Posted: Jan 11, 2011 8:53 am
Based on Edward Witten's work on marrying Roger Penrose's old twistor theory (Hi twistor! 
) with newer string theories, the twistor string theory appears to have made quite a few headlines in the Physics news over the late last year. An example here:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... st-of-fate
In the light of this thread and what with even the Finnish alt-physicist Matti Pitkänen going on about how faboulous it is (and how his own TGd theory is going to be found at the back of TST, obviously...) I thought it's about time I actually learned something about the subject beyond the name.
Can anyone provide something a little deeper than the above SciAm article but not too deep for a physics layman to understand on TST for starters? A personally written breakdown or a link will be good. Relationship discussion with other "extreme theories" such as the M-theory a plus.
Note that despite Witten and Arkadi-Hamed being Pitkänen's (current) heroes, this appears to be a completely legit (if not apparently yet predominant) mainstream science theory. This subject to opinion, I'm certain, given how certain forumites view the aforementioned M-theory
) with newer string theories, the twistor string theory appears to have made quite a few headlines in the Physics news over the late last year. An example here:http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... st-of-fate
In the light of this thread and what with even the Finnish alt-physicist Matti Pitkänen going on about how faboulous it is (and how his own TGd theory is going to be found at the back of TST, obviously...) I thought it's about time I actually learned something about the subject beyond the name.
Can anyone provide something a little deeper than the above SciAm article but not too deep for a physics layman to understand on TST for starters? A personally written breakdown or a link will be good. Relationship discussion with other "extreme theories" such as the M-theory a plus.
Note that despite Witten and Arkadi-Hamed being Pitkänen's (current) heroes, this appears to be a completely legit (if not apparently yet predominant) mainstream science theory. This subject to opinion, I'm certain, given how certain forumites view the aforementioned M-theory