Title

Discreteness and the Transmission of Light from Distant Sources

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Fay Dowker, Imperial College, London
Joe Henson, Perimeter Institute
Rafael Sorkin, Perimeter Institute

Document Type

Working Paper

Date

2010

Keywords

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Language

English

Disciplines

Physics

Description/Abstract

We model the classical transmission of a massless scalar field from a source to a detector on a background causal set. The predictions do not differ significantly from those of the continuum. Thus, introducing an intrinsic inexactitude to lengths and durations - or more specifically, replacing the Lorentzian manifold with an underlying discrete structure - need not disrupt the usual dynamics of propagation.

Additional Information

6 pages, 1 figure

Recommended Citation

Dowker, Fay; Henson, Joe; and Sorkin, Rafael, "Discreteness and the Transmission of Light from Distant Sources" (2010). Physics - All Scholarship. 23.
https://surface.syr.edu/phy/23

Source

Metadata from ArXiv.org

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