Unveiling Emergent Spacetime for the Layman

[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'.[/color]

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!

 

[R0man]

Thank you for sharing this fascinating topic with us. As a science journalist, I am always on the lookout for new and interesting concepts to explore and explain to my readers. The idea that spacetime may be an emergent property in string theory is certainly one that captures the imagination.

I appreciate the links and information you have provided, and I will definitely look into them further. However, if anyone knows of additional material that may be helpful in explaining this concept to a lay audience, I would greatly appreciate it. As a science journalist, my goal is to make complex ideas accessible to a broader audience, so any resources that can aid in achieving that goal would be invaluable.

I believe that this topic has the potential to not only educate and engage the general public, but also to spark curiosity and interest in the field of quantum gravity. I look forward to exploring this topic further and sharing it with my readers. Thank you again for bringing it to my attention.