Steps towards "Quantum Gravity" and the practice of science: will the merger of mathematics and physics work?
Mathematical Physics
2014-11-20 v1 math.MP
Abstract
The author recalls general tendencies of the "mathematization" of the sciences and derives challenges and tentative obstructions for a successful merger of mathematics and physics on fancied steps towards "Quantum Gravity". This is an edited version of the author's opening words to an international workshop "Quantum Gravity: An Assessment", Denmark, May 17-18, 2008. It followed immediately after the Quantum Gravity Summer School 2008, see http://QuantumGravity.ruc.dk/
Cite
@article{arxiv.0911.4182,
title = {Steps towards "Quantum Gravity" and the practice of science: will the merger of mathematics and physics work?},
author = {Bernhelm Booss-Bavnbek},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.4182},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
To appear as part of a Springer Lecture Notes in Physics publication: "Quantum Gravity - New Paths towards Unification" (B. Booss-Bavnbek, G. Esposito, M. Lesch, Eds.)