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Theory with a twistor

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A reworking of the theory of particle interactions — the same theory but rendered in a new form based on twistor geometry — is likely to have wide implications for physics, including the reformulation of gravity.

News of developments in fundamental physics tends to focus on reporting discoveries that go beyond, or overturn, accepted theories. For instance, the dark matter problem — of reconciling the apparent distribution of galactic mass with the standard model of particles — does indeed suggest that there are highly surprising things yet to be found. But this is not the only story. Just as important is the development of a revolutionary new description of what is already well established.

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Hodges, A. Theory with a twistor. Nature Phys 9, 205–206 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys2597

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