3 papers
physics.hist-ph2020
Spacetime functionalism from a realist perspective
Vincent Lam, Christian Wuthrich
In prior work, we have argued that spacetime functionalism provides tools for clarifying the conceptual difficulties specifically linked to the emergence of spacetime in certain ap…
physics.hist-ph2018
What we cannot learn from analogue experiments
Karen Crowther, Niels Linnemann, Christian Wuthrich
Analogue experiments have attracted interest for their potential to shed light on inaccessible domains. For instance, `dumb holes' in fluids and Bose-Einstein condensates, as analo…
physics.hist-ph2017
The (A)temporal Emergence of Spacetime
Nick Huggett, Christian Wuthrich
This paper examines two cosmological models of quantum gravity (from string theory and loop quantum gravity) to investigate the foundational and conceptual issues arising from quan…