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"the programme for the consistent canonical part of the quantization of four-dimensional Einstein’s general realtivity is essentially complete." Eyo Eyo Ita III
I guess we must be close.
I guess we must be close.
Energex42 said:By the way, the original quote was taken from Eyo's most recent paper at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/0706.2702
marcus said:Thanks for giving the reference, with a link. It is helpful, if any of us wants to track something down.
Eyo is a graduate student at Cambridge working on his PhD. It is too early for a bystander like myself to evaluate his research. Last time I looked it had not been peer-review/published.
BTW Eyo Eyo Ita is a famous name in the Nigerian Independence movement. Perhaps this is the grandson of the GREAT Eyo Eyo Ita who was the aide of a kind of George Washington figure (I forget who it was).
There is so much non-string QG research these days that out of simple practicality I tend to wait until someone has been through the mainstream mill or has some strong established person recommending them. I don't go out ahead of the process and make my own critiques on raw stuff.
etera said:I haven't read eyo eyo ita's stuff yet.. but his first paper on the subject was in march this year... and as it is not published yet, it is likely it didn't pass the peer-review. Also, Ashtekar didn't cite his work at all in his may review of the LQG field. So if Ita's stuff was so groundbreaking, it would have made it to ashtekar's list, no? But the guy is from Cambridge, so maybe someone should check his work?
Note that he has not published any of his PhD dissertation research yet, he has just posted preprint on the arxiv.ensabah6 said:As Marcus said, what he is publishing is his phD dissertation research, as he is a grad student...
marcus said:I'd be interested to learn your impressions from the Sydney GR 2007 conference sometime. IIRC Renate Loll and Laurent Freidel gave invited talks on QG. Bojowald chaired a session on quantum cosmology.
http://arxiv.org/find/gr-qc/1/au:+Cartin_D/0/1/0/all/0/1
marcus said:Incidentally there is a US Naval college at Newport Rhode Island
which has Dan Cartin on the faculty. Cartin has co-authored several QG papers with Martin Bojowald. If someone training for a Navy career came in contact with Dan Cartin, and was so inclined, they could be inspired to take up Quantum Gravity research. Cartin has a respectable list of QG research papers. He ordinarily collaborates with Gaurav Khanna at Dartmouth.
http://arxiv.org/find/gr-qc/1/au:+Cartin_D/0/1/0/all/0/1
Hyperreality said:The Sydney GR 2007 in my opinion was very well organised.
Hyperreality said:The Sydney GR 2007 in my opinion was very well organised. ... Renate Loll's talk was quite interesting too...
shoehorn said:Really? I thought the organization of it was appalling, as did most of the people I know. Certainly it was terribly poor in comparison to the previous two, particularly GR17 in Dublin, which was an excellent conference.
marcus said:Note that he has not published any of his PhD dissertation research yet, he has just posted preprint on the arxiv.
Best for us onlookers to stop discussing Ita's work until he gets his PhD or until he has something accepted for publication. Commenting now will not help him gain recognition and may even be counterproductive.
M-tron said:Cambridge just awarded Eyo his PhD
The Quantum Gravity Programme Essentially Complete refers to the scientific effort to develop a unified theory that combines the principles of quantum mechanics and general relativity. It aims to explain the fundamental nature of space, time, and gravity at a microscopic level.
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