Has Witten announced his new geometry?

  • Thread starter Thread starter "pi"mp
  • Start date Start date
  • Tags Tags
    Geometry
"pi"mp
Messages
129
Reaction score
1
I had vaguely read somewhere a while ago that Ed Witten was developing some sort of new geometry where the only true, fundamental objects were worldsheets. Perhaps I'm not correctly remembering the idea but I think it was something like this. Has he announced this recently? I can't seem to find anything online.
 
Physics news on Phys.org
Thread 'LQG Legend Writes Paper Claiming GR Explains Dark Matter Phenomena'
A new group of investigators are attempting something similar to Deur's work, which seeks to explain dark matter phenomena with general relativity corrections to Newtonian gravity is systems like galaxies. Deur's most similar publication to this one along these lines was: One thing that makes this new paper notable is that the corresponding author is Giorgio Immirzi, the person after whom the somewhat mysterious Immirzi parameter of Loop Quantum Gravity is named. I will be reviewing the...
I seem to notice a buildup of papers like this: Detecting single gravitons with quantum sensing. (OK, old one.) Toward graviton detection via photon-graviton quantum state conversion Is this akin to “we’re soon gonna put string theory to the test”, or are these legit? Mind, I’m not expecting anyone to read the papers and explain them to me, but if one of you educated people already have an opinion I’d like to hear it. If not please ignore me. EDIT: I strongly suspect it’s bunk but...
Back
Top