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=== 2009 === {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/2930667078 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=To @orzelc: in your life you'll see Paris and the Taj Mahal. Make sure you meet all the great minds. Go see [[Ed Witten|Ed]]. He's part human. |thread= {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/2928337597 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=[[Ed Witten|Ed Witten]] has no Nobel Prize. Now tell me again how this era's physics just feels different because we are too close to it. |timestamp=11:06 AM 路 Jul 30, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/2929192939 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=So @orzelc asks me to unpack the No-Nobel/[[Ed Witten|Witten]] tweet. It presupposes at least minor direct contact w/ [[Ed Witten|Ed]] so you don't doubt [[Ed Witten|Ed's]] gift. |timestamp=12:31 PM 路 Jul 30, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/2929274636 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=So @orzelc the Quetion is: "Is this likely the first era of fundamental physics that could produce a 55+ [[Ed Witten|Witten]] nonlaureate?" |timestamp=12:38 PM 路 Jul 30, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/2930347717 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=My friend @orzelc asks: "do you consider Wheeler to be in [[Ed Witten|Witten's]] class?" Short answer is no. But I never went 1-1 with a young Wheeler. |timestamp=1:57 PM 路 Jul 30, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/2930448229 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=In my whole life @orzelc, I have only had the pleasure to know one other person well who I regard as "in [[Ed Witten|Witten's]] class". [[Isadore Singer|Is Singer]]. |timestamp=2:03 PM 路 Jul 30, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/2930581754 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=The nonphysicist disagrees w/ @orzelc. Wheeler lived through the whole build up of the [[Standard Model]]. [[Ed Witten|Ed]] would have pounced repeatedly. |timestamp=2:12 PM 路 Jul 30, 2009 }} |timestamp=2:17 PM 路 Jul 30, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/4118990218 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=In Econ. Krugman is the master chef who can start with deadly pufferfish and dependably prepare elegant fugu thats safe to eat. |thread= {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/4118385737 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=There are three careers in modern physics of which I am envious. The other two are Yang and Dirac. In math: [[Isadore Singer|Singer]], [[Ed Witten|Witten]], Attiyah, [[Raoul Bott|Bott]]... |timestamp=5:05 AM 路 Sep 20, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/4118560452 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=And what about Jim Simons? Other than Chern Simons he did amazing stuff. Wu-Yang ...and that holonomy theorem of Berger was first rate. |timestamp=5:18 AM 路 Sep 20, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/4118623731 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=Anyone else appreciate that Jim Simons redoing Berger's list of holonomy groups to prove intrinsic sphere transitivity? An artist's theorem. |timestamp=5:23 AM 路 Sep 20, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/4118705638 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=Someone else I admire: [[Dan Freed]] at Austin. Dan never gets all the credit he deserves. Every paper nails some loose end for the community. |timestamp=5:29 AM 路 Sep 20, 2009 }} |timestamp=5:51 AM 路 Sep 20, 2009 }}
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