QM is not the theory of micro-objects. It is our best form of mechanics.
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View All Authors View SourcesEinstein’s major discovery is that spacetime and gravitational field are the same object.
— Carlo Rovelli (2004)
p. 367
[In the Loop Quantum Gravity picture] these “quanta of gravity” do not live immersed in a spacetime. They are space. The idea of space as the inert “container” of the physical world has disappeared.
— Carlo Rovelli (2004)
p. 368
Fundamental physics is today in a peculiar phase of deep conceptual confusion.
— Carlo Rovelli (2009)
p. 4
The key difficulty of quantum gravity may therefore be to find a way to understand the physical world in the absence of the familiar stage of space and time.
— Carlo Rovelli (2009)
p. 7
The world may not be the way it appears in the tiny garden of our daily experience.
— Carlo Rovelli (2009)
p. 4
The search for a quantum theory of gravity raises once more old questions such as: What is space? What is time? What is the meaning of “moving”?
— Carlo Rovelli (2010)
p. 8
There are no facts, only interpretations.
— Friedrich Nietzsche (1887)
p. 139
[T[he quantum theoretic description of physical reality is exquisitely strange and profoundly mysterious.
— David Mermin (1990)
p. 111