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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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|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.
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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=P.S. “It hasn’t even failed” because it can’t fail. So far as I can see, it can never fail. In the minds of the faithful, It’s unable to fail because it *has* to be the way forward. It’s hard to explain what’s wrong with that to the enlightened who see its infinite power &amp; glory.
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|content=What has string theory done to become the poster child of failed physics? It hasn’t even failed.
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|content=Physics in 1980: “I’m trying to grasp why nature has 3 generations of chiral fermions with SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1) internal symmetry.”
 
Physics Today: “Remind me again what the internal quantum numbers are? I do [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]] so it’s not something I’ve worked with since my QFT class.”
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|content=A) High energy physics of real particles became the no-energy physics of toy models.
 
B) [[Quantum Gravity|Quantizing Gravity]] was substituted for unification or extension of the Standard model.
 
C) Other research programs were obliterated because [[String Theory|ST]] claimed it had it all rapped up.
 
D) Hype won.
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|content=E) Focus shifted to mathematical structure of abstract field/[[String Theory|String/M theory]]. Not our particular world’s choice of thy.
 
F) Standards of scientific progress were rewritten to disguise failure.
 
G) Differential application of standards became the norm.
 
It ended physics culture
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|content=String Theory isn’t the problem. String culture is poisonous to science.
 
String theory, like love, means never having to say your sorry. Or mistaken.
 
It’s the January 6 problem…but in science. But where the physics versions of Mike Pence often got fired for not going along. 🙏
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|content=<nowiki>*</nowiki>you’re
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|content=Beauty *is* a light in the darkness as experiment becomes less accessible. Perhaps our best one.
 
But not all lights in the darkness are natural daylight leading to the exits from Plato’s cave.
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|content=Instantly stop all progress in the world’s most successful scientific community using only two words inducing permanent paralytic failure that cannot be questioned.
 
I’ll go first: [[Quantum Gravity|“Quantum Gravity”]]
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|content=you're confusing the symptom with the disease
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|content=Hi Sabine!
 
I don’t follow your statement here. How am I confused?
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|content=I just meant the cause of the problem is that theoretical physicists don't understand the responsibility they carry when experimental tests take longer and longer. That they got stuck on (a particular idea of) quantum gravity is the effect, but not the cause.
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|content=Hmm. As you know I’m historically a big supporter of your courage &amp; insight as critic. Perhaps you know something here that I do not as a nonphysicist. Open to that.
 
But I disagree. The Q-Gravity Mass Delusion is quite different in character. It is highly specific in its effect.
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|content=It is tied to all sorts of weirdness involving top physics and math people, bizarre funders, forgotten research institutes, aerospace companies, post Manhattan Project government secrecy, the golden age of General Relativity and…words fail me…outright quackery.
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|content=GUTs are a good test case. I believe you are in error going after Beauty when it comes to Grand Unified Theory. Your critique to Neil Degrasse Tyson recently applied to Georgi and Glashow Basic SU(5)…but not to Pati-Salaam SU(4) x SU(2) x SU(2) for example.
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|content=I caution that you not fall into the trap of using Beauty as critique.
 
The abuse of Beauty in [[String Theory]] and [[Quantum Gravity]] more generally is valid as a target.
 
Critiquing the use of beauty, by contrast is a suicide mission. And I don’t want to see you on it. As a friend.
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