EVENTS
Why Quantum Mechanics Makes no Sense
Public Talk, American University of Beirut
How Do We Know?
Public Talk, Beirut Lebanon
VIDEOS
In this talk I explore the cosmological revolution introduced by the move to the Copernican system. This revolution was primarily a revolution in our basic understanding of the structure of reality and only secondarily a revolution in astronomy.
The theory of loop quantum gravity suffers from what has come to be known as ``the problem of time,” according to which the world does not include time. In the following, I will highlight dubious assumptions about the nature of time and argue that the problem results not from the Hamiltonian constraint, as is often claimed. Indeed, I will argue that LQG does not include a genuine Hamiltonian — in the sense of time evolution operator — to begin with. As a result, solutions to the problem of time which focus on the putative Hamiltonian constraint are insufficient for locating time within LQG.
Geneva, 21 September 2016 Incubating a future metaphysics: quantum gravity Abstract: In this talk, I will argue that metaphysicians ought to utilize quantum theories of gravity (QG) as incubators for a future metaphysics.