Out of Nowhere: Introduction: The emergence of spacetime
History and Philosophy of Physics
2021-01-19 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 https://beyondspacetime.net/.) This chapter introduces the problem of emergence of spacetime in quantum gravity. It introduces the main philosophical challenge to spacetime emergence and sketches our preferred solution to it.
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@article{arxiv.2101.06955,
title = {Out of Nowhere: Introduction: The emergence of spacetime},
author = {Nick Huggett and Christian Wuthrich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.06955},
year = {2021}
}
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26 pages, 1 figure