Posted: Aug 22, 2010 11:45 am
klazmon wrote:twistor59 wrote:newolder wrote:... and this beautiful theory predicts what, for the rest mass of an electron? Is it a fractional dimension theory?
Sheesh ! What do you want ? Blood ?
LOL ! no, it doesn't make any predictions about the elementary particle masses. It's not, and doesn't claim to be, a theory of everything. It's purely a way of quantizing the gravitational field at this stage. I think there has been some preliminary thought on how to put "matter" into the theory, but I haven't got to that bit yet. After I get to the end of describing the formalism, I'll summarise what I understand to be the main results so far.
And no, not a fractional dimension theory.
I will be interested to see if you can recover GR at the end as a classical limit.
Good point. Me too !
I haven't read those bits in detail yet, but I think the way it's approached is to try to construct, in the LQG formalism, a coherent state and extract the classical picture from that. I'm not sure if that work has been completed yet though...