ABSTRACT

This chapter argues that quantum string theory admits emergent general relativistic spacetime. Conformal symmetry reimposition has profound physical consequences in quantum string theory since it produces general relativistic spacetime emergence. Emergence develops around the derivation of the geometrodynamical structure of general relativity from the restored conformal symmetry of the string quantum action, the derivation considered is the one presented by Joseph Polchinski and by Maurizio Gasperini. The ontologically primitive entities of the theory are quantum strings. Quantum string theory predicts the existence of the graviton. This prediction is one of the two structural components of general relativistic spacetime emergence in string theory. The fact that string theory predicts gravitons means that quantum geometry can really be found as dynamical byproduct of quantum strings. The notion of prediction is explained in more basic terms. Strings can be in many different states of oscillation depending on how much energy they gain from interacting with other strings.