Effective Spacetime: Understanding Emergence in Effective Field Theory and Quantum GravitySpringer, 2016 M07 7 - 205 páginas This book discusses the notion that quantum gravity may represent the "breakdown" of spacetime at extremely high energy scales. If spacetime does not exist at the fundamental level, then it has to be considered "emergent", in other words an effective structure, valid at low energy scales. The author develops a conception of emergence appropriate to effective theories in physics, and shows how it applies (or could apply) in various approaches to quantum gravity, including condensed matter approaches, discrete approaches, and loop quantum gravity. |
Contenido
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2 Emergence and Reduction | 38 |
3 Effective Field Theory | 59 |
4 Universality Higher Organising Principles and Emergence | 101 |
5 Spacetime as Described by EFT | 129 |
6 Discrete Approaches to Quantum Gravity | 146 |
7 Loop Quantum Gravity | 179 |
Now Here from Nowhere | 202 |
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account of emergence analogue models approaches to quantum approximation argue asymptotic safety autonomy background independence Batterman behaviour bottom-up Cao and Schweber causal set causal set theory claim classical conception of emergence condensed matter physics considered continuum coupling constants CQFT critical phenomena cutoff decoherence defined definition degrees of freedom derivation described diffeomorphism invariance discrete approaches domains dynamics effective field theory emergent spacetime energy scale equations explain failure of reduction final theory fixed point fundamental gauge geometry Hamiltonian high-energy physics high-energy theory Hilbert space Huggett idea of emergence interactions Lagrangian limit loop low-energy physics Markopoulou means metric micro-theory Modern Physics Morrison non-renormalisable novelty ontological parameters particle phase transition Physical Review predictions principle problem quantisation quantum field theory quantum gravity quantum theory relation renormalisable theory renormalisation represent Rovelli sense spacetime spin foam spin network structure supervenience symmetry symmetry-breaking thermodynamics underdetermination Wüthrich