论文标题
无处不在:时空的出现
Out of Nowhere: The emergence of spacetime from causal sets
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论文摘要
这是计划中的专着“无处不在:量子重力理论中时空的出现”的一章,由尼克·休格特(Nick Huggett)和克里斯蒂安·瓦特里奇(ChristianWüthrich)合着,并与牛津大学出版社(Oxford University Press)合同。 (更多信息,请访问www.beyondspacetime.net。)本章概述了时空如何出现在因果集理论中,并演示了这个问题如何与真正的哲学问题深深地纠缠在一起。
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 www.beyondspacetime.net.) This chapter sketches how spacetime emerges in causal set theory and demonstrates how this question is deeply entangled with genuinely philosophical concerns.