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- n. mathematics, physics Any of the complex-valued coordinates in twistor theory, which maps the geometric objects of conventional 3+1 space-time into geometric objects in a four-dimensional space, twistor space, with metric signature (2,2), a proposed path to a theory of quantum gravity.
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“But in twistor theory, a light ray is defined as a single point in light-ray space, and a space-time point P is represented by the celestial sphere's worth of light rays through P " in other words by a complex curve (a Riemann sphere) running through light-ray space." link”
“But in twistor theory, a light ray is defined as a single point in light-ray space, and a space-time point P is represented by the celestial sphere's worth of light rays through P — in other words by a complex curve (a Riemann sphere) running through light-ray space. link”
“Accordingly, the strings now become complex curves — Riemann surfaces, to be specific — in twistor space!”
“… in twistor theory, a light ray is defined as a single point in light-ray space, and a space-time point P is represented by the celestial sphere's worth of light rays through P …”
“A twistor is a pair of spinors well what's a spinor?”
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“Dr. David Harrison is a physicist who accidentally creates a device that swaps matter from our world into a parallel dimension using a 'twistor' effect.”
“Descriptions of Planck scale geometry include quantum gravity, spin networks, twistor theory and string theory.”
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“In some respects this is a valid criticism of twistor theory also.”
“If we presume the twistor-string theory gains acceptence, it will result in something I pointed out multiple times.”
“The twistor-string theories of Witten [1] and Berkovits [2] combine topological string theory with the Penrose transform [3] to describe field theories in four dimensional spacetime.”
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