Speaker
Guilherme Franzmann
(Stockholm University, Nordita)
Description
After more than a 100 yrs of General Relativity, we still argue how we should quantize gravity across all possible energy scales. In this talk, I will highlight some of the unexpected features of gravitational phenomena that might be responsible for the hardness of such a task. In particular, I will argue that quantum field theory might not be the correct framework to embed a non-perturbative theory of quantum gravity; I will also put to question the notion that we can talk about spatially-local subsystems when gravity is on, and finally argue that these hints towards an emergent nature of gravitational physics.
Primary author
Guilherme Franzmann
(Stockholm University, Nordita)
