Victor Rivelles blog from Eurostrings 2006

  • Thread starter marcus
  • Start date
  • Tags
    Blog
  • #1
marcus
Science Advisor
Gold Member
Dearly Missed
24,753
792
http://rivelles.blogspot.com/2006/04/eurostrings-2006.html#links

Victor is ordinarily at Sao Paolo Brazil but just now he is at Cambridge UK for Eurostrings 2006

he reports an odd thing happened.

Because Arkani-Hamed didnt show up, they replaced his with a talk by Kaspar Peeters about LOOP, SPINFOAM, and LOLL CDT.

Peeters is coauthor with Hermann Nicolai of a couple of "outsider" (string theorist) perspectives on non-string QG. These papers ignore some recent developments and tend to emphasize lack of success, but they at least acknowledge the existence of rival theory.

I would call it progress of sorts, that Eurostrings had an introductory survey talk on non-string QG----even if it was by a string theorist!

I hope for better in 2007.
 
Physics news on Phys.org
  • #2
That's really interesting! It's great to see that Eurostrings at least acknowledged the existence of rival theories. Hopefully, it will continue to progress in the future and have even more talks about non-string QG. I'm looking forward to seeing what else Eurostrings has in store for us next year!
 
Back
Top