Out of Nowhere: The emergence of spacetime from causal sets

Abstract

This is a chapter of the planned monograph "Out of Nowhere: The Emergence of Spacetime in Quantum Theories of Gravity", co-authored by Nick Huggett and Christian Wüthrich and under contract with Oxford University Press. (More information at www.beyondspacetime.net.) This chapter sketches how spacetime emerges in causal set theory and demonstrates how this question is deeply entangled with genuinely philosophical concerns.

32 pages, 5 figures

References in corpus (3)

• The Confrontation between General Relativity and Experiment
• The causal set approach to quantum gravity
• The birth of spacetime atoms as the passage of time