Suppressing spacetime emergence.
One of the primary tasks in building a quantum theory of gravity is discovering how to save spatiotemporal phenomena using a theory which, putatively, does not include spacetime. Some have taken this task a step further and argue for the actual emergence of spacetime from a non-spatiotemporal ontolo...
| Publicado en: | Studies in History & Philosophy of Science Part A Vol. 88; pp. 50 - 60 |
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Elsevier B.V.
Aug2021
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