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We take our world to be an objective reality, but is it? The assumption that the physical world exists in and of itself has struggled to assimilate the findings of modern physics for some time now. For example, an objective space and time…

General Physics · Physics 2011-10-17 Brian Whitworth

Standard quantum mechanics employs complex Hilbert spaces, but whether complex numbers are fundamental or merely convenient has long been debated. For decades, real-valued equivalents were considered mathematically possible but cumbersome.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Alan C. Maioli , Evaldo M. F. Curado , Jean-Pierre Gazeau

A new functional calculus, developed recently for a fully non-perturbative treatment of quantum gravity, is used to begin a systematic construction of a quantum theory of geometry. Regulated operators corresponding to areas of 2-surfaces…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Abhay Ashtekar , Jerzy Lewandowski

In this paper we establish the existence of the non-perturbative theory of quantum gravity known as quantum holonomy theory by showing that a Hilbert space representation of the QHD(M) algebra, which is an algebra generated by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-18 Johannes Aastrup , Jesper M. Grimstrup

The developments of special relativity and quantum mechanics marked the beginning of the modern physics age. The former has taught us that while space and time are frame dependent notions, there is a quantity -- the space-time interval --…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Matheus Fritsch Savi , Renato Moreira Angelo

We construct a ring structure on complex cobordism tensored with the rationals, which is related to the usual ring structure as quantum cohomology is related to ordinary cohomology. The resulting object defines a generalized two-…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jack Morava

The author's attempt to construct a local causal model of quantum theory (QT) that includes quantum field theory (QFT) resulted in the identification of "quantum objects" as the elementary units of causality and locality. Quantum objects…

General Physics · Physics 2016-09-15 Hans H. Diel

General aspects of vielbein representation, ADM formulation and canonical quantization of gravity are reviewed using pure gravity in three dimensions as a toy model. The classical part focusses on the role of observers in general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Hans-Juergen Matschull

Quantum Theory, similar to Relativity Theory, requires a new concept of space-time, imposed by a universal constant. While velocity of light $c$ not being infinite calls for a redefinition of space-time on large and cosmological scales,…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Herbert Capellmann

After more than a century since its birth, Quantum Theory still eludes our understanding. If asked to describe it, we have to resort to abstract and ad hoc principles about complex Hilbert spaces. How is it possible that a fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-09 G. Chiribella , G. M. D'Ariano , P. Perinotti

If gravity respects quantum mechanics, it is important to identify the essential postulates of a quantum framework capable of incorporating gravitational phenomena. Such a construct likely requires elimination or modification of some of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Steven B. Giddings

Finsler geometry motivates a generalization of the Riemannian structure of spacetime to include dependence of the spacetime metric and associated invariant tensor fields on the four-velocity coordinates as well as the spacetime coordinates…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Howard E. Brandt

The ordinary quantum theory points out that general relativity is negligible for spatial distances up to the Planck scale. Consistency in the foundations of the quantum theory requires a``soft'' spacetime structure of the general relativity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-09-13 Peter Leifer

Quantum fields are shown to provide an example of infinite-dimensional quantum groups. A dictionary is established between quantum field and quantum group concepts: the expectation value over the vacuum is the counit, Wick's theorem is the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian Brouder , Robert Oeckl

We present a gravitational quantum dynamics theory that combines quantum field theory for particle dynamics in space-time with classical Einstein's general relativity in a non-Riemannian Finsler space. This approach is based on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-05 Ivano Tavernelli

In the "6D treatment of Special Relativity" proposed by Igor A. Urusovskii one deals with universal light-like motion of matter pre-elements in the extended (3+3) space and with their regular rotation in the additional 3-space. On the other…

General Physics · Physics 2012-09-12 V. V Kassandrov

Classical mechanics, relativity, electrodynamics and quantum mechanics are often depicted as separate realms of physics, each with its own formalism and notion. This remains unsatisfactory with respect to the unity of nature and to the…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 C. Baumgarten

The persistent debate about the reality of a quantum state has recently come under limelight because of its importance to quantum information and the quantum computing community. Almost all of the deliberations are taking place using the…

Popular Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 Mani L. Bhaumik

Although general relativity is a predictively successful theory, it treats matter as classical rather than as quantum. For this reason, it will have to be replaced by a more fundamental quantum theory of gravity. Attempts to formulate a…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2019-02-07 Christian Wuthrich

We try to define "our world" by stating that "we live in the quantum 4-dimensional Minkowski space-time with the force-fields gauge group $SU_c(3) \times SU_L(2) \times U(1) \times SU_f(3)$ built-in from the outset". We begin by explaining…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2015-06-30 W-Y. Pauchy Hwang