What Becomes of a Causal Set?
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Publication:4554995
DOI10.1093/BJPS/AXV040zbMATH Open1400.83024arXiv1502.00018OpenAlexW2150275662MaRDI QIDQ4554995FDOQ4554995
Craig Callender, Christian Wüthrich
Publication date: 19 November 2018
Published in: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: Unlike the relativity theory it seeks to replace, causal set theory has been interpreted to leave space for a substantive, though perhaps 'localized', form of 'becoming'. The possibility of fundamental becoming is nourished by the fact that the analogue of Stein's theorem from special relativity does not hold in causal set theory. Despite this, we find that in many ways, the debate concerning becoming parallels the well-rehearsed lines it follows in the domain of relativity. We present, however, some new twists and challenges. In particular, we show that a novel and exotic notion of becoming is compatible with causal sets. In contrast to the 'localized' becoming considered compatible with the dynamics of causal set theory by its advocates, our novel kind of becoming, while not answering to the typical A-theoretic demands, is 'global' and objective.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.00018
Continuous lattices and posets, applications (06B35) Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27)
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- Mathematical reflections on locality
- Hopf algebras from poset growth models
- Causal theories of spacetime
- On the modal aspects of causal sets
- Have we lost spacetime on the way? Narrowing the gap between general relativity and quantum gravity
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