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|content='''Intellectual Keep-Away''', n: A game where those gate-keeping institutional narratives refuse to acknowledge superior intellect debunking them. | |||
https://x.com/annpettifor/status/922054160769601536 | |||
|timestamp=1:35 PM · Oct 25, 2017 | |||
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|content=Look, we could just hold a conference: '''"Fundamental Physics: [[Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game|Can't *Anybody* Here Play This Game?]]"''' | |||
David, Ed, Maria, Cumrun, Nati, Lenny, Juan, Lee etc. could be respondents giving constructive feedback. We would then at least learn why we are where we are. But this is nuts. | |||
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|content=Discussion of the future of theoretical physics seems like a game of '''"Intellectual Keepaway."''' | |||
Its the same group of mandarins who predicted LHC SuperSymmetry, Mini-Black holes, SU(5) Grand Unification, String Theory, Q-Gravity would work. | |||
What do our *heretics* say instead? | |||
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|content=Past ACP President Michael Turner and Maria Spiropulu in conversation with @overbye of @nytimes discuss the future of Physics! #physics #particlephysics #spacetime #stringtheory #physicists | |||
|timestamp=11:03 PM · Jan 24, 2023 | |||
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|timestamp=8:36 PM · Jan 25, 2023 | |||
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|content=For the moment, let me entertain a wild idea. Truly wild. | |||
Here goes. What if the problem is our leadership. What if we asked | |||
"Who believe String Theory wouldn't work?" | |||
"Who never claimed LHC SUSY was imminent?" | |||
"Who never said Proton Decay was going to be found?" | |||
Etc. | |||
|timestamp=8:36 PM · Jan 25, 2023 | |||
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|content=Said differently, what if our leadership is brilliant but SPECIFICALLY untrustworthy in identifying the path forward. What if 1000 David Gross & Ed Wit1ten Keynotes setting the agenda are the problem? What if Lenny Susskind is not correct sbout non-string people wasting our time. | |||
|timestamp=8:36 PM · Jan 25, 2023 | |||
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|content=What if we *excluded* people who are consistently wrong about the path forward and asked: | |||
"Are there any OTHER ideas? Not Strings. Not Loops. Not Asymptotic Safety. Not Simple Compact GUTs. Not Quantum Computing. Not Black Hole Information. Not Technicolor. Not Amplitudes." | |||
|timestamp=8:36 PM · Jan 25, 2023 | |||
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|content=Why is being older with a long track record of not making progress the way we select our leadership? | |||
What if for 3 years we tried to ask: IS THERE ANYONE ELSE OUT HERE WITH OTHER IDEAS? | |||
I know. It's stupid. It's crazy. It's self-serving. But it has been 49yrs+11Mos of this. | |||
|timestamp=8:36 PM · Jan 25, 2023 | |||
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|timestamp=8:36 PM · Jan 25, 2023 | |||
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