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most citedEmergent spacetime and empirical (in)coherence

248 citations · 394 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

physics.hist-ph2026

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly -- Living with Priors in Bayesian confirmation

Niels Linnemann, Christian Wüthrich

Bayesian confirmation faces a classic problem: where do initial priors come from? In cases with abundant data and repeated updating, different priors tend to converge to the same p…

physics.hist-ph2023

The philosophy of causal set theory

Christian Wüthrich

This article presents the most interesting philosophical issues as they arise in causal set theory. The first concerns the apparent disappearance of spacetime at the fundamental le…

math.NT2023

Mordell-Weil group as Galois modules

Thomas Vavasour, Christian Wuthrich

We study the action of the Galois group of a finite extension of number fields on the points on an elliptic curve . For an odd prime , we aim to determine the struc…

physics.hist-ph2020

One time, two times, or no time?

Christian Wuthrich

Contemporary research programs in fundamental physics appear to suggest that there could be two (physical) times---or none at all. This essay articulates these possibilities in the…

physics.hist-ph2020

Out of Nowhere: The emergence of spacetime from causal sets

Christian Wüthrich, Nick Huggett

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…

physics.hist-ph2020

Out of Nowhere: Duality

Nick Huggett, Christian Wüthrich

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…