“One of the evident facts about the world is the stability of empty space-time. In classical general relativity we can explain this as a consequence of the positive energy theorem… the positive energy theorem must extend in some suitable form to any viable quantum theory of gravity.”

—  Lee Smolin

"Positive energy in quantum gravity" arXiv (Jun 10, 2014)

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