Editing Bundles (section)

=== 2021 ===



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|content=Thank you. For everything. And congratulations. Not on your wealth, but for giving us all the means of escape. For creating something truly new. And for having it up for for so long and proving the naysayers wrong. I have no words. 

What you created wasn’t money but hope. 🙏
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|content=The Nakamoto Collective is almost the only forward looking thing I can think of. 11 years ago, I was unable to get our Prime Broker to take seriously that a small Hedge Fund wanted to speculate on some new concept. It was so cumbersome that I gave up and wrote an essay instead...
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|content=Bitcoin at the time felt totally sketchy as a financial instrument as it was tied to contraband. But I didn’t see it as money. If I did, I would be unimaginably wealthy if I didn’t lose it all to digital theft, accidental loss or spending it .  But I am an idiot in these matters.
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|content=The reason I was interested in it was more complex. If Bitcoin was digital gold, and gold was a quantum mechanical wave, then some group had created a: 

1) Novel</br>
2) Locally enforced</br>
3) Digital</br>
4) Conservation law

Called the blockchain. And money was but one thing it could be.
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|content=Can you imagine. Some group was creating as-if physics inside the network. Bitcoins to me were ‘waves’ propagating not in vector bundles, but on networked computers as substrate.

This was genius. I reasoned at the time that it didn’t make sense to me as a medium of exchange.
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|content=And I hated the blockchain. What the Satoshi collective had done was genius. But there should be no ledger. Gold, as a wave, doesn’t tell you where it has been. So instead I dreamed of meeting the Satoshis and getting rid of that damn implementation by using digital bundles.
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|content=So, Satoshis if you’re out there, you haven’t needed fame or been eager to cash in. That is likely because you get where this is going. Please find me or someone who can explain how AU works as a wave in a bundle. Let’s build a new digital physics around local conservation laws.
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|content=I wrote this 11 years ago. I always thought you’d read it &amp; come find me. You weren’t rich then. You were either a government project, a collective or a lone genius. But you inspired me like little in our time. This was my attempt to get you to reach out:

https://t.co/6rVAj2jQYQ
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|content=It’s time. Put distributed computing on a bundle. Stop worshiping the initial blockchain innovation. Time to move to full digital physics with space-time replaced by the networked computers in distributed computing, and by the Observerse in actual physics. We can’t stay here. 🙏
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|content=No. Your job is to liberate physics. 

Mine, to liberate you. Presumably some of you understand the peril we’re in. We can’t stay here.

I didn’t mention Geometric Unity to the 🌎 from the early-mid 1980s until 2013. Let’s see if the Satoshi collective can go that long. #TimeToGo
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|content=I have contributed nothing to the vision of distributed computing. I don’t talk much about the essay even.

I’m not a Bitcoiner. Keep me apart from that discussion and I will always support you all.

People confuse the new as-if physics for money. So I stayed out to do my vision.
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|content=I would however come to any credible meeting about freeing Satoshi’s genius from the loss of anonymity to the ledger that is the blockchain. 

Bitcoiners are the logical saviors of physics. And post-Einsteinian space travel and local digital conservation laws are out best hopes.
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|content=But Bitcoiners must stop fetishizing the BTC/USD exchange rate and wealth. Set your sights higher. Become the numeraire. Time to fund the worthy outside your communities. There aren’t many. Become our adults.

And also look for an update from me around April Fools day. Hopefully.
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|content=One last thought. If there aren’t very compelling UAF revelations coming our way, I’d redirect our interest in aliens towards terrestrial physics done by humans. If there were such revelations, then I’d *still* look to physics before tech, as 👽 *still* implies new physics to me.
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|content=I’d propose total reassessment of the National Physics program.

Much greater autonomy for theorists.</br>
<nowiki>*</nowiki>Much* higher salaries.</br>
Much greater *diversity* of approaches.</br>
More high precision work.</br>
Fewer graduate programs.</br>
Physics = economic/security priority.</br>
Admit [[String Theory|String Thy]] failure.
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|content=I see now you had a tweetstorm on this, rather than a single tweet. You're right, the physics of UFOs would be world changing, for good and for bad. What do you propose? Somehow keeping the tech within the US gov/military? Eventually it will leak out. Then what? No good solutions
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|timestamp=4:06 PM · Apr 22, 2021
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|content=We need to hire people who will upset the living hell out of the people doing the hiring.

We need to put fundamental physics theory in receivership. No theory lead advance in fundamental physics for almost 50 years, yet no soul searching about who lost physics?? Are we kidding?
|timestamp=4:06 PM · Apr 22, 2021
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|content=It’s time to stop listening to the same voices as if they hadn’t failed. This is a national priority, not a cult of personality for a STEM generation that had their time..and then ate their own young across every field. Is no one following what we did to destroy our own capacity?
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|content=Or should we do yet more 2D Yang Mills on irrelevant groups in non physical signatures? Squarks/Sleptons? Ha!

Let’s say it clearly as everyone young is terrified to say it: the baby boomer theorists were successful as geometers while avoiding actual physics over entire careers.
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|content=By mumbling [[Quantum Gravity|“Quantum Gravity”]] every 2 minutes as a mantra and recasting actual High Energy Physics as “Phenomenology” they mis-educated an entire generation to think “toy physics” was real physics. It’s unbelievable.

Toy physics is real geometry &amp; topology. But it ain’t physics.
|timestamp=4:06 PM · Apr 22, 2021
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|content=Real physics:

A) Works with dimension 4.</br>
B) Works with SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1).</br>
C) Uses observed quantum numbers.</br>
D) Accepts Lorentzian Signature.</br>
E) Focuses on 3 Generation.

There is *Nothing* wrong with toy models now and then. But we are talking *entire careers* playing with toys.
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|content=We tell people who are basically mathematicians that they’re physicists.

Well, they aren’t. Physicists say things about the world. And those things *need* to be potentially wrong to qualify as physics.

We have a culture of people who can’t *afford* error. So they just do math.
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|content=Also, to be a fundamental physicist you really should be telling us what we now have wrong. Every advance partially recovers the one before it but also invalidates it, telling us where to look for error. We’ve made hidden assumptions so you have to tell your elders they goofed.
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|content=Well, young people can’t say that to elders who hold their academic lives in the palms of their hands. [[FU Money|That’s why young/iconoclast physicists need FU salaries]].

Elder “You should work on AdS/CFT or ‘BH information’ if you want to get a job.”

Young Colleague: “How does NO sound?”
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|content=When I say “There are only two true generations of Fermions.” I’m potentially wrong.

When I listed quantum numbers of the remaining particles, I’m potentially wrong.

As when I claimed [[Pati-Salam]] is a maximal compact subgroup of the normal bundle of metrics. 

That’s not a bug.
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|content=Yet you can’t do this in academic depts.

Moral: we destroyed our ability to self-police. Peer review won’t work. We need to go back to doing physics. What’s holding us back may not be physics but the political economy of academic labor, citation, reputation &amp; attribution.🙏
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|content=Should we discuss? Perhaps I misunderstood you @michiokaku. But, if so, you are welcome to educate me on my show. But I feel you are *incredibly* aggressive against all non string theorists and you are not comparably challenged by all who know better for reasons I can’t fathom.
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|content=I feel [[String Theory|string theorists]] know all the things wrong with this statement. Yet you & your community remain silent.

Let’s try it differently: “If Einstein had never been born, Differential Geometry & Variational Calculus would have found General Relativity anyway.”

How am I wrong?
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|content=If Einstein had never been born ...
string theory would have found general relativity anyway. The lowest vibrations of the string contain spin-two massless particles (the graviton) which in turn can be used to generate the entire theory of general relativity.
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|content=“If Maxwell and Yang had never been born, Bundle Geometry &amp; Variational Calculus would have found Yang-Mills anyway. If Bohr and Planck had never been born Symplectic Geometry of line bundles would have found quantum theory anyway.” 

Again: am I wrong?
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|content=Just to finish up for completeness: 

“If Dirac had never been born, Index Theory &amp; Bordism would have found Quantum Field Theory anyway as an enhanced extraordinary cohomology theory.”

I’m sorry, but all my statements are as or more accurate than what you tweeted.
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|content=Why do string theorists pretending to do physics get to BS everyone actually trying to do physics.

We have worked out a world where string theorists and their supporters attack everyone else but say much more outrageous bullshit to the public than any other group by far.
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|content=Also: thanks to Australian mathematician @Tim_Melon  for going over the draft, and offering several ideas for exposition, as well as catching some omissions and symbolic errors in his reading. Much obliged. 

Likewise to @BrookeDallas who improved the draft in a careful reading.
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|content=The proposal to extend the Cost-Of-Living framework to changing ordinal preferences using differential geometry  is now up at @uchicago here, as our inflation numbers soar. Thanks to my mathematical colleague @edfrenkel for going over the draft Tues night:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230223205927/https://economics.uchicago.edu/sites/economics.uchicago.edu/files/Welfare_Chicago_Draft.pdf
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|content=The paper gives our proposed construction of the solution to the long standing changing preference problem in intertemporal market welfare theory, discussed in the opening quote, via a welfare map through parallel translation in a natural ♾-dimensional principal fiber bundle.
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