Editing General Relativity (section)

=== 2021 ===

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|content=Also: Get off my lawn. Apparently.
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|content=The way we speak now may ensure nothing transcendent can ever happen again:

“Bruh, Leonardo was da GOAT among cross platform creators. If he’d crowdfunded or pivoted to a freemium model coupled to a revenue share, meme distribution could have scaled his content. lol! Self-own.”
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|content=War and Peace? “TL;DR”

[[General Relativity]]? “That’s cool [[Albert Einstein|Albert]], but like, That’s just your opinion and my friend Sarah is like wicked smart on spiral dynamics and has been waiting patiently while you mansplained her.”

Shackleton? “Total Narcissist. Didn’t do his shadow work.”
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|content=You will see that [[General Relativity]] actually has Grossman as a coauthor at the level of ideas. The main mind blowing insight is in a co-authored 1913 paper seldom discussed. All that changes after that is the instantiation. Science fetishizes instance over insight. So bizarre...
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|content=Notice this style of article. It confuses the *instantiation* of an idea which experiment *can* probe w/ the idea *itself* which experiment *cannot* probe. This is one of the most basic errors in science, philosophy of science &amp; science reporting.

Read [[The Evolution of the Physicist’s Picture of Nature - Paul Dirac|Dirac’s 1963 SciAm essay]].
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|content=I’m sorry but what’s being addressed is closer to Naive Mildly Broken Spacetime SuperSymmetry models based on SUSY extensions of the symmetries of flat spacetime. Which many, if not most, sane theorists didn’t believe. But that seems to be a mouthful to say. Hence this silliness.
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|content=The bottomline is that the scientific method doesn’t work on ideas. It only works on instantiations of ideas &amp; executions of experiments. [[The Scientific Method is the Radio Edit of Great Science|That is why I call the Scientific Method the “Radio Edit of Great Science”.]] It’s science’s Golden Calf. It isn’t how top science works at all.
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|content=So why do we keep making this error. Because the real issue is keeping out bad ideas and keeping order. The Scientific Method can be invoked selectively against loons and heretics and suspended selectively for those we believe in. Read Dirac on Schrodinger. Or Einstein&amp;Grossman.
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|content=@jetpen No one sane wants to have to lean on time dilation for the reason you state.

But I *formally* agree.
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|content=Let’s be clear about this weird sounding issue.

@elonmusk is one of the only minds properly focused in public on the issue of the current danger to human consciousness from having all known intelligent life in the universe on a single terrestrial surface. His top idea: rockets.
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|content=I think that’s great. Where we differ is that I don’t think Earth, our Moon &amp; Mars plus space stations connected by rockets give us much real diversity. It’s barely doable. But assume you could make it work. I would want to run 1000s of uncorrelated experiments as most will fail.
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|content=And if we are stuck in this solar system with the physics we know there is only one good surface and two marginal ones.

Faster than light spacetime travel is bullshit. But going beyond Einstein is not. 

It’s unbelievably hard, but everything Elon does is hard. Like hope.
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|content=But yes, he believes. In fun. In hope. In ending the epidemic of learned helplessness that has infected everyone else. So I’m a pretty die hard Elon supporter. Not because I agree w/ everything. But he gets **the** big issue right. We need to end the single correlated experiment.
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|content=So on the main issue we agree. The second issue is where we differ. A 
multi multi billionaire (12 digits!) as smart as Elon w a physics background could diversify &amp; place a small 2nd bet on rendering [[General Relativity]] a mere effective theory by single handedly fixing physics.
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|content=Now he may have a reason. But I have never heard him address this so it just makes no sense to me. No one is taking the need to go beyond Einstein seriously so we are pretty much trapped here in this solar system with the physics we know. That means three terrestrial surfaces.
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|content=But because Elon is so smart, I don’t discount the idea that he isn’t interested in finding out if post-Einsteinian physics for some reason. I just doesn’t add up to me, but maybe he knows something I don’t. But north of $100B w/ his knowledge of physics, he could change it all.
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|content=I just want to know why no one asks this question. Lex could do it. Joe could do it. But he doesn’t seem to address it so I have no idea what is going on. It’s not some special insight of mine. Our best hope for his stated dream is new physics. And making physics rich is cheap.
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|content=Imagine you wanted to pay 2m salary to all the top 50 theorists in the world for 10 years to get them all to move to a couple of centers to free them from careerist temptations so they could at last swing for the fences. The salaries would be about 0.005 of current net worth.
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|content=Now that doesn’t strike me as a small ask. It’s a big bill. But it is also our best hope. Imagine COVID was radioactive fallout from a serious nuclear exchange and compute half lives. Or imagine a climate disaster. 

Elon shouldn’t have to do this. But government can’t anymore.
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|content=And the two multi billionaires I believe have the best technical chops to do this are Jim Simons and Elon Musk. But no one wants to build institutions that can do this because our institutions haven’t worked well enough since the Apollo program. So, I’m hopeful he gets asked.
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|content=Either way I want to encourage him. But I want to know why rockets over physics. Why not both? Why is a physics guy w a HUGE risk appetite not trying to do for Einstein &amp; his speed limit what Einstein did for Newton’s Gravity? If you know the answer, I’d love to know it as well.
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|content=There isn’t much left that works in this area. I’m still betting on Elon making sense. It’s one of our last really good hopes. And returning fun and mischief to public spirited scientific attempts to “preserve the light of human consciousness” is something I’m 100% behind.
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|content=<nowiki>#</nowiki>OccupyMars is good, but #FreeThePhysicists isn’t even as popular as #FreeTheNipple or #FreeBeer 

Take a look around you. Much as I love it, this place is likely going to blow. 

Elon is right: time to diversify. And we need to have fun if we are going to be saving ourselves. 🙏
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|content=@finaltoe Physics is subject to survivor bias in a system of perverse incentives. We induce physicists to work within failed paradigms if they want to eat or house their families. It’s an insane thing to do. We shoot ourselves in the foot when we take away their independence.
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|content=Said differently I’ve been bullish on positive externalities of mathematical physics. But a lot of great math that got done isn’t [[String Theory|string theory]]. It’s claimed to be stringy but it is really mostly mathematical physics or geometric field theory that is claimed by string theorists.
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|content=Things got hard. They didn’t get hopeless.

Yes we spent almost 40 years lying about [[String Theory|string theory]]. But we could stop today. We could have the leaders in the field admit they made a *colossal* bad bet &amp; ask “What did we dispose of while we were wildly over-hyping [[String Theory|string theory]]?”
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|content=Its increasingly apparent to me that the next physics breakthrough is gonna be from #ai . Its humanly not possible anymore for theoretical physicists ..i was feeling it even around 2010
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|content=They can't stop, Eric. They're making a living from writing papers about things no one will ever see. It's a systemic problem that requires a systemic response. And the first step would be to admit they have a problem (which they don't).
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|content=Seems likely a lot of the math they developed will wind up handy, but it's a long time to wait for dessert.
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|content=Most of what physicists call math is totally uninteresting even for mathematicians. It's just advanced calculus. Look here is my qft and when I crunch it cross-sections fall out.
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|content=We may disagree intellectually more than I thought. This is Jackiw’s point: the era of physics thinking of mathematics as advanced calculus (analysis) wasn’t fruitful.

That changed around 1975 when the quantum began to discover geometry.

I’m honestly confused. What do you mean?
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|content=We are talking past each other. I am referring to particle physicists/astrophysicists/cosmologists who crunch out shallow and useless papers in the thousands. There's no interesting math in those. You're talking about something else entirely.
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|content=[[Quantum Field Theory|QFT]] &amp; cross-sections sound more like particle theory than Astrophysics, Cosmology or even [[General Relativity|GR]].

Would we agree that the collision of [[Ed Witten|Witten]]/[[Isadore Singer|Singer]]/Quillen/[[Nathan “Nati” Seiberg|Seiberg]]/Freed/Bismut/Maldacena/Penrose/[[Michael Atiyah|Atiyah]]/
Hitchin/Dijgraff/[[Cumrun Vafa|Vafa]]/Segal/Jackiw/Kontseivich/Alvarez-Gaume/etc has been magic?
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|content=There are a lot of string theorists who have done things that really matter to geometry, topology, analysis on manifolds, representation theory. And I don’t want to misunderstand your point.
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