FRA FORSKNINGSFRONTEN WHEN THEORY BREAKS DOWN OUTSIDE OF THE LABORATORY: CONSIDERING (TWO OF) THE MOTIVATIONS FOR QUANTUM GRAVITY.
Driven neither by experiment nor anomalous observation, physicists are seeking a new fundamental theory of gravity—motivated, guided, and constrained by purely theoretical and philosophical concerns. Here, I briefly consider two of these issues: dreams of unification, and the resolution of spacetime...
| Publicado en: | Filosofisk Supplement Vol. 20; no. 2/3; pp. 36 - 46 |
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| Sumario: | Driven neither by experiment nor anomalous observation, physicists are seeking a new fundamental theory of gravity—motivated, guided, and constrained by purely theoretical and philosophical concerns. Here, I briefly consider two of these issues: dreams of unification, and the resolution of spacetime singularities. The discussion in this essay is based on a forthcoming book for the Cambridge Elements in Philosophy of Physics series, titled ‘Why do we want a theory of quantum gravity?’ Please keep an eye out for it (hopefully) later this year! |
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