Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Spacetime Emergence
- Part II Time in Quantum Theories of Gravity
- Part III Issues of Interpretation
- 10 Why Black Hole Information Loss Is Paradoxical
- 11 Chronic Incompleteness, Final Theory Claims, and the Lack of Free Parameters in String Theory
- 12 Spacetime and Physical Equivalence
- 13 On the Empirical Consequences of the AdS/CFT Duality
- 14 Extending Lewisian Modal Metaphysics from a Specific Quantum Gravity Perspective
- 15 What Can (Mathematical) Categories Tell Us about Spacetime?
- Index
13 - On the Empirical Consequences of the AdS/CFT Duality
from Part III - Issues of Interpretation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 April 2020
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Spacetime Emergence
- Part II Time in Quantum Theories of Gravity
- Part III Issues of Interpretation
- 10 Why Black Hole Information Loss Is Paradoxical
- 11 Chronic Incompleteness, Final Theory Claims, and the Lack of Free Parameters in String Theory
- 12 Spacetime and Physical Equivalence
- 13 On the Empirical Consequences of the AdS/CFT Duality
- 14 Extending Lewisian Modal Metaphysics from a Specific Quantum Gravity Perspective
- 15 What Can (Mathematical) Categories Tell Us about Spacetime?
- Index
Summary
We provide an analysis of the empirical consequences of the AdS/CFT duality with reference to the application of the duality in a fundamental theory, effective theory, and instrumental context. Analysis of the first two contexts is intended to serve as a guide to the potential empirical and ontological status of gauge/gravity dualities as descriptions of actual physics at the Planck scale. The third context is directly connected to the use of AdS/CFT to describe real quark-gluon plasmas. In the latter context, we find that neither of the two duals are confirmed by the empirical data.
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- Beyond SpacetimeThe Foundations of Quantum Gravity, pp. 284 - 303Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020