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The time measurement problem in quantum cosmology

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2017-11-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Quantum Physics

Abstract

In the canonical approach to quantization of gravity, one often uses relational clock variables and an interpretation in terms of conditional probabilities to overcome the problem of time. In this essay we show that these suffer from serious conceptual issues.

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@article{arxiv.1705.07102,
  title  = {The time measurement problem in quantum cosmology},
  author = {Nirmalya Kajuri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.07102},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

5 pages. Received Honorable Mention in the 2017 Gravity Research Foundation essay competition

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