The University of Rome Tor Vergata has joined WithOut SpaceTime (WOST), an international consortium launched on December 1st and active until August 2028. The project, supported by a €4.7 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation and coordinated by the Center for SpaceTime and the Quantum (CSTQ), brings together 17 research institutions from around the world.
WOST aims to explore how concepts such as space, time, and gravity might emerge from deeper quantum structures, combining theoretical and information‑theoretic approaches.
At Tor Vergata, the project is led by Flaminia Giacomini, whose group investigates how general relativity and quantum mechanics can be reconciled, focusing in particular on the role of observers, reference frames, and time when treated as quantum systems. The team is also working to identify high‑precision experiments that, in the future, may test potential quantum aspects of gravity.
WOST builds on the success of the previous QISS initiative and connects an international network of researchers coordinated by Francesca Vidotto and Flaminia Giacomini, with the support of a senior international advisory board and interconnected research groups.
Among its partners are European, American, and Asian institutions, including ETH Zürich, OIST, Penn State, the Perimeter Institute, Université Paris‑Saclay, University College London, and several other universities and research centers.
For more information, please refer to the news article prepared by the University of Tor Vergata Press Office.
