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Space Emergence in Contemporary Physics: Why We Do Not Need Fundamentality, Layers of Reality and Emergence.

'Space does not exist fundamentally: it emerges from a more fundamental non-spatial structure.' This intriguing claim appears in various research programs in contemporary physics. Philosophers of physics tend to believe that this claim entails either that spacetime does not exist, or that it is deri...

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Published in:Disputatio: International Journal of Philosophy Vol. 10; no. 49; pp. 71 - 96
Main Author: Le Bihan, Baptiste
Format: Article
Published: Paradigm Publishing Services 2018
Subjects:
Spacetime
Quantum mechanics
Wave functions
Metaphysics
Quantum gravity
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