UNSPEAKABLES AND THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL PATH TOWARD QUANTUM GRAVITY

DOI10.1142/S0218271808012103zbMATH Open1153.83337arXiv0712.3242OpenAlexW1969638306MaRDI QIDQ3532157FDOQ3532157

Authors: Daniel Sudarsky 

Publication date: 3 November 2008

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We offer a critical assessment of some generic features of various of the current approaches towards the construction of a Theory of Quantum Gravity. We will argue that there is a need for further conceptual clarifications before such an enterprise can be launched on a truly well grounded setting, and that one of the guiding principles that can be viewed as part of the reasons for successes of the past theoretical developments is the identification of Unspeakables: Concepts that should not only play no role in the formulation of the theories, but ones that the formalism of the theory itself should prevent from ever been spoken about.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.3242

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum gravityepistemologyconceptual problems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-02)

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