Quantum Gravity and Phenomenological Philosophy |
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Authors: | Steven M Rosen |
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Institution: | (1) College of Staten Island, The City University of New York, New York, USA |
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Abstract: | The central thesis of this paper is that contemporary theoretical physics is grounded in philosophical presuppositions that
make it difficult to effectively address the problems of subject-object interaction and discontinuity inherent to quantum
gravity. The core objectivist assumption implicit in relativity theory and quantum mechanics is uncovered and we see that,
in string theory, this assumption leads into contradiction. To address this challenge, a new philosophical foundation is proposed
based on the phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Martin Heidegger. Then, through the application of qualitative topology
and hypernumbers, phenomenological ideas about space, time, and dimension are brought into focus so as to provide specific
solutions to the problems of force-field generation and unification. The phenomenological string theory that results speaks
to the inconclusiveness of conventional string theory and resolves its core contradiction.
This article is based on my 2008 book, The Self-Evolving Cosmos, appearing in the Series on Knots and Everything of World Scientific Publishing Company. |
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Keywords: | Quantum gravity Phenomenology Philosophy Topology String theory Dimension Subjectivity and objectivity |
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