On the Physical Implications of Hawking's Spacetime Foam

Schulz, Benjamin (2018): On the Physical Implications of Hawking's Spacetime Foam. In: Fortschritte der Physik-Progress of Physics, Vol. 66, No. 11-12, 1800070

Abstract

Hawking's spacetime foam model predicts that due to quantum fluctuations, spacetime is filled with black hole like objects. We argue that Hawking's model implies a cosmological constant of the observed order and that it also solves the problem of time in quantum gravity.

• Item Type: Journal article
• Faculties: Physics
• Subjects: 500 Science > 530 Physics
• ISSN: 0015-8208
• Language: English