Twisted Theory? -- Peter Woit

00:00 Brief bio of twistor theorist Peter Woit.
01:50 Originator of Twistor Theory -- Roger Penrose
03:40 Penrose starts his explanation of Twistor Theory on the wrong foot, confusing verbs with nouns and treating the number lines of Math as dimensions of Physics.
06:25 You can describe the wave function of both left and right-handed spinning photons. But a photon has no size or structure. How can NOTHING spin?
09:10 Twistor Theory originates as the pursuit of reconciling the wave functions of a right and left-hand spins of a graviton.
10:55 Particle interaction: Feynman diagram illustrates how an electron can push another one away by throwing a photon at it.
12:40 Quantum cannot explain PULL: the alleged mechanism of a graviton.
15:55 Twistor Theory requires irrational numbers… much like Quantum Mechanics does.
17:35 Penrose confesses that he developed Twistor Theory after he was swept off his feet by the beauty of complex numbers.
19:00 Woit is writing two papers on his theory. Neither contains a physical mechanism of attraction that we can visualize: there are no illustrations of the mediators in his papers. He does not have a theory (explanations). He only proposes mathematical descriptions.
24:40 Woit bases his mathematical descriptions on anachronistic waves and particles.
28:00 Neither Quantum particles (as opposed to Classical corpuscles) nor transverse waves meet the minimum specifications of the mediator of light.
31:30 A rational mediator that simulates all attributes of light.
34:00 Phenomenologists like Mr. Woit mistakenly believe that experiments will lead them to discover the invisible, intangible mediators Mother Nature uses to do light, gravity, etc.
36:25 What is space according to QM and GR? (i.e., …since Mr Woit attempts to bridge the gap between these two disciplines)
42:15 In genuine Physics, we absolutely need to define the words ‘space’ and ‘thing’.
48:05 The physical mechanism of gravity or why the Earth doesn’t fly out of the Solar System.
48:25 String theory is the rising tide that is going to drown phenomenologists like Glashow, Hossenfelder, and Woit. But String Theory has no future either. Mathematical ‘physics’ is simply using irrational assumptions: transverse waves (moving vectors) and magical 0D ‘particles’ (amounts). The math these people develop today is irrelevant.
50:30 Why can’t we see or touch Father Universe’s gravity/light mediators?

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[gld]

I like this concrete approach, I also have the impression that many academics seem more interested in manipulating equations than interpreting and explaining the real phenomena behind

[_Balanced_]

This is what happens when confirmation bias is taken to it's absolute extreme. If you don't understand something you want to understand you will get really mad if you perform a target error by thinking it means you are less than those who do. Listen to everyone and find out on your own whither what they are saying is true or not. This guy is off his rocker.

[SpotterVideo]

What do the Twistors of Roger Penrose and the Hopf Fibrations of Eric Weinstein and the "Belt Trick" of Paul Dirac have in common?
In Spinors it takes two complete turns to get down the "rabbit hole" (Alpha Funnel 3D--->4D) to produce one twist cycle (1 Quantum unit).
Can both Matter and Energy be described as "Quanta" of Spatial Curvature? (A string is revealed to be a twisted cord when viewed up close.) Mass= 1/Length, with each twist cycle of the 4D Hypertube proportional to Planck’s Constant.

In this model Alpha equals the compactification ratio within the twistor cone, which is approximately 1/137.

1= Hypertubule diameter at 4D interface

137= Cone’s larger end diameter at 3D interface where the photons are absorbed or emitted.

The 4D twisted Hypertubule gets longer or shorter as twisting or untwisting occurs. (720 degrees per twist cycle.)

[ugaugauga]

I can't believe I missed this lecture! Excellent one! That poor fellow, Mr. Woit is truly confused!

[shutincharlie]

What kind of irrational numbers and imaginary numbers explain that crazy "Twister " comb over?!

[giakon]

Bill is right.... “no dimensions no object”.

[taxsaversteve]

at 16:00...stretching "creates" more quarks...wow so cool how quarks can spontaneously generate! These mathemagicians are so stupid, I mean, brilliant! hahahaha

[hakawati]

I bet this guy does not believe in quantum mechanics. If he can't see it in his coffee cup it ain't real. Lol.

[KipIngram]

Wow. I thought this might be informative, but it looks like you're just looking for ways to be derogatory instead of actually trying to EXPLAIN anything. Moving on...

[xnmrphr]

22:40 maybe they don't need pictures anymore rather than beautiful complex colors generated from complex numbers.

It's kinda one small step for man, huge step for unsanity.

[xnmrphr]

Well, in classical metaphysics nothing can spin :)
It's even possible to explain all of it just by finding some hidden imaginescopic properties.

[robslaughter]

never seen anything like this wow locked in time poor fellow

[SernasHeptaDimesionalSpace]

The graphic at time 3:43 at left down corner its one way flow so as well is out of the game, any system must to have a 2 way flow an out going and an intake to make it a cicle.

[SernasHeptaDimesionalSpace]

You are right bill all atoms in a cell are interconected just like stars in a galaxie but notice that the galaxie does have a main center that is where we see the OUT PUT of the stars that make the galaxie, to me this midle principal part is the one that conects to a higher level the way I see it, so tell me bill which of all those atoms or stars of yours connect so to go to higher levels? say atoms conect and make cells, cells connect to make cluster of cells, clusters of cells make super clusters of cells etc. could you explaine how does your model is able to do so?

[giakon]

again ... it happens again with the wrong use of the word ... '"complex" or complicated ... the meaning of this word is powerful when associated with the word "numbers" .... "complex numbers" .. .. and if instead the wording proposed by Gauss was adopted? "Lateral number" ...: it's no longer scary, is it true !? 😂

[grvehlmes]

This guy totally misunderstands Twistor theory. Do not watch.

[averydavis]

I hope no one is listening to this to this "Rational" Science character trying to learn physics. He doesn't know what Feynman diagrams are illustrating and he doesn't know what gluons are. I quit listening after that.

[michaelnesbit]

Ummm yes time is in physics. Einstein is famous for his field equations of Space-Time. What drugs is this guy on?