PIRSA ID: 21110005
Series:
Event Type: Seminar
Scientific Area(s): Quantum Foundations
End date: 2021-11-05
Speaker(s): André Großardt Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
In absence of both experimental evidence for and a fully understood theory of quantum gravity, the possibility that gravity might be fundamentally classical presents an option to be considered. Such a semiclassical theory also bears the potential to be part of an objective explanation for the emergence of classical measurement outcomes. Nonetheless, the possibility is mostly disregarded based on the grounds of arguments of consistency. I will discuss these arguments, attempting to present the broader picture of the constraints that need to be dealt with in order to formulate consistent semiclassical models of gravity, and the implications this has with regard to concrete proposals for theoretical models and
experimental tests of semiclassical versus quantized gravity.
Zoom Link: https://pitp.zoom.us/j/99590707415?pwd=MHFMZlhSMUdMbFFoMEFmQTIxSUhBQT09