Illusiveness of the problem of time
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2021-08-23 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract
The essay is devoted to the problem of time in the context of quantum cosmology, which acquires a philosophical level to date. At an example of the minisuperspace model, we show that this problem is illusive in the sense that it does not prevent to calculate mean values of the operators over the quantum state of the universe. Contrariwise, the different approaches to the description of these time-dependent mean values give similar results.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2005.06917,
title = {Illusiveness of the problem of time},
author = {Sergey L. Cherkas and Vladimir L. Kalashnikov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.06917},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
Essay written for the Gravity Research Foundation 2020. It is based on arXiv:2003.11284