Roger Penrose's Twistor Theory | Peter Woit and Lex Fridman

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Peter Woit is a theoretical physicist, mathematician, critic of string theory, and author of the popular science blog Not Even Wrong.

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[andromeda]

Penrose was pretty handsome in his youth!😀

[Myrzghe]

I have seen so many clips with this guy now, it’s like they talked for 10 hours about really heavy topics

[innosanto]

Penrose may be greatest loving physicist.

[Grandunifiedcelery]

*Instead of thinking about points, you should formulate the degrees of freedom as physics as living on light rays* 🤔

[fastsavannah]

Remember the time when you could see the amount of dislikes in YouTube videos? Things got very ugly after that.

[Nic-khkr]

What really blows my mind is that we can't advance scientifically without more knowledge of these spinors and twisters! One quantum degree at a time

[Killer_Kovacs]

I agree with this but Does a hyper sphere actually need two poles for polarity?

[Stegosaurus]

1:50
Do other people here agree with his statement that what we see when we open our eyes is a sphere? To me that is an interesting statement.

[neotower]

penrose writing on Time changed my life. I began looking at the world completely different, our perception is an illusion.

[stephenhamilton]

Not that I am that intelligent. However, I watch a lot of content on space and physics. But I have no idea what this guy is talking about lol

[jewellcarpenter]

Here's a question, what's energy? Don't tell me mass, don't tell me energy, don't even tell me Force. if you can do that, my mind will be blown.

[Kyanzes]

Does this mean that the hologram idea of spacetime could be right? Sounds as if.

[albertwalker]

Now I see what the buzz surrounding Tyson Degrasse is all about. Whew! what a tortured and convoluted attempt that was.

[casek]

Sounds like the recontextualization of Heidegger's Dasein, or maybe the Lifeworld.

[SpotterVideo]

Quantum Entangled Twisted Tubules: "A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good." Ernest Rutherford

The following is meant to be a generalized framework for an extension of Kaluza-Klein Theory. Does it agree with the “Twistor Theory” of Roger Penrose?

When we draw a sine wave on a blackboard, we are representing spatial curvature. Does a photon transfer spatial curvature from one location to another? Wrap a piece of wire around a pencil and it can produce a 3D coil of wire, much like a spring. When viewed from the side it can look like a two-dimensional sine wave. You could coil the wire with either a right-hand twist, or with a left-hand twist. Could Planck's Constant be proportional to the twist cycles. A photon with a higher frequency has more energy. ( E=hf, More spatial curvature as the frequency increases = more Energy). What if gluons are actually made up of these twisted tubes which become entangled with other tubes to produce quarks. (In the same way twisted electrical extension cords can become entangled.) Therefore, the gluons are a part of the quarks. Quarks cannot exist without gluons, and vice-versa. Mesons are made up of two entangled tubes (Quarks/Gluons), while protons and neutrons would be made up of three entangled tubes. (Quarks/Gluons) The "Color Force" would be related to the XYZ coordinates (orientation) of entanglement. "Asymptotic Freedom", and "flux tubes" are logically based on this concept. The Dirac “belt trick” also reveals the concept of twist in the ½ spin of subatomic particles. If each twist cycle is proportional to h, we have identified the source of Quantum Mechanics as a consequence twist cycle geometry.

Modern physicists say the Strong Force is mediated by a constant exchange of Mesons. The diagrams produced by some modern physicists actually represent the Strong Force like a spring connecting the two quarks. Asymptotic Freedom acts like real springs. Their drawing is actually more correct than their theory and matches perfectly to what I am saying in this model. You cannot separate the Gluons from the Quarks because they are a part of the same thing. The Quarks are the places where the Gluons are entangled with each other.

Neutrinos would be made up of a twisted torus (like a twisted donut) within this model. Gravity is a result of a very small curvature imbalance within atoms. (This is why the force of gravity is so small.) Instead of attempting to explain matter as "particles", this concept attempts to explain matter more in the manner of our current understanding of the space-time curvature of gravity. If an electron has qualities of both a particle and a wave, it cannot be either one. It must be something else. Therefore, a "particle" is actually a structure which stores spatial curvature. Can an electron-positron pair (which are made up of opposite directions of twist) annihilate each other by unwinding into each other producing Gamma Ray photons?

Does an electron travel through space like a threaded nut traveling down a threaded rod, with each twist cycle proportional to Planck’s Constant? Does it wind up on one end, while unwinding on the other end? Is this related to the Higgs field? Does this help explain the strange ½ spin of many subatomic particles? Does the 720 degree rotation of a 1/2 spin particle require at least one extra dimension?

Alpha decay occurs when the two protons and two neutrons (which are bound together by entangled tubes), become un-entangled from the rest of the nucleons

. Beta decay occurs when the tube of a down quark/gluon in a neutron becomes overtwisted and breaks producing a twisted torus (neutrino) and an up quark, and the ejected electron. The phenomenon of Supercoiling involving twist and writhe cycles may reveal how overtwisted quarks can produce these new particles. The conversion of twists into writhes, and vice-versa, is an interesting process.

Gamma photons are produced when a tube unwinds producing electromagnetic waves.


Within this model a black hole could represent a quantum of gravity, because it is one cycle of spatial gravitational curvature. Therefore, instead of a graviton being a subatomic particle it could be considered to be a black hole. The overall gravitational attraction would be caused by a very tiny curvature imbalance within atoms.

In this model Alpha equals the compactification ratio within the twistor cone. 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.)


How many neutrinos are left over from the Big Bang? They have a small mass, but they could be very large in number. Could this help explain Dark Matter?

[bioshazard]

Excellent episode. I need to know more about Twistor Theory!!

[carefulcarpenter]

If you examine collectible empirical evidence over a lifetime you discover a reality much different that your mind can imagine using cultural forces that promote funding, credentials, and enrollment.
👀🐡

[marce]

Flawed if you are in the 4 th dimention then you decide time and space

[gorojo]

Materialism is stalling science. We need to return to hunter-gatherer religious thinking, and think outside the myth of objectivity.

[علي-شثب]

Human senses are not made to experience "higher dimensions", you need higher senses for that, when people die they will go through different phases to develop these higher senses and this depends on people spiritual level in this existence, some people with high spirituality can experience these higher dimensions here on earth.