No Time for Time from No-Time

#Time #NoTime #Quantumgravity #PhilosophyofPhysics #PhilosophyofTime

Craig Callender (UC SAN DIEGO)

Abstract:

Programs in quantum gravity often claim that time emerges from fundamentally timeless physics. In the semiclassical time program time arises only after approximations are taken. Here we ask what justifies taking these approximations and show that time seems to sneak in when answering this question. This raises the worry that the approach is either unjustified or circular in deriving time from no–time.

This video is part of the PROTEUS project that has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. 758145)