Editing Chemical Rockets (section)

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|content=Many of you are asking me to comment on this video.

I was trying very hard not to do so.

@skdh has not been treated properly by the physics community in my opinion. We are generally in agreement and I recommend her.

She is now bigger by herself than all of @bgreene’s World Science Festival. And I believe that she has to think through  these comments at her new scale.

Bottom Line: @skdh is far more in the right than her critics will acknowledge. But she is now at a new scale and these remarks are misleading in my opinion.

Fundamental Physics is, to me, what Mars and [[Chemical Rockets|Rockets]] are to @elonmusk: man’s only hope for long term survival. 

My belief is that @skdh is now so negative based on her egregious treatment at the hands of her community that her righteous position is  actually endangering physics itself in the era of @DOGE.

I would consider debating her as a friend to give a more positive view. 

Her and my tormentors in physics are our enemies basically because they are precarious. And precarious scientists are dangerous. Should we starve them or pay them?

@skdh and I agree that there are a lot of shitty physics folks behaving badly. Sabine is closer to saying cut off the bad scientists. I am closer to saying “We have a Fauci problem in physics. Get rid of the means by which our ‘Faucis’ control us by making their colleagues precarious. Wealth is the solution to the ethics crisis in physics. The physics community that brought you the wealth of the modern world cannot be controlled by our Fauci’s. Honor the community by freeing them from economic tyranny and the problem gets solved in a positive manner.”

I despise the cowardly enemies of science, and of Sabine. In my opinion they are bullies and cowards really only because they were wrongly made precarious. 

We desperately need our physicists. Free them. Pay them. Free them from our Fauci’s.

I would be happy to debate Sabine (and @bgreene, @seanmcarroll, @michiokaku and others) on this. It’s literally life and death to me in the long term [See my pinned tweet.] and Sabine is wildly too negative here. Happy to defend this.

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|content=My guess is that isn’t exactly it. He avoids funding physics which is a huge piece of clue.

think he knows what is up. I don’t want to undercut his strategy in public. I think he knows things he doesn’t say. Which is fine.

The only thing is that he is making it all about mars. And he knows it is not. It is ultimately about physics and science and not mars and engineering. 

But @elonmusk knows things that I do not about the 6M’s: 

Markets</br>
Marketing</br>
Motivation</br>
Money</br>
Men</br>
Mars

so I continue to listen.
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|content=I love this place. You see it in everything I talk about. 

It is 100 percent serious. I don’t want to go to Mars. I want our descendents to survive.

So far as I understand it, @elonmusk is motivated by Mars because he doesn’t see physics as viable. So Mars motivates an engineer. It can be attacked today without a change in Einsteinian physics or cracking the Standard Model. He must find physics enervating as it hasn’t moved.

I have the inverted reaction. Everyday I think about physics because I think it is doable. In fact, I think we will occupy Mars from Post Einsteinian physics before we get their with [[Chemical Rockets|chemical rockets]]. I cannot explain why we have come to opposite conclusions. 

I wish we were holding debates and conferences about what we can do to beat the clock as we have billions of eggs in one basket. But it isn’t sci fi. I just spoke about the Dark Energy in a physics department. 

We are going to attack this one way or the other. And we need more people daring to take this seriously in public. 

Our top priority on earth is as clear to me as can be: we must do everything in technical fields to restore our indefinite human future that was lost in November of 1952.

I honestly don’t know how anyone comes to a different conclusion. And if @elonmusk and I ever debate it out, I will move to his project if he can convince me [[Chemical Rockets|chemical rockets]] are the way to go. I would like to think he would do the same if he became convinced that a change in our laws of physics is likely to work first.

It’s not about ego. It’s not about science fiction. It is nakedly about one thing: loving humanity and the quest to restore an indefinite future. And traverse the cosmos.

If no one laughed when you said that, wouldn’t you agree that this is the most marvelous use of a life? I think you would.

Then ignore the laughter. Think about it. I trust you will come to the same conclusion.

Thanks!
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|content=And, praytell, how would you know what is possible? What princpie are you referring to?

Do you think Einstein is the last word?

Have you tried really thinking this through? I guarantee you that you have not. 

We are going to crack physics. Count on it or give me the incredible odds as a wager that come from such a silly negative definitive  perspective, so that I and others like me may enrich ourselves from the hubris and defeatism of naysayers on the journey to hope and exploration. 

Give me real odds and terms so that we can structure a bet that we are about to crack physics. 

I try to be professional and scientific in my enthusiasm, but I’m not above financially bankrupting all those who dare discourage work on this most central of problems.

Let’s have some fun. No?
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|content=@sluitel34 Nope. Everything until the after the dash I totally agreed with…but then it went wrong.
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|content=Spacetime is the map we have confused for the territory for &gt;100Yrs.

We don’t live in spacetime.

It’s time to put away Strings and Toy models if we are to go beyond General Relativity’s gravity.

The Solar System is an Escape Room.

And it’s time we set out for new worlds.
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|content=Scientists and mathematicians urgently need a cutting edge post-Einsteinian Engineering project, the way Mars needs a [[Chemical Rockets|chemical rocket project]].

This is our womb, not our home.

Clouds gather.

It’s time to leave.
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|content=@sluitel34 Bingo.
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|content=@sluitel34 Geodesic…in GR.

Energy-Momentum…in GR.

Expensive…in GR.

I hear you. We are realistically trapped if we are in GR. 

We aren’t in GR. That is what I am saying.
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|content=@beffjezos I know. I see the same reality. 

But we aren’t allowed to succeed I think. @pmarca seems to have stumbled on evidence of a deep truth.
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|content=We’ll do quantum computing.</br>
We can do quantum information.</br>
We’ll try fusion.</br>
We’ll fund String Theory.</br>
We’ll do space exploration.</br>
We’ll celebrate [[Chemical Rockets|chemical rockets]].</br>
We’ll have space stations.</br>
We’ll talk meta-materials.</br>
We’ll launch telescopes.

All to starve fundamental physics.
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|content=Mark my words:
“Anything-But-Physics”.

And I badly want to eat those words.

But we’ll literally do anything around advancing physics that does not amount to advancing theoretical physics.

There’s an “Anything But Actual Theoretical Physics” force field shielding us from GR+SM.
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|content=Has anyone else noticed how consistent this is? Anyone?

Anything that sounds like theoretical physics, but isn’t fundamental physics gets a green light.

This is glaring at this point.

Unmistakeable.
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|content=@noah_vandal No
|timestamp=7:09 AM · Dec 27, 2025
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|content=@FreedomR10156 Exactly. It all sounds physicsish.
|timestamp=7:10 AM · Dec 27, 2025
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|content=@beffjezos This is, in my opinion, and with all due respect, rationalization of what is. 

We can’t get physics back because of X. And X is always bullshit. Always changing. 

Respectfully.
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