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A (strictly) contemporary perspective on trans-Planckian censorship

Schneider, Mike D. (2021) A (strictly) contemporary perspective on trans-Planckian censorship. [Preprint]

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Abstract

I critically discuss a controversial 'trans-Planckian censorship' conjecture, which has recently been introduced to researchers working at the intersection of fundamental physics and cosmology. My focus explicitly avoids any appeals to contingent research within string theory (the sociological origins of the conjecture) or regarding the more general (quantum) gravitational 'swampland'. Rather, I concern myself with the conjecture's foundations in our current, well-trodden physics of quantized fields, spacetime, and (classical) gravity. In doing so, I locate what exactly within trans-Planckian censorship amounts to a departure from current physics — identifying what is, ultimately, so conjectural about the conjecture.


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Item Type: Preprint
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Schneider, Mike D.schneider.michael.d@gmail.com
Keywords: trans-Planckian censorship conjecture; semiclassical gravity; quantum field theory on curved spacetime; quantum gravity phenomenology
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology
Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Gravity
Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Field Theory
Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
General Issues > Structure of Theories
Depositing User: Mike D. Schneider
Date Deposited: 19 Dec 2021 20:56
Last Modified: 19 Dec 2021 20:56
Item ID: 20027
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology
Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Gravity
Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Field Theory
Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
General Issues > Structure of Theories
Date: 2021
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/20027

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