Victor Rivelles blog from Eurostrings 2006

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The Eurostrings 2006 conference featured a notable shift in focus when Kaspar Peeters delivered a talk on LOOP, SPINFOAM, and LOLL CDT due to the absence of Nima Arkani-Hamed. Peeters, alongside Hermann Nicolai, presented an outsider perspective on non-string quantum gravity (QG), acknowledging the existence of rival theories despite emphasizing the lack of success in recent developments. This marks a significant step forward for Eurostrings, as it included an introductory survey on non-string QG, indicating a growing openness to diverse theoretical frameworks.

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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.
 
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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!