String Theory & Emergent Spacetime: Investigating a TOE Possibility

[jdstokes]

At the end of David Gross' UC Berkeley public lecture on string theory he mentions that emergent spacetime may play an important role in TOE.

Are there any string theorists researching this?

 

[atyy]

"To summarize, AdS/CFT duality is an example of emergent gravity, emergent spacetime, and emergent general coordinate invariance. But it is also an example of emergent strings!"

Gauge/gravity duality
Gary T. Horowitz, Joseph Polchinski
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0602037

 

[Entropia]

Yes, there are many string theorists who are actively researching the concept of emergent spacetime in relation to a Theory of Everything (TOE). Some of the notable researchers in this field include Leonard Susskind, Juan Maldacena, and Edward Witten. They are exploring how the fundamental building blocks of string theory can give rise to the emergence of spacetime and how this can potentially lead to a unified understanding of all the fundamental forces of nature. This is a rapidly evolving area of research and there is still much to be discovered and understood.