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Quantum Topology | Spacetime Foam

Roman R. Zapatrin is working on the " Quantum Topology " project. He has recently developed mathematical methods which take away the last pieces of ground under our feet – Einstein took away the predefined metric from spacetime, and Roman Zapatrin, with his physicist colleagues, is taking away spacetime itself. Another possible application of quantum topological jumps, for which he has provided the theory, is to store information for quantum computers. He graduated from St. Petersburg State University as a pure mathematician. He does not respect any kind of scientific supervision, nor any academic degree; indeed his university diploma was written by himself. He is an accomplished composer and musician; he plays the balalaika, the domra, the mandola and the mandoloncelllo. He enjoys unconventional and ‘uncivilised’ travelling – crossing snow passes in the Alps with a small folding bike, or skiing in the Russian backwoods. He claims just to be providing tools which to wrestle with Nature's challenges. For several years he worked on quantum logic, and managed to build the theory of automata simulating quantum system; after that he began grappling with the quantization of spacetime. Still, for him, his main achievement is that he is happy with what he is doing. Roman Zapatrin believes that - theoretically at least - we shall be able to change spacetime, so that by a click we may change both the future and the past.

- Jack Klaff