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== History ==
Eric Weinstein first began developing the theory in the mid to late 1980s while he was a PhD student at Harvard University.

=== 2013 First Presentation ===
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Geometric Unity was [[A Portal Special Presentation- Geometric Unity: A First Look|first presented]] in three Simonyi Special Lectures delivered over the course of a week at the University of Oxford. The lectures were organized by [https://twitter.com/MarcusduSautoy Marcus du Sautoy], the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science. The lectures provided a broad overview of the mathematical structures in the theory’s endogenous version, discussed where current effective theories are recovered in those structures, and showed general predictions based on those structures.

=== 2016 Private Talk at FQXi ===
Three years after the first presentation at Oxford, Eric gave a private talk on Geometric Unity at [https://fqxi.org/ FQXi.]

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=== 2020 Video Release of First Presentation ===
[[A Portal Special Presentation- Geometric Unity: A First Look]] was uploaded on April 2nd, 2020 as a general introduction to Geometric Unity. The video is divided into three sections: a preface, the lecture proper, and a supplementary PowerPoint presentation. The preface provides context based on historical and contemporary events and introduces the concept of a theory of everything. The lecture shown is a recording of the first lecture given at the University of Oxford. The PowerPoint reviews the lecture’s major concepts in a more up-to-date notation.

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=== 2021 Manuscript and Presentation ===
In April, Eric will be presenting Geometric Unity on the Joe Rogan Experience and releasing a manuscript.