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Beables/Observables in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Edward Anderson
Observables 'are observed' whereas beables just 'are'. This gives beables more scope in the cosmological and quantum domains. Both observables and beables are entities that form 'b…
Classical Machian Resolution of the Spacetime Reconstruction Problem
Edward Anderson, Flavio Mercati
Following from a question of Wheeler, why does the Hamiltonian constraint of GR have the particular form it does? A first answer, by Hojman, Kuchař and Teitelboim, is th…
On Background Independence
Edward Anderson
This paper concerns what Background Independence itself is (as opposed to some particular physical theory that is background independent). The notions presented mostly arose from a…
Kendall's Shape Statistics as a Classical Realization of Barbour-type Timeless Records Theory approach to Quantum Gravity
Edward Anderson
I previously showed that Kendall's work on shape geometry is in fact also the geometrical description of Barbour's relational mechanics' reduced configuration spaces (alias shape s…
Minisuperspace model of Machian Resolution of Problem of Time. I. Isotropic Case
Edward Anderson
A local resolution to the Problem of Time that is Machian and was previously demonstrated for various relational mechanics models is here shown to work for a more widely studied qu…
Quantum Cosmology will need to become a Numerical Subject
Edward Anderson
The inhomogeneous fluctuations that underlie structure formation - galaxies and CMB hotspots - might have been seeded by quantum cosmological fluctuations, as magnified by some inf…