Priority Monism Beyond Spacetime
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Spacetime is as spacetime does
Spacetime is as spacetime does
Have we lost spacetime on the way? Narrowing the gap between general relativity and quantum gravity
Space Emergence in Contemporary Physics: Why We Do Not Need Fundamentality, Layers of Reality and Emergence
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References
Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness
Monism: The Priority of the Whole
Covariant Loop Quantum Gravity: An Elementary Introduction to Quantum Gravity and Spinfoam Theory
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Q2. What is the reason why the theory breaks down at other domains?
the theory breaks down atother domains: when the authors zoom in closely to look at very small regions involving a high energy, thenotion of spacetime ceases to adequately describe the natural world.
Q3. What is the problem of spacetime emergence?
One might object that most of these dimensions are compactified (closed as circles) in such a way that spacetime emergence is not particularly problematic: the exotic dimensions only play a role at the fundamental scale, and as soon as the authors zoom out, these dimensions disappear.
Q4. How do the authors explain the predictive success of general relativity?
The authors need to account for its predictive success by relating the new theory of quantum gravity, for instance LQG, to general relativity, perhaps as an approximation under particular circumstances, or perhaps as a genuinely emergent structure.
Q5. What is the accurate description of the natural world?
Independently of which research program will turn out to be the most accurate description of thenatural world, it is very likely that general relativity qualifies as what physicists call an “effectivetheory”–namely one which describes correctly the world only for a particular domain of description(say, for a particular range of energy, see Crowther 2016).
Q6. How does it differ from classical priority monism?
It only departs itself from classical priority monism by approaching thefundamental structure as not being fundamentally spatial and temporal.