Do December 2015 Fermilab Holometer experiment results suggest space-time not discretely emergent?
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I read the December 2015 paper Search for Space-Time Correlations from the Planck Scale with the Fermilab Holometer available here and looked at the various related posts here at PSE.
It seems to me that at least conceptually I could say, without invoking a particular novel model, that the results of the experiment made it appear less likely that locations in space-time are emerging as local collapses of wave functions subject to the expected uncertainty (since the transverse positional difference noise was not detected). In other words, we're not quite ready to say that space-time has ceased to exist (as Nima Arkani-Hamed put it in his paper, The Future of Fundamental Physics, 2012)?
It seems to me that at least conceptually I could say, without invoking a particular novel model, that the results of the experiment made it appear less likely that locations in space-time are emerging as local collapses of wave functions subject to the expected uncertainty (since the transverse positional difference noise was not detected). In other words, we're not quite ready to say that space-time has ceased to exist (as Nima Arkani-Hamed put it in his paper, The Future of Fundamental Physics, 2012)?
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