PARTS OF SPACETIME.
Consider the following pair of theses: (i) all fundamental physical objects are spatiotemporal and (ii) all non-fundamental physical objects are ultimately composed of fundamental objects. Work on the physics of quantum gravity suggests that spacetime is a non-fundamental, emergent phenomenon and th...
| Publicado en: | American Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 58; no. 4; pp. 387 - 398 |
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University of Illinois Press
Oct2021
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