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Reconstructing the Universe
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We provide detailed evidence for the claim that nonperturbative quantum gravity, defined through state sums of causal triangulated geometries, possesses a large-scale limit in which the dimension of spacetime is four and the dynamics of the volume of the universe behaves semiclassically. This is a first step in reconstructing the universe from a dynamical principle at the Planck scale, and at the same time provides a nontrivial consistency check of the method of causal dynamical triangulations. A closer look at the quantum geometry reveals a number of highly nonclassical aspects, including a dynamical reduction of spacetime to two dimensions on short scales and a fractal structure of slices of constant time.
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- Authors
- Ambjørn, J., Jurkiewicz, J., & Loll, R.
- Venue
- Physical Review D
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 2005-09-22
- Volume
- 72
- Issue
- 6
- ISSN
- 0556-2821 (ISSN-L)
- 1550-7998
- 1550-2368
- OpenAlex
- W2167377764
- Cited by
- 422
- References
- 83
- FWCI
- 11.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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