论文标题
弦理论，循环量子重力和永恒主义
String Theory, Loop Quantum Gravity and Eternalism
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论文摘要
永恒主义，即我们当地所认为的存在于过去的观点，现在和未来是同等的，它是时间存在的最佳本体论解释，符合特殊和一般相对论。但是，特殊和一般相对论不是基本理论，几项研究计划旨在找到更基本的量子重力编织理论，从相对论物理和量子物理学中知道的所有知识。有趣的是，其中一些方法断言时间不是基本的。如果时间不是基本的，那么永恒主义和关于及时存在的标准辩论意味着什么？首先，我将争辩说，在字符串理论中要找到的时间的非原则性需要标准永恒主义。其次，我将争辩说，在循环量子重力中发现的非基本事件需要暂时的永恒主义，即在标准永恒主义精神上是一个新颖的地位。
Eternalism, the view that what we regard locally as being located in the past, the present and the future equally exists, is the best ontological account of temporal existence in line with special and general relativity. However, special and general relativity are not fundamental theories and several research programs aim at finding a more fundamental theory of quantum gravity weaving together all we know from relativistic physics and quantum physics. Interestingly, some of these approaches assert that time is not fundamental. If time is not fundamental, what does it entail for eternalism and the standard debate over existence in time? First, I will argue that the non-fundamentality of time to be found in string theory entails standard eternalism. Second, I will argue that the non-fundamentality of time to be found in loop quantum gravity entails atemporal eternalism, namely a novel position in the spirit of standard eternalism.
