Fletcher to present at Chicago conference
Fletcher to present at Chicago conference
- September 20, 2013
- Paper discusses approach to quantum gravity
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Sixth year graduate student Sam Fletcher will present a paper at a Seminar on the
Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Gravity, hosted by the University of Illinois
at Chicago. Fletcher's paper considers an area of physics known as causal set theory,
which represents one attempt to bring together the two great revolutions in twentieth
century physics -- relativity theory and quantum theory -- to produce a quantum theory
of gravity. In particular, Fletcher asks whether the relationship between causal set
theory and Einstein's theory of gravity, general relativity, works in the same way
as other such relationships, including the one between general relativity and the
still-older Newtonian theory of gravitation. The conference will take place from the
27th to the 29th of September.
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