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- W36081537 abstract "@As a way of honoring Professor Wheeler on his sixtieth birthday, I propose to take this opportunity to elaborate upon certain somewhat speculative ideas which I have tried to hint at on occasion, concerning the possible nature of a quantized space-time. The reader will not need to be too discerning to recognize some substantial dierences between the ideas I am proposing here and those which Professor Wheeler has on many occasions so eloquently and forcefully put forward. Nonetheless, there is little doubt in my own mind as to the very great inspirational inuence that Professor Wheeler’s own views have had in the development of several of the thoughts which I am expressing here. To begin with, let me make clear that I do not necessarily mean by quantized space-time something which could be obtained by applying standard (or even non-standard) techniques of quantization to Einstein’s general theory of relativity. What I wish to say has its roots in something which is really more primitive than either quantum theory or relativity as such. This is the question of the fundamental role played by the mathematical concept of continuum in virtually the whole of accepted present-day physical theory. Not only does the continuum occupy a basic position in our mathematical models of space and time (with the concomitant implication of a continuous nature for many related physical concepts such as velocity, energy, momentum, temperature, etc.), but so also does present-day quantum theory rest crucially on a continuum concept, namely on the two-dimensional complex continuum of probability amplitudes, this being the continuum which also occurs in the superposition law. Let me say at the outset that I am not happy with this state of aairs in physical theory. The mathematical continuum has always seemed to me to contain many features which are really very foreign to physics. This point = @ @" @default.
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- W36081537 title "On the Nature of Quantum Geometry" @default.
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