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AMA | April 2022

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Can You Have Space Time Without Any Quantum Fields?

In the real world, we have space time and quantum fields in it. Can you have any kind of space time without any quantum field in it at all? So it depends on what we mean by 'quantum' The definition of a field is something that is a function of space time. Not rather than something that is just a function of a point or something like that.

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