Sundance Bilson-Thompson

Dr. Sundance O. Bilson-Thompson is an Australian theoretical particle physicist. He has developed the idea that certain preon models may be represented topologically, rather than by treating preons as pointlike particles. His ideas have attracted interest in the field of loop quantum gravity, as they may represent a way of incorporating the Standard Model into loop quantum gravity. This would make loop quantum gravity a candidate theory of everything. He was a Visiting Academic at the University of Adelaide before becoming a full-time academic at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

See also

* Lee Smolin
* Preon
* Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

External links

* [http://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/sundance.bilsonthompson University of Adelaide]
* [http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/index.phpindex.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=30&Itemid=7&view_directory=1&pi=5194 Sundance Bilson-Thompson] (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
* [http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg19125645.800-you-are-made-of-spacetime.html You are made of space-time] ("New Scientist" 12 August 2006)
* [http://www.mediasite.com/presentation.aspx?p=6421&slides=true&q=sundance%20bilson%20thompson Topological preon models: a braid new world]
* Bilson-Thompson, S. O.; [http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/0503213 "A topological model of composite preons"] submitted to Phys. Lett. B (2005)
* Bilson-Thompson, S. O.; Markopoulou, F.; and Smolin, L. [http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0603022v2 "Quantum Gravity and the Standard Model"] , published in Class. Quant. Grav.24:3975-3994 (2007).