Emergent spacetime

[Urs Schreiber]

I am currently talking to a science journalist who writes about quantum
gravity related matters for a major german popular science magazine. He
would like to see good popular accounts of the phenomenon that smooth
spacetime is not an 'a priori' in string theory but an emergent property. I
have provided him with some links and information here:

http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/string/archives/000330.html#c000878

But if anyone knows further and/or better material I'd be grateful for links
to texts that are not overly technical but appeal to the 'educated layman'.

[Urs Schreiber]

"Urs Schreiber" <Urs.Schreiber@uni-essen.de> schrieb:

> But if anyone knows further and/or better material I'd be grateful for links
> to texts that are not overly technical but appeal to the 'educated layman'.

I have received private answers by Phil Gibbs, who pinted me to his old
review paper

http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9506171 ,

as well as by Robert Helling, who has put a very nice poster on his work on
'D-geometry' and the emergence of spacetime in M(atrix) theory on his
website:

http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/rch47/schloessmann.html .

Thanks for these links!