| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 292 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover -- Philosophy Beyond Spacetime: Implications from Quantum Gravity -- Copright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- 1: Introduction -- Abstract -- 1.1 Searching for Spacetime -- 1.2 The Metaphysics of Spacetime Emergence -- 1.3 Methodological Issues -- References -- 2: Levels of Spacetime Emergence in Quantum Gravity -- Abstract -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Level 0: Classical and Quantum (Modified) General Relativity -- 2.3 Level 1: New Degrees of Freedom-Geometry and Spacetime as Emergent Entities |
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2.4 Level 2: Non-Geometric Phases-The Atoms of Space(time) Are Really Not Spatiotemporal -- 2.5 Level 3: Geometrogenesis-The Emergence of Spacetime via a Phase Transition as a Physical Process -- 2.6 An Analogy: From the Atoms to the Hydrodynamics of (Super)fluids -- 2.7 Conclusions -- References -- 3: On Dualities and Equivalences between Physical Theories -- Abstract -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.1.1 Prospectus: The Remark and the Implication -- 3.1.2 Relations to Other Work -- 3.2 A Schema for Duality -- 3.3 Interpreting Physical Theories -- 3.3.1 Intensional Semantics |
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3.3.2 Subject-Matters: (Contr) and (Diff) -- 3.3.3 Credo -- 3.4 Examples in Classical and Quantum Physics -- 3.4.1 (1): Newtonian Mechanics with Different Standards of Rest -- 3.4.2 (2): Position-Momentum Duality in Elementary Quantum Mechanics -- 3.5 An Implication about Theoretical Equivalence -- 3.5.1 A Warning about Jargon -- 3.5.2 The Implication: For Logical Equivalence -- 3.5.3 The Implication: For Weaker Notions of Equivalence -- 3.6 Envoi -- References -- 4: From Quantum Entanglement to Spatiotemporal Distance -- Abstract -- 4.1 Introduction |
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4.2 Constructing the Metric from Entanglement Entropy in the AdS/CFT Context -- 4.3 The Entanglement Entropy-Distance Link Beyond AdS/CFT: Area Laws -- 4.4 From Correspondence to Emergence? -- 4.5 Gluing with Entanglement? -- 4.6 Back to Ryu-Takayanagi and Black Hole Thermodynamics -- 4.7 No Support for Emergence -- 4.8 Conclusion -- References -- 5: Taking Up Superspace: The Spacetime Setting for Supersymmetric Field Theory -- Abstract -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Arriving at Spacetime Structure -- 5.2.1 Earman's Principle -- 5.2.1.1 Earman on Absolute Objects |
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5.2.1.2 Spacetime Symmetries from External Symmetries -- 5.2.2 The Geometrical Approach -- 5.2.3 The Dynamical Approach -- 5.2.4 Spacetime Functionalism -- 5.2.5 How to Do Things with Spacetime -- 5.3 Supersymmetric Field Theory and Superspace -- 5.3.1 What Is Supersymmetry? -- 5.3.2 Supernumbers and Superspace -- 5.3.2.1 Supernumbers -- 5.3.2.2 Superspace -- 5.4 On the Spatiotemporality of Superspace -- 5.4.1 The Three Approaches to Spacetime -- 5.4.1.1 Earman's Principle -- 5.4.1.2 The Dynamical Approach -- 5.4.1.3 Spacetime Functionalism -- 5.4.2 Chronometry in Superspace |
| Summary |
Philosophy Beyond Spacetime assesses the state of play in the philosophy of quantum gravity. Research in this field aims at a unified theory in which quantum matter is related dynamically to relativistic spacetime. This volume highlights the conceptual questions involved, showing how physics and metaphysics can illuminate each other |
| Notes |
5.4.2.1 What Is It to Be Spatial? |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed April 28, 2022) |
| Subject |
Quantum gravity -- Philosophy
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Space and time.
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Space and time
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wüthrich, Christian, editor.
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Le Bihan, Baptiste, editor.
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Huggett, Nick, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780192582461 |
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0192582461 |
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9780192582478 |
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019258247X |
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