2006/01/31 by Nathan Seiberg · 1 voice · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1142/9789812706768_0005
Rapporteur talk at the 23rd Solvay Conference in Physics, December, 2005. 24 pages
We summarize the arguments that space and time are likely to be emergent notions; i.e. they are not present in the fundamental formulation of the theory, but appear as approximate macroscopic concepts. Along the way we briefly review certain topics. These include ambiguities in the geometry and the topology of space which arise from dualities, questions associated with locality, various known examples of emergent space, and the puzzles and the prospects of emergent time.