Lee's Fest: Quantum Gravity and the Nature of Time

Being, Becoming and Experience in Quantum Gravity

Jun 5, 2025, 9:30 a.m.

15m

PI/3-394 - Skyroom (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

Conference Talk

Speaker

Fay Dowker (Imperial College London)

Description

In causal set quantum gravity, spacetime is Being and the process of the birth of the atoms of spacetime is Becoming. This process coordinates with our experience of the passage of time.

External references

• 25060054
• 5f92b68f-b5ed-41cb-a197-475cd5718873