Causal Set Theory (CST) offers a compelling approach to reconciling quantum theory and general relativity by postulating that spacetime, at its most fundamental level, is discrete rather than ...

In the beginning, there was … well, maybe there was no beginning. Perhaps our universe has always existed — and a new theory of quantum gravity reveals how that could work. "Reality has so many things ...

More often than not, recently popular structuralist interpretations of physical theories leave the central concept of a structure insufficiently precisified. The incipient causal sets approach to ...

the Big Bang, but has been was able, in the general theory of relativity has been condensed to one point the universe before the sudden expansion in the Big Bang ' singularity I can't explain.

The German physicist's monumental theory paved the way for future scientists like Stephen Hawking to form their own thesis to explain the beginning of the universe. But despite general relativity’s ...

Fay Dowker promises to present a theory that may eventually reconcile science “with our deep sense of the reality of the passage of time” (4 October, p 36). I have to say that causal set theory, in ...