it's official - reality is made of loops!?

["omjn" <eightohm@iinet.net.au>]

hi,

i nearly cry just thinking about this

from the article linked below:

In LQG, reality is built of loops that interact and combine to form
so-called spin networks-- first envisioned by English mathematician Roger
Penrose in the 1960s as abstract graphs. Smolin and Rovelli used standard
techniques to quantize the equations of general relativity and in doing so
discovered Penrose's networks buried in the math. The nodes and edges of
these graphs carry discrete units of area and volume, giving rise to three-
dimensional quantum space. But because the theorists started with
relativity, they were still left with some semblance of a space outside the
quantum networks.

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0007E95C-9597-1DC9-AF71809EC588EE
DF&catID=2

have a nice and loopy day

omjn