A dilemma for the emergence of spacetime in canonical quantum gravity

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2012.03.003zbMath1281.83014OpenAlexW2088031940WikidataQ98469694 ScholiaQ98469694MaRDI QIDQ2436264

Michael Esfeld, Vincent Lam

Publication date: 21 February 2014

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/9074/1/Lam-Esfeld2012.doc

zbMATH Keywords

spacetimequantum entanglementemergenceloop quantum gravityquantum geometrodynamicsnon-separabilitystructural realismquantum superpositionlocal beables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Physics (00A79) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40)

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