A dilemma for the emergence of spacetime in canonical quantum gravity

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2012.03.003MaRDI QIDQ2436264zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Vincent Lam, Michael Esfeld

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

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zbMATH Keywords

emergencelocal beablesloop quantum gravitynon-separabilityquantum entanglementquantum geometrodynamicsquantum superpositionspacetimestructural realism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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