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Gravity is a macroscopic manifestation of a microscopic quantum theory of space-time, just as the theories of elasticity and hydrodynamics are the macroscopic manifestation of the underlying quantum theory of atoms. The connection of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-31 George F. Smoot

Based on recent results from general relativistic statistical mechanics and black hole information transfer limits a space-time entropy-action equivalence is proposed as a generalization of the holographic principle. With this conjecture,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-08 Joakim Munkhammar

We investigate a possible unified theory of all interactions which is based only on fundamental spinor fields. The vielbein and metric arise as composite objects. The effective quantum gravitational theory can lead to a modification of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Wetterich

A celebrated result by Jacobson is the derivation of Einstein's equations from Unruh's temperature, the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy and the Clausius relation. This has been repeatedly taken as evidence for an interpretation of Einstein's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-20 Goffredo Chirco , Hal M. Haggard , Aldo Riello , Carlo Rovelli

Whereas semiclassical gravity is based on the semiclassical Einstein equation with sources given by the expectation value of the stress-energy tensor of quantum fields, stochastic semiclassical gravity is based on the Einstein-Langevin…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-19 B. L. Hu , E. Verdaguer

We discuss and expand a new approach to the thermodynamics of scalar-tensor gravity and its diffusion toward general relativity (seen as an equilibrium state) proposed in a previous Letter [Phys. Rev. D 103, L121501 (2021)], upon which we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-05 Valerio Faraoni , Andrea Giusti , Andrea Mentrelli

We review a novel and authentic way to quantize gravity. This novel approach is based on the fact that Einstein gravity can be formulated in terms of a symplectic geometry rather than a Riemannian geometry in the context of emergent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-30 Jungjai Lee , Hyun Seok Yang

We test ideas of the recently proposed first-order thermodynamics of scalar-tensor gravity using an exact geometry sourced by a conformally coupled scalar field. We report a non-monotonic behaviour of the effective ``temperature of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-11 Numa Karolinski , Valerio Faraoni

In a previous work and in terms of an exact quantum-mechanical framework, $\hbar$-independent causal and retarded expectation values of the second-quantized electro-magnetic fields in the Coulomb gauge were derived in the presence of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-26 Bo-Sture K. Skagerstam , Karl-Erik Eriksson , Per K. Rekdal

We derive the quantum Einstein equations (which are the quantum generalisation of the Einstein equations of classical gravity) from Bohmian quantum gravity. Bohmian quantum gravity is a non-classical geometrodynamics (in the ADM formalism)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-11 Detlef Dürr , Ward Struyve

The unification of gravity with the three other forces has been an important goal of physics for some time now, because a quantum theory of gravity is necessary to explain the universe at its earliest moments. Its pursuit has largely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-22 Abhiram Chivukula

We propose an expression for the entropy density associated with the Local Causal Horizons in any diffeomorphism invariant theory of gravity. If the black-hole entropy of the theory satisfies the physical process version of the first law of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-07-26 Arif Mohd , Sudipta Sarkar

A remarkable new idea on the origin of gravity was recently proposed by Verlinde who claimed that the laws of gravitation are no longer fundamental, but rather emerge naturally as an entropic force. In Verlinde derivation, the equipartition…

General Physics · Physics 2018-10-09 A. Sheykhi , Z. Teimoori

We consider four-dimensional quadratic gravity coupled to infinite towers of free massive scalar fields, Weyl fermions and vector bosons. We find that for specific numbers of towers, finite cosmological and Newton constants are induced in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-24 Alex Kehagias , Hervé Partouche , Balthazar de Vaulchier

In this work we present a discussion of the existing links between the procedures of endowing the quantum gravity with a real time and of including in the theory a physical reference frame. More precisely, as first step, we develop the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Simone Mercuri , Giovanni Montani

The present work reveals a direct correspondence between modified theories of gravity (cosmology) and entropic cosmology based on the thermodynamics of apparent horizon. It turns out that due to the total differentiable property of entropy,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-01 Shin'ichi Nojiri , Sergei D. Odintsov , Tanmoy Paul , Soumitra SenGupta

We show how classical spacetime emerges from quantum gravity through the study of a quantum FRW cosmological model coupled to a free massive scalar field using a new asymptotic expansion method of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation. It is shown…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Sang Pyo Kim

There ought to exist a reformulation of quantum theory which does not depend on classical time. To achieve such a reformulation, we introduce the concept of an atom of space-time-matter (STM). An STM atom is a classical non-commutative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-17 Shounak De , Tejinder P. Singh , Abhinav Varma

The Einsteinian Theory of Gravitation ("General Theory of Relativity") is founded essentially; on the reception that the geometrical properties of the 4-dimensional space-time continuum are defined from the matter in it. Contrary to this,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Mattes

This article deals with the thermodynamics of gravitational radiation arising from the Bondi-Sachs space-time. The equation of state found allows us to conclude that the dependence of the energy density on the temperature is a quadratic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-10 S. C. Ulhoa , F. L. Carneiro , J. W. Maluf