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Space-time Lego
Willem Westra
And
Stefan Zohren
Our goal
Find a theory of Gravity for very, very small scales
Einstein’s theory of gravity: works well for big things such as stars and planets
Small scales: Quantum Mechanics...
The big stuff: Gravity
Einstein’s theory of general relativity, 1918
Gravity: curvature of space-time Matter curves space-time Curved space-time tells matter how to
move
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Gravity = Geometry
The small: Quantum mechanics
Schrödinger’s equation, 1927
Quantum Mechanics Everything that can happen...
does happen
What we see is the stuff that is
most probable to happen
big + small
gravity + quantum
curved space-time + probability
Curved space + quantum Task: count all possible curved space-times Compute the most probable ones
Solution: build space time from little “Lego blocks”
Count the number of ways the Lego blocks can be put together
1+1 dimensional space times One dimension of space One dimension of time Simplest Lego blocks: triangles
Task: count the number of ways one can glue triangles together
Counting the triangles
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Counting the triangles
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Splitting the universe
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The standard equation
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Missing a move?
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