Out of Nowhere: Duality
History and Philosophy of Physics
2020-05-27 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
This is a chapter of the planned monograph "Out of Nowhere: The Emergence of Spacetime in Quantum Theories of Gravity", co-authored by Nick Huggett and Christian W\"uthrich and under contract with Oxford University Press. (More information at www.beyondspacetime.net.) This chapter investigates the meaning and significance of string theoretic dualities, arguing that they reveal a surprising physical indeterminateness to spacetime.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2005.12728,
title = {Out of Nowhere: Duality},
author = {Nick Huggett and Christian Wüthrich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.12728},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
32 pages, 2 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1509.06229