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    Whether the gravitational field must be quantized is a matter for experiment to decide, not logic.

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    • 1.There is no logical necessity demanding quantization of the gravitational field.
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    • 2.We lack experimental evidence of quantum properties of the gravitational field.
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    • 1.Putnam and Quine argued that mathematical structures indispensable to our best physical theories carry ontological commitments we are rationally compelled to accept.
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    • 2.Quantum field theory, our best confirmed physical framework, treats all dynamical fields as quantized, making gravitational quantization a theoretical commitment prior to direct experimental confirmation.
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    • 3.Demanding experiment alone to settle what our best theories already structurally require conflates epistemic confirmation with the logico-theoretical constraints of theoretical coherence.
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    • 1.Consistency arguments show that a hybrid theory with classical gravity coupled to quantum matter leads to violations of the uncertainty principle or superluminal signaling.
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    • 2.If allowing gravity to remain classical generates logical contradictions with established quantum mechanics, then quantization is demanded by consistency, not merely experiment.
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    In earlier research on quantum gravity it was often supposed that if there was at least one quantum field in the world together with the gravitational field, then given the universal coupling of the gravitational field, it must follow that the quantization of the one field somehow infects the gravitational field, implying that it must necessarily have quantum properties too. The arguments basically involve the consideration of a mass prepared in a superposition of position eigenstates. If the gr
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