论文标题
理论空间的制图:既有(黑暗)物质和时空的田地的解释图表
Cartography of the space of theories: an interpretational chart for fields that are both (dark) matter and spacetime
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论文摘要
本文反对民主党 - 牛顿的传统,即假设时空与物质之间存在严格的概念性二分法。我们的方法是通过修饰的重力/时空(MG)和暗物质(DM)之间更狭窄的区别进行的。一篇前传论文认为,贝雷齐亚尼(Berezhiani)和库里(Khoury)的“超流体暗物质理论”所假定的新颖字段$φ$与任何可能的东西一样多,但也低于超氟$ - $ - $ - $ - $ - $($)(修改)的(均与任何东西一样)。在这里,我们介绍并进行了批判性评估三组解释,应考虑这种贾努斯(Janus)面临的理论。弥补的解释认为,$φ$既是(黑暗)的物质,又是时空的修改,类似于耶稣(根据天主教)是人类和上帝的意义。基础主义者的解释是针对这些角色的每个角色,无论它们是从根本上还是出现的。分解解释的重点是$φ$在某种意义上指定的MG-DM二分法,甚至更广泛的时空区分的问题。更普遍地认为,混合理论敦促朝着一个理论的一个空间,而不是分别的两个时空理论和物质理论。
This paper pushes back against the Democritean-Newtonian tradition of assuming a strict conceptual dichotomy between spacetime and matter. Our approach proceeds via the more narrow distinction between modified gravity/spacetime (MG) and dark matter (DM). A prequel paper argued that the novel field $Φ$ postulated by Berezhiani and Khoury's 'superfluid dark matter theory' is as much (dark) matter as anything could possibly be, but also$-$below the critical temperature for superfluidity$-$as much (of a modification of) spacetime as anything could possibly be. Here we introduce and critically evaluate three groups of interpretations that one should consider for such Janus-faced theories. The consubstantiality interpretation holds that $Φ$ is both (dark) matter and a modification of spacetime, analogously to the sense in which Jesus (according to catholicism) is both human and god. The fundamendalist interpretations consider for each of these roles whether they are instantiated fundamentally or emergently. The breakdown interpretations focus on the question of whether $Φ$ signals the breakdown, in some sense to be specified, of the MG-DM dichotomy and perhaps even the broader spacetime-matter distinction. More generally, it is argued that hybrid theories urge a move towards a single space of theories, rather than two separate spaces of spacetime theories and matter theories, respectively.