Associations to the word «Twistor»

Wiktionary

TWISTOR, noun. (mathematics) (physics) Any of the complex-valued coordinates in twistor theory, which maps the geometric objects of conventional 3+1 space-time into geometric objects in a four-dimensional space, twistor space, with metric signature (2,2), a proposed path to a theory of quantum gravity.

Wise words

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Mark Twain