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Spacetime emergence: an (in)effective story
Mike D. Schneider
Physicists and philosophers are increasingly prone to regarding our current physical theories as providing 'effective descriptions' of real-world systems. In the context of quantum…
The Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration: History, Philosophy, and Culture
Peter Galison, Juliusz Doboszewski, Jamee Elder +22
This white paper outlines the plans of the History Philosophy Culture Working Group of the Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.
Empty space and the (positive) cosmological constant
Mike D. Schneider
I discuss empty space, as it appears in the physical foundations of relativistic field theories and in the semiclassical study of isolated systems. Of particular interest is the re…
Optimal Control From Inverse Scattering via Single-Sided Focusing
Michael D. Schneider, Caleb Miller, George F. Chapline +2
We describe an algorithm to solve Bellman optimization that replaces a sum over paths determining the optimal cost-to-go by an analytic method localized in state space. Our approac…
On efforts to decouple early universe cosmology and quantum gravity phenomenology
Mike D. Schneider
The Big Bang singularity in standard model cosmology suggests a program of study in 'early universe' quantum gravity phenomenology. Inflation is usually thought to undermine this p…
Trans-Planckian Philosophy of Cosmology
Mike D. Schneider
I provide some philosophical groundwork for the recently proposed 'trans-Planckian censorship' conjecture in theoretical physics. In particular, I argue that structure formation in…
A (strictly) contemporary perspective on trans-Planckian censorship
Mike D. Schneider
I critically discuss a controversial 'trans-Planckian censorship' conjecture, which has recently been introduced to researchers working at the intersection of fundamental physics a…
Quantum Gravity in a Laboratory?
Nick Huggett, Niels Linnemann, Mike Schneider
It has long been thought that observing distinctive traces of quantum gravity in a laboratory setting is effectively impossible, since gravity is so much weaker than all the other…
A Role for the Fauxrizon in the Semiclassical Limit of a Fuzzball
Mike D. Schneider
Recent work on the status of astrophysical modeling in the wake of quantum gravity indicates that a 'fauxrizon' (portmanteau of 'faux horizon'), such as is relevant to understandin…
Would Two Dimensions be World Enough for Spacetime?
Samuel C. Fletcher, John Byron Manchak, Mike D. Schneider +1
We consider various curious features of general relativity, and relativistic field theory, in two spacetime dimensions. In particular, we discuss: the vanishing of the Einstein ten…
Anomalous Observers in the Subjectively Identical Reference Class
Mike D. Schneider, Ken D. Olum
Anthropic reasoning is a critical tool to understand probabilities, especially in a large universe or multiverse. According to anthropic reasoning, we should consider ourselves typ…