{"id":12319,"date":"2021-04-13T18:58:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T22:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=12319"},"modified":"2021-04-13T18:58:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T22:58:06","slug":"finished-some-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=12319","title":{"rendered":"Finished Some Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve now finished with two things that I&#8217;ve been working on over the last year or so:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The paper explaining my proposal for &#8220;Twistor Unification&#8221; is now done and uploaded to the arXiv, see <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2104.05099\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve finished lecturing for the course on quantum mechanics for mathematicians that I&#8217;ve been teaching this academic year. Because of the Covid-required online format for the lectures, they could easily be put on Youtube, where they&#8217;re available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCdSEKN94Jo1xjUHVyfEfIjg\/playlists\">here<\/a>.  I&#8217;m hoping to never ever have to teach this way again, so don&#8217;t expect to ever again be producing Youtube lectures.  The lectures pretty closely follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/QMbook\/\">my book<\/a>, and I had been hoping to work on improving and expanding the text. Unfortunately, partly due to laziness and partly due to the twistor stuff, while I found a lot in the book that needs improvement, I didn&#8217;t find the time to do the necessary rewriting and writing. I do however have a notebook full of notes on what needs to be done.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the future, I&#8217;m hoping to go on some sort of vacation in a couple weeks, and soon get back to work on some of the major issues raised by the unification proposal (much of which is very sketchy, a lot to be done).  I hope to do quite a bit of traveling the rest of this year, likely won&#8217;t be teaching in the fall, but probably will be teaching the quantum course again next year during the spring semester. At that point perhaps I&#8217;ll get finally get around to the project of rewriting and expanding the quantum book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve now finished with two things that I&#8217;ve been working on over the last year or so: The paper explaining my proposal for &#8220;Twistor Unification&#8221; is now done and uploaded to the arXiv, see here. I&#8217;ve finished lecturing for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=12319\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12319"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12322,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12319\/revisions\/12322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}