop Quantum Gravity can be thought of as
describing different regimes of a single unified theory of quantum gravity. LQG
can be thought of as providing the pre-geometric exoskeleton out of which
macroscopic geometry emerges and String Theory then becomes the
\emph{effective} theory which describes the dynamics of that exoskeleton. The
core of the argument rests on the claim that the Nambu-Goto action of String
Theory can be viewed as the expectation value of the LQG area operator
evaluated on the string worldsheet. A concrete result is that the string
tension of String Theory and the Barbero-Immirzi parameter of LQG turn out to
be proportional to each other.
