Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: In this essay, we argue that the emergence of classically connected space–times is intimately related to the quantum entanglement of degrees of freedom in a nonperturbative description of quantum gravity. Disentangling the degrees of freedom associated with two regions of space–time results in these regions pulling apart and pinching off from each other in a way that can be quantified by standard measures of entanglement.
Author: MARK VAN RAAMSDONK
Institution: University of British Columbia
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2034493186