Replacing the Notion of Spacetime Distance by the Notion of Correlation

Spacetime is conventionally viewed as a stage on which actors, in the form of massive and massless matter, move. In this study, we explore what may lie beyond this picture. The starting point is the observation that quantum field fluctuations are the more strongly correlated the shorter their spacet...

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Main Author: Achim Kempf
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Physics
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphy.2021.655857/full