Emergent spacetime and empirical (in)coherence

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2012.11.003zbMath1281.83013arXiv1206.6290OpenAlexW3098597085MaRDI QIDQ2436263

Christian Wüthrich, Nick Huggett

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: https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.6290

zbMATH Keywords

spacetimequantum gravitynon-commutative geometrystring theoryloop quantum gravitycausal set theoryempirical incoherence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Methods of noncommutative geometry in general relativity (83C65) Physics (00A79)

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