Time One by Colin Gillespie

Author:Colin Gillespie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: RosettaBooks
Published: 2013-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

THE BACKGROUND PROBLEM

The problem seems to me how one can formulate statements about a discontinuum without calling upon a continuum (space-time) as an aid; the latter should be banned from the theory.

Albert Einstein (1917)

I believe that the essential discovery about nature encoded into general relativity is… that position with respect to a “background” spacetime is a meaningless concept.

Carlo Rovelli (1997)

Lee Smolin has argued that ANY sort of background structure is a bad thing in a fundamental theory of physics. Of course, taken to its ultimate limit, this philosophy can lead to problems.

John Baez (2000)

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