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My question is what's going to be 'lost' by the combination of GR/SR with QM? I'm assuming that gravitational singularities will have to go or be re-rationalize

My question is what's going to be 'lost' by the combination of GR/SR with QM? I'm assuming that gravitational singularities will have to go or be re-rationalized. So far, I can't see there's much chance of that happening as long as blackholes retain their ever consistent behavior as we've observed so far.

empath75 11y ago
Space-time becomes an emergent phenomena, rather than fundamental.
- cygx 11y ago
  Depends on your point of view: Arguably, the 'stringy' view of space-time is more in line with the bimetric theories of days gone by, with the metric being a field on top of a fixed background.
jjoonathan 11y ago
Isn't SR+QM "just" QFT? I thought it was GR+QM that was troublesome.
- cygx 11y ago
  There's also non-relativistic QFT, ie SR+QM != QFT in general. You're right that special relativity has been incorporated into QFT.