High School What Principles Govern the Emergence of Spacetime According to Renate Loll?

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Renate Loll explores the emergence of spacetime through a unique approach that challenges traditional views on causality and locality. The discussion emphasizes the need for primary constructing principles to understand why spacetime is four-dimensional and exhibits specific geometries. It suggests that spacetime could emerge from an abstract information processing layer, where concepts like distance are derived from statistical measures rather than fixed geometrical constructs. This perspective allows for a more abstract interpretation of locality and causality, framing them in terms of available information and independence from hidden variables. Understanding these principles could unlock new insights into quantum gravity and the nature of the universe.
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Shouldn't causality follow from spacetime itself instead of putting it in by hand in order to calculate a path integral?
 
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If one wants to understand the emergence of spacetime, and ask why 4D, and why a particular geometry I think one needs some primary constructing principles, the question is which ones.

I think one can entertain the precursors of locality and causality in more abstract information theoretic forms that does not use spacetime. If one imagines macroscopic spacetime to emerget from an abstraction infromation processing layer, then various forms of "information goemetry" that introduce the concept of distance from statistical/probabilistical measures. I think "locality" and "causality" can be more abstractly interpreted so that information processes are influenced only by available information(ie "local"), and it's outputs and actions are independent of what it is hidden from them (causality).

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