On the empirical coherence and the spatiotemporal gap problem in quantum gravity: and why functionalism does not (have to) help

DOI10.1007/S11229-020-02659-3MaRDI QIDQ6144822zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Niels S. Linnemann

Publication date 30 January 2024

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02659-3

zbMATH Keywords

empirical coherenceempirical interpretationfunctionalismgeneral relativityquantum gravityspacespacetime functionalismtime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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