1.2 Motivations
The motivation for these investigations (both historical and current) is rather mixed. In modern
language, the reasons to investigate analogue models are:
- Partly to use condensed matter to gain insight into classical general relativity.
- Partly to use condensed matter to gain insight into curved-space quantum field theory.
- Partly to develop an observational window on curved-space quantum field theory.
- Partly to use classical general relativity to gain insight into condensed matter physics.
- Partly to gain insight into new and radically-different ways of dealing with “quantum/emergent
gravity”.