The Problem of Time Quantum Mechanics Versus General Relativity /

• Main Author: Anderson, Edward (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Fundamental Theories of Physics, 190
• Subjects: Physics.; Mathematical physics.; Gravitation.; Cosmology.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Mathematical Physics.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.

This book is a treatise on time and on background independence in physics. It first considers how time is conceived of in each accepted paradigm of physics: Newtonian, special relativity, quantum mechanics (QM) and general relativity (GR). Substantial differences are moreover uncovered between what...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Part I Problem of Time at the Classical Level
• Temporal Relationalism
• Configurational Relationalism
• The Internal Time Alternative
• Brackets and Constraint Closure
• The Problem of Beables
• Records, Histories and Combined Schemes
• Diffeomorphism-specific issues
• Classical Problem of Time in the Halliwell-Hawking Model
• Global Problems of Time at the Classical Level
• Part II Problem of Time at the Quantum Level
• Quantization
• Problem of Time Facets at the Quantum Level
• Strategies for dealing with the Quantum Frozen Formalism Problem
• These strategies for models with nontrivial Configurational Relationalism
• Strategies for the Quantum Problem of Beables
• Strategies for the Quantum Constraint Closure, Foliation Dependence and Spacetime Reconstruction Problems
• Quantum Problem of Time in the Halliwell-Hawking Model
• Quantum Global Problems of Time and Multiple Choice Problem
• A. Toy Models used in this Book
• B. Levels of Structure.