Talk:Causal dynamical triangulation

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[edit] Scientific American article

The February 2007 issue of Scientific American on page 24 included a one page article discussing causal dynamical triangulation. While the science is a bit over my head, it does seem to present some additional information about the theory and its possible advantages over other theories such as string theory and loop quantum gravity. Perhaps an interested editor would care to review the SA article and add appropriate information from it to this Wiki stub? Dugwiki 20:18, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes - I read that article, and some of the related sources, as well. John Baez devoted a fair amount of his talk at Loops 2005 to CDT and also extols the advantages of this approach. I will probably take some time to re-work this topic, as it is indeed an exciting new approach to Quantum Gravity. I'm trying to get a grasp on it myself, and I think I'm fairly close to a conversant understanding. Of course, I'll be including some of what's covered in Mark Alpert's SA article. JonathanD 08:03, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

I am happy to report that Jan Ambjorn, the theory's primary author, has agreed to answer questions about CDT and review my summary of the topic for the wiki. Expect to see something more in the article section, very soon. JonathanD 02:41, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

The title was changed to Causal dynamical triangulation, as that is the proper name for the theory, as used by all the experts who refer to this subject (notably its framers). I went ahead and moved it first, and will probably merge with Discrete Lorentzian gravity on the morrow. Waiting 8 hours (or so) should insure there will be no complications from bad re-directs. JonathanD 03:32, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Still hoping to merge

My plans are to move material from Discrete Lorentzian QG to Derivation segment of article. I wanted to clean things up here first, and assure there were no obvius errors. Hopefully, I'll get a chance to merge things later today, or tomorrow. JonathanD 17:21, 23 March 2007 (UTC)