Huggett, Nick and Wuthrich, Christian (2021) Out of Nowhere: Introduction: The emergence of spacetime. [Preprint]
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This is a chapter of the planned monograph "Out of Nowhere: The Emergence of Spacetime in Quantum Theories of Gravity", co-authored by Nick Huggett and Christian Wüthrich and under contract with Oxford University Press. (More information at https://beyondspacetime.net/.) This chapter introduces the problem of emergence of spacetime in quantum gravity. It introduces the main philosophical challenge to spacetime emergence and sketches our preferred solution to it.
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| Additional Information: | 26 pages, 1 figure | |||||||||
| Keywords: | Emergence of spacetime, empirical incoherence, physical salience, spacetime functionalism, quantum gravity, non-commutative geometry | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Gravity |
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| Depositing User: | Christian Wuthrich | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 19 Jan 2021 03:17 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 19 Jan 2021 03:17 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 18612 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Gravity |
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| Date: | 18 January 2021 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/18612 |
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