Effective Spacetime Understanding Emergence in Effective Field Theory and Quantum Gravity /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Crowther, Karen (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Θέματα: Physics.; Gravitation.; Cosmology.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.

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 energ...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction: Spacetime and quantum gravity
• Emergence and reduction
• Effective field theory
• Universality, higher organising principles and emergence
• Spacetime as described by EFT
• Discrete approaches to quantum gravity
• Loop quantum gravity
• Conclusion: Now here from nowhere.