Peter Woit: Unification, Spinors, Twistors, String Theory
Prof. Peter Woit discusses string theory, its decline, and introduces his graviweak unification theory using Euclidean twistor in Euclidean spacetime.
TIMESTAMPS:
- 00:00:00 Introduction
- 00:00:00 String theory’s fundamental issues | Mathematicians’ challenges
- 00:02:20 Spacetime and twistor theory insights
- 00:20:00 Bundles & diffeomorphism groups
- 00:38:34 Spinors as a spacetime point
- 00:46:57 Dominance of string theory & Ed Witten’s influence
- 00:54:17 Quest for quantum gravity
- 01:03:22 String theory’s lack of predictive power
- 01:09:33 Machine learning meets theoretical physics
- 01:18:56 Personal attacks vs. intellectual debate
- 01:24:49 Mathematicians vs. Physicists | Academic silos
- 01:37:15 Developing a contrarian view & the origin of ’Not Even Wrong’
- 01:40:54 Langlands & representation theory
- 01:48:51 Spacetime is NOT doomed
- 01:58:47 Sean Carroll’s crisis in physics (odd responses to criticism)
- 02:13:21 Differentiable structures by dimension
- 02:26:10 Gravi-weak unification & chirality
- 02:32:57 Chern-Simons theory
- 02:42:20 Gravity as torsion or curvature
- 02:50:07 Category theory in physics
- 02:56:43 Defining a fulfilling life
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- Spacetime is Right-Handed (Peter Woit’s Article): ~woit/ | ~woit/wordpress
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