Mereological Models of Spacetime Emergence.
Recent work in quantum gravity has prompted a re‐evaluation of the fundamental nature of spacetime. Spacetime is potentially emergent from non‐spatiotemporal entities posited by a theory of quantum gravity. Recent efforts have sought to interpret the relationship between spacetime and the fundamenta...
| Published in: | Philosophy Compass Vol. 19; no. 7; pp. 1 - 20 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jul2024
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