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- noun Plural form of
twistor .
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Examples
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Yes, the mathematics of twistors is well suited to dealing with null geodesics.
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Yes, the mathematics of twistors is well suited to dealing with null geodesics.
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The rest of the lecture explains how to do mathematics with twistors and how to translate the standard quantum-mechanical description of a massless particle in the most general spacetime into the twistor language.
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The workshop you mentioned was dedicated to applications of twistors in string theory.
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Quantumness does not arise from spacetime, it is applied to spacetime parametrized by twistors.
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Penrose views them as a mathematical device that on its own will not solve the problem of quantum measurement but may be helpful one day when we have an insight from experimental physics that requires new mathematics and twistors are it.
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Quantumness does not arise from spacetime, it is applied to spacetime parametrized by twistors.
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I am not sure of the details, but it's possible that twistors offer yet another way to do that.
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Back to Ch. 33.7 (p. 983), where Penrose implements canonical quantization for twistors.
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Once again, twistors and Minkowski space are mathematical concepts that have no physical meaning on their own.
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