Title: Spinors and other ideas
Abstract: Spinors, in some sense, make up half of our world around us - the other derived from bosons. After discovering them in the early 20th Century scientists quickly realised the main application of spinors: modelling fermions. Weinberg demonstrated that there is only one class of spinors that preserves both Lorentz symmetry and locality: Dirac quantum fields. However, there are currently unexplained experimental results that may be modelled by spinor fields which do not respect the aforementioned symmetries. David Mota and I et al discovered a whole class of these non-standard spinors and showed early workings of their possible applications to cosmology. In this talk I hope to take you on a whistle-stop tour of our new fields.