Emergence of a classical Universe from quantum gravity and cosmology. 2012

Claus Kiefer
Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne, Zülpicher Strasse 77, 50937 Köln, Germany. kiefer@thp.uni-koeln.de

I describe how we can understand the classical appearance of our world from a universal quantum theory. The essential ingredient is the process of decoherence. I start with a general discussion in ordinary quantum theory and then turn to quantum gravity and quantum cosmology. There is a whole hierarchy of classicality from the global gravitational field to the fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background, which serve as the seeds for the structure in the Universe.

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