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I was just now replying to a post of selfAdjoint in the "1-to-10" thread and the thought occurred to that a lot of people may not have realized that getting a new model of the continuum may turn out to be THE FASTEST WAY TO A TOE.
Causal Dynamical Triangulations has a limited goal of merely arriving at a quantum model of spacetime that reproduces Gen Rel at large scale.
(but is based on quantum spacetime dynamics at microscopic scale)
Once people have a new continuum, and start working on it, and building theories of matter on that instead of Minkowski space, then it can be argued that the new features of the continuum are likely to inspire and enable new matter physics.
Causal Dynamical Triangulations has a limited goal of merely arriving at a quantum model of spacetime that reproduces Gen Rel at large scale.
(but is based on quantum spacetime dynamics at microscopic scale)
Once people have a new continuum, and start working on it, and building theories of matter on that instead of Minkowski space, then it can be argued that the new features of the continuum are likely to inspire and enable new matter physics.