SPACETIME COMPOSITION, INTUITION AND FAMILIARITY.
Recent approaches to quantum gravity suggest that spacetime is not a fundamental entity but rather emerges from a non-spatiotemporal structure. To conceptualise how spacetime might emerge, it has been suggested that we should think of spacetime as being mereologically composed of spacetime regions w...
| Publicado en: | Cosmos & History Vol. 21; no. 2; pp. 318 - 329 |
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Ashton & Rafferty
2025
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