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7 - Being and Becoming on the Road to Quantum Gravity; or, the Birth of a Baby Is Not a Baby

from Part II - Time in Quantum Theories of Gravity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2020

Edited by
Nick Huggett ,
Keizo Matsubara  and
Christian Wüthrich
Nick Huggett
Affiliation:
University of Illinois, Chicago
Keizo Matsubara
Affiliation:
Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
Christian Wüthrich
Affiliation:
Université de Genève
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Summary

I claim that both Being and Becoming are incarnated in a cosmological model within the causal set approach to quantum gravity in which spacetime is fundamentally discrete. I argue that, in the model, Being is subjective whereas Becoming is objective.

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causal set theoryprocessBecomingblock universeclassical sequential growthasynchronous Becomingquantum gravity
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Beyond Spacetime
The Foundations of Quantum Gravity
 , pp. 133 - 142
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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