Pith. sign in

REVIEW 1 cited by

A possibility to solve the problems with quantizing gravity

Not yet reviewed by Pith; the record is open.

This paper has not been read by Pith yet. Machine review is queued; the pith claim, tier, and objections will appear here once it completes.

SPECIMEN: schema-true, not a live event

T0 review · schema-true

One-sentence machine reading of the paper's core claim.

pith:XXXXXXXX · record.json · timestamp

arxiv 1208.5874 v2 pith:JRKTQU5G submitted 2012-08-29 gr-qc

A possibility to solve the problems with quantizing gravity

classification gr-qc
keywords gravityknownproblemsquantumfieldperturbativepossibilityquantization
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal T4 reserved
0 comments
read the original abstract

It is generally believed that quantum gravity is necessary to resolve the known tensions between general relativity and the quantum field theories of the standard model. Since perturbatively quantized gravity is non-renormalizable, the problem how to unify all interactions in a common framework has been open since the 1930s. Here, I propose a possibility to circumvent the known problems with quantizing gravity, as well as the known problems with leaving it unquantized: By changing the prescription for second quantization, a perturbative quantization of gravity is sufficient as an effective theory because matter becomes classical before the perturbative expansion breaks down. This is achieved by considering the vanishing commutator between a field and its conjugated momentum as a symmetry that is broken at low temperatures, and by this generates the quantum phase that we currently live in, while at high temperatures Planck's constant goes to zero.

discussion (0)

Sign in with ORCID, Apple, or X to comment. Anyone can read and Pith papers without signing in.

Forward citations

Cited by 1 Pith paper

Reviewed papers in the Pith corpus that reference this work. Sorted by Pith novelty score.

  1. Minimal Proper Time and Deterministic Microstates: Emergent Quantum Fields and Relativistic Spacetime

    hep-th 2026-07 conditional novelty 6.0

    Coarse-graining deterministic event chains yields Nambu-like QFT with running ħ and IR unitarity, plus an emergent metric selected by Lovelock to Einstein gravity.