Quantum Cosmology and the Age of the Universe
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2025-02-06 v1 History and Philosophy of Physics
Abstract
In this article I study how the problem of time of canonical approaches to quantum gravity affects the simple minisuperspace models used in quantum cosmology. I follow some authors who have argued that this issue makes the quantization of general relativity problematic to conclude that the same applies in the case of quantum cosmology. In particular, I argue that temporal structures are lost in quantization and that this is a problem, as they encode part of the empirical content of classical cosmology, such as the age of the universe.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2502.03075,
title = {Quantum Cosmology and the Age of the Universe},
author = {Álvaro Mozota Frauca},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.03075},
year = {2025}
}