Article ID: CBB517395815

Betting on Future Physics (2022)

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The ‘cosmological constant problem’ (CCP) has historically been understood as describing a conflict between cosmological observations in the framework of general relativity (GR) and theoretical predictions from quantum field theory (QFT), which a future theory of quantum gravity ought to resolve. I argue that this view of the CCP is best understood in terms of a bet about future physics made on the basis of particular interpretational choices in GR and QFT, respectively. Crucially, each of these choices must be taken as itself grounded in the sucesses of the respective theory for this bet to be justified.

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Authors & Contributors
Lam, Vincent
Aerts, Diederik
Afriat, Alexander
Buchwald, Diana Kormos
Buchwald, Jed Z.
Caccese, Ermenegildo
Journals
European Physical Journal H
Physics in Perspective
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Acta Baltica historiae et philosophiae scientiarum
Annalen der Physik
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Princeton University Press
Rutgers University Press
Springer
Concepts
Physics
Relativity, general
Philosophy of science
Quantum mechanics
Quantum field theory
Spacetime
People
Einstein, Albert
Bohr, Niels Henrik David
Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice
Feynman, Richard Phillips
Heisenberg, Werner
Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
19th century
Places
Germany
Poland
United States
Ukraine
Cracow (Poland)
Kyoto (Japan)
Institutions
Uniwersytet Lwowski (Lwów, Poland)
Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO)
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