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Emergent Spacetime for Quantum Gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-10-10 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We emphasize that noncommutative (NC) spacetime necessarily implies emergent spacetime if spacetime at microscopic scales should be viewed as NC. In order to understand NC spacetime correctly, we need to deactivate the thought patterns that we have installed in our brains and taken for granted for so many years. Emergent spacetime allows a background-independent formulation of quantum gravity that will open a new perspective to resolve the notorious problems in theoretical physics such as the cosmological constant problem, hierarchy problem, dark energy, dark matter, and cosmic inflation.

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@article{arxiv.1610.00011,
  title  = {Emergent Spacetime for Quantum Gravity},
  author = {Hyun Seok Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.00011},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

10 pages, 2 figures; Plenary talk at the Second LeCosPA Symposium "Everything about Gravity", Taipei, 14-18 December, 2015

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