论文标题
时空真的注定了吗?
Is Space-time Really Doomed?
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论文摘要
多年以来,理论家认为“时空注定是注定”已经成为传统的,因此很难找到一种重力理论,这意味着有必要基于与时空几何学的通常不同概念的基本理论。但是,这个注定要失败的时空几何形状是什么?在本文中,我们将探讨自爱因斯坦以来我们对四维几何形状的理解如何发展,从而导致有关这种几何形状的新想法,这些几何形状可能根本注定要失败。
For many years now it has become conventional for theorists to argue that "space-time is doomed", with the difficulties in finding a quantum theory of gravity implying the necessity of basing a fundamental theory on something quite different than usual notions of space-time geometry. But what is this space-time geometry that is doomed? In this essay we'll explore how our understanding of four-dimensional geometry has evolved since Einstein, leading to new ideas about such geometry which may not be doomed at all.