Luka Vinck
is a PhD candidate at the 木瓜福利影视 of Amsterdam, as part of the Emergence at all Scales Consortium. His PhD project investigates the philosophical and theoretical aspects of the emergence of time and laws of gravitation in the context of quantum cosmology, black holes, dark matter and dark energy. The focus is on the recent uses of algebraic methods in quantum field theory, especially von Neumann algebras, for the notions of time and laws. Luka investigates the interpretation and physical salience of the derivation of time in algebraic approaches to quantum gravity, and the possible observer-dependence and emergence of the laws of gravitation in cosmological scenarios like de Sitter spacetime. Tools from both philosophy and theoretical physics are used to address these questions, and their consequences for naturalistic accounts of emergence.
- Promotor: (Mathematical Physics, UvA)
- Co-promotor: (Philosophy of Physics, UvA)
- Co-promotor: Dr. Niels Martens (Philosophy of Physics, UU)