POSSIBILITY OF DESCRIBING QUANTUM-GRAVITY WITHOUT MATTER FIELD-INTERACTIONS

Various problems are associated with formulations of gravity that seek to move beyond the existing well-defined linear quantum field theory. Thus far, however, if has not been seriously suggested that there may be something wrong with the accepted picture of an interacting matter field. This paper explores the possibility of constructing a theory o f quantum gravity using the idea of a noninteracting matter field and a hypothetical procedure for generating curvature statistically in a d iscrete space.