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=== 2022 ===
=== 2022 ===
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|content=Who were Babson and Bahnson? Those stories don’t make much sense. Why Bryce and Cecile DeWitt and Peter Higgs in Chappell hill funded as part of a weird anti-gravity program?
Simple question: how did you tutor your priors last summer? Not at all? A tiny amount?
Skeptically,
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|content=Hi Michael,
Not updating my priors on all UFO sightings. I’m updating my priors on [[The Golden Age of General Relativity|“The Golden Age of General Relativity”]], B DeWitt, L Witten, RIAS, the Martin Company, etc.” And I’m doing it based on a government report inconsistent with the closing report of BlueBook. And you?
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|content=Dear @EricRWeinstein
According to UFOlogists 95% of all sightings for all time are explained by natural/terrestrial phenom (planes, blimps, geese, sun dogs, lens flares, etc.). 5% unexplained (≠ ET or Russian tech). X new sighting is made. Which bin is X most likely to be in?
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|timestamp=4:20 PM · Jan 10, 2022
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|content=We have been spun. And as skeptics we have to notice the inconsistencies.
We were likely either spun this last summer, or spun at the closure of Operation BlueBook.
The whole thing sounds like total bullshit. But we also have a lot of weird stuff from real 1950s science.
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|timestamp=4:26 PM · Jan 10, 2022
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|content=And by the way, everything I put together I ran by experts like physics historian David Kaiser at MIT.
What do I make of the fact that most physicists know zip about this? We fictionalized this story to make it respectable. But it wasn’t. Our rigorous minds were getting jiggy.🙏
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|content=You aren’t getting it.
For example: Feynman’s story about “The Alibi Room” is also about great math-physics minds of the 1940s-60s dipping into Aerospace companies (Curtiss-Wright in Buffalo). Same with Solomon Lefshetz. Likely Wheeler, Deser, DeWitt.
Y’all just never noticed.
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|content=That famous “G-mu-nu” story where Feynman can’t remember which North Carolina University is hosting the Gravity conference? Is about Bahnson and an *anti-gravity* initiative. Again, you just didn’t notice because of the way we tell the story. Higgs? UNC Physical Fields institute.
|timestamp=7:48 PM · Feb 12, 2022
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|content=The entire [[The Golden Age of General Relativity|“Golden Age of General Relativity”]] is misportrayed. Feynman and Uri Geller? Pauling and Feynman at Esselen? The LSD stories? The story about nuclear powered airplane patents? It’s some super freaky pseudo-scientific seeming story about many of our greatest scientists.
|timestamp=7:51 PM · Feb 12, 2022
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|content=The fact that many of you never noticed is on you. Do I know what it means? No. My leading theory is that scientists disappeared into the military industrial complex to take $$ for pseudo-science. But that’s only one theory. Shoot the messenger if you like, but you didn’t get it.
|timestamp=7:54 PM · Feb 12, 2022
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|timestamp=8:01 PM · Feb 12, 2022
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|content=I got it immediately. Stay in touch? Thx.
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|content=1) [[General Relativity]]</br>
2) [[(Pseudo-)Riemannian Geometry]]</br>
3) [[Quantum Field Theory]]</br>
4) Material Science/Condensed Matter</br>
5) Nuclear Physics/Weaponry</br>
6) Disinformation Theory</br>
7) Cult Indoctrination/Deprogramming</br>
8) Propaganda</br>
9) [[Preference Falsification|Preference Falsification Theory]]</br>
10) [[Mansfield Amendment (1969)|Mansfield Amendment]]
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|content=@LueElizondo recently gave a small list of topics he would recommend for study to begin to wrangle "the Phenomenon", if he "were king". What areas of intersectional learning do YOU think are needed and should be more deeply looked into? Your ufology curriculum. Thanks, Eric.
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|timestamp=10:08 PM · Oct 12, 2022
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|content=11) [[Science, The Endless Frontier (1945)|Science Policy Theory (V Bush)]]</br>
12) Selection (Abstracted)</br>
13) Comparative Eschatology</br>
14) Anti-Gravity Pseudo-science involving top physicists and mathematicians in the era of the So-Called [[The Golden Age of General Relativity|‘Golden age of General Relativity’]].</br>
15) [[Theory of Geometric Unity|GU]]</br>
16) Mind control.</br>
Remember: you asked! ;-)
|timestamp=10:08 PM · Oct 12, 2022
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|content=PrimaoMansfield amendment of 1969
 or 1973?
|timestamp=11:03 PM · Oct 12, 2022
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|content=Wow! Thanks for asking Dale. 1969
but 1973 is closely related.
Nobody gets this anymore. It’s like talking to the wind. Thanks for spotting that entry. Truly.
|timestamp=11:25 PM · Oct 12, 2022
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|content=(Was supposed to read, “Primarily Mansfield Amendment
” but fat-fingered the iPhone word prompt)
Thanks for the reply!
|timestamp=11:39 PM · Oct 12, 2022
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|timestamp=12:34 AM · Oct 13, 2022
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|content=@DannyDeck68 There was a lot of disinformation around the [[The Golden Age of General Relativity|Golden Age of GR]]. It’s mostly in the public domain. But it requires piecing together.
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|timestamp=3:40 PM · Jun 9, 2023
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|content=But how much really weird stuff is there after you get rid of the first four which are definitely all real? I can’t tell you. Too much BS around the first 4. Just push for disclosure. Stop asking everyone what they think is true about every last development.
*Something* is up.
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|content=Why are we always guessing? I don’t get this. As I’ve been saying, there are some crazy stories here and no one has the overarching history.
Know when you don’t know, and don’t have a good guess. That is what we do in science. We say “I don’t even have a guess at this point.”
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|content=I still don’t have a good guess. It feels like at least five things stuck together:
A proto-religion forming.
A USG aerospace disinformation  narrative.
A story about foreign spying on US installations.
A physics narrative from the 1950s &amp; [[The Golden Age of General Relativity|Golden Age of GR]].
Actual wildness.
|timestamp=4:28 PM · Jun 9, 2023
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|timestamp=4:28 PM · Jun 9, 2023
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=== 2024 ===
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|content=Many of you are asking for my reaction regarding the just released @DoD_AARO report. There is much to say. I want to think carefully before saying more. I am not unsympathetic to US National Security needs in this.
In February of 2023, @joerogan invited me for four hours onto the world's largest English Language program (episode #1945) to describe in detail the mystery of potential US Government involvement in UFOs and Post-Einsteinian physics during the mysterious [[The Golden Age of General Relativity|"Golden Age of General Relativity"]]. It has been seen and discussed by millions as expected. I was thus eager to see how thorough this report would be by combing it for  search strings raised in my research.
REFERENCES:
"Glenn L Martin Company": 0</br>
Bryce Cecile DeWitt: 0</br>
Institute for Field Physics: 0</br>
Research Institute for Advanced Study: 0</br>
Louis Witten:  0</br>
Roger Babson: 0</br>
Agnew Bahson: 0</br>
Gravity Research Foundation: 0</br>
Gravity: 1 (pg. 32)</br>
Rennaisance Technologies: 0</br>
UNC Chapel Hill: 0</br>
Solomon Lefschetz: 0</br>
Freeman Dyson: 0</br>
Herman Bondi: 0</br>
Negative Mass: 0</br>
"Scientific and Intelligence Aspects of the UFO Problem"</br>
Australian Intelligence 1971 Report: 0</br>
Australia: 0</br>
George Rideout: 0</br>
Edward Teller: 0</br>
Robert Oppenheimer: 0</br>
David Kaiser: 0</br>
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base: 1 (pg. 18)</br>
Curtis Wright Aerospace Buffalo: 0</br>
Pascal Jordan: 0</br>
[[Mansfield Amendment (1969)|Mansfield Ammendment]]: 0</br>
Joshua Goldberg: 0</br>
Office of Global Access: 0</br>
University of Texas, Austin: 0</br>
Center for Dynamical Systems: 0</br>
Physics: 5 (pgs. 16-17, 53)</br>
Relativity: 0</br>
Albert Einstein: 0</br>
George Bunker: 0</br>
Welcome Bender: 0</br>
George Trimble: 0
CONCLUSION: This report purports to have studied the questions raised surrounding UFO/UAP related research of the US federal Government. It, in fact, appears to have studied a carefully chosen  SUBSET of the claims selected from among those which appear to have mass appeal to the so-called "UFO Community." It completely, or nearly completely, avoided reporting on all questions surrounding issues which have been raised in serious research and by PhD level researchers who have raised scientific questions in this area. This continues the pattern of using PhD level government scientists who appear to avoid the actual research questions most likely to involve sensitve Special Access Programs and Stovepiped Research which are compartmentalized by design. Whether the omissions are due to issues of avoidance, misdirection (e.g. so-called Limited Hangout strategy), ignorance or incompetance cannot be discerned from the information given.
RECOMMENDATION: It is simply not possible to treat the current AARO report as historically complete or comprehensive. To gain the public trust, the successor to AARO would have to expand and redo this analysis with input from domain professionals who are trusted by the public not to have an apparent agenda or government background (e.g. Prof. David Kaiser of MIT or Dr. Nima Arkani Hamed of IAS, Prof. Brian Keating of UCSD, Avi Loeb of Harvard) Otherwise, it is relatively easy for scientists to [[Follow the Silence|"Follow the Silence"]] in government reports to see what is *not* being addressed or discussed.
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|content=Today the DoD released our Historical Record Report Volume 1.
AARO’s report covers more than 70 years of the U.S. record relating to UAP, draws from interviews, archival research, and partnerships across government and industry.
Read it here: https://statics.dod.teams.microsoft.us/evergreen-assets/safelinks/1/atp-safelinks.html
|timestamp=3:53 PM · Mar 8, 2024
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|timestamp=11:26 PM · Mar 8, 2024
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|content=The denied programs are real.
Shellenberger is proving that.
I went as far as I could, but hit an absolute wall and couldn’t get names like “immaculate constellation” to search on. Congratulations to my buddy Michael @shellenberger for breaking through.
It will be great if he can finally connect the mysterious so-called [[The Golden Age of General Relativity|“Golden Age of General Relativity”]] of physics in the ‘50s-‘60s to these programs. Or if he can put that to rest. Either way we need to know.
There may be no aliens or craft. I have seen no high quality evidence yet myself.
But then we will have an enormous question as to what these denied programs really were doing in the first place. Either way, it’s going to be incredibly interesting. 🙏
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=== 2025 ===
=== 2025 ===
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|content=This may be the most delightfully ignorant post I have seen in some time.
The discovery of Quarks: 1968</br>
The founding of Molecular Biology: 1953</br>
Teller-Ulam H-Bomb Design: 1952</br>
[[The Golden Age of General Relativity|Golden Age of General Relativity: 1953-75]]</br>
World Wide Web: 1989</br>
Axial Tomography for CT scans: 1960</br>
Yang Mills theory: 1954</br>
Dark Energy Discovery: 1998</br>
Ahronov Bohm Holonomy: 1959</br>
CKM and PNMS Generation Structure: ‘73</br>
Higgs Mechanism Discovey: 1960s</br>
Higgs Discovery: 2012</br>
W and Z particles Discovered: 1983</br>
Cosmic Microwave Radiation: 1964</br>
DESI: Right Now.</br>
Etc

I will even take my enemies
the frauds, scoundrels, cosplayers, saboteurs and failed among the physicists
over the heroes of any other field.
Your entire world, including its economy, is the product of physics. It’s that dramatic.
Do the research. You will find the same.
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