Editing Quantum Gravity (section)

=== 2022 ===

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|content=P.S. “It hasn’t even failed” because it can’t fail. So far as I can see, it can never fail. In the minds of the faithful, It’s unable to fail because it *has* to be the way forward. It’s hard to explain what’s wrong with that to the enlightened who see its infinite power &amp; glory.
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|content=What has string theory done to become the poster child of failed physics? It hasn’t even failed.
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|content=Physics in 1980: “I’m trying to grasp why nature has 3 generations of chiral fermions with SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1) internal symmetry.”

Physics Today: “Remind me again what the internal quantum numbers are? I do [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]] so it’s not something I’ve worked with since my QFT class.”
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|content=What has string theory done to become the poster child of failed physics? It hasn’t even failed.
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|content=A) High energy physics of real particles became the no-energy physics of toy models.

B) [[Quantum Gravity|Quantizing Gravity]] was substituted for unification or extension of the Standard model.

C) Other research programs were obliterated because ST claimed it had it all rapped up.

D) Hype won.
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|content=E) Focus shifted to mathematical structure of abstract field/[[String Theory|String/M theory]]. Not our particular world’s choice of thy.

F) Standards of scientific progress were rewritten to disguise failure.

G) Differential application of standards became the norm.

It ended physics culture
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|content=[[String Theory|String Theory]] isn’t the problem. [[String Theory|String culture]] is poisonous to science.

[[String Theory|String theory]], like love, means never having to say your sorry. Or mistaken.

It’s the January 6 problem…but in science. But where the physics versions of Mike Pence often got fired for not going along. 🙏
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|content=<nowiki>*</nowiki>you’re
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|content=I met this rot first in [[Quantum Gravity|“Quantum Gravity”]]

Then in “Neo-Classical Economics”

Then in [[Labor Shortages|“Scientific Manpower Theory”]]

To hear it in virology with MILLIONS dead? Totally mind blowing.

Take back science, by any means necessary. It is now a matter of survival:
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|content=@nathan_garner_ “The right side has been quantized. The left side is geometric, but has not yet been quantized. Ergo, the left side *must* also be quantized for equality with the right side to hold. QED.”

70 years of abject failure are hard to sum up as you ask. But that is the core argument. https://t.co/HOE9sOgTmI
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|content=Instantly stop all progress in the world’s most successful scientific community using only two words inducing permanent paralytic failure that cannot be questioned.

I’ll go first: [[Quantum Gravity|“Quantum Gravity”]]
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|content=Quantum Gravity is a 69 year long slow-motion suicide pact. Can we discuss it? No we cannot. That would require discussing its modern origins in 1953 and 1957.

It is, by now, too big to fail. It is not even the elephant in the room. It’s the blue whale in physics’ linen closet.
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|content=String theory
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|content=@dingobabyboy Subsumed by [[Quantum Gravity]].
|timestamp=3:48 PM · Nov 7, 2022
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|content=Could you sum up quantum gravity in two sentences? Idk what to believe because I’m not close to the physics, so what’s your take and why?
|timestamp=3:29 PM · Nov 7, 2022
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|content=Beauty *is* a light in the darkness as experiment becomes less accessible. Perhaps our best one. 

But not all lights in the darkness are natural daylight leading to the exits from Plato’s cave.
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|content=Instantly stop all progress in the world’s most successful scientific community using only two words inducing permanent paralytic failure that cannot be questioned.

I’ll go first: [[Quantum Gravity|“Quantum Gravity”]]
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|content=you're confusing the symptom with the disease
|timestamp=4:47 PM · Nov 7, 2022
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|content=Hi Sabine!

I don’t follow your statement here. How am I confused?
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|content=I just meant the cause of the problem is that theoretical physicists don't understand the responsibility they carry when experimental tests take longer and longer. That they got stuck on (a particular idea of) quantum gravity is the effect, but not the cause.
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|content=Hmm. As you know I’m historically a big supporter of your courage &amp; insight as critic. Perhaps you know something here that I do not as a nonphysicist. Open to that.

But I disagree. The Q-Gravity Mass Delusion is quite different in character. It is highly specific in its effect.
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|content=It is tied to all sorts of weirdness involving top physics and math people, bizarre funders, forgotten research institutes, aerospace companies, post Manhattan Project government secrecy, [[The Golden Age of General Relativity|the golden age of General Relativity]] and…words fail me…outright quackery.
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|content=GUTs are a good test case. I believe you are in error going after Beauty when it comes to Grand Unified Theory. Your critique to Neil Degrasse Tyson recently applied to Georgi and Glashow Basic SU(5)…but not to Pati-Salaam SU(4) x SU(2) x SU(2) for example.
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|content=I caution that you not fall into the trap of using Beauty as critique. 

The abuse of Beauty in [[String Theory]] and [[Quantum Gravity]] more generally is valid as a target. 

Critiquing the use of beauty, by contrast is a suicide mission. And I don’t want to see you on it. As a friend.
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|content=Note Added: many readers are making wild inferences about me talking about  flying fakes. I was very clear that this was about apparent crafts on the ground and in Hangars in Nevada, Ohio &amp; elsewhere.

Wild or bad inference patterns will get you blocked. I don’t have time. Thx.
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|content=One of the questions about UFOs that needs to be asked, and that I don’t hear much about, is: [[UAP=SAP|“Has the US government built fake UFOs?”]]

UFO people are so focused on whether there are real UFOs that they don’t push hard enough on this question.

Allow me to share a thought or two.
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|content=When I first realized I was totally wrong about [[UAP|UFO/UAP]], I was shocked by how many folks have very similar stories about recovered crashes of very similar advanced vehicles.

It was mind blowing in 2 ways.

A) We have real crashed vehicles.
And/Or
B) We built fake alien vehicles.
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|content=At this point I’m reasonably sure there are things that look like cool alien vehicle in some hangers. But I also grew up near Hollywood and remember super cool looking fake space cars visible off the Hollywood freeway.

So: does anyone have stories of building fake UFOs for USG?
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|content=As you likely guessed, all the photos in this thread are fake military equipment. The airbase is totally fake. The dummy tanks are often inflated on the battlefield. The fake tank pieces are bolted on to real cars.

Q: Did we build fake [[UAP|UFOs]] in places like Wright-Patterson AFB?
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|content=After studying this issue for 2yrs, I’m pretty convinced that there ARE wild looking vehicles in secret high security locations. But I also find NO SIGN OF OUR TOP PHYSICISTS. That is a huge red flag. If you had fake UFOs, you would have a puzzle for physics: What is the science?
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|content=A true recovered interstellar craft would be like LHC or LIGO data: potential scientific data for physics beyond the [[Standard Model]] and [[General Relativity]].

But if the crafts are fake, you would be crazy to let the A-team physicists near them. It would blow up in your face.
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|content=So my ignorant question is this: are there stories of building fake UFOs for sites in Nevada? Ohio? Are there fake retrieval teams? To what extent does faking military equipment spill into faking a UFOgasm for decades?

Because there are too many very similar craft stories.
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|content=So, at this point, the stories of craft kept at secret locations is most likely to be true in my opinion.   But it is also true that all the top physics talent that was working only semi-covertly on suspicious gravity projects left by the early 1970s. So any craft may be faked.
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|content=Either way, it’s a big deal. Everything changed in the early 70s. It’s impossible to say how much. The moment the [[Mansfield Amendment (1969)|Mansfield amendment]] came in, physics began to stagnate. And [[Quantum Gravity|“Quantum Gravity”]] destroyed our culture of science. We don’t even whisper about its “Anti-Gravity” origin.
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|content=So to sum up: there do *appear* to be craft. But advanced armies all build dummy weapons.

Q1: Do we have any Fakes?</br>
Q2: Do we have only Fakes?</br>
Q3: Why do we talk almost  *exclusively* about Technology and not new Post-[[General Relativity|GR]]/[[Standard Model|SM]] science if there are *any* real interstellar craft?

🙏
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|content=Other things that made/make me feel dumb:

Bernie Madoff’s Returns</br>
COVID origin questions = Racism</br>
Fauci</br>
Hilary’s Inevitability</br>
[[Quantum Gravity]]</br>
[[Jeffrey Epstein|Jeffrey Epstein’s CCY trading Claims]]</br>
[[CPI|CPI Construction]]</br>
UFO/UAP</br>
Chinese Graduate Students in STEM</br>
Open Borders</br>
Defund The Police</br>
DEI</br>
NIH
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|content=I don’t think there is any history of my ever commenting on @SBF_FTX.

It is because I never deeply understood what was going on when it was explained to me. I’m not going to lie: I felt dumb.

Moral: be very careful celebrating success that you don’t understand for its own sake.
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|content=2) I'm really sorry, again, that we ended up here.

Hopefully things can find a way to recover.  Hopefully this can bring some amount of transparency, trust, and governance to them.

Ultimately hopefully it can be better for customers.
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|content=Not trying to be difficult, but this sounds like an enormous announcement from Google as I assume you mean it to be as a CEO....and I don't get what is really being claimed in testing [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]]. Thx.
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|content=What specific [[Quantum Gravity]] theory do you imagine has now been openned up for testing? Are these your words, and, if not, do you know what they mean?

I do not:

"dynamics expected from crossing a traversable wormhole, opening up possibilities to test quantum gravity theories."
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|content=In @Nature: making a traversable wormhole with a quantum computer. A qubit teleported across our Sycamore processor exhibits the dynamics expected from crossing a traversable wormhole, opening up possibilities to test quantum gravity theories. #GoogleAI  https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/11/making-traversable-wormhole-with.html
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