HEP@VUB Colloquium: Sumit Das, University of Kentucky

Title:       SPACE METAMORPHOSIS       

Speaker:   Sumit Das  

Jack and Linda Gill Professor

Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of Kentucky                         

Abstract:

Current ideas about quantum gravity often involve scenarios where notions of space-time are not fundamental: rather they are emergent, approximate descriptions of more fundamental structures. One class of such ideas involves metamorphosis of internal degrees of freedom into physical space dimensions. This talk traces the conceptual origins of these ideas in the theory of strong interactions, their evolution into descriptions of quantum gravity and their connection to quantum entanglement.  We will discuss some recent attempts to understand entanglement of internal degrees of freedom and its relevance to the question of locality.