TOE: Four radical routes to a theory of everything

I've actually just finished reading the article, but I'm on my way out the door now. I'll post some more information when I get back in later.

 

Why would that be interesting ? A few years ago, we had the same kind of article in a french paper : you found of course string and LQG, together with Alain Connes' NCG and Laurent Nottale's fractal space-time. How can one compare Nottale to Connes, that will always baffle me. "Why they ignore other (more respectable ?) scientists ?" is a boring question to me. The answer is political, not physical...

 

Without wanting to copy the article verbatim or infringe any copyright laws the theories discussed and their principle refeerees were as follows,

• Causal Dynamical Triangulations
  R. Loll (University of Utrecht) et al.
• Quantum Einstein Gravity
  M. Reuter (University of Mainz)
• Quantum Graphity
  F. Markopoulou (The Perimeter Institute) et al.
• Internal Relativity
  O. Dreya (MIT)

Reuter and Dreya are both quoted regarding their own and others work; L. Smolin (Perimeter) comments on CDT and Markopoulou comments on her own work.

 

Are Quantum Theory and General Relativity not deterministic? How can you combine two things that are contradictary? I thought one of the big pieces of the puzzle would be to have a theory that unifies both forces and particles?

(Newbie here)

 

Mayday---

This is an interesting question that warrants its' own thread.