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The time measurement problem in quantum cosmology

Nirmalya Kajuri

Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India

E-mail Address: nirmalya@physics.iitm.ac.in

https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218271817430118Cited by:1 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

In the canonical approach to quantization of gravity, one often uses relational clock variables and an interpretation in terms of conditional probabilities to overcome the problem of time. In this essay, we show that these suffer from serious conceptual issues.

This essay received an Honorable Mention in the 2017 Essay Competition of the Gravity Research Foundation.

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