Space, Time, Matter in Quantum Gravity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2021-04-14 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
History and Philosophy of Physics
Abstract
The concepts of space, time, and matter are of central importance in any theory of the gravitational field. Here I discuss the role that these concepts might play in quantum theories of gravity. To be concrete, I will focus on the most conservative approach, which is quantum geometrodynamics. It turns out that spacetime is absent at the most fundamental level and emerges only in an appropriate limit. It is expected that the dynamics of matter can only be understood from a fundamental quantum theory of all interactions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2004.03174,
title = {Space, Time, Matter in Quantum Gravity},
author = {Claus Kiefer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.03174},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
18 pages, to appear in "Hundred Years of Gauge Theory", ed. by S. De Bianchi and C. Kiefer, Springer 2020