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Tachyonic media in analogue models of special relativity
Sundance O. Bilson-Thompson, Scott L. Todd, James Read +2
In sonic models of special relativity, the fact that the sonic medium violates (ordinary) Lorentz symmetry is apparent to observers external to the sonic medium but not to a class…
LQG for the Bewildered
Sundance Bilson-Thompson, Deepak Vaid
We present a pedagogical introduction to the notions underlying the connection formulation of General Relativity - Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) - with an emphasis on the physical asp…
Emergent Braided Matter of Quantum Geometry
Sundance Bilson-Thompson, Jonathan Hackett, Louis Kauffman +1
We review and present a few new results of the program of emergent matter as braid excitations of quantum geometry that is represented by braided ribbon networks. These networks ar…
Particle Topology, Braids, and Braided Belts
Sundance Bilson-Thompson, Jonathan Hackett, Louis H. Kauffman
Recent work suggests that topological features of certain quantum gravity theories can be interpreted as particles, matching the known fermions and bosons of the first generation i…
Particle Identifications from Symmetries of Braided Ribbon Network Invariants
Sundance Bilson-Thompson, Jonathan Hackett, Lou Kauffman +1
We develop the idea that the particles of the standard model may arise from excitations of quantum geometry. A previously proposed topological model of preons is developed so that…
Quantum gravity and the standard model
Sundance O. Bilson-Thompson, Fotini Markopoulou, Lee Smolin
We show that a class of background independent models of quantum spacetime have local excitations that can be mapped to the first generation fermions of the standard model of parti…