Beyond Spacetime: The Foundations of Quantum Gravity

ISBN-13: 9781108477024 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 370 str.

Nick Huggett; Keizo Matsubara; Christian Wuthrich

Opis

A collection of essays discussing the philosophy and foundations of quantum gravity. Written by leading philosophers and physicists in the field, chapters cover the important conceptual questions in the search for a quantum theory of gravity, and the current state of understanding among philosophers and physicists.

Spis treści

1. Introduction Nick Huggett, Keizo Matsubara and Christian Wüthrich; Part I. Spacetime Emergence: 2. The Bronstein hypercube of quantum gravity Daniele Oriti; 3. Emergence of time in loop quantum gravity Suddhasattwa Brahma; 4. Beyond standard inflationary cosmology Robert H. Brandenberger; 5. What black holes have taught us about quantum gravity Daniel Harlow; Part II. Time in Quantum Theories of Gravity: 6. Space and time in loop quantum gravity Carlo Rovelli; 7. Being and becoming on the road to quantum gravity, or, the birth of a baby is not a baby Fay Dowker, Allan A. Smith, Ben B. Jones and Carol C. Smith; 8. Temporal relationalism Lee Smolin; 9. Back to parmenides Henrique Gomes; Part III. Issues of Interpretation: 10. Why black hole information loss is paradoxical David Wallace; 11. Chronic incompleteness, final theory claims, and the lack of free parameters in string theory Richard Dawid; 12. Spacetime and physical equivalence Sebastian De Haro; 13. On the empirical consequences of the AdS/CFT duality Radin Dardashti, Richard Dawid, Sean Gryb and Karim Thébault; 14. Extending Lewisian modal metaphysics from a specific quantum gravity perspective Tiziana Vistarini; 15. What can (mathematical) categories tell us about spacetime? Ko Sanders; Index.