Professor Clifford Henry Taubes has agreed to advise my thesis, whose topic is the positive energy theorem. My exposition will detail the spinor proof, originated by Witten. Parker and Taubes then crossed the t’s and dotted the i’s with nearly full rigor. (Taubes has alerted me to the presence of possible ambiguities. I hope that I can find them.) I am delighted to work with Prof. Taubes — he tells great stories. I encourage you all to ask him about his brother and head cheese sandwiches. Hopefully I will work in generalizations due to Bray. What is a spacetime if it doesn’t contain blackholes, after all? I mean, really.
I may post my notes and drafts as I go along. In fact, here’s what I typed up before going to People’s Republik with Lisa Xu earlier tonight.
