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Is Space-time Really Doomed?
Peter Woit
For many years now it has become conventional for theorists to argue that "space-time is doomed", with the difficulties in finding a quantum theory of gravity implying the necessit…
Notes on the Twistor
Peter Woit
Remarkably, the twistor occurs as a fundamental object in both four-dimensional space-time geometry and in number theory. In Euclidean signature twistor theory it is…
Euclidean Twistor Unification
Peter Woit
Taking Euclidean signature space-time with its local Spin(4)=SU(2)xSU(2) group of space-time symmetries as fundamental, one can consistently gauge one SU(2) factor to get a chiral…
Towards a Grand Unified Theory of Mathematics and Physics
Peter Woit
Wigner's "unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics" in physics can be understood as a reflection of a deep and unexpected unity between the fundamental structures of mathematics a…
Quantum Field Theory and Representation Theory: A Sketch
Peter Woit
A sketch is given of a circle of ideas relating quantum field theories with representation theory. The main mathematical ingredients are spinor geometry and the gauge group equivar…
String Theory: An Evaluation
Peter Woit
A polemical article evaluating string theory from the point of view of a quantum field theorist working in a mathematics department. Comments to the author are encouraged.