A Specimen of Theory Construction from Quantum Gravity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-09-25 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
I describe the history of my attempts to arrive at a discrete substratum underlying the spacetime manifold, culminating in the hypothesis that the basic structure has the form of a partial-order (i.e. that it is a causal set).
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9511063,
title = {A Specimen of Theory Construction from Quantum Gravity},
author = {Rafael D. Sorkin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9511063},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
16 pages, plainTeX. Figures not included but available on request from the Author. To be published in: "The Creation of Ideas in Physics", ed. Jarrett Leplin, (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1995)