Editing Quantum Field Theory (section)

=== 2020 ===

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|content=This is at the heart of my disagreement with @skdh. I am doubly contrarian with respect to [[Quantum Field Theory|QFT]]. I believe that many of the things they tried say were abstractly reasonable but clearly misinstanciated. To make their mere calculations beautiful, they were creating a hideous world.
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|content=The first talk I ever gave revealing the Physics I was actually working on @ Harvard/MIT was at MIT at the insistence of the great Isadore Singer. The one man who *fully* understood what I said came to me afterwards & insisted we speak. He seemed half mad:
https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=11608
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|content=His name was Robert Hermann. I couldn't tell what was going on. He was very excited &amp; wanted to be of any help possible. It was almost terrifying as I was not eager to discuss the work. When I told Singer about it, Singer said "That's a high compliment. Do you know who that is?"
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|content=I told Is "I know him from an enormous number of self-published books only" Then the great MIT Professor said: "Eric, that is the first man to figure out that [[Quantum Field Theory|quantum field theory]] is based on the geometry of [[Bundles|Fiber Bundles]] before [[Jim Simons|Simons]], Wu, [[CN Yang|Yang]] &amp; I did our work."

I was floored.
|timestamp=10:54 PM · Feb 21, 2020
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|content=This odd man, working outside the University system, outside Peer Review, and outside normal publishing was held in awe by the TOP Mathematician at MIT. The system knew who it had lost and revered him as a serious mind; a man with a viable claim to an earth shattering discovery.
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|content=It simultaneously filled me with fear &amp; hope. This odd man was not a nut or lunatic. I had spoken to a true maverick &amp; he had seen me like no one else...even beyond my good friend Is Singer. Years later I tried to contact him but he was in an old age home with dementia. All lost.
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|content=A missed moment. I was too scared to leave the damned university system behind me with all of its rules and enforced rituals. I knew what he represented: freedom, genius and irrelevancy except for the tiny number of people at the absolute top of the field.

I was too cowardly.
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|content=Robert: I never got the chance to "Thank You" for believing in me and your offer of help. My bad. So thank you.

RIP: [[Robert Hermann|Robert C. Hermann]] (April 28, 1931 – February 10, 2020)
Maverick and Likely discoverer of the Geometric Basis of the [[Quantum Field Theory]] of the [[Standard Model]].
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|content=[Not to complain, but given that the focus is "Theories of Everything" (used here as a term of art), there really should be someone representing the mainstream of the quantum field theory community. I am, as a non-physicist, not in the best position to make this case however.]
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|content=I have been asked by @PBSSpaceTime to appear on Aug. 4th in a new 2 episode Livestream series as the only mathematician among physicists @skdh, @DrBrianKeating, Lee Smolin, @lirarandall, @stephstem, @tegmark, @matt_of_earth &amp; @jbbeacham.

Please join us!

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|content=Why did this work? Because [[String Theory]] attracted top minds from what had traditionally been the cream of the [[Quantum Field Theory]] community, and they‘d clearly found a large piece of mathematical structure. What they failed to find was a connection from that to real physics. 🙏
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|content=I don’t think there is a problem with string theory per se. 

The problem was with *string theorists*. Quite simply, [[String Theory|String theory]] allowed its proponents to put down the work of everyone else by allowing its boosters to claim an imminent solution which never actually ships.

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|content=Further, when ever anyone did something (call it X) that was important but seemingly non stringy or anti-string, the string theorists would publish an all but unreadable paper titled like “X and its Stringy Origin” to claim that *all* good ideas are subsumed by [[String Theory]].
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