David Chester - General Relativity: Gravity & Beyond

Dr. David Chester discusses complex theories of relativity with a focus on gravity and applications for gravity modification & advanced propulsion. Originally entitled "The Most General Theories of Relativity: Metric-Affine Gravity & Beyond", this presentation delves into metric-affine & cube of Einstein gravity, and explores curvature & torsion tensors, local (gauge) symmetries, tensors, frame fields, torsion, spin density, and more. Dr. David Chester has a PhD in Physics from UCLA, and became passionate about quantum field theory and general relativity while attending MIT for undergraduate studies. During his graduate studies at UCLA he worked on efficient scattering amplitude methods for Yang-Mills theory and its relation to solutions of gravity. His PhD thesis discussed how to compute gravitational radiation from Feynman diagrams. This further demonstrated that theoretical methods used for the LHC can be relevant for LIGO, two of the largest experimental endeavors. David is also interested in the application of exceptional mathematics to describe quantum gravity beyond the standard model physics. Dr. David Chester is a member of the Quantum Gravity Research Group, a team of physicists, mathematicians and chemists are hard at work on what we call “emergence theory,” a new quantum gravity theory (or “Theory of Everything”) that unifies space, time, energy, matter, information and consciousness. Links & Resources: https://quantumgravityresearch.org/david-chester/ https://quantumgravityresearch.org/project-type/david-chester/