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Out of Nowhere: Spacetime from causality: causal set theory

Christian Wüthrich, Nick Huggett

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This is a chapter of the planned monograph "Out of Nowhere: The Emergence of Spacetime in Quantum Theories of Gravity", co-authored by Nick Huggett and Christian Wüthrich and under contract with Oxford University Press. (More information at www.beyondspacetime.net.) This chapter introduces causal set theory and identifies and articulates a 'problem of space' in this theory.

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29 pages, 5 figures
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physics.hist-phHistory and Philosophy of Physics gr-qcGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

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