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
Steven Tester
Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi
Polak, Paweł
Enrico Cinti
Veloz, Tomas
Concepts
Physics
Philosophy of science
Relativity, general
Explanation; hypotheses; theories
Quantum mechanics
Relativity, special
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
19th century
Ancient
18th century
Places
Cracow (Poland)
Ukraine
United States
Poland
Greece
Germany
Institutions
Uniwersytet Lwowski (Lwów, Poland)
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