Out of Nowhere: Introduction: the emergence of spacetime

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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 contract with Oxford University Press. (More information at www<dot>beyondspacetime<dot>net.) This chapter introduces the problem of emergence of spacetime in quantum gravity. It introduces the main philosophical challenge to spacetime emergence and sketches our preferred solution to it.

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Nick Huggett
University of Illinois, Chicago
Christian Wüthrich
University of Geneva

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What did Newton mean by ‘Absolute Motion’?Nick Huggett - 2012 - In Andrew Janiak & Eric Schliesser (eds.), Interpreting Newton: Critical Essays. Cambridge University Press. pp. 196-218.

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