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[[File:Quantum-Gravity-is-the-blue-whale-in-physics'-linen-closet.jpg|thumb|''"Quantum Gravity is a 69 year long slow-motion suicide pact. Can we discuss it? No we cannot. That would require discussing its modern origins in 1953 and 1957.  It is, by now, too big to fail. It is not even the elephant in the room. It’s the blue whale in physics’ linen closet."'' ~ Eric Weinstein (Nov 7, 2022)<ref>[https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1589644546920837120 November 7, 2022]</ref>]]


== On X ==
Eric Weinstein discusses [[Quantum Gravity|Quantum Gravity (QG)]] as a non-historical paradigm that emerged abruptly, induced stagnation in fundamental physics, and enforces false but unquestionable narratives, potentially tied to institutional or security motives. He contrasts it with alternatives like [[Theory of Geometric Unity|Geometric Unity (GU)]], emphasizing unification over quantization. Below is a breakdown organized thematically, drawing verbatim from his social media posts.
 
== Abrupt Emergence and Non-Historical Status ==
Weinstein repeatedly states that [[Quantum Gravity|QG]] is not a natural or longstanding goal but a sudden replacement for earlier pursuits like Unified Field Theory, lacking historical precedence.
 
* "There is an interesting story I don’t know well enough. Many will recall the phrase 'Unified Field Theory' as the hoped for ‘Theory of Everything.’ At some point this got replaced by [[Quantum Gravity|“Quantum Gravity”]] as the goal. Does anyone know the full story behind this? Was it ‘70s? And how?" (February 17, 2019).<ref>[https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1097020781987475457 February 17, 2019]</ref>
* [[Quantum Gravity|"Quantum Gravity]] is a 69 year long slow-motion suicide pact. Can we discuss it? No we cannot. That would require discussing its modern origins in 1953 and 1957. It is, by now, too big to fail. It is not even the elephant in the room. It’s the blue whale in physics’ linen closet." (November 7, 2022).<ref>[https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1589644546920837120 November 7, 2022]</ref>
* "[[Quantum Gravity|“Quantum Gravity”]] is not the historical “Holy Grail” of physics as is currently claimed." (June 21, 2025).<ref>[https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1936556106927899919 June 21, 2025]</ref>
* "I don't think [Quantum Gravity] as it is practiced is a real research program. It is the obvious candidate for the 'inhibitor' that, when added to research, stagnated physics...and it didn't come out of some longstanding program from the birth of quantum mechanics. It came out of nowhere right before we stopped making progress on the Lagrangian of the real world." (June 12, 2025).<ref>[https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1932978908464623855 June 12, 2025]</ref>
* "There is a tell when listening to physics folks as to whether they’re captured by the 1984 Quantum Gravity virus. They either say: A) “General Relativity has to be reconciled with the Standard Model.” or B) “[[General Relativity]] has to be reconciled with Quantum Theory.”" (October 30, 2025).<ref>[https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1983883266920837120 October 30, 2025]</ref>
* "I would point you to my favorite documents. Gell-Mann’s 1983 Keynote from Shelter Island II is the best of all because it is RIGHT before the GS anomaly cancellation. [[Quantum Gravity|QG]] is not one of the leading 4 problems at the time. Clearly... Witten’s 1986 'Physics and Geometry' address to the ICM. It is clear that the quantum is not even in the top 3 insights of fundamental physics as he sees it. It’s all classical field theory. And that is Ed. This [[Quantum Gravity|QG]] focus titrated by energy level is a very late focus. It’s a very Ken Wilson/[[Quantum Field Theory|QFT]] centric view of the [[Standard Model|SM]]." (November 2, 2025).<ref>[https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1985096216920837120 November 2, 2025]</ref>
 
He ties this to post-Manhattan Project changes: "We took whole areas of physics off line after the Manhattan project and that was *NOT* limited to just the Nuclear Physics of nuclear warheads" (June 12, 2025).<ref>[https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1932978911018954943 June 12, 2025]</ref>
* "CLAIM: These FAKE and REAL programs will keep going and extend to [[The Golden Age of General Relativity|'The Golden Age of General Relativity']]." (June 12, 2025).<ref>[https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1932978913602584840 June 12, 2025]</ref>
 
== QG as a Paralyzing and Stagnating Force ==
Weinstein describes QG as inducing "permanent paralytic failure," turning physics into unfailing "toy models" and causing 50-year stagnation.
 
* "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”]]." (November 7, 2022).<ref>[https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1589640516920837120 November 7, 2022]</ref>
* "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 & topology. But it ain’t physics." (April 22, 2021).<ref>[https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1385263871347159044 April 22, 2021]</ref>
* "Real physics: A) Works with dimension 4. B) Works with SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1). C) Uses observed quantum numbers. D) Accepts Lorentzian Signature. E) Focuses on 3 Generation. There is *Nothing* wrong with toy models now and then. But we are talking *entire careers* playing with toys." (April 22, 2021).<ref>[https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1385263872240537604 April 22, 2021]</ref>
* "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." (April 22, 2021).<ref>[https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1385263873117155328 April 22, 2021]</ref>
* "No theory lead advance in fundamental physics for almost 50 years, yet no soul searching about who lost physics?? Are we kidding?" (April 22, 2021).<ref>[https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1385263864481124360 April 22, 2021]</ref>
* "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] so it’s not something I’ve worked with since my QFT class.”" (August 24, 2022).<ref>[https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1562460746920497153 August 24, 2022]</ref>
* "To put it bluntly, it is not just that [[Quantum Gravity]] doesn't work. It's that you can't comfortably question Quatnum Gravity because the failed investment is on a scale that I think is difficult for us to contemplate. It includes [StringTheory], Loop Quantum Gravity, AdS/CFT etc." (February 2, 2023).<ref>[https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1621054186920837120 February 2, 2023]</ref>
* "Next Year, will be 40 years of failure for modern [[String Theory|StringTheory]] to ship a product. To be clear and STEELMAN the argument for strings, it *is* a remarkable framework. It is REAL math. It teaches us things no other framework has. But, it *destroyed* the culture of honest physics." (February 2, 2023).<ref>[https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1621054190691975168 February 2, 2023]</ref>
* "We spent almost 80% of this time being told that ST was a 'Piece of 21st Century Physics that fell into the 20th Century.' Uh. Bullshit. That is an excuse. It's not clear that it's physics at all. It's a 'Failed piece of 20th Century Physics still hanging around in the 21stC'." (February 2, 2023).<ref>[https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1621054193426661376 February 2, 2023]</ref>
* "We need to spend perhaps 5yrs asking 'If the leaders have not succeeded for FIVE DECADES in moving beyond the [Standard Model], then why are they leading this field and directing the resources, research, and path forward? What if we listened to those who the leadership push aside?'" (February 2, 2023).<ref>[https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1621054201957847040 February 2, 2023]</ref>
* "And then the massive massive massive screw up was allowing the totalizing madness of [“Quantum Gravity”] to take over HEP-TH as if it were [[The Only Game in Town (TOGIT)|“The Only Game In Town”]] and letting its leadership brainwash the up and coming talent into believing that there was one true path. Totally insane." (October 7, 2025).<ref>[https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1975659241781575728 October 7, 2025]</ref>
 
He calls for reforms: "I’d propose total reassessment of the National Physics program. Much greater autonomy for theorists. *Much* higher salaries. Much greater *diversity* of approaches. More high precision work. Fewer graduate programs. Physics = economic/security priority. Admit [[String Theory|String Thy]] failure." (April 22, 2021).<ref>[https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1385263862698577922 April 22, 2021]</ref>
 
== Ties to String Theory and Enforced Monopoly ==
Weinstein equates QG with String Theory (ST), criticizing its culture for rewriting standards, inability to fail, and "The Only Game in Town" (TOGIT) monopoly.
 
* "What has string theory done to become the poster child of failed physics? 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." (August 23, 2022).<ref>[https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1562121666924504705 August 23, 2022]</ref>
* "A) High energy physics of real particles became the no-energy physics of toy models. B) Quantizing Gravity was substituted for unification or extension of the Standard model. C) Other research programs were obliterated because ST claimed it had it all rapped up. D) Hype won. 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." (August 24, 2022).<ref>[https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1562463292345372672 August 24, 2022]</ref>
* "[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." (August 24, 2022).<ref>[https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1562465038962610178 August 24, 2022]</ref>
* "The issue is the “String Theory is the only game in town” which appears designed to destroy fundamental physics itself... The defining feature of String Theory is that it would rather fundamental physics die than that String Theory face healthy adult rivals that were not maimed, crippled, stolen, or murdered in their cribs." (April 15, 2025).<ref>[https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1912032953896673603 April 15, 2025]</ref>
* "The appearance of [[String Theory|String-Theory/M-theory]] as [[The Only Game in Town (TOGIT)|“The Only Game in Town” (TOGIT)]] has no precedence... The rivals never got heard." (August 16, 2025).<ref>[https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1956769068188594232 August 16, 2025]</ref>
* "Congratulations to: @thebadstats @daveexplains @GurusPod @IAmTimNguyen / @Google @Samuel_Gregson @C_Kavanagh @ArthurCDent @kagankans / @WSJ You just showed the world why Quantum Gravity/StringTheory/M-Theory is “The Only Game in Town”: Group Bullying * kills* Scientific Dissent" (September 17, 2025).<ref>[https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1968365361382002922 September 17, 2025]</ref>
* "Right Freeway: GR and SM must be harmonized. Wrong Exit: Catastrophic leadership decisions. “Gravity must be quantized and only String Theory and M-Theory can do it. Convert or perish! All mere mortals stand back. We will have this wrapped up in 10 years!! Give us all resources and young talent now.”" (October 7, 2025).<ref>[https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1975659241781575728 October 7, 2025]</ref>
 
In debates: "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." (November 7, 2022).<ref>[https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1589668086921473408 November 7, 2022]</ref>
 
== Institutional, Ethical, and Security Aspects ==
Weinstein speculates [[Quantum Gravity|QG]] as a "mass delusion" or construct to suppress dangerous physics, involving ethical issues and "Managed Reality."
 
* "The [[Quantum Gravity|Q-Gravity Mass Delusion]] is quite different in character. It is highly specific in its effect. 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." (November 7, 2022).<ref>[https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1589666446920837120 November 7, 2022]</ref>
* "What I do wonder about is whether the U.S. government is blocking all public university fundamental physics preemptively with [quantum gravity]…while likely *failing* at it in secret (e.g. in national labs) as well." (June 22, 2025).<ref>[https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1936975226923150562 June 22, 2025]</ref>
* "We may be faking a [[Quantum Gravity]] revolution... We may be lying that all the competitors to String theory are all bad science or PseudoScience." (June 23, 2025).<ref>[https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1937032792971612619 June 23, 2025]</ref>
* "No researcher can afford to lose access to the arXiv. And no one talking openly about the actual [[Quantum Gravity]] mass delusion can have access to the journals & arXIv. You cannot challenge the QG narrative from the inside; its achievement is that it finally made physics *safe*." (June 3, 2025).<ref>[https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1930004307732247023 June 3, 2025]</ref>
* "We have a [[Quantum Gravity]] narrative... It’s all one thing that cannot be named: National Interest “[[Managed Reality TM|Managed Reality]].”" (July 5, 2025).<ref>[https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1941522174428565613 July 5, 2025]</ref>
* "[[Quantum Gravity]] has been a catastrophe... And in all cases you lose your standing in the community for saying the obvious." (September 25, 2025).<ref>[https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1971105526920837120 September 25, 2025]</ref>
* "The freedom of credentialed technical experts to dissent FROM WITHIN THE SYSTEM is at the heart of what is wrong with science..." (September 25, 2025).<ref>[https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1971105526920837120 September 25, 2025]</ref>
* "All physicists are expected to parrot a party line: 'Our two greatest theories are [[General Relativity]]... and the [[Standard Model]]... Unfortunately, they are incompatible because one is a quantum theory while the other is merely classical. That is why... a theory of [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity (QG)]] has been seen as the holy grail... But quantizing gravity must occur... So the ultimate theory of [[Quantum Gravity|QG]] remains physics’ top priority.' Or words to that effect. On the other hand this is wrong in many ways. But it can’t be discussed rationally because funding hinges on it. It’s a life or death fairy tale." (July 26, 2025).<ref>[https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1949075689174647063 July 26, 2025]</ref>
 
== Alternatives and Geometric Unity Contrasts ==
Weinstein positions GU as avoiding QG's issues, unifying via geometry without traditional quantization.
 
* "All 14 dimensions in GU are endogenous to Einstein's 4-dimensional spacetime <math>X^4</math>, derived from the bundle <math>Y^{14}(X^4)</math> of possible metric tensors." (Various posts; e.g., September 24, 2025).
* "GU rejects three generations of matter, positing two true generations plus one 'imposter.'... It predicts specific new particles... and makes explicit predictions (e.g., in section 11.3 on pages 52-53)." (September 24, 2025).
* "@seanmcarroll claims that there are no Lagrangian/Actions in GU. I put forward a DIRECT term for term comparison between his work and GU." (September 24, 2025).<ref>[https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1970936123791900806 September 24, 2025]</ref>
* "GR isn't a proper gauge theory because the Einstein projection <math>P_E(F_{\nabla})</math> doesn't commute with gauge actions, and spinors depend on the metric. GU liberates spinors from metrics, unifies curvatures <math>F</math>, and includes explicit Lagrangians." (Derived from multiple posts).
* "GU says: “That is eminently reasonable & sober, and is thus good solid science. Now get this defeatist mindset the hell away from me, go peer review each other, and hold my beer. Send lawyers, guns & money: let’s get back to American Cowboy science.”" (November 7, 2025).<ref>[https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1986803710551290047 November 7, 2025]</ref>
* He critiques QG's blocking: "The rivals never got heard." (August 16, 2025).<ref>[https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1956769068188594232 August 16, 2025]</ref>
 
In essence, Weinstein's posts depict QG as a "catastrophe" and "mass delusion" that "destroyed" physics culture, urging dissent and alternatives like GU. His language stresses its non-historical, paralyzing nature, with direct calls to question the enforced narrative.
 
 
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|content=There is an interesting story I don’t know well enough. Many will recall the phrase “Unified Field Theory” as the hoped for ‘Theory of Everything.’ At some point this got replaced by [[Quantum Gravity|“Quantum Gravity”]] as the goal. Does anyone know the full story behind this? Was it ‘70s? And how?
|content=END/ My bet is on Type III for a reason:
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|content=Theoretical physicists have known since the 1930s that quantum gravity is necessary to bring order into the laws of nature, writes @skdh, but 80 years on, a solution isn’t anywhere in sight. http://bit.ly/break-gravity
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Type I is not unified.</br>
Type II is possible, but appears to be unworkable in details.</br>
Type IV appears to lack sufficient guidance from Quantum theory to actually 'ship' despite consuming resources for yrs.</br>
Types V &amp; VI lack any progress.
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|content=Ok. This is a weird take. The reluctance to engage foundations of quantum mechanics stemmed from the fact that it was far less generative than research in quantum field thy for decades. When Standard Model QFT stagnated &amp; [[Quantum Gravity]] stumbled, the opportunity cost decreased.
|content=1/ "Theories of Everything": A Taxonomy.
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|content=Shots fired! "Even Physicists Don’t Understand Quantum Mechanics. Worse, they don’t seem to want to understand it." -- me, in the New York Times @nytopinion #SomethingDeeply


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/07/opinion/sunday/quantum-physics.html
It is often said that "Theories-of-Everything are a dime a dozen" or that "All theoretical physicists worth their salt have several in a drawer." So far as I can tell, this is simply untrue. We've barely ever, if at all, seen candidates.
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|content=Does anyone know what @elonmusk thinks about the state of fundamental physics, unification, [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]] and the impact any such progress may have on humanity’s chance for survival? I realize that I’ve never heard him connect fundamental physics progress to plans for humanity.
|content=2/ The Escher Lithograph used in the first tweet points to the core of why TOEs are rare. A candidate TOE has to have some quality of "a fire that lights itself", which is difficult to think about beyond the equations that would instantiate it. Hence very few such theories exist.
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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.
|content=3/ I'm going to lean on the following dictionary of analogies:
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Physical Paper = Void
Pictured Canvas = Manifold and/or Einsteinian Spacetime
Ink=Matter &amp; non-gravitational force fields
Pencils = Pre-Conscious Lego (e.g. amino acids)
Hands = Consciousness
Paradox = Self-awareness
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|content=I’d propose total reassessment of the National Physics program.
|content=4/ In my taxonomy, Type I TOEs are our least ambitious but they best match our state of the world. They are distinguished by two *separate* sources of origin: one for the Canvas ([[General Relativity]] or [[Ed Witten|Witten's]] point i) ) &amp; one for the Ink ([[Standard Model]] or [[Ed Witten|Witten's]] point ii) ).
 
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Much greater autonomy for theorists.</br>
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<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 [[ 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.
|content=5 Type II TOE's are more ambitious &amp; seek to derive the Ink from the choice of a mathematically distinguished Canvas that is anything but blank. My arch-nemesis @garrettlisi's theory is Type II. E8 is his 248 dimensional canvas. The intricacy is there, but doesn't quite match up.
 
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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?
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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?
|content=6/ In Type III TOEs the ink is to be derived from canvas, but the canvas is essentially blank; it simply permits mathematics to happen (e.g. calculus and linear algebra). In such theories the ink has to be bootstrapped into existence. My lectures on [[Theory of Geometric Unity|Geometric Unity]] were Type III.
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|content=Or should we do yet more 2D Yang Mills on irrelevant groups in non physical signatures? Squarks/Sleptons? Ha!
|content=7/ Type IV TOE's try to change the question from Einstein's "Unified Field Theory." In [[String Theory|String Thy]], [[Quantum Gravity|"Quantizing Gravity"]] became substituted for "Unified Field." For this crowd, many are now betting that the canvas &amp; ink are both *emergent* from some deeper fundamental quantum thy.
 
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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.
|content=8/ Type V TOEs are of a type I've never been able to fully contemplate; they are without boundaries or origins. There is no "Why is there something rather than nothing" within them. That which is not forbidden is compelled into existence. Void creates canvas &amp; canvas begets void.
 
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|content=Real physics:
|content=9/ Type VI TOEs begin with the hands. Religions are of this type. I pass over this in silence as they aren't scientific.


A) Works with dimension 4.</br>
I will leave open higher types, but I've really only seen attempts at I-IV &amp; I wouldn't call [[String Theory|String-Thy/M-Thy]] a full TOE try since events of the last 15 yrs.
B) Works with SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1).</br>
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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.
|content=10/ I believe fundamental physics is stalled out because we are finally at the doorstep of a TOE and we haven't really bothered to think about what that would actually mean because we've never been here before. A final step need not look like any previous one. In fact, it cannot.
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Well, they aren’t. Physicists say things about the world. And those things *need* to be potentially wrong to qualify as physics.
=== 2019 ===


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.
|content=There is an interesting story I don’t know well enough. Many will recall the phrase “Unified Field Theory” as the hoped for ‘Theory of Everything.’ At some point this got replaced by [[Quantum Gravity|“Quantum Gravity”]] as the goal. Does anyone know the full story behind this? Was it ‘70s? And how?
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|content=Theoretical physicists have known since the 1930s that quantum gravity is necessary to bring order into the laws of nature, writes @skdh, but 80 years on, a solution isn’t anywhere in sight. http://bit.ly/break-gravity
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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]].
|content=Ok. This is a weird take. The reluctance to engage foundations of quantum mechanics stemmed from the fact that it was far less generative than research in quantum field thy for decades. When Standard Model QFT stagnated &amp; [[Quantum Gravity]] stumbled, the opportunity cost decreased.
 
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|content=Shots fired! "Even Physicists Don’t Understand Quantum Mechanics. Worse, they don’t seem to want to understand it." -- me, in the New York Times @nytopinion #SomethingDeeply


Young Colleague: “How does NO sound?”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/07/opinion/sunday/quantum-physics.html
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|content=When I say “There are only two true generations of Fermions.” I’m potentially wrong.
|content=Does anyone know what @elonmusk thinks about the state of fundamental physics, unification, [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]] and the impact any such progress may have on humanity’s chance for survival? I realize that I’ve never heard him connect fundamental physics progress to plans for humanity.
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When I listed quantum numbers of the remaining particles, I’m potentially wrong.
=== 2021 ===
 
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.
|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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=== 2022 ===
 
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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.
|content=I’d propose total reassessment of the National Physics program.
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Physics = economic/security priority.</br>
|content=What has string theory done to become the poster child of failed physics? It hasn’t even failed.
Admit [[ 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=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.”
|content=We need to hire people who will upset the living hell out of the people doing the hiring.


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.”
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?
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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=A) High energy physics of real particles became the no-energy physics of toy models.
|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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B) [[Quantum Gravity|Quantizing Gravity]] was substituted for unification or extension of the Standard model.
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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.
|content=Or should we do yet more 2D Yang Mills on irrelevant groups in non physical signatures? Squarks/Sleptons? Ha!


F) Standards of scientific progress were rewritten to disguise failure.
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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G) Differential application of standards became the norm.
 
It ended physics culture
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|content=[[String Theory|String Theory]] isn’t the problem. [[String Theory|String culture]] is poisonous to science.
|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.


[[String Theory|String theory]], like love, means never having to say your sorry. Or mistaken.
Toy physics is real geometry &amp; topology. But it ain’t physics.
 
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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=I met this rot first in [[Quantum Gravity|“Quantum Gravity”]]
|content=We tell people who are basically mathematicians that they’re physicists.


Then in “Neo-Classical Economics”
Well, they aren’t. Physicists say things about the world. And those things *need* to be potentially wrong to qualify as physics.


Then in [[Labor Shortages|“Scientific Manpower Theory”]]
We have a culture of people who can’t *afford* error. So they just do math.
 
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To hear it in virology with MILLIONS dead? Totally mind blowing.
 
Take back science, by any means necessary. It is now a matter of survival:
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|content=@CurtM2566 You are being distracted then. Focus on [[Quantum Gravity]]. Entanglement is real.
|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=Instantly stop all progress in the world’s most successful scientific community using only two words inducing permanent paralytic failure that cannot be questioned.
|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.”


I’ll go first: [[Quantum Gravity|“Quantum Gravity”]]
Young Colleague: “How does NO sound?”
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|content=Quantum Gravity is a 69 year long slow-motion suicide pact. Can we discuss it? No we cannot. That would require discussing its modern origins in 1953 and 1957.
|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.  


It is, by now, too big to fail. It is not even the elephant in the room. It’s the blue whale in physics’ linen closet.
That’s not a bug.
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|content=@dingobabyboy Subsumed by [[Quantum Gravity]].
|content=Yet you can’t do this in academic depts.
|timestamp=3:48 PM ¡ Nov 7, 2022
 
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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=== 2022 ===


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|content=Beauty *is* a light in the darkness as experiment becomes less accessible. Perhaps our best one.  
|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=Instantly stop all progress in the world’s most successful scientific community using only two words inducing permanent paralytic failure that cannot be questioned.
|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.”


I’ll go first: [[Quantum Gravity|“Quantum Gravity”]]
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=What has string theory done to become the poster child of failed physics? It hasn’t even failed.
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|content=you're confusing the symptom with the disease
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|content=Hi Sabine!
|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 ST claimed it had it all rapped up.


I don’t follow your statement here. How am I confused?
D) Hype won.
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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.
|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.


But I disagree. The Q-Gravity Mass Delusion is quite different in character. It is highly specific in its effect.
It ended physics culture
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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.
|content=[[String Theory|String Theory]] isn’t the problem. [[String Theory|String culture]] is poisonous to science.
|timestamp=5:13 PM ¡ Nov 7, 2022
 
[[String Theory|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=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.
|content=<nowiki>*</nowiki>you’re
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|content=I caution that you not fall into the trap of using Beauty as critique.
|content=I met this rot first in [[Quantum Gravity|“Quantum Gravity”]]
 
Then in “Neo-Classical Economics”


The abuse of Beauty in [[String Theory]] and [[Quantum Gravity]] more generally is valid as a target.
Then in [[Labor Shortages|“Scientific Manpower Theory”]]


Critiquing the use of beauty, by contrast is a suicide mission. And I don’t want to see you on it. As a friend.
To hear it in virology with MILLIONS dead? Totally mind blowing.
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|content=Note Added: many readers are making wild inferences about me talking about  flying fakes. I was very clear that this was about apparent crafts on the ground and in Hangars in Nevada, Ohio &amp; elsewhere.
|content=@nathan_garner_ “The right side has been quantized. The left side is geometric, but has not yet been quantized. Ergo, the left side *must* also be quantized for equality with the right side to hold. QED.”


Wild or bad inference patterns will get you blocked. I don’t have time. Thx.
70 years of abject failure are hard to sum up as you ask. But that is the core argument. https://t.co/HOE9sOgTmI
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|content=One of the questions about UFOs that needs to be asked, and that I don’t hear much about, is: [[UAP=SAP|“Has the US government built fake UFOs?”]]
|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.


UFO people are so focused on whether there are real UFOs that they don’t push hard enough on this question.
I’ll go first: [[Quantum Gravity|“Quantum Gravity”]]
 
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Allow me to share a thought or two.
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|content=When I first realized I was totally wrong about [[UAP|UFO/UAP]], I was shocked by how many folks have very similar stories about recovered crashes of very similar advanced vehicles.
|content=Quantum Gravity is a 69 year long slow-motion suicide pact. Can we discuss it? No we cannot. That would require discussing its modern origins in 1953 and 1957.


It was mind blowing in 2 ways.
It is, by now, too big to fail. It is not even the elephant in the room. It’s the blue whale in physics’ linen closet.
 
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|content=String theory
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|content=At this point I’m reasonably sure there are things that look like cool alien vehicle in some hangers. But I also grew up near Hollywood and remember super cool looking fake space cars visible off the Hollywood freeway.
|content=@dingobabyboy Subsumed by [[Quantum Gravity]].
 
|timestamp=3:48 PM ¡ Nov 7, 2022
So: does anyone have stories of building fake UFOs for USG?
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|content=As you likely guessed, all the photos in this thread are fake military equipment. The airbase is totally fake. The dummy tanks are often inflated on the battlefield. The fake tank pieces are bolted on to real cars.
|content=Could you sum up quantum gravity in two sentences? Idk what to believe because I’m not close to the physics, so what’s your take and why?
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Q: Did we build fake [[UAP|UFOs]] in places like Wright-Patterson AFB?
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|content=After studying this issue for 2yrs, I’m pretty convinced that there ARE wild looking vehicles in secret high security locations. But I also find NO SIGN OF OUR TOP PHYSICISTS. That is a huge red flag. If you had fake UFOs, you would have a puzzle for physics: What is the science?
|content=Beauty *is* a light in the darkness as experiment becomes less accessible. Perhaps our best one.  
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|content=A true recovered interstellar craft would be like LHC or LIGO data: potential scientific data for physics beyond the [[Standard Model]] and [[General Relativity]].
|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.


But if the crafts are fake, you would be crazy to let the A-team physicists near them. It would blow up in your face.
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=So my ignorant question is this: are there stories of building fake UFOs for sites in Nevada? Ohio? Are there fake retrieval teams? To what extent does faking military equipment spill into faking a UFOgasm for decades?
|content=Hi Sabine!


Because there are too many very similar craft stories.
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=So, at this point, the stories of craft kept at secret locations is most likely to be true in my opinion.   But it is also true that all the top physics talent that was working only semi-covertly on suspicious gravity projects left by the early 1970s. So any craft may be faked.
|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.
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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|the golden age of General Relativity]] and…words fail me…outright quackery.
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|content=Either way, it’s a big deal. Everything changed in the early 70s. It’s impossible to say how much. The moment the Mansfield amendment came in, physics began to stagnate. And [[Quantum Gravity|“Quantum Gravity”]] destroyed our culture of science. We don’t even whisper about its “Anti-Gravity” origin.
|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=So to sum up: there do *appear* to be craft. But advanced armies all build dummy weapons.
|content=I caution that you not fall into the trap of using Beauty as critique.  


Q1: Do we have any Fakes?</br>
The abuse of Beauty in [[String Theory]] and [[Quantum Gravity]] more generally is valid as a target.
Q2: Do we have only Fakes?</br>
Q3: Why do we talk almost  *exclusively* about Technology and not new Post-[[General Relativity|GR]]/[[Standard Model|SM]] science if there are *any* real interstellar craft?


🙏
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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|content=Other things that made/make me feel dumb:
|content=Note Added: many readers are making wild inferences about me talking about  flying fakes. I was very clear that this was about apparent crafts on the ground and in Hangars in Nevada, Ohio &amp; elsewhere.


Bernie Madoff’s Returns</br>
Wild or bad inference patterns will get you blocked. I don’t have time. Thx.
COVID origin questions = Racism</br>
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[[Jeffrey Epstein|Jeffrey Epstein’s CCY trading Claims]]</br>
[[CPI|CPI Construction]]</br>
UFO/UAP</br>
Chinese Graduate Students in STEM</br>
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|content=I don’t think there is any history of my ever commenting on @SBF_FTX.
|content=One of the questions about UFOs that needs to be asked, and that I don’t hear much about, is: [[UAP=SAP|“Has the US government built fake UFOs?”]]


It is because I never deeply understood what was going on when it was explained to me. I’m not going to lie: I felt dumb.
UFO people are so focused on whether there are real UFOs that they don’t push hard enough on this question.


Moral: be very careful celebrating success that you don’t understand for its own sake.
Allow me to share a thought or two.
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|content=2) I'm really sorry, again, that we ended up here.
 
Hopefully things can find a way to recover.  Hopefully this can bring some amount of transparency, trust, and governance to them.
 
Ultimately hopefully it can be better for customers.
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|content=Not trying to be difficult, but this sounds like an enormous announcement from Google as I assume you mean it to be as a CEO....and I don't get what is really being claimed in testing [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]]. Thx.
|content=When I first realized I was totally wrong about [[UAP|UFO/UAP]], I was shocked by how many folks have very similar stories about recovered crashes of very similar advanced vehicles.
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A) We have real crashed vehicles.
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|content=What specific [[Quantum Gravity]] theory do you imagine has now been openned up for testing? Are these your words, and, if not, do you know what they mean?
|content=At this point I’m reasonably sure there are things that look like cool alien vehicle in some hangers. But I also grew up near Hollywood and remember super cool looking fake space cars visible off the Hollywood freeway.


I do not:
So: does anyone have stories of building fake UFOs for USG?
 
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"dynamics expected from crossing a traversable wormhole, opening up possibilities to test quantum gravity theories."
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|content=In @Nature: making a traversable wormhole with a quantum computer. A qubit teleported across our Sycamore processor exhibits the dynamics expected from crossing a traversable wormhole, opening up possibilities to test quantum gravity theories. #GoogleAI  https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/11/making-traversable-wormhole-with.html
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|content=Thanks for the help. But I must regretfully decline.  
|content=As you likely guessed, all the photos in this thread are fake military equipment. The airbase is totally fake. The dummy tanks are often inflated on the battlefield. The fake tank pieces are bolted on to real cars.


The Lamb–Retherford experiment was experimental physics. And Solid State theory would not be fundamental physics.
Q: Did we build fake [[UAP|UFOs]] in places like Wright-Patterson AFB?
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|content=Snark is so much more fun when academics forget their own subjects and need to be reminded of their own history by...checks notes...a podcast host who's not a physicist.
|content=After studying this issue for 2yrs, I’m pretty convinced that there ARE wild looking vehicles in secret high security locations. But I also find NO SIGN OF OUR TOP PHYSICISTS. That is a huge red flag. If you had fake UFOs, you would have a puzzle for physics: What is the science?
 
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I'm guessing you have no idea of how the stagnation in [[Quantum Field Theory]] of 1928-47 was broken.
https://x.com/MBKplus/status/1618356997107355649
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|content=From the birth of Dirac's Quantum Electrodynamics in 1928, the subject couldn't compute results because infinities infested the calculations. This went on for nearly 20 years as the aging leaders of the field proposed crazy fixes that didn't work. Enter Duncan McInnes.
|content=A true recovered interstellar craft would be like LHC or LIGO data: potential scientific data for physics beyond the [[Standard Model]] and [[General Relativity]].
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But if the crafts are fake, you would be crazy to let the A-team physicists near them. It would blow up in your face.
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|content=On January 21 1946, McInnes suggested to Frank Jewett a radical conference based around the UNTESTED young people rather than the failed leaders.  As head of the [[National Academy of Sciences (NAS)|National Academy of Sciences]], Jewett allocated a grand total of...wait for it...$1500 for a conference in Long Island.
|content=So my ignorant question is this: are there stories of building fake UFOs for sites in Nevada? Ohio? Are there fake retrieval teams? To what extent does faking military equipment spill into faking a UFOgasm for decades?
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Because there are too many very similar craft stories.
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|content=Beginning on June 1, 1947 at the Rams Head Inn on Shelter Island NY and ending on Weds June 4th, 24 mostly untested participants "hung out" together.
|content=So, at this point, the stories of craft kept at secret locations is most likely to be true in my opinion.   But it is also true that all the top physics talent that was working only semi-covertly on suspicious gravity projects left by the early 1970s. So any craft may be faked.
 
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The actual cost of the meeting was...[drum roll please]...$872.00 in 1947 dollars. Which is about $12,000.00 in 2023 dollars.
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|content=So by simply getting rid of most of the failed 1928-1947 leadership and focusing on the most promising untested physicists, a $12K slush fund in today's dollars changed history ending a two decade stagnation debuting Feynman's Path Integral, the Lamb Shift &amp; the two Meson theory.
|content=Either way, it’s a big deal. Everything changed in the early 70s. It’s impossible to say how much. The moment the [[Mansfield Amendment (1969)|Mansfield amendment]] came in, physics began to stagnate. And [[Quantum Gravity|“Quantum Gravity”]] destroyed our culture of science. We don’t even whisper about its “Anti-Gravity” origin.
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|content=So why do I suggest Hundreds of thousands rather than tens of thousands? Good question! First, it is harder to get rid of the failed leadership because our stagnation as of Februrary 2023 is 50 years old not 19. But also, Shelter Island needed two companion conferences in 1948-9.
|content=So to sum up: there do *appear* to be craft. But advanced armies all build dummy weapons.
|timestamp=8:14 AM ¡ Jan 26, 2023
 
Q1: Do we have any Fakes?</br>
Q2: Do we have only Fakes?</br>
Q3: Why do we talk almost  *exclusively* about Technology and not new Post-[[General Relativity|GR]]/[[Standard Model|SM]] science if there are *any* real interstellar craft?
 
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|content=The Pocono Manor Inn meeting in Pennsylvania &amp; the Oldstone conference in Peeskill NY were around $1200 each in 1948 and 1949 respectively. As it turned out, the electron mass in the QED theory and the measured mass had been set equal when they were distinct quantities. Who knew!
|content=Other things that made/make me feel dumb:
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Bernie Madoff’s Returns</br>
COVID origin questions = Racism</br>
Fauci</br>
Hilary’s Inevitability</br>
[[Quantum Gravity]]</br>
[[Jeffrey Epstein|Jeffrey Epstein’s CCY trading Claims]]</br>
[[CPI|CPI Construction]]</br>
UFO/UAP</br>
Chinese Graduate Students in STEM</br>
Open Borders</br>
Defund The Police</br>
DEI</br>
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|content=According to many of the participants these three conferences (but particularly Shelter Island) were the most important conferences of their entire careers. Feynman was in his late 20s. This is how you get unstuck. How you build leadership. How you stop failing year after year...
|content=I don’t think there is any history of my ever commenting on @SBF_FTX.
|timestamp=8:14 AM ¡ Jan 26, 2023
 
It is because I never deeply understood what was going on when it was explained to me. I’m not going to lie: I felt dumb.
 
Moral: be very careful celebrating success that you don’t understand for its own sake.
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|content=2) I'm really sorry, again, that we ended up here.
 
Hopefully things can find a way to recover. Hopefully this can bring some amount of transparency, trust, and governance to them.
 
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|content=Those 3 conferences fixed the problem of infinites destroying the explanatory power of QED.
|content=Not trying to be difficult, but this sounds like an enormous announcement from Google as I assume you mean it to be as a CEO....and I don't get what is really being claimed in testing [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]]. Thx.
 
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|content=That isn't the issue. The issue is that the leadership is not passing the baton and there are no McInnes or Jewett figures. And professors now don't even know this history it seems! Don't they teach this in Physics class? Maybe it's too dangerous to learn how physics works. ;-)
|content=What specific [[Quantum Gravity]] theory do you imagine has now been openned up for testing? Are these your words, and, if not, do you know what they mean?
|timestamp=8:14 AM ¡ Jan 26, 2023
 
I do not:
 
"dynamics expected from crossing a traversable wormhole, opening up possibilities to test quantum gravity theories."
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|content=In @Nature: making a traversable wormhole with a quantum computer. A qubit teleported across our Sycamore processor exhibits the dynamics expected from crossing a traversable wormhole, opening up possibilities to test quantum gravity theories. #GoogleAI  https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/11/making-traversable-wormhole-with.html
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|content=So...feel free to try to snark your way out of this. But I'll stand my ground. We don't need to go "Funeral by Funeral", but I'm tiring of "Calabi-Yau Phenomenology" or Multiverse excuses as a replacement for actual physics. We need to go back to science. https://snarxiv.org/vs-arxiv/
|content=Thanks for the help. But I must regretfully decline.  
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The Lamb–Retherford experiment was experimental physics. And Solid State theory would not be fundamental physics.
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|content=As to what's wrong with modern physics: let's start with [[Quantum Gravity]]. Bryce DeWitt started a failed 70 year wild goose chase in 1953 that is not working. If we lost 20 years on conflating Bare v Dressed masses, we just lost 70 years on [[Quantum Gravity]]. Maybe take a time out?
|content=Snark is so much more fun when academics forget their own subjects and need to be reminded of their own history by...checks notes...a podcast host who's not a physicist.
|timestamp=8:15 AM ¡ Jan 26, 2023
 
I'm guessing you have no idea of how the stagnation in [[Quantum Field Theory]] of 1928-47 was broken.
https://x.com/MBKplus/status/1618356997107355649
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|content=I have thought this through. It isn't a cheap shot. And I have waited until the 50th anniversary to be this frontal about it. But it has never been controversial since Planck to suggest that aged failed leaders are a huge issue. I'm not the Funeral by Funeral guy. He was. ;-)
|content=From the birth of Dirac's Quantum Electrodynamics in 1928, the subject couldn't compute results because infinities infested the calculations. This went on for nearly 20 years as the aging leaders of the field proposed crazy fixes that didn't work. Enter Duncan McInnes.
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|content=Lastly, I can't stand anti-collegial snark. We can escalate if you want, but if instead you would like to have a serious discussion next time, it would be my pleasure. Shall we try this again?
|content=On January 21 1946, McInnes suggested to Frank Jewett a radical conference based around the UNTESTED young people rather than the failed leaders. As head of the [[National Academy of Sciences (NAS)|National Academy of Sciences]], Jewett allocated a grand total of...wait for it...$1500 for a conference in Long Island.
 
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I'm Eric. Huge fan of what you guys do. Big supporter. Nice to meet you. Thanks.
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|content=@MBKplus Sorry to be slow, but you used a screenshot so I wouldn’t see your response rather than a quote tweet.  
|content=Beginning on June 1, 1947 at the Rams Head Inn on Shelter Island NY and ending on Weds June 4th, 24 mostly untested participants "hung out" together.


Not big on snark. But here is a proper response. Didn’t know the history had become so obscure to modern physicists. My bad.
The actual cost of the meeting was...[drum roll please]...$872.00 in 1947 dollars. Which is about $12,000.00 in 2023 dollars.
 
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|content=Nah. It’s a sensitive topic. Almost 40 years of [[String Theory|string theology]]. 50 years of stagnation. 70 years of quantum gravity not shipping a theory.
|content=So by simply getting rid of most of the failed 1928-1947 leadership and focusing on the most promising untested physicists, a $12K slush fund in today's dollars changed history ending a two decade stagnation debuting Feynman's Path Integral, the Lamb Shift &amp; the two Meson theory.
 
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I get it. But snark is a tell. The youngest Nobel particle theorist is over 70. I think 8 are alive. It’s really bad.
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|content=I have no underlying animosity towards Mike. Let’s see what happens next.
|content=So why do I suggest Hundreds of thousands rather than tens of thousands? Good question! First, it is harder to get rid of the failed leadership because our stagnation as of Februrary 2023 is 50 years old not 19. But also, Shelter Island needed two companion conferences in 1948-9.
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|content=Honest to god, what are you talking about? In your mind does 'fundamental physics' consist solely of an oddball sitting in his dorm room at Oxford moving a magnet through a coil? (& yes, I know that was Faraday at the RI & Newton was at Oxford, but I'm painting a picture here).
|content=The Pocono Manor Inn meeting in Pennsylvania &amp; the Oldstone conference in Peeskill NY were around $1200 each in 1948 and 1949 respectively. As it turned out, the electron mass in the QED theory and the measured mass had been set equal when they were distinct quantities. Who knew!
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|content=According to many of the participants these three conferences (but particularly Shelter Island) were the most important conferences of their entire careers. Feynman was in his late 20s. This is how you get unstuck. How you build leadership. How you stop failing year after year...
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|content=See I was thinking pads of paper, pens, and a whiteboard or blackboard. Maybe some coffee. A bit of LaTeX.
|content=Those 3 conferences fixed the problem of infinites destroying the explanatory power of QED.


But that’s just me not getting it. Forgive me.
So I padded the HELL out of those numbers because I think the stagnations are similar with the major problem being leadership. I could be wrong. But it might take $1/2 Million to test it.
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|content=So you're confusing theoretical physics with 'fundamental physics', an honest mistake, consider yourself forgiven.
|content=That isn't the issue. The issue is that the leadership is not passing the baton and there are no McInnes or Jewett figures. And professors now don't even know this history it seems! Don't they teach this in Physics class? Maybe it's too dangerous to learn how physics works. ;-)
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|content=Perhaps you mean “Maybe [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]] is simply a (pseudo)-Riemannian formulation of the quantum.”
|content=So...feel free to try to snark your way out of this. But I'll stand my ground. We don't need to go "Funeral by Funeral", but I'm tiring of "Calabi-Yau Phenomenology" or Multiverse excuses as a replacement for actual physics. We need to go back to science. https://snarxiv.org/vs-arxiv/
 
|timestamp=8:14 AM ¡ Jan 26, 2023
Quantum mechanics has already been made geometric where the uncertainty relations emerge from curvature tensors on phase space line bundles.
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|content=maybe quantum gravity is simply a geometric formulation of quantum mechanics?
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|content="I remember when rock was young...🎶"
|content=As to what's wrong with modern physics: let's start with [[Quantum Gravity]]. Bryce DeWitt started a failed 70 year wild goose chase in 1953 that is not working. If we lost 20 years on conflating Bare v Dressed masses, we just lost 70 years on [[Quantum Gravity]]. Maybe take a time out?
 
|timestamp=8:15 AM ¡ Jan 26, 2023
Let's get that energy back, by any means necessary.
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|content=Today May be Considered the 50 year Anniversary of the Stagnation of Particle Physics.
|content=I have thought this through. It isn't a cheap shot. And I have waited until the 50th anniversary to be this frontal about it. But it has never been controversial since Planck to suggest that aged failed leaders are a huge issue. I'm not the Funeral by Funeral guy. He was. ;-)
 
|timestamp=8:15 AM ¡ Jan 26, 2023
Today Feb 1 marks the appearance of Kobayashi &amp;  Maskawa's englargment of the Cabibo Angle to the three generation 3x3 CKM matrix.  
 
That should be cause for celebration. So let us celebrate!
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=Unfortunately, it also marks the end of what we can be certain actually is physics.
|content=Lastly, I can't stand anti-collegial snark. We can escalate if you want, but if instead you would like to have a serious discussion next time, it would be my pleasure. Shall we try this again?


Imagine if Elton John's "Crocodile Rock" was still the #1 song on Billboard's Hot 100 &amp; Tony Orlando and Dawn were singing "Tie a Yellow Ribbon". That, in a nutshell, is fundamental phsyics.
I'm Eric. Huge fan of what you guys do. Big supporter. Nice to meet you. Thanks.
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|content=To be clear, It is not as if there are no Nobel Laureates recognized for fundamental discoveries in particle theory left. I believe we are down to the last 8. Half of them are in their 70s. One in his 80s. Three are nongenarians. Yes. It's that bad. And we're not honest about it.
|content=@MBKplus Sorry to be slow, but you used a screenshot so I wouldn’t see your response rather than a quote tweet.  
|timestamp=7:53 AM ¡ Feb 2, 2023
 
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Not big on snark. But here is a proper response. Didn’t know the history had become so obscure to modern physicists. My bad.
 
Thread:
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|content=This was a proper fuck you 🤌
|timestamp=8:45 AM ¡ Jan 26, 2023
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|content=When you hear about [[Peer Review|"Peer Review"]] in this field, you have to understand that the field stopped working. Without nature telling us, we don't actually know who the physicists are any more. We have no idea who is a fundamental physicist. All we know is that what we do doesn't work.
|content=Nah. It’s a sensitive topic. Almost 40 years of [[String Theory|string theology]]. 50 years of stagnation. 70 years of quantum gravity not shipping a theory.
|timestamp=7:53 AM ¡ Feb 2, 2023
 
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I get it. But snark is a tell. The youngest Nobel particle theorist is over 70. I think 8 are alive. It’s really bad.
|timestamp=9:19 AM ¡ Jan 26, 2023
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|content=So I am celebrating today by pointing out the obvious: maybe it isn't a good idea to have people who haven't made contact with actual fundamental physics telling everyone else what they must and must not do to be members of a club that no longer works according to normal science.
|content=I have no underlying animosity towards Mike. Let’s see what happens next.
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|content=Honest to god, what are you talking about? In your mind does 'fundamental physics' consist solely of an oddball sitting in his dorm room at Oxford moving a magnet through a coil? (& yes,  I know that was Faraday at the RI & Newton was at Oxford, but I'm painting a picture here).
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|content=What fundamental physics really is, is (approximately) captured by the table below. In short, if someone is below the age of 70, they may have proven their brilliance and mathematical ability, but they have not proven any ability to make contact with reality as theorists.
|content=See I was thinking pads of paper, pens, and a whiteboard or blackboard. Maybe some coffee. A bit of LaTeX.
|timestamp=7:53 AM ¡ Feb 2, 2023
 
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But that’s just me not getting it. Forgive me.
|timestamp=9:25 AM ¡ Jan 26, 2023
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|content=So you're confusing theoretical physics with 'fundamental physics', an honest mistake, consider yourself forgiven.
|timestamp=10:09 AM ¡ Jan 26, 2023
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|content=I will point out that our experimentalists are in FAR better shape. The massive nature of neutrinos, discovery of gravitational waves, the Higgs field, Intermediate Vector Bosons, Accelerating Expansion of the Universe/Dark Energy are all major successes over the last 50 years.
|content=Perhaps you mean “Maybe [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]] is simply a (pseudo)-Riemannian formulation of the quantum.”
|timestamp=7:53 AM ¡ Feb 2, 2023
 
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Quantum mechanics has already been made geometric where the uncertainty relations emerge from curvature tensors on phase space line bundles.
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|content=maybe quantum gravity is simply a geometric formulation of quantum mechanics?
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|content=So what went wrong? I will be talking about my understanding of the stagnation this year at a different level. But the single greatest threat to fundamental physics in my estimation is something called [[Quantum Gravity|"Quantum Gravity"]] which was really born 70 years ago around 1953.
|content="I remember when rock was young...🎶"
|timestamp=7:53 AM ¡ Feb 2, 2023
 
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=To put it bluntly, it is not just that [[Quantum Gravity]] doesn't work. It's that you can't comfortably question Quatnum Gravity because the failed investment is on a scale that I think is difficult for us to contemplate. It includes [[String Theory|StringTheory]], Loop Quantum Gravity, AdS/CFT etc.
|content=Today May be Considered the 50 year Anniversary of the Stagnation of Particle Physics.
 
Today Feb 1 marks the appearance of Kobayashi &amp;  Maskawa's englargment of the Cabibo Angle to the three generation 3x3 CKM matrix.  
 
That should be cause for celebration. So let us celebrate!
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=Next Year, will be 40 years of failure for modern [[String Theory|StringTheory]] to ship a product. To be clear and STEELMAN the argument for strings, it *is* a remarkable framework. It is REAL math. It teaches us things no other framework has.
|content=Unfortunately, it also marks the end of what we can be certain actually is physics.


But, it *destroyed* the culture of honest physics.
Imagine if Elton John's "Crocodile Rock" was still the #1 song on Billboard's Hot 100 &amp; Tony Orlando and Dawn were singing "Tie a Yellow Ribbon". That, in a nutshell, is fundamental phsyics.
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=We spent almost 80% of this time being told that ST was a 'Piece of 21st Century Physics that fell into the 20th Century.'
|content=To be clear, It is not as if there are no Nobel Laureates recognized for fundamental discoveries in particle theory left. I believe we are down to the last 8. Half of them are in their 70s. One in his 80s. Three are nongenarians. Yes. It's that bad. And we're not honest about it.
 
Uh. Bullshit. That is an excuse. It's not clear that it's physics at all.
 
It's a "Failed piece of 20th Century Physics still hanging around in the 21stC".
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=It is time to hold conferences dedicated to the issues of groupthink in physics. Why wont our leading voices admit failure? We don't know. Previous generations wanted their students to succeed. But [[String Theory]] is dominated by boomers who seem oblivious to danger.
|content=When you hear about [[Peer Review|"Peer Review"]] in this field, you have to understand that the field stopped working. Without nature telling us, we don't actually know who the physicists are any more. We have no idea who is a fundamental physicist. All we know is that what we do doesn't work.
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
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|content=If we're going to truly wrestle w/ dark matter, or dark energy, or [[UAP]] that supposedly violate our laws of physics (e.g. [[General Relativity]]) we can't afford a leaders projecting their fears that THEY have wasted their lives, credibility and students careers on [[Quantum Gravity|"Quantum Gravity"]].
|content=So I am celebrating today by pointing out the obvious: maybe it isn't a good idea to have people who haven't made contact with actual fundamental physics telling everyone else what they must and must not do to be members of a club that no longer works according to normal science.
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
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|content=So by all means, let's celebrate. But it is time to ask new voices for wild, dangerous and irresponsible ideas. [[Peer Review|Peer review]] failed. [[Quantum Gravity]] Failed. Community norms failed. And soon there will be NO ONE LEFT proven to be able to play this game. So what do we do?
|content=What fundamental physics really is, is (approximately) captured by the table below. In short, if someone is below the age of 70, they may have proven their brilliance and mathematical ability, but they have not proven any ability to make contact with reality as theorists.
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=We need to spend perhaps 5yrs asking "If the leaders have not succeeded for FIVE DECADES in moving beyond the [[Standard Model]], then why are they leading this field and directing the resources, research, and path forward? What if we listened to those who the leadership push aside?"
|content=I will point out that our experimentalists are in FAR better shape. The massive nature of neutrinos, discovery of gravitational waves, the Higgs field, Intermediate Vector Bosons, Accelerating Expansion of the Universe/Dark Energy are all major successes over the last 50 years.
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=As someone who has tried to ask this question, I can tell you that mostly the big programs have granted themselves a science equivalent of 'dipolmatic immunity' from the standards they impose on their intellectual competitors. But from today forward, we must end that game.
|content=So what went wrong? I will be talking about my understanding of the stagnation this year at a different level. But the single greatest threat to fundamental physics in my estimation is something called [[Quantum Gravity|"Quantum Gravity"]] which was really born 70 years ago around 1953.
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=Let's put resources in new avenues, theories and theorists that have yet to fail. The next time you hear a theorist telling you about quantum gravity, the multiverse or [[String Theory|String theory]] or Loops or Supersymmetry or AdS/CFT, etc. Ask them the following dangerous question:
|content=To put it bluntly, it is not just that [[Quantum Gravity]] doesn't work. It's that you can't comfortably question Quatnum Gravity because the failed investment is on a scale that I think is difficult for us to contemplate. It includes [[String Theory|StringTheory]], Loop Quantum Gravity, AdS/CFT etc.
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|content="If you haven't succeeded in 50-70 years, what other theories would be viable if we relaxed the standards you have imposed on your competitors given that your theories do not seem to work? What if your [[Quantum Gravity]] were subjected to such standards? Would QG be quackery?"🙏
|content=Next Year, will be 40 years of failure for modern [[String Theory|StringTheory]] to ship a product. To be clear and STEELMAN the argument for strings, it *is* a remarkable framework. It is REAL math. It teaches us things no other framework has.
 
But, it *destroyed* the culture of honest physics.
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|content=Let's honor those who tried before by bringing the same energy they once brought to the attempt to learn our place in the universe. Happy to be corrected. But this is an emergency if we're ever going to go beyond chemical rockets and use physics to take our place among the stars.
|content=We spent almost 80% of this time being told that ST was a 'Piece of 21st Century Physics that fell into the 20th Century.'  
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Uh. Bullshit. That is an excuse. It's not clear that it's physics at all.


It's a "Failed piece of 20th Century Physics still hanging around in the 21stC".
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|content=And I don’t want to get rid of them. I want us to go back to real physics. I want us to stop pretending we live in anti-de Sitter Space or that space time SUSY is just out of reach.  
|content=It is time to hold conferences dedicated to the issues of groupthink in physics. Why wont our leading voices admit failure? We don't know. Previous generations wanted their students to succeed. But [[String Theory]] is dominated by boomers who seem oblivious to danger.
 
|timestamp=7:53 AM ¡ Feb 2, 2023
It’s basic to the culture of science. Which unfortunately is not [[Quantum Gravity|QG]] culture.
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|content=In studio Episode of @Into_Impossible with Dan coming soon where we discussed his epic 🧵. And Martin and Eric and Turok and Sabine get shoutouts! Stay tuned…
|content=If we're going to truly wrestle w/ dark matter, or dark energy, or [[UAP]] that supposedly violate our laws of physics (e.g. [[General Relativity]]) we can't afford a leaders projecting their fears that THEY have wasted their lives, credibility and students careers on [[Quantum Gravity|"Quantum Gravity"]].
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|content=Hard to tell whether this is good faith, honestly. Some grains of truth buried here, but you have to ignore many developements to end up w this view.
 
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|content=But Martin, with Eric in my experience, it’s always good faith… l’Shem Shamayim as we say!
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|content=Of course! We all fail…or we aren’t pushing ourselves. We have to confront what happened. But, to give @martinmbauer his due, his papers are genuine attempts to understand the physical world. He is one sort of theorist we need more of. 4D SM + extensions. That’s not [[Quantum Gravity|QG]] theology.
|content=So by all means, let's celebrate. But it is time to ask new voices for wild, dangerous and irresponsible ideas. [[Peer Review|Peer review]] failed. [[Quantum Gravity]] Failed. Community norms failed. And soon there will be NO ONE LEFT proven to be able to play this game. So what do we do?
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|content=I’m much more concerned by brilliant theorists who…and I am not kidding at all…refer to the [[Standard Model]] as “Oh, I vaguely remember this from graduate school [[Quantum Field Theory|QFT]] class.” That is an unbelievable development. People who have literally forgotten the field content of reality.
|content=We need to spend perhaps 5yrs asking "If the leaders have not succeeded for FIVE DECADES in moving beyond the [[Standard Model]], then why are they leading this field and directing the resources, research, and path forward? What if we listened to those who the leadership push aside?"
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|content=@MasterMuskkk @bgreene @Columbia @TOEwithCurt @IAI_TV Brian is one of our best public speakers as well. I’ve seen him improvise on his feet in tough situations and I am blown away by how he manages to be accurate, accessible and funny in real time scientific matters. A lightning-fast mind working simultaneously on multiple levels.
|content=As someone who has tried to ask this question, I can tell you that mostly the big programs have granted themselves a science equivalent of 'dipolmatic immunity' from the standards they impose on their intellectual competitors. But from today forward, we must end that game.
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|content=The IAI asked me to clarify some arguments in an interchange over theoretical physics I had earlier with [[String Theory|String Theorist]] @bgreene of @Columbia, just as Brian was asked about the same discussion on @TOEwithCurt.
|content=Let's put resources in new avenues, theories and theorists that have yet to fail. The next time you hear a theorist telling you about quantum gravity, the multiverse or [[String Theory|String theory]] or Loops or Supersymmetry or AdS/CFT, etc. Ask them the following dangerous question:
 
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The @IAI_TV write up is here. Check it out!
 
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|content=I think what was new to @IAI_TV was someone who was not against [[String Theory|string theory]] as a framework, but adamant that [[String Theory|String culture]] and [[Quantum Gravity]] had been catastrophically enervating for 40-70 years.
|content="If you haven't succeeded in 50-70 years, what other theories would be viable if we relaxed the standards you have imposed on your competitors given that your theories do not seem to work? What if your [[Quantum Gravity]] were subjected to such standards? Would QG be quackery?"🙏
 
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|content=At 1:32:50, Curt Jaimangul asks Brian Greene about the same issue.  
|content=Let's honor those who tried before by bringing the same energy they once brought to the attempt to learn our place in the universe. Happy to be corrected. But this is an emergency if we're ever going to go beyond chemical rockets and use physics to take our place among the stars.
 
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I respect Brian a great deal and always found him collegial. I’d be happy to have the state and future of Quantum Gravity discussed at length in open forum if people were interested.  
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|content=Could list to @EricRWeinstein and @bgreene debate all day. Podcast was killer. Thanks again to both of you intellectual titans!
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|content=Four plus hours, too much Glenmorangie, a side of [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]] and several Extraterrestrials later, I don’t exactly remember what happened. Will have to listen along with everyone else.
|content=And I don’t want to get rid of them. I want us to go back to real physics. I want us to stop pretending we live in anti-de Sitter Space or that space time SUSY is just out of reach.  
 
Great to see @joerogan as always. Miss having that guy in LA…
 
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It’s basic to the culture of science. Which unfortunately is not [[Quantum Gravity|QG]] culture.
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|content=In studio Episode of @Into_Impossible with Dan coming soon where we discussed his epic 🧵. And Martin and Eric and Turok and Sabine get shoutouts! Stay tuned…
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|content=Hard to tell whether this is good faith, honestly. Some grains of truth buried here, but you have to ignore many developements to end up w this view.
 
I'll leave this here https://x.com/nu_phases/status/1598331715340054528
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|content=But Martin, with Eric in my experience, it’s always good faith… l’Shem Shamayim as we say!
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|content=[[Quantum Gravity]] is potentially a cul-de-sac. The bizarre reasons for wanting to lead others into any dead end were well explored in this scene of Animal House. The character Stork was one of the main writers I believe. He had one speaking line if I remember correctly…
|content=Of course! We all fail…or we aren’t pushing ourselves. We have to confront what happened. But, to give @martinmbauer his due, his papers are genuine attempts to understand the physical world. He is one sort of theorist we need more of. 4D SM + extensions. That’s not [[Quantum Gravity|QG]] theology.
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|content=Will try an experiment here. There are a *lot* of questions coming to me about the @joerogan appearance. If you have legitimate UFO or physics questions from JRE, I’m open to trying to answer 5 of them below in this thread. Trolls get blocked. Fair? Let’s go!
|content=I’m much more concerned by brilliant theorists who…and I am not kidding at all…refer to the [[Standard Model]] as “Oh, I vaguely remember this from graduate school [[Quantum Field Theory|QFT]] class.” That is an unbelievable development. People who have literally forgotten the field content of reality.
 
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|content=Why railroad physics the way it’s seems to have been? And who would want that
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|content=There’s so much in this episode that can be chased down. It’s a pretty coherent story. Particle physics stalled 50 years ago. We aren’t admitting how bad this is so we wasted 39 years chasing [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]] which couldn’t be questioned without severe repercussions. Start there.
|content=@MasterMuskkk @bgreene @Columbia @TOEwithCurt @IAI_TV Brian is one of our best public speakers as well. I’ve seen him improvise on his feet in tough situations and I am blown away by how he manages to be accurate, accessible and funny in real time scientific matters. A lightning-fast mind working simultaneously on multiple levels.
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|content=Same experiment. 5-10 questions while waiting in a parking lot. What might I clear up from JRE #1945 on physics and UFOs? Trolls get blocked as before. That said: Let’s go.
|content=The IAI asked me to clarify some arguments in an interchange over theoretical physics I had earlier with [[String Theory|String Theorist]] @bgreene of @Columbia, just as Brian was asked about the same discussion on @TOEwithCurt.
 
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|content=Will try an experiment here. There are a *lot* of questions coming to me about the @joerogan appearance. If you have legitimate UFO or physics questions from JRE, I’m open to trying to answer 5 of them below in this thread. Trolls get blocked. Fair? Let’s go!
|content=I think what was new to @IAI_TV was someone who was not against [[String Theory|string theory]] as a framework, but adamant that [[String Theory|String culture]] and [[Quantum Gravity]] had been catastrophically enervating for 40-70 years.


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|content=I struggled to follow the line of thinking on the podcast. Have you considered presenting it as a logical argument, maybe a form of expression you’re more comfortable in wielding?
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|content=Yes. But the problem is that most people are not following what I’m saying technically. They could chase down Roger Babson / Agnew Bahnson, but it is easier to claim that it is all some idiosyncratic psychological issue on my part. Which, is dumb; I don’t need that in my life.
|content=At 1:32:50, Curt Jaimangul asks Brian Greene about the same issue.
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I respect Brian a great deal and always found him collegial. I’d be happy to have the state and future of Quantum Gravity discussed at length in open forum if people were interested.
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|content=Could list to @EricRWeinstein and @bgreene debate all day. Podcast was killer. Thanks again to both of you intellectual titans!
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|content=I don’t understand why we aren’t all talking about the failure of [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]]. Why are we all forced to deal with a 70 year abject failure of physics as if someone explained why gravity has to be quantized like the other fields. I can’t explain that.
|content=Four plus hours, too much Glenmorangie, a side of [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]] and several Extraterrestrials later, I don’t exactly remember what happened. Will have to listen along with everyone else.
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Great to see @joerogan as always. Miss having that guy in LA…
 
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|content=Same experiment. 5-10 questions while waiting in a parking lot. What might I clear up from JRE #1945 on physics and UFOs? Trolls get blocked as before. That said: Let’s go.
|content=[[Quantum Gravity]] is potentially a cul-de-sac. The bizarre reasons for wanting to lead others into any dead end were well explored in this scene of Animal House. The character Stork was one of the main writers I believe. He had one speaking line if I remember correctly…
 
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|content=At one point in the interview I thought you indirectly implied that the Physics community was purposefully led down the Quantum gravity road in order to perhaps slow them down(?).
|content=Why railroad physics the way it’s seems to have been? And who would want that
 
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|content=But keep in mind, I was at MIT for several years during the ‘90s and down the street as well both before &amp; after, so I’m not able to shy away from questions about Cambridge MA &amp; its physicists.
|content=There’s so much in this episode that can be chased down. It’s a pretty coherent story. Particle physics stalled 50 years ago. We aren’t admitting how bad this is so we wasted 39 years chasing [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]] which couldn’t be questioned without severe repercussions. Start there.
 
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|content=If Bob Lazar wants to sit down with me, I’m now prepared to accept @joerogan’s invitation from this past February. But it may not go the way many folks want and should be something Mr Lazar wants to do. All I can promise is that I will do so in good faith.
|content=Same experiment. 5-10 questions while waiting in a parking lot. What might I clear up from JRE #1945 on physics and UFOs? Trolls get blocked as before. That said: Let’s go.
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|content=I’m also happy to recommend experts in Quantum Chromodynamics, Nuclear Physics, [[General Relativity]], and [[Quantum Gravity]] given that Lazar makes claims that appear to conflate the Strong nuclear force under a Yang-Mills action with the Gravitational force using Einstein-Hilbert.
|content=Will try an experiment here. There are a *lot* of questions coming to me about the @joerogan appearance. If you have legitimate UFO or physics questions from JRE, I’m open to trying to answer 5 of them below in this thread. Trolls get blocked. Fair? Let’s go!
|timestamp=2:25 AM ¡ Apr 7, 2023
 
<nowiki>#</nowiki>BeConstructive
|timestamp=9:47 PM ¡ Mar 2, 2023
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|timestamp=7:12 PM ¡ Mar 3, 2023
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|content=I struggled to follow the line of thinking on the podcast. Have you considered presenting it as a logical argument, maybe a form of expression you’re more comfortable in wielding?
|timestamp=7:36 PM ¡ Mar 3, 2023
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=I have no need to do this for myself, but Joe is a friend in whom I trust, so I’ll be happy to follow his wishes. I knew little of Lazar when I appeared on JRE #1945 and nothing of his theory of “Gravity Wave A”.
|content=Yes. But the problem is that most people are not following what I’m saying technically. They could chase down Roger Babson / Agnew Bahnson, but it is easier to claim that it is all some idiosyncratic psychological issue on my part. Which, is dumb; I don’t need that in my life.
 
|timestamp=8:00 PM ¡ Mar 3, 2023
I’ve now acquainted myself with what I could find on the claim.
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|content=Note added: I expect that there will be targeting of me for speaking out about this pattern. But:
|content=I don’t understand why we aren’t all talking about the failure of [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]]. Why are we all forced to deal with a 70 year abject failure of physics as if someone explained why gravity has to be quantized like the other fields. I can’t explain that.
 
<nowiki>*</nowiki> I have had ZERO interest in this topic historically until the unsolicited outreach. Simply a detailed understanding of the bizarre history of the anti-gravity/[[Quantum Gravity|quantum-gravity]] era of 1953-1973 and the modern [[String Theory]] stagnation era of 1984-Present.
 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>I have so far not publicly disclosed where it comes from as professional courtesy despite my irritation.
 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>I am under no NDA or clearance arrangements of any kind. None.
 
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I don’t think the US should be targeting STEM PhDs in this way. It at times feels like the non-consensual use of civilians in some kind of orchestrated disinformation campaign where I am in no position to tell who is telling the truth. Pretty scary actually.
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=There are none.  
|content=Same experiment. 5-10 questions while waiting in a parking lot. What might I clear up from JRE #1945 on physics and UFOs? Trolls get blocked as before. That said: Let’s go.


In [[UAP|UFO/UAP]] land, very little *ever* happens at a scientific level it seems.
<nowiki>#</nowiki>BeConstructive
 
I have attempted in good faith to be of some use. But I am *not* pushing this angle. The door was opened, but no one walked through. As usual.
 
Make of that what you will.
🙏
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|content=@EricRWeinstein, any updates on the possible conversation with Bob Lazar?
|timestamp=12:03 PM ¡ May 19, 2023
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=Let me kill two birds with one thread. Gary is a serious scientist and Professor at Stanford. I know him and enjoy talking shop with him.  
|content=Will try an experiment here. There are a *lot* of questions coming to me about the @joerogan appearance. If you have legitimate UFO or physics questions from JRE, I’m open to trying to answer 5 of them below in this thread. Trolls get blocked. Fair? Let’s go!


But you will note the pattern is exactly similar to the one I described as “Lucy and the Football” on @joerogan #1945:
<nowiki>#</nowiki>BeConstructive
 
|timestamp=9:47 PM ¡ Mar 2, 2023
<nowiki>*</nowiki>Outreach from Credible USG/Ex-USG Contacts
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|username=_BenjaminLight
|content=At one point in the interview I thought you indirectly implied that the Physics community was purposefully led down the Quantum gravity road in order to perhaps slow them down(?).


<nowiki>*</nowiki>Bizarrely Confident Grand Claims
Or did I understand it poorly?
|timestamp=7:18 PM ¡ Mar 3, 2023
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<nowiki>*</nowiki>Planned Disclosure on a timeline


<nowiki>*</nowiki>Last minute “Change in Plans”
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|content=But keep in mind, I was at MIT for several years during the ‘90s and down the street as well both before &amp; after, so I’m not able to shy away from questions about Cambridge MA &amp; its physicists.


<nowiki>*</nowiki>Repeated pattern across groups
I’m NOT out to debunk, but I’m not at liberty to hold back either. Think carefully.👍
 
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At least 4+ instances of this behavior to 3  or more visible PhDs in different areas.
 
This is what I can say. I choose not to say more. But this bizarre pattern is invariant. Gary is not making this up. Nor is Sam. Nor am I. Etc
 
Very disappointing. But it is newsworthy that this is being done to US PhDs. Why? I cannot for the life of me tell you. If it weren’t for the credibility of those involved I would think it was a prank.
 
But I suspect Gary wasn’t weeks away. It feels orchestrated *never* to happen. Feel free to draw your own conclusion however.
 
Ok. Back to normal life.
 
Thanks. 🙏
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|name=Mike Colangelo
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=MikeColangelo
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=100% Confidence We Have Non-Human Material
|content=If Bob Lazar wants to sit down with me, I’m now prepared to accept @joerogan’s invitation from this past February. But it may not go the way many folks want and should be something Mr Lazar wants to do. All I can promise is that I will do so in good faith.
 
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Garry Nolan says he was weeks away from getting access to non-human material or "object".
|timestamp=2:20 AM ¡ Apr 7, 2023
 
Full Interview: https://youtube.com/live/smLrrtEbVtQ?feature=share
 
H/T:
@wow36932525
 
<nowiki>#</nowiki>ufotwitter #uaptwitter #UFOs #ufo
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=@skdh I acknowledge my desires as you see from what I wrote. But a stagnant community always wants outcomes. It wants SUSY. Or [[String Theory|Strings]]. Or some g-2 muon anomaly. Etc.
|content=I’m also happy to recommend experts in Quantum Chromodynamics, Nuclear Physics, [[General Relativity]], and [[Quantum Gravity]] given that Lazar makes claims that appear to conflate the Strong nuclear force under a Yang-Mills action with the Gravitational force using Einstein-Hilbert.
 
|timestamp=2:25 AM ¡ Apr 7, 2023
I want too. But what I want is mostly just a desire to get the BS out of physics so we can get back to succeeding.
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Now I feel completely alone.
|content=I have no need to do this for myself, but Joe is a friend in whom I trust, so I’ll be happy to follow his wishes. I knew little of Lazar when I appeared on JRE #1945 and nothing of his theory of “Gravity Wave A”.


I want our wanting out of this story. I have a huge dog in this fight. I spend every day fighting my own human desire for GU to be proven correct.
I’ve now acquainted myself with what I could find on the claim.
🙏
|timestamp=2:30 AM ¡ Apr 7, 2023
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|timestamp=2:45 AM ¡ Apr 7, 2023
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I believe this is how [[String Theory|String Theorists]] stopped being scientists.


I just want our data &amp; the physics.
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1659610833444388884
|name=Sabine Hossenfelder
|usernameurl=https://x.com/skdh
|username=skdh
|content=I want this to be real.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/06/whistleblower-ufo-alien-tech-spacecraft
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|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=If biological aliens were here from others star systems in crafts that defy the current physics of the standard model and, more importantly, general relativity, I would be one of the few people who would have a guess on day one as to how they must have gotten here. It’s tempting.
|content=Note added: I expect that there will be targeting of me for speaking out about this pattern. But:
|timestamp=1:44 PM ¡ Jun 7, 2023
 
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<nowiki>*</nowiki> I have had ZERO interest in this topic historically until the unsolicited outreach. Simply a detailed understanding of the bizarre history of the anti-gravity/[[Quantum Gravity|quantum-gravity]] era of 1953-1973 and the modern [[String Theory]] stagnation era of 1984-Present.
 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>I have so far not publicly disclosed where it comes from as professional courtesy despite my irritation.
 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>I am under no NDA or clearance arrangements of any kind. None.
 
——
 
I don’t think the US should be targeting STEM PhDs in this way. It at times feels like the non-consensual use of civilians in some kind of orchestrated disinformation campaign where I am in no position to tell who is telling the truth. Pretty scary actually.
|thread=
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=I don’t think biological interstellar alien visitors using GR and the SM make much sense. So I try to have a war *inside* my own mind as to what is true. I have a genuine “Need to Know” as to whether this is BS NatSec space opera disinformation theater. Because to me, it is data.
|content=There are none.  
|timestamp=1:44 PM ¡ Jun 7, 2023
 
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In [[UAP|UFO/UAP]] land, very little *ever* happens at a scientific level it seems.
 
I have attempted in good faith to be of some use. But I am *not* pushing this angle. The door was opened, but no one walked through. As usual.
 
Make of that what you will.  
🙏
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|nameurl=https://x.com/fredestante/status/1659530090328338432
|name=Eric Weinstein
|name=FredEstante.algo
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/fredestante
|username=EricRWeinstein
|username=fredestante
|content=What just happened isn’t data. It’s that a sober individual just pushed one of the many longstanding highly conserved NHI narratives collected from *many* diverse sober NatSec informants over the sworn testimony line. And it gets a LOT crazier from here. But it’s not science yet.
|content=@EricRWeinstein, any updates on the possible conversation with Bob Lazar?
|timestamp=1:44 PM ¡ Jun 7, 2023
|timestamp=12:03 PM ¡ May 19, 2023
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|timestamp=3:39 PM ¡ May 19, 2023
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1666441043347374080
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=As I‘ve been saying, there is so much deliberate NatSec BS out here that our own scientists are being propagandized. We’re drilling holes in our own scientists’ lifeboat. Last time we saw this it was virologists/immunologists/epidemiologists being gaslit. Now it’s physicists.
|timestamp=1:44 PM ¡ Jun 7, 2023
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Let me be very careful in what I am about to say. We have at least the appearance and optics of scientific self-sabotage. And wanting things to be true is how science dies.
|content=Let me kill two birds with one thread. Gary is a serious scientist and Professor at Stanford. I know him and enjoy talking shop with him.  


I fight like hell to promote my theory. But I’d sign on to another to know the truth if I was wrong.
But you will note the pattern is exactly similar to the one I described as “Lucy and the Football” on @joerogan #1945:
|timestamp=1:44 PM ¡ Jun 7, 2023
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|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=We may be looking at the birth of a new UFO religion. Or a moment of contact. Or a long running Disinformation campaign. Etc.


To go beyond GR, let’s be scientists &amp; get NatSec out of our data first. Where is our data pruned of space opera disinformation and cultic religiosity?
<nowiki>*</nowiki>Outreach from Credible USG/Ex-USG Contacts
|timestamp=1:44 PM ¡ Jun 7, 2023
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=What I want to know:


Why was the [[Mansfield Amendment (1969)|Mansfield Amendment]] passed?
<nowiki>*</nowiki>Bizarrely Confident Grand Claims


Why did '''NSF''' fake a [[Labor Shortages|labor shortage]] in our MARKET economy destroying American STEM labor markets?
<nowiki>*</nowiki>Planned Disclosure on a timeline


What stopped the [[General Relativity|Golden Age Of General Relativity]]?
<nowiki>*</nowiki>Last minute “Change in Plans”


Why was the SSC really cancelled?
<nowiki>*</nowiki>Repeated pattern across groups


[[String Theory|StringTheory]] &amp; STAGNATION: WTF?
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|timestamp=1:44 PM ¡ Jun 7, 2023
 
At least 4+ instances of this behavior to 3  or more visible PhDs in different areas.
 
This is what I can say. I choose not to say more. But this bizarre pattern is invariant. Gary is not making this up. Nor is Sam. Nor am I. Etc
 
Very disappointing. But it is newsworthy that this is being done to US PhDs. Why? I cannot for the life of me tell you. If it weren’t for the credibility of those involved I would think it was a prank.
 
But I suspect Gary wasn’t weeks away. It feels orchestrated *never* to happen. Feel free to draw your own conclusion however.
 
Ok. Back to normal life.
 
Thanks. 🙏
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|name=Mike Colangelo
|usernameurl=https://x.com/MikeColangelo
|username=MikeColangelo
|content=100% Confidence We Have Non-Human Material
 
Garry Nolan says he was weeks away from getting access to non-human material or "object".
 
Full Interview: https://youtube.com/live/smLrrtEbVtQ?feature=share
 
H/T:
@wow36932525
 
<nowiki>#</nowiki>ufotwitter #uaptwitter #UFOs #ufo
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1667195003914035200
|name=Eric Weinstein
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=What the hell was the [[The Secret History of Anti-Gravity and Quantum Gravity Research|1957 Behnson funded UNC Chapel Hill conference]] actually about?
|content=@skdh I acknowledge my desires as you see from what I wrote. But a stagnant community always wants outcomes. It wants SUSY. Or [[String Theory|Strings]]. Or some g-2 muon anomaly. Etc.


Why are we not stopping to QUESTION [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]] after 70 years of public *FAILURE* inspired by Babson-Behnson patronage of RIAS, the Institute of Field Physics and the precursor to Lockheed?
I want too. But what I want is mostly just a desire to get the BS out of physics so we can get back to succeeding.
|timestamp=1:44 PM ¡ Jun 7, 2023
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1666441014981033984
|name=Eric Weinstein
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=This is the 50th year of stagnation in the [[Standard Model|Standard Model Lagrangian]]. It is AS IF we are deliberately trying to forget how to do actual physics. Everyone who has succeeded in Particle Theory in standard terms is now over 70. This is insane. In 25 years there will be no one left.
|content=Now I feel completely alone.
 
I want our wanting out of this story. I have a huge dog in this fight. I spend every day fighting my own human desire for GU to be proven correct.
 
I believe this is how [[String Theory|String Theorists]] stopped being scientists.
 
I just want our data &amp; the physics.
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|nameurl=https://x.com/skdh/status/1666303048631590914
|name=Sabine Hossenfelder
|usernameurl=https://x.com/skdh
|username=skdh
|content=I want this to be real.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/06/whistleblower-ufo-alien-tech-spacecraft
|media1=skdh-X-post-1666303048631590914.jpg
|timestamp=4:36 AM ¡ Jun 7, 2023
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|timestamp=1:44 PM ¡ Jun 7, 2023
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1666441060976062464
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1666441031158730752
|name=Eric Weinstein
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Why are we not admitting that quantum gravity is killing physics and is the public respectable face of  1950s anti-gravity mania that lives on to murder all new theories in their cradle?
|content=If biological aliens were here from others star systems in crafts that defy the current physics of the standard model and, more importantly, general relativity, I would be one of the few people who would have a guess on day one as to how they must have gotten here. It’s tempting.
 
[[Quantum Gravity]] is fake and works to stop actual physics.
 
There. I said it. Now let’s talk.
|timestamp=1:44 PM ¡ Jun 7, 2023
|timestamp=1:44 PM ¡ Jun 7, 2023
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1666441063752671232
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1666441034140725251
|name=Eric Weinstein
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=If you want to know whether there are biological interstellar visitors here observing us, the short answer is “Almost *certainly* not if they are using our current stagnant non-progressing  theories of physics.”
|content=I don’t think biological interstellar alien visitors using GR and the SM make much sense. So I try to have a war *inside* my own mind as to what is true. I have a genuine “Need to Know” as to whether this is BS NatSec space opera disinformation theater. Because to me, it is data.
 
Let’s finally get serious about this whacky subject? Thanks. 🙏
|timestamp=1:44 PM ¡ Jun 7, 2023
|timestamp=1:44 PM ¡ Jun 7, 2023
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|name=Sabine Hossenfelder
|usernameurl=https://x.com/skdh
|username=skdh
|content=I swear I didn't write my tweet to make you feel alone and I'm genuinely sorry if that was the result. That said, I think it's better to acknowledge one's hopes and desires than to pretend they don't exist and thereby overestimate one's own rationality.
|timestamp=8:26 AM ¡ Jun 9, 2023
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|content=It is time to face up to the disaster of [[String Theory|string theory]]. But we need to be fair about what failed and why. The equations of [[String Theory|string theory]] can’t hurt anyone. It’s 40 years of the anti-scientific destruction of scientific standards and norms of collegiality to promote one failed theory over all other attempts that is behind this destruction of what was previously the worlds most accomplished scientific community.
|content=What just happened isn’t data. It’s that a sober individual just pushed one of the many longstanding highly conserved NHI narratives collected from *many* diverse sober NatSec informants over the sworn testimony line. And it gets a LOT crazier from here. But it’s not science yet.
 
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It’s time to face up to what actually happened 40 years ago. And it ain’t pretty. 🙏
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|content=The good folks at @IAI_TV put together a reel of [[String Theory|String Theorist]], Prof. @bgreene and I debating [[String Theory]] in Wales in May at @HTLGIFestival.  
|content=As I‘ve been saying, there is so much deliberate NatSec BS out here that our own scientists are being propagandized. We’re drilling holes in our own scientists’ lifeboat. Last time we saw this it was virologists/immunologists/epidemiologists being gaslit. Now it’s physicists.
 
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|content=This should really be done at a somewhat more technical level. The biggest damage done by [[String Theory]] was that it quickly redefined the most important problems in Physics to be general aspects of analysis and field theory rather than understanding our *hyper*-specific world.
|content=Let me be very careful in what I am about to say. We have at least the appearance and optics of scientific self-sabotage. And wanting things to be true is how science dies.
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I fight like hell to promote my theory. But I’d sign on to another to know the truth if I was wrong.
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|content=So, now in the current [[String Theory|post-string era]], it is perfectly acceptable for people to work on [[Quantum Gravity|“Quantum Gravity”]] without having to understand essentially anything about the mysterious 3 generations of chiral particles that actually populate our world. In short, they changed the field.
|content=We may be looking at the birth of a new UFO religion. Or a moment of contact. Or a long running Disinformation campaign. Etc.
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To go beyond GR, let’s be scientists &amp; get NatSec out of our data first. Where is our data pruned of space opera disinformation and cultic religiosity?
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|content=Oddly, even though Roger Penrose and I were on the same side on this stage, I couldn’t subscribe to much of Penrose’s critique of [[String Theory|strings]] and found myself agreeing more with Brian Greene on the technical points.
|content=What I want to know:
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What stopped the [[General Relativity|Golden Age Of General Relativity]]?


Why was the SSC really cancelled?


[[String Theory|StringTheory]] &amp; STAGNATION: WTF?
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|content=To sum it up: when [[String Theory|string theorist]] are no longer in a position to keep changing the goal posts set by the physical world, isn’t it the case that from A-Z maybe [[String Theory|string theory]] is not being honest?
|content=What the hell was the [[The Secret History of Anti-Gravity and Quantum Gravity Research|1957 Behnson funded UNC Chapel Hill conference]] actually about?


Again. Not personal to you. At all. But it is not a fair move to say “It’s the best yet-to-succeed approach to [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]].” in front of the public. No?  
Why are we not stopping to QUESTION [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]] after 70 years of public *FAILURE* inspired by Babson-Behnson patronage of RIAS, the Institute of Field Physics and the precursor to Lockheed?
 
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|content=“[[String Theory]] is absolutely…the most likely to be true set of ideas about what sits at the intersection of the [[Standard Model]] and [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]].”
|content=This is the 50th year of stagnation in the [[Standard Model|Standard Model Lagrangian]]. It is AS IF we are deliberately trying to forget how to do actual physics. Everyone who has succeeded in Particle Theory in standard terms is now over 70. This is insane. In 25 years there will be no one left.
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|content=I can confirm this indeed blows up ones notifications.
 
But, in case of doubt or misunderstanding, [[String Theory|string theory]] is absolutely the deepest, most consequential and most likely to be true set of ideas about what sits at the intersection of the [[Standard Model]] and [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]].
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|content=Yes, that is precisely what I think.
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|content=If you said “electrons are absolutely fractional spin fields in the standard model” I wouldn’t disagree with that statement. It isn’t at all about what you think. It is a true statement.
|content=Why are we not admitting that quantum gravity is killing physics and is the public respectable face of  1950s anti-gravity mania that lives on to murder all new theories in their cradle?
 
[[Quantum Gravity]] is fake and works to stop actual physics.


Here you are assuring lay people about what is absolute about [[String Theory]] within physics.
There. I said it. Now let’s talk.
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|content=My responsibility is to make accurate statements (and yes, everything is my (professional) opinion).
 
As the book quote indicates, I try not to overclaim. But: that [[String Theory|string theory]] and the complex  of ideas are around it are more serious than any competitors, IMO objectively true.
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|content=“IMO objectively true”
|content=If you want to know whether there are biological interstellar visitors here observing us, the short answer is “Almost *certainly* not if they are using our current stagnant non-progressing  theories of physics.”


As with so many of these [[String Theory|String Theoretic]] claims I have no idea what that means.
Let’s finally get serious about this whacky subject? Thanks. 🙏
 
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So for example if I make an argument that this is NOT objectively true, do you fall back on the idea that it was opinion?
 
“Objectively, Electrons are field theoretic at observed energy scales.” My opinion doesn’t enter into it. The claim that it is objectively true eliminates the role of opinion.
 
Does that mean that all who disagree with you and your [[String Theory|String community]] are “not serious” as per the above?
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|content=The arguments become more convincing/objective, the more one can use graduate-level theoretical physics in them.
|content=I swear I didn't write my tweet to make you feel alone and I'm genuinely sorry if that was the result. That said, I think it's better to acknowledge one's hopes and desires than to pretend they don't exist and thereby overestimate one's own rationality.
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But in 280 characters and no equations, it’s hard to develop these


In a book, easier to do so.
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|content=I don’t think that’s the issue Joseph. At all.  
|content=It is time to face up to the disaster of [[String Theory|string theory]]. But we need to be fair about what failed and why. The equations of [[String Theory|string theory]] can’t hurt anyone. It’s 40 years of the anti-scientific destruction of scientific standards and norms of collegiality to promote one failed theory over all other attempts that is behind this destruction of what was previously the worlds most accomplished scientific community.


Feynman, Glashow, Wilczek never found them objectively or absolutely compelling.
It’s time to face up to what actually happened 40 years ago. And it ain’t pretty. 🙏
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|content=The good folks at @IAI_TV put together a reel of [[String Theory|String Theorist]], Prof. @bgreene and I debating [[String Theory]] in Wales in May at @HTLGIFestival.  


[[String Theory|String theorists]] like Friedan have written harshly of the Failures.
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And what you are saying about subjective opinion and absolute objective fact doesn’t make sense. I mean you can just see that, no? Not trying to be mean here. But I don’t see what you are claiming is absolute and objective beyond your opinion.
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What you seem to be saying is the usual trope: “The more you understand about the difficulty of quantizing a spin 2 gravitational field the more you appreciate how [[String Theory|string theory]] has taught us so much about how it is to be done eventually, and that there is no remotely comparable framework for doing so!”
 
Again. Not trying to be combative. Feel free to correct me if I have this wrong.
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|content=It is not objective or absolutely true that [[String Theory]] is our best theory. In fact, it has become, 40 years after the anomaly cancelation, our most thoroughly explored idea. No other path has been picked over like this one.
|content=This should really be done at a somewhat more technical level. The biggest damage done by [[String Theory]] was that it quickly redefined the most important problems in Physics to be general aspects of analysis and field theory rather than understanding our *hyper*-specific world.
 
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Waited a few days. I don’t think you are making sense about your *opinion* that it is *objectively* and *absolutely* dominant. And that is the problem. [[String Theory|String theorist]] deliberately leave others with the impression that they are following something scientific, objective and absolute. But it is really just a shared subjective hunch. And this does science and physics a terrible disservice.
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|content=The question about where string theory stands in comparison to other approaches to quantum gravity. I think it objectively true that string theory has given lots of stuff that is useful/foundational to cognate areas (eg QFT) than any other approach to quantum gravity. 1/n
|content=So, now in the current [[String Theory|post-string era]], it is perfectly acceptable for people to work on [[Quantum Gravity|“Quantum Gravity”]] without having to understand essentially anything about the mysterious 3 generations of chiral particles that actually populate our world. In short, they changed the field.
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|content=Holography and AdS/CFT is the clearest example but there are others.
|content=Oddly, even though Roger Penrose and I were on the same side on this stage, I couldn’t subscribe to much of Penrose’s critique of [[String Theory|strings]] and found myself agreeing more with Brian Greene on the technical points.
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|content=To sum it up: when [[String Theory|string theorist]] are no longer in a position to keep changing the goal posts set by the physical world, isn’t it the case that from A-Z maybe [[String Theory|string theory]] is not being honest?
 
Again. Not personal to you. At all. But it is not a fair move to say “It’s the best yet-to-succeed approach to [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]].” in front of the public. No?


I think this is objectively, uncontroversially true — once people have the background in theoretical physics that they understand topics like QFT on a technical level and have some real sense of the subject.
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|content=“[[String Theory]] is absolutely…the most likely to be true set of ideas about what sits at the intersection of the [[Standard Model]] and [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]].”
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|content=But most people (reasonably) don’t have this background. So I preface this with ‘my opinion’ in recognition that the core and guts of the argument, and the real reasons behind it, are not accessible to most people who read these tweets.
|content=I can confirm this indeed blows up ones notifications.
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But, in case of doubt or misunderstanding, [[String Theory|string theory]] is absolutely the deepest, most consequential and most likely to be true set of ideas about what sits at the intersection of the [[Standard Model]] and [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]].
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|content=This is not ideal - but while saying ‘go buy my book’ is a slight cop out, the book is my full argument at a level as non-technical as possible of why string theory has the position it does DESPITE the lack of direct experimental evidence for it
|content=Yes, that is precisely what I think.
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|content=Joseph. Imagine I were to temporarily stipulate to the idea that of all the known approaches to quantizing the  metric field that leads to gravitation, [[String Theory]] is by far the most advanced. I don’t think that is unreasonable whether or not it is true. It’s a solid argument.
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|content=I don’t think that is the relevant argument anymore. So you are framing it in such a way that [[String Theory|“String Theory”]] is the answer to a question you formulated: “Of all the approaches to quantizing  gravity which haven’t worked, which is the best?”


My argument is with that framing.
Here you are assuring lay people about what is absolute about [[String Theory]] within physics.
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|content=The problem I have is with [[String Theory|string theorists]] framing of the field and its issues and questions. I think [[String Theory]] is dangerous for this reason.  
|content=My responsibility is to make accurate statements (and yes, everything is my (professional) opinion).


Try these instead:
As the book quote indicates, I try not to overclaim. But: that [[String Theory|string theory]] and the complex  of ideas are around it are more serious than any competitors, IMO objectively true.
 
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A) Which approach is most likely to successfully alter or explain the [[Standard Model|Standard model]]?
 
B) Same as A) but for [[General Relativity]]?
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|content=C) Which approach is most likely to shed light on why there are 3 generations of observed fermions?
|content=“IMO objectively true”


D) Which approach is most likely to shed light on why the generations are chiral?
As with so many of these [[String Theory|String Theoretic]] claims I have no idea what that means.


E) Which large community most regularly makes sweeping claims that it later must privately invalidate while publicly claiming a new revolution?
So for example if I make an argument that this is NOT objectively true, do you fall back on the idea that it was opinion?


F) Which large community is most likely to ignore other ideas?
“Objectively, Electrons are field theoretic at observed energy scales.” My opinion doesn’t enter into it. The claim that it is objectively true eliminates the role of opinion.


G) Which is the most aggressive large community despite no proven connection to observed reality?
Does that mean that all who disagree with you and your [[String Theory|String community]] are “not serious” as per the above?
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|content=H) Which community is most likely to spend all their careers working on toy models with the wrong dimensions, signatures or field content claiming that we are building up the toolkit?
|content=The arguments become more convincing/objective, the more one can use graduate-level theoretical physics in them.
 
But in 280 characters and no equations, it’s hard to develop these


I) Which community is least likely to own up to the disaster of past public declarations about accessible energy SUSY?
In a book, easier to do so.
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|content=J) Which approach has been the most investigated and thus thoroughly picked over for low hanging fruit?
|content=I don’t think that’s the issue Joseph. At all.
 
Feynman, Glashow, Wilczek never found them objectively or absolutely compelling.
 
[[String Theory|String theorists]] like Friedan have written harshly of the Failures.
 
And what you are saying about subjective opinion and absolute objective fact doesn’t make sense. I mean you can just see that, no? Not trying to be mean here. But I don’t see what you are claiming is absolute and objective beyond your opinion.


K) Which approach best explains the odd nature of a seemingly fundamental Higgs sector?
What you seem to be saying is the usual trope: “The more you understand about the difficulty of quantizing a spin 2 gravitational field the more you appreciate how [[String Theory|string theory]] has taught us so much about how it is to be done eventually, and that there is no remotely comparable framework for doing so!”


L) Which approach is most dogmatic that [[Quantum Gravity|“Quantum Gravity”]] rather than “Unification” or “Gravitational Harmony” or “Incremental understanding” etc. *Is* the path forward when we don’t even know if gravity is quantized as we expect it at all in models beyond relativitistic [[Quantum Field Theory|QFT]]?
Again. Not trying to be combative. Feel free to correct me if I have this wrong.
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|content=M) Which approach comes closest to explaining the origin of the internal symmetry structure group of the Standard model?
|content=It is not objective or absolutely true that [[String Theory]] is our best theory. In fact, it has become, 40 years after the anomaly cancelation, our most thoroughly explored idea. No other path has been picked over like this one.


N) Which approach comes closest to explaining why there appear to be 16 particles in a generation with their observed internal quantum numbers?
Waited a few days. I don’t think you are making sense about your *opinion* that it is *objectively* and *absolutely* dominant. And that is the problem. [[String Theory|String theorist]] deliberately leave others with the impression that they are following something scientific, objective and absolute. But it is really just a shared subjective hunch. And this does science and physics a terrible disservice.
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|content=O) Which approach is most at risk of invoking “The Landscape” of impossibly many theories to test after saying that the power of the approach was that there were only 5 possible theories?
|content=The question about where string theory stands in comparison to other approaches to quantum gravity. I think it objectively true that string theory has given lots of stuff that  is useful/foundational to cognate areas (eg QFT) than any other approach to quantum gravity. 1/n
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|content=Holography and AdS/CFT is the clearest example but there are others.


P) Which community brags about “postdiction” the most because it has failed at predictions?
I think this is objectively, uncontroversially true — once people have the background in theoretical physics that they understand topics like QFT on a technical level and have some real sense of the subject.
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|content=But most people (reasonably) don’t have this background. So I preface this with ‘my opinion’ in recognition that the core and guts of the argument, and the real reasons behind it, are not accessible to most people who read these tweets.
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|content=This is not ideal - but while saying ‘go buy my book’ is a slight cop out, the book is my full argument at a level as non-technical as possible of why string theory has the position it does DESPITE the lack of direct experimental evidence for it
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|content=Q) Which community is least collegial and most insulting to colleagues outside the approach?
|content=Joseph. Imagine I were to temporarily stipulate to the idea that of all the known approaches to quantizing the metric field that leads to gravitation, [[String Theory]] is by far the most advanced. I don’t think that is unreasonable whether or not it is true. It’s a solid argument.
 
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R) Which HEP theory community consumed the most in resources over the last 40 years?
 
S) Same for brains?
 
T) Same for producing PR and puff pieces?
 
U) Which community has broken the most trust with lay people in HEP theory?
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|content=V) Which community substitutes mathematics results for results about the actual physical world we live in when talking to the public?
|content=I don’t think that is the relevant argument anymore. So you are framing it in such a way that [[String Theory|“String Theory”]] is the answer to a question you formulated: “Of all the approaches to quantizing  gravity which haven’t worked, which is the best?”


W) Which community is most likely to restore the culture of successful physics research to HEP theory?
My argument is with that framing.
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|content=The problem I have is with [[String Theory|string theorists]] framing of the field and its issues and questions. I think [[String Theory]] is dangerous for this reason.


X) Which not yet successful approach has been most self-critical?
Try these instead:


Y) Which community is most respectful in absorbing the results by others with proper credit?
A) Which approach is most likely to successfully alter or explain the [[Standard Model|Standard model]]?


Z) Which community relentless makes its argument by mis framing the question as if the question were simply “What is our deepest collection of ideas of how to quantize a massless spin 2 gravitational field?” when the previous 25 framings are all arguably more important after 39 years without contact with physics?
B) Same as A) but for [[General Relativity]]?
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|content=That is why this conversation doesn’t work. It is what magicians call “Magicians Choice”: the lay person is lead into thinking they are free to disagree. But the question you keep asking is DESiGNED to make it look like [[String Theory]] is our top community.
|content=C) Which approach is most likely to shed light on why there are 3 generations of observed fermions?
 
D) Which approach is most likely to shed light on why the generations are chiral?


Joseph: it failed in the terms it gave for taking over. It chose the terms. It said what it was and what it was going to do. And it flat out failed in EXACTLY those terms it chose when it said “Hold my beer!” back in 1984.
E) Which large community most regularly makes sweeping claims that it later must privately invalidate while publicly claiming a new revolution?
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F) Which large community is most likely to ignore other ideas?


G) Which is the most aggressive large community despite no proven connection to observed reality?
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|content=Note Added: The tweet quoted is not coming up for everyone. Perhaps because it is mid thread?  
|content=H) Which community is most likely to spend all their careers working on toy models with the wrong dimensions, signatures or field content claiming that we are building up the toolkit?


Just look for the A) - Z) section of different framings that are seldom discussed well beyond the issue of which is the best theoretical attempt at [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]]. Thanks.
I) Which community is least likely to own up to the disaster of past public declarations about accessible energy SUSY?
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|content=Some of you have asked me why I am specifically focused on how [[String Theory]] *may* have permanently deranged modern theory in High Energy Physics.
|content=J) Which approach has been the most investigated and thus thoroughly picked over for low hanging fruit?


In the midst of a thread with Prof. @JosephPConlon, author of “Why [[String Theory]]?” I set out the dangers of allowing [[String Theory|string theorists]] to be the arbiters judges and juries of what is important in physics.
K) Which approach best explains the odd nature of a seemingly fundamental Higgs sector?


Simply put, they mis-framed almost everything to explain the last 40 inexplicable years of [[String Theory|string induced monoculture and stagnation]] in moving beyond the [[Standard Model]] and [[General Relativity]]. The question is now: “Can more healthy physics research culture survive and come back from the [[String Theory|String Failure]]?”
L) Which approach is most dogmatic that [[Quantum Gravity|“Quantum Gravity”]] rather than “Unification” or “Gravitational Harmony” or “Incremental understanding” etc. *Is* the path forward when we don’t even know if gravity is quantized as we expect it at all in models beyond relativitistic [[Quantum Field Theory|QFT]]?
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|content=The problem I have is with [[String Theory|string theorists]] framing of the field and its issues and questions. I think [[String Theory]] is dangerous for this reason.
|content=M) Which approach comes closest to explaining the origin of the internal symmetry structure group of the Standard model?


Try these instead:
N) Which approach comes closest to explaining why there appear to be 16 particles in a generation with their observed internal quantum numbers?
 
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A) Which approach is most likely to successfully alter or explain the [[Standard Model|Standard model]]?
 
B) Same as A) but for [[General Relativity]]?
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|content=Who turned out to be right?  
|content=O) Which approach is most at risk of invoking “The Landscape” of impossibly many theories to test after saying that the power of the approach was that there were only 5 possible theories?


Everyone who said “Wait: why are we changing the core mission to [[Quantum Gravity|‘Quantizing Gravity’]]?? Weren’t we supposed to explain the observed particle spectrum? And the weirdness of the Higgs sector as Deus Ex Machina? And the origin of chirality? Etc etc.”
P) Which community brags about “postdiction” the most because it has failed at predictions?
 
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Feynman/Glashow/Perl/Etc.
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It was a total switcheroo.
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|content=Some have been making this point for 39 years. We are not now “At a point where we really ought to question…”.
|content=Q) Which community is least collegial and most insulting to colleagues outside the approach?


We were there in 1984. And I was not alone at the time. There were *many* of us. Before this [[String Theory]]/ [[Quantum Gravity]] mind virus took over.
R) Which HEP theory community consumed the most in resources over the last 40 years?


I don’t know what to call the behavior pattern where institutions look to someone who has *NOT* been making the important point for forever so they don’t have to deal with the fact that they got EVERYTHING WRONG for 4-7 decades in an obvious fashion.
S) Same for brains?


You have to ask yourself “Who are the real cranks when those accused of being cranks turn out to be right?” And the leaders who accused them turn out to be wrong. Over and over. Again. And again.
T) Same for producing PR and puff pieces?


Glad to have the company however.
U) Which community has broken the most trust with lay people in HEP theory?
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|content=I don’t even know where to start.
Who exactly turned out to be right? About what?
 
You want to be taken seriously, yet the reason people disagree with you is a ‘mind virus’?
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|content=Sorry. By whom? Do I expect to be taken seriously by the many [[String Theory|String Theorists]] who called their colleagues morons, frauds and “not serious” behind their backs? No. I don’t.
|content=V) Which community substitutes mathematics results for results about the actual physical world we live in when talking to the public?


I expect them to leave the field. Then we can get back to doing physics. The subset of reasonable [[String Theory|string theorists]] who know this problem well and are still doing science? Well….They know ST/QG has a problem and they hate it too. And I do care about them.
W) Which community is most likely to restore the culture of successful physics research to HEP theory?


That isn’t a mind virus. The mind virus is specifically the tortured defense of [[String Theory|string theory]] and [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]] by attacking colleagues without admitting its massive failure. And that is a mind virus. I stand by that. It’s atrocious.
X) Which not yet successful approach has been most self-critical?
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Y) Which community is most respectful in absorbing the results by others with proper credit?


Z) Which community relentless makes its argument by mis framing the question as if the question were simply “What is our deepest collection of ideas of how to quantize a massless spin 2 gravitational field?” when the previous 25 framings are all arguably more important after 39 years without contact with physics?
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|content=I don’t get this at all. Dark matter is not sketchy. Neutrinos as extremely light electrically neutral leptons are *almost* dark.  
|content=That is why this conversation doesn’t work. It is what magicians call “Magicians Choice”: the lay person is lead into thinking they are free to disagree. But the question you keep asking is DESiGNED to make it look like [[String Theory]] is our top community.  


People ask me what I hate about [[String Theory]] and [[Quantum Gravity]] culture. It is this. The endless ST/QG propaganda and smearing of critics makes it look like  Dark Matter, Grand Unified Theory, Supersymmetry, Dark Energy, extra dimensions, etc. are all part of a Bullshit offensive of speculative nonsense.
Joseph: it failed in the terms it gave for taking over. It chose the terms. It said what it was and what it was going to do. And it flat out failed in EXACTLY those terms it chose when it said “Hold my beer!” back in 1984.
 
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I have been extremely harsh because this culture has left an impression with non-researchers that all of high energy particle physics theory  is ‘sketch’. Bullshit. One tiny group of people with an unusual scientific ethics of both overselling unsuccessful ideas and bad mouthing rival colleagues doesn’t have the right to destroy the credibility of this amazing community.
 
Even Supersymmetry and [[String Theory]] aren’t Sketch…Let alone dark matter and dark energy. And I am among the longest standing public critics wiling to say that [[String Theory|string theory]] and [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]] are totally failing as solid physics programs.
 
MORAL: Sketchy culture leave the impression that the science is sketchy. NO!! It’s the *culture* not the *theory* that is ‘sketch’. That is why we need to call out the unethical behavior that is undermining support and understanding of fundamental physics.
 
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Dark matter is what seems most sketch to me.
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|content=“[[String Theory|String theory]] approaches experimental verification.”
|content=Note Added: The tweet quoted is not coming up for everyone. Perhaps because it is mid thread?


“New Breakthrough in [[Quantum Gravity]] upends everything.”
Just look for the A) - Z) section of different framings that are seldom discussed well beyond the issue of which is the best theoretical attempt at [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]]. Thanks.
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|content=Some of you have asked me why I am specifically focused on how [[String Theory]] *may* have permanently deranged modern theory in High Energy Physics.  


“Black holes discovered for the first time inside quantum computer.”
In the midst of a thread with Prof. @JosephPConlon, author of “Why [[String Theory]]?” I set out the dangers of allowing [[String Theory|string theorists]] to be the arbiters judges and juries of what is important in physics.


“AI to deliver theory of everything within 18 months say experts.”
Simply put, they mis-framed almost everything to explain the last 40 inexplicable years of [[String Theory|string induced monoculture and stagnation]] in moving beyond the [[Standard Model]] and [[General Relativity]]. The question is now: “Can more healthy physics research culture survive and come back from the [[String Theory|String Failure]]?”
 
“Human Teleportation inches closer.”
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|content=Quantum gravity breakthrough: Physicists report they are now one step closer to the measurement of gravity at the quantum level. https://thedebrief.org/breakthrough-in-quantum-measurement-of-gravity-achieved-using-levitating-magnets/#sq_hn75ogbo69
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|content=Who turned out to be right?
 
Everyone who said “Wait: why are we changing the core mission to [[Quantum Gravity|‘Quantizing Gravity’]]?? Weren’t we supposed to explain the observed particle spectrum? And the weirdness of the Higgs sector as Deus Ex Machina? And the origin of chirality? Etc etc.”


So gravity defines spacetime, ferimons depend on spacetime, quantizing gravity alters spacetime's nature ∴ the 'stage' on which all matter exists and interacts becomes uncertain and probabilistic at a fundamental level.
Feynman/Glashow/Perl/Etc.  


And we all casually nod heads. Hmmm
It was a total switcheroo.
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|content=Some have been making this point for 39 years. We are not now “At a point where we really ought to question…”.


There is a very subtle problem here for [[Quantum Gravity|“Quantum Gravity”]] that worries me that doesn’t seem to worry physicists.  
We were there in 1984. And I was not alone at the time. There were *many* of us. Before this [[String Theory]]/ [[Quantum Gravity]] mind virus took over.


If gravity becomes uncertain, the force particle medium continues to exist.  
I don’t know what to call the behavior pattern where institutions look to someone who has *NOT* been making the important point for forever so they don’t have to deal with the fact that they got EVERYTHING WRONG for 4-7 decades in an obvious fashion.


Bosonic Waves: UNCERTAIN </br>
You have to ask yourself “Who are the real cranks when those accused of being cranks turn out to be right?” And the leaders who accused them turn out to be wrong. Over and over. Again. And again.
Bosonic Medium: CERTAIN</br>
Bosonic Norm: UNCERTAIN</br>
Bosonic Derivative: EXISTS


So the photon medium exists. And there is still a derivative called the exterior derivative.
Glad to have the company however.
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|content=“We’re at a point where we really ought to question whether this drive and this challenge to quantize gravity was really the right thing to do.” https://youtube.com/watch?v=DkRbNXILroI
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|content=I don’t even know where to start.  
Who exactly turned out to be right? About what?


This is not true for matter waves. Unless there is a metric 2-tensor g_ij (i.e. the rulers and protractors I always mention) then the matter medium is not defined.
You want to be taken seriously, yet the reason people disagree with you is a ‘mind virus’?
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|content=Sorry. By whom? Do I expect to be taken seriously by the many [[String Theory|String Theorists]] who called their colleagues morons, frauds and “not serious” behind their backs? No. I don’t.  


Fermionic Waves: UNCERTAIN </br>
I expect them to leave the field. Then we can get back to doing physics. The subset of reasonable [[String Theory|string theorists]] who know this problem well and are still doing science? Well….They know ST/QG has a problem and they hate it too. And I do care about them.
Fermionic Medium: UNCERTAIN</br>
Fermionic Norm: NONE</br>
Fermionic Derivative: NONE


That to me is a major difference between GL(4,R) double cover and SL(2,C). And there is no Dirac operator either. There is no DeRahm type theory for Spinors. Only a Hodge like Dirac theory.  
That isn’t a mind virus. The mind virus is specifically the tortured defense of [[String Theory|string theory]] and [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]] by attacking colleagues without admitting its massive failure. And that is a mind virus. I stand by that. It’s atrocious.
 
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I am always assured that this is no problem at all. Mumble mumble tetrads….Vierbien this…moving frames…Ashtekar Variables…something something…not a problem.  
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I don’t believe it. I think it’s a problem. I could be wrong. But I am not yet convinced. Maybe I’m just not getting it. But I’m really really not getting it. I think it’s wrong that there is no big deal here.
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I’m not going to get into a major back and forth on X. But if you know what I am talking about, respond and perhaps we can maybe hash it out in a better forum if it makes sense.


Thx.
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|content=Question for physicists: If superposition of macroscopic objects is achieved, their gravitational potentials could be in a state of superposition.  
|content=I don’t get this at all. Dark matter is not sketchy. Neutrinos as extremely light electrically neutral leptons are *almost* dark.
 
People ask me what I hate about [[String Theory]] and [[Quantum Gravity]] culture. It is this. The endless ST/QG propaganda and smearing of critics makes it look like  Dark Matter, Grand Unified Theory, Supersymmetry, Dark Energy, extra dimensions, etc. are all part of a Bullshit offensive of speculative nonsense.
 
I have been extremely harsh because this culture has left an impression with non-researchers that all of high energy particle physics theory  is ‘sketch’. Bullshit. One tiny group of people with an unusual scientific ethics of both overselling unsuccessful ideas and bad mouthing rival colleagues doesn’t have the right to destroy the credibility of this amazing community.
 
Even Supersymmetry and [[String Theory]] aren’t Sketch…Let alone dark matter and dark energy. And I am among the longest standing public critics wiling to say that [[String Theory|string theory]] and [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]] are totally failing as solid physics programs.
 
MORAL: Sketchy culture leave the impression that the science is sketchy. NO!! It’s the *culture* not the *theory* that is ‘sketch’. That is why we need to call out the unethical behavior that is undermining support and understanding of fundamental physics.
 
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|content=Possibly.  


Is there a sense in which such experiments probe quantum gravity?
Dark matter is what seems most sketch to me.
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|content=“[[String Theory|String theory]] approaches experimental verification.”
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“New Breakthrough in [[Quantum Gravity]] upends everything.”
 
“Black holes discovered for the first time inside quantum computer.”
 
“AI to deliver theory of everything within 18 months say experts.”
 
“Human Teleportation inches closer.”
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|content=Quantum gravity breakthrough: Physicists report they are now one step closer to the measurement of gravity at the quantum level. https://thedebrief.org/breakthrough-in-quantum-measurement-of-gravity-achieved-using-levitating-magnets/#sq_hn75ogbo69
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|content=Is there in instance where there is value making this digestible for a layman or is it always a gated intellectual niche (ha) that kinda sits outside of my purview?
Is there value in bringing this down or does it lose its authenticity and become a facsimile if we simplify?
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|content=I ask because I'd love to see WHY you care so much about all this. I get hints from your videos speaking on gauge. But your commentary here is not super approachable and maybe that's fine.
|content=Ahh, that's annoying.
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So gravity defines spacetime, ferimons depend on spacetime, quantizing gravity alters spacetime's nature ∴ the 'stage' on which all matter exists and interacts becomes uncertain and probabilistic at a fundamental level.
 
And we all casually nod heads. Hmmm
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|content=That I can explain. I am convinced that there are clear reasons that gravity/metrics are different than all other fields that indicate that the entire 70 year [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]] program hasn’t been thought through at a basic level. This says “Making Gravity quantum destroys all matter.” That’s sorta sloppy. But you can’t DEFINE matter (spinors) without gravity (a metric). So you CAN’T casually quantize gravity. It seems kinda basic.  
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There is a very subtle problem here for [[Quantum Gravity|“Quantum Gravity”]] that worries me that doesn’t seem to worry physicists.  


Maybe I’m just not getting it. Don’t want to confuse others if I’m wrong. But I don’t get any of the explanations that come back. And that usually means the [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]] community is not on top of their game historically.
If gravity becomes uncertain, the force particle medium continues to exist.  
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Bosonic Derivative: EXISTS
 
So the photon medium exists. And there is still a derivative called the exterior derivative.
 
This is not true for matter waves. Unless there is a metric 2-tensor g_ij (i.e. the rulers and protractors I always mention) then the matter medium is not defined.


Fermionic Waves: UNCERTAIN </br>
Fermionic Medium: UNCERTAIN</br>
Fermionic Norm: NONE</br>
Fermionic Derivative: NONE


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That to me is a major difference between GL(4,R) double cover and SL(2,C). And there is no Dirac operator either. There is no DeRahm type theory for Spinors. Only a Hodge like Dirac theory.  
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|content=That gives me some insight into your worldview. If I understand correctly, it hugs the shore of observed SM phenomenology to avoid tilting at windmills of geometry or chasing shadows of [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]] for the most part.  


Right handed neutrinos, for example, are implicit within the old “SO(10)” GUT, but you list them here as ‘new’ because they aren’t here to fill out a Weyl 16 for Spin(10). They just are being posited without much motivation beyond the dark sector. Wilsonian agnosticism as it were.
I am always assured that this is no problem at all. Mumble mumble tetrads….Vierbien this…moving frames…Ashtekar Variables…something something…not a problem.  
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There‘re one-parameter models that predict infinitely many new particles (e.g. SU(N) and models with many, many parameters that predict no new particles (e.g mod gravity)
I don’t believe it. I think it’s a problem. I could be wrong. But I am not yet convinced. Maybe I’m just not getting it. But I’m really really not getting it. I think it’s wrong that there is no big deal here.


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I’m not going to get into a major back and forth on X. But if you know what I am talking about, respond and perhaps we can maybe hash it out in a better forum if it makes sense.
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|content=If anyone tells you a theory is more or less motivated by counting particles, they either don’t understand this argument or they hope you don’t


2/2
Thx.
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|content=@martinmbauer So let’s talk about the best new theories with new particle predictions.
|content=Question for physicists: If superposition of macroscopic objects is achieved, their gravitational potentials could be in a state of superposition.  


What are your favorite top 5 theories formulated over say the last 25 years ranked by well motivated particle predictions just as you see it Martin? Then as the community sees them? Thx.
Is there a sense in which such experiments probe quantum gravity?
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|content=The SM withstood every experimental test apart from neutrino masses, dark matter & gravity. Explaining those needs new degrees of freedom
|content=Literally took the words out of my mouth.
 
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Besides this most effort has been put on treating the SM itself as a low energy EFT which implies new dof but is agnostic about which
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|content=I’m not truly understanding even though I think I follow everything you wrote. I sense the word “agnostic” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in not giving me 5 modern theories.
|content=Right?
 
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One way of making sense of what you just posted is that there isn’t enough information in the Wilsonian EFT framing to want to worry about any particles/fields/dof that aren’t strictly needed to close the observed physics off within the current energy regime. Is that what you mean??
 
If so…yikes.
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|content=The field has changed from a more theory driven approach to a strategy that takes the SM as the central theory and explores perturbations: SM effective theory
|content=Is there in instance where there is value making this digestible for a layman or is it always a gated intellectual niche (ha) that kinda sits outside of my purview?
Is there value in bringing this down or does it lose its authenticity and become a facsimile if we simplify?
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|content=I ask because I'd love to see WHY you care so much about all this. I get hints from your videos speaking on gauge. But your commentary here is not super approachable and maybe that's fine.
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|content=That I can explain. I am convinced that there are clear reasons that gravity/metrics are different than all other fields that indicate that the entire 70 year [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]] program hasn’t been thought through at a basic level. This says “Making Gravity quantum destroys all matter.” That’s sorta sloppy. But you can’t DEFINE matter (spinors) without gravity (a metric). So you CAN’T casually quantize gravity. It seems kinda basic.


We're in the Fermi theory phase of whatever is to come
Maybe I’m just not getting it. Don’t want to confuse others if I’m wrong. But I don’t get any of the explanations that come back. And that usually means the [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]] community is not on top of their game historically.
 
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Models with explicit new states aim at explaining BSM phenomena
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|content=Regarding "Kona Blue". I have been away from normal connectivity so I have been slow to digest this. Here is what I have.
|content=That gives me some insight into your worldview. If I understand correctly, it hugs the shore of observed SM phenomenology to avoid tilting at windmills of geometry or chasing shadows of [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]] for the most part.  


My position on UFO/UAP has been solidly consistent for the last several years:
Right handed neutrinos, for example, are implicit within the old “SO(10)” GUT, but you list them here as ‘new’ because they aren’t here to fill out a Weyl 16 for Spin(10). They just are being posited without much motivation beyond the dark sector. Wilsonian agnosticism as it were.
 
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A) I was previously simply wrong that there was nothing to this story. I have no interest in denying my error.
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B) There were almost certainly secret programs hidden within the US Federal Government that have been denied that were addressed to the topic of [[UAP|UFOs]].
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C) There is, as yet, no hard public scientific proof that any of these programs have anything to do with actual recovered craft or 'biologics' or Non-Human Intelligence or Aliens.
There‘re one-parameter models that predict infinitely many new particles (e.g. SU(N) and models with many, many parameters that predict no new particles (e.g mod gravity)


D) There is a history of fakery in warfare and national security that could explain this.
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E) High level physicists like John Wheeler, Bryce DeWitt, Louis Witten, Pascal Jordan, Herman Bondi, etc were previously part of some bizarre secret anti-gravity efforts related to UFO programs that birthed our common era of [[Quantum Gravity]].
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F) [[Quantum Gravity]], at least publicly, does not appear to work by historical standards in its 71 year history.
 
G) This state of QG is totally non-controversial scientifically, but pointing this out leads to bizarre reputational attacks.
 
H) There is some connection inside the US government from [[UAP|UFO/UAP]] to occult like interest in angels/demons/consciousness/"remote viewing" which makes the whole thing sound like nonsense. This may be intentional to discredit interest from those not read in to the special access programs.
 
I) There appear to be essentially no high level physicists involved in a supposed area of national security that hinges on phenomena that supposedly defy physical law. This is itself a MAJOR clue that gets little attention.
 
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With "Kona Blue" disclosed, I am relieved that I would appear to be proven correct on many of the above points. I was *not* early here, but I did not overclaim either and admitted my main error. I can also reasonably claim that I was early among PhDs with relevant backgrounds regarding relations to physics.
 
The above points A)-I) are pretty much what one concludes when a sober person with historical awareness confronts the reality of a completely insane corner of national security. I stand by all of the above statements no matter how nutty they sound, or how conservative they sound to different parties. This is simply the state of the situation if you are not a [[UAP|UFO]] enthusiast or debunker.  It's totally embarassing for our nation and made a deliberately unresolvable question as to what is going on. That is not an accident. It is by design. It's really just unconscionable that we are here.
 
We look like the Keystone Cops.
 
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/kona-blue-causing-split-between-intel-agencies-dod-coulthart/ar-AA1ngzu3
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|content=Many of you will be shocked by my IV. Which is perhaps why I asked for three…
|content=@martinmbauer So let’s talk about the best new theories with new particle predictions.


IV) I would choose [[String Theory]] or the Amplitudes / Double Copy approach.  
What are your favorite top 5 theories formulated over say the last 25 years ranked by well motivated particle predictions just as you see it Martin? Then as the community sees them? Thx.
 
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At least the String people are energized by the fact that the math is real even when the physics is fake. And at least the double copy people have a mystery connecting [[General Relativity|GR]] to the [[Standard Model|SM]].  
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B) As to who I find interesting. Anyone going it alone to follow a hunch, but who knows what [[General Relativity|GR]] and the [[Standard Model|SM]] are. Mavericks, not cranks.  
Besides this most effort has been put on treating the SM itself as a low energy EFT which implies new dof but is agnostic about which
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|content=I’m not truly understanding even though I think I follow everything you wrote. I sense the word “agnostic” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in not giving me 5 modern theories.  


Woit, Lisi, Deutsche, Wolfram, myself and Barbour are all outside of purely traditional structures. Oppenheim and others are in such structures but still mavericks. I wish Sabine had a theory that I knew of. But I am not aware of one.
One way of making sense of what you just posted is that there isn’t enough information in the Wilsonian EFT framing to want to worry about any particles/fields/dof that aren’t strictly needed to close the observed physics off within the current energy regime. Is that what you mean??


The observation I would make is that being a professor is a double edged sword. Outside the Professorate it is almost impossible to function from isolation and deprivation. Inside, you get captured by a constant set of pressures to conform to things you know are sapping your vitality. And you go into angry denial “I do whatever I want as a professor! I just happen to believe in this large program which is known not to work but gives me grants and summer stipend.”
If so…yikes.
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Right now, I would bring those mavericks together with the most open of the professorate and steelman/catalog where those individual programs are in their trajectories. Duh.
We're in the Fermi theory phase of whatever is to come


There are really fewer than 10 of them. This is absolutely obvious. It is cheap and would take almost no resources. It does not happen simply for reasons of political economy. There is no other reason not to do it.
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As for who excites me most (myself excluded):


Nima Arkani Hamed</br>
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|content=Regarding "Kona Blue". I have been away from normal connectivity so I have been slow to digest this. Here is what I have.
Jose Figueroa O’Farril
 
My position on UFO/UAP has been solidly consistent for the last several years:
 
A) I was previously simply wrong that there was nothing to this story. I have no interest in denying my error.
 
B) There were almost certainly secret programs hidden within the US Federal Government that have been denied that were addressed to the topic of [[UAP|UFOs]].
 
C) There is, as yet, no hard public scientific proof that any of these programs have anything to do with actual recovered craft or 'biologics' or Non-Human Intelligence or Aliens.
 
D) There is a history of fakery in warfare and national security that could explain this.
 
E) High level physicists like John Wheeler, Bryce DeWitt, Louis Witten, Pascal Jordan, Herman Bondi, etc were previously part of some bizarre secret anti-gravity efforts related to UFO programs that birthed our common era of [[Quantum Gravity]].
 
F) [[Quantum Gravity]], at least publicly, does not appear to work by historical standards in its 71 year history.
 
G) This state of QG is totally non-controversial scientifically, but pointing this out leads to bizarre reputational attacks.
 
H) There is some connection inside the US government from [[UAP|UFO/UAP]] to occult like interest in angels/demons/consciousness/"remote viewing" which makes the whole thing sound like nonsense. This may be intentional to discredit interest from those not read in to the special access programs.
 
I) There appear to be essentially no high level physicists involved in a supposed area of national security that hinges on phenomena that supposedly defy physical law. This is itself a MAJOR clue that gets little attention.
 
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And two others I will leave nameless for a top 10.
With "Kona Blue" disclosed, I am relieved that I would appear to be proven correct on many of the above points. I was *not* early here, but I did not overclaim either and admitted my main error. I can also reasonably claim that I was early among PhDs with relevant backgrounds regarding relations to physics.


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The above points A)-I) are pretty much what one concludes when a sober person with historical awareness confronts the reality of a completely insane corner of national security. I stand by all of the above statements no matter how nutty they sound, or how conservative they sound to different parties. This is simply the state of the situation if you are not a [[UAP|UFO]] enthusiast or debunker.  It's totally embarassing for our nation and made a deliberately unresolvable question as to what is going on. That is not an accident. It is by design. It's really just unconscionable that we are here.


So that is my take. It wasn’t a gotcha.  
We look like the Keystone Cops.


If all we can do is bemoan the state of physics, we need to change our focus.
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Yes I expect to be savaged. For some reason, saying anything positive creates anger. Bring it.


Thanks for your time. As always.
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|content=Many of you will be shocked by my IV. Which is perhaps why I asked for three…


Her answer is in the quote tweet.  
IV) I would choose [[String Theory]] or the Amplitudes / Double Copy approach.
 
At least the String people are energized by the fact that the math is real even when the physics is fake. And at least the double copy people have a mystery connecting [[General Relativity|GR]] to the [[Standard Model|SM]].
 
B) As to who I find interesting. Anyone going it alone to follow a hunch, but who knows what [[General Relativity|GR]] and the [[Standard Model|SM]] are. Mavericks, not cranks.
 
Woit, Lisi, Deutsche, Wolfram, myself and Barbour are all outside of purely traditional structures. Oppenheim and others are in such structures but still mavericks. I wish Sabine had a theory that I knew of. But I am not aware of one.
 
The observation I would make is that being a professor is a double edged sword. Outside the Professorate it is almost impossible to function from isolation and deprivation. Inside, you get captured by a constant set of pressures to conform to things you know are sapping your vitality. And you go into angry denial “I do whatever I want as a professor! I just happen to believe in this large program which is known not to work but gives me grants and summer stipend.”
 
Right now, I would bring those mavericks together with the most open of the professorate and steelman/catalog where those individual programs are in their trajectories. Duh.
 
There are really fewer than 10 of them. This is absolutely obvious. It is cheap and would take almost no resources. It does not happen simply for reasons of political economy. There is no other reason not to do it.
 
As for who excites me most (myself excluded):
 
Nima Arkani Hamed</br>
Frank Wilczek</br>
Peter Woit</br>
John Baez</br>
Ed Witten</br>
Luis Alvarez Gaume</br>
Dan Freed</br>
Jose Figueroa O’Farril
 
And two others I will leave nameless for a top 10.
 
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So that is my take. It wasn’t a gotcha.
 
If all we can do is bemoan the state of physics, we need to change our focus.
 
Yes I expect to be savaged. For some reason, saying anything positive creates anger. Bring it.
 
Thanks for your time. As always.
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|content=After seeing my friend @skdh say what is wrong with theoretical physics, I asked her what would theoretical physics done right look like. Specifically, which general approaches and which theorists she was most excited about.
 
Her answer is in the quote tweet.  


The question was not a gotcha question so I will try to answer it myself below.
The question was not a gotcha question so I will try to answer it myself below.
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Woit is an excellent example of someone who was told he was barren when he was a pure critic...only to then be told he was a self-promoter when he had something to say about the structure bundle of CP^3 being potentially the low energy electro strong SU(3)xU(1) and the oddity of the chirality of the weak force being either fully on or off rather than merely conjugate V vs \bar{V}.
Woit is an excellent example of someone who was told he was barren when he was a pure critic...only to then be told he was a self-promoter when he had something to say about the structure bundle of CP^3 being potentially the low energy electro strong SU(3)xU(1) and the oddity of the chirality of the weak force being either fully on or off rather than merely conjugate V vs \bar{V}.


It's time to stop pretending this is about physics. It's about protecting a 4 decade MASSIVE screw up pretending that there is [[The Only Game in Town|only one game in town]].
It's time to stop pretending this is about physics. It's about protecting a 4 decade MASSIVE screw up pretending that there is [[The Only Game in Town (TOGIT)|only one game in town]].
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[[The Only Game in Town|The “Only Game in Town!” monopoly]]
[[The Only Game in Town (TOGIT)|The “Only Game in Town!” monopoly]]


@pmarca’s WH convo
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So even when their team loses on the field,  they still win by referees decision that they are the only real team competing. Everyone else focuses on whether they have background independence, particle predictions or a renormalizable spin 2 quantization. That is a total red herring.  
So even when their team loses on the field,  they still win by referees decision that they are the only real team competing. Everyone else focuses on whether they have background independence, particle predictions or a renormalizable spin 2 quantization. That is a total red herring.  


Sabine: Theoretical physics isn’t this dumb or anti-scientific. It’s impossible. [[The Only Game in Town|“The only game in town”]] campaign is not a [[String Theory|string theoretic]] idea. It is totally foreign to science.
Sabine: Theoretical physics isn’t this dumb or anti-scientific. It’s impossible. [[The Only Game in Town (TOGIT)|“The only game in town”]] campaign is not a [[String Theory|string theoretic]] idea. It is totally foreign to science.


Something separate doesn’t want rival theories side by side. In a science we would all be expected to listen to each other. This is what my first memories of physics looked like 1983-1988. There were different ideas. Nothing like this.
Something separate doesn’t want rival theories side by side. In a science we would all be expected to listen to each other. This is what my first memories of physics looked like 1983-1988. There were different ideas. Nothing like this.
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|content=The issue isn’t [[String Theory]] which has obviously failed in the terms it set for itself.  
|content=The issue isn’t [[String Theory]] which has obviously failed in the terms it set for itself.  


The issue is the [[The Only Game in Town|“String Theory is the only game in town”]] which appears designed to destroy fundamental physics itself. If you have spent 40 years bragging and failing, wouldn’t you at least ask “Doesn’t anyone have any other ideas?” before finally going over the edge of the cliff?  
The issue is the [[The Only Game in Town (TOGIT)|“String Theory is the only game in town”]] which appears designed to destroy fundamental physics itself. If you have spent 40 years bragging and failing, wouldn’t you at least ask “Doesn’t anyone have any other ideas?” before finally going over the edge of the cliff?  


<nowiki>*</nowiki>Absolutely* not. And that tells you that string theory isn’t a theory. It’s some kind of a suicide pact. Better that the field die than we ask “What if the string theorists were always wrong including pronouncements about [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]] and against other theorists? What if [[The Only Game in Town|‘the only game in town’]] was always an obviously totally unethical anti-scientific move to destroy and poison the market place of ideas?”
<nowiki>*</nowiki>Absolutely* not. And that tells you that string theory isn’t a theory. It’s some kind of a suicide pact. Better that the field die than we ask “What if the string theorists were always wrong including pronouncements about [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]] and against other theorists? What if [[The Only Game in Town (TOGIT)|‘the only game in town’]] was always an obviously totally unethical anti-scientific move to destroy and poison the market place of ideas?”


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|content=@skdh I assume we are both familiar with how some of our mutual Physics/Math PhD colleagues have been treated at [[The Arxiv|arXiv]] for being deeply off the [[Quantum Gravity]] narrative? I think they could stop treating those people differently from everyone else.
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Q: "Why avoid the [[The Arxiv|arXiv]]? That isn't peer reviewed or even moderated! Anyone can put anything on it!"
Q: "Why avoid the [[The Arxiv|arXiv]]? That isn't [[Peer Review|peer reviewed]] or even moderated! Anyone can put anything on it!"


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|content=CLAIM: These FAKE and REAL programs will keep going and extend to [[General Relativity|"The Golden Age of General Relativity"]]. We will eventually learn that the mysterious philathropists Roger Babson and Agnew Bahnson who funded Louis Witten and Bryce deWitt (respectively), along with others were (obviously) NationalSecurity cutouts. They were real people giving cover to some major Post-Manhattan physics thing.
|content=CLAIM: These FAKE and REAL programs will keep going and extend to [[The Golden Age of General Relativity|"The Golden Age of General Relativity"]]. We will eventually learn that the mysterious philathropists Roger Babson and Agnew Bahnson who funded Louis Witten and Bryce deWitt (respectively), along with others were (obviously) NationalSecurity cutouts. They were real people giving cover to some major Post-Manhattan physics thing.


From Australian Intelligence (circa 1971) we have this which I both believe and hypothesized LONG before finding it:
From Australian Intelligence (circa 1971) we have this which I both believe and hypothesized LONG before finding it:
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|content=A) I don’t know that the USG did derange fundamental physics for security reasons. This may only be true at the level of nuclear physics, material science/condensed matter, etc.  
|content=That is accurate.
 
And I have also pointed out that physics has been recognized to be dangerous since Los Alamos.
 
And I have also pointed out that some physics is known to be done in secret (e.g. national labs).


B) I don’t know that there are *any* successes in fundamental physics in black programs. Let alone “anti-gravity”:
And I have speculated that some of it may be deliberately fake (e.g. why doesn’t anyone in government question what happened to 40 years of ignoring competitor proposals and blindly following the string theory and  [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]] bandwagons?). Why speculate? Because it *IS* dangerous to do fundamental physics in public with rivals like China and Russia and Iran.  


C) What I do wonder about is whether the U.S. government is blocking all public university fundamental physics preemptively with [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]]…while likely *failing* at it in secret (e.g. in national labs) as well.
What I don’t believe is that the U.S. solved gravity secretly or has a final theory of physics in some secure location. It’s not impossible, but I think it is highly highly highly unlikely.
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|content=A) I don’t know that the USG did derange fundamental physics for security reasons. This may only be true at the level of nuclear physics, material science/condensed matter, etc.  


And I have also pointed out that physics has been recognized to be dangerous since Los Alamos.
B) I don’t know that there are *any* successes in fundamental physics in black programs. Let alone “anti-gravity”:


And I have also pointed out that some physics is known to be done in secret (e.g. national labs).
C) What I do wonder about is whether the U.S. government is blocking all public university fundamental physics preemptively with [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]]…while likely *failing* at it in secret (e.g. in national labs) as well.
 
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And I have speculated that some of it may be deliberately fake (e.g. why doesn’t anyone in government question what happened to 40 years of ignoring competitor proposals and blindly following the string theory and  [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]] bandwagons?). Why speculate? Because it *IS* dangerous to do fundamental physics in public with rivals like China and Russia and Iran.  
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|content=Hi Eric, yes the person asserting that I had said that you were claiming the US has antigravity has completely misrepresented what I said. I’m asserting, I think correctly, that you have been a vocal critic of string theory, arguing that its dominance in theoretical physics has stifled progress and created a misleading narrative about its success.
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“We may be faking a [[Quantum Gravity]] revolution.”
“We may be faking a [[Quantum Gravity]] revolution.”


“We may be lying that [[The Only Game in Town|all the competitors to String theory are all bad science or PseudoScience]].”
“We may be lying that [[The Only Game in Town (TOGIT)|all the competitors to String theory are all bad science or PseudoScience]].”


You want to go short Michael? Give me the generous odds that come from your study of conspiracy theorists.  
You want to go short Michael? Give me the generous odds that come from your study of conspiracy theorists.  
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No hard feelings.
No hard feelings.
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Nah...who are we kidding.  I'm sure with a few more decades, this will all be worked out. Let's get the people who haven't ever succeeded well into their 70s and 80s to peer review and gate keep this to absolute perfection. What does [[String Theory]] and [[Quantum Gravity|Loop Quantum Gravity]] have to say? AdS/CFT? Let's get Dennis Overbye (81) to write it up!
Nah...who are we kidding.  I'm sure with a few more decades, this will all be worked out. Let's get the people who haven't ever succeeded well into their 70s and 80s to [[Peer Review|peer review]] and gate keep this to absolute perfection. What does [[String Theory]] and [[Quantum Gravity|Loop Quantum Gravity]] have to say? AdS/CFT? Let's get Dennis Overbye (81) to write it up!


Remember: String Theory is 22nd Century Physics that just happened to fall into the 21st Century.  
Remember: String Theory is 22nd Century Physics that just happened to fall into the 21st Century.  
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|content=Here is one in theoretical physics dear @grok.


In order to justify the failure that is [[Quantum Gravity]] research and its claim to be [[The Only Game in Town|the only game in town]]. All physicists are expected to parrot a party line:  
In order to justify the failure that is [[Quantum Gravity]] research and its claim to be [[The Only Game in Town (TOGIT)|the only game in town]]. All physicists are expected to parrot a party line:  


“Our two greatest theories are [[General Relativity]] which dominates in the very large, and the Standard Model which dominates in the world of the very small. Unfortunately, they are incompatible because one is a quantum theory while the other is merely classical. That is why, for the last 100 years, a theory of [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity (QG)]] has been seen as the holy grail of theoretical physics. Unfortunately despite a century of effort, no one has shown exactly how to quantize gravity. But quantizing gravity must occur because nature cannot be half classical and half quantum. So the ultimate theory of QG remains physics’ top priority.”
“Our two greatest theories are [[General Relativity]] which dominates in the very large, and the Standard Model which dominates in the world of the very small. Unfortunately, they are incompatible because one is a quantum theory while the other is merely classical. That is why, for the last 100 years, a theory of [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity (QG)]] has been seen as the holy grail of theoretical physics. Unfortunately despite a century of effort, no one has shown exactly how to quantize gravity. But quantizing gravity must occur because nature cannot be half classical and half quantum. So the ultimate theory of QG remains physics’ top priority.”
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We have the same thing in Economics. Dale Jorgensen was a [[Knarc|Cnark]]. He was also chairman of the Harvard Economics Deparment.
We have the same thing in Economics. Dale Jorgensen was a [[Knarc|Cnark]]. He was also chairman of the Harvard Economics Deparment.


We have this in physics with the [[Quantum Gravity]] crowd. The [[The Only Game in Town|“We are the only game in town.”]] is the tell. It’s transparent.  
We have this in physics with the [[Quantum Gravity]] crowd. The [[The Only Game in Town (TOGIT)|“We are the only game in town.”]] is the tell. It’s transparent.  


We had it at the Lancet and Nature with the woke shaming on racism (covid origins) and transphobia (gender re-definition).  
We had it at the Lancet and Nature with the woke shaming on racism (covid origins) and transphobia (gender re-definition).  
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You’re simply  preposterous.
You’re simply  preposterous.


We are better. You are worse. All you have over us is your cloak of covert authority. And that is it. That one thing.
We are better. You are worse. All you have over us is your cloak of covert authority. And that is it. That one thing.
 
Tough shit, gentlemen in the shadows.
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|content=We need a new concept, and I don’t know what to call it. [[Cognitive Poisioning by Mid Level National Security/National Interest]]. Or something. Anybody?
 
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|content=Essentially our national interest infrastructure appears to be wholesale dumping low level cognitive sludge into the public discourse absolutely everywhere. On TECHNICAL issues.
 
Who came up with this??
 
How do you expect to get away with it?
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|content=Respectfully. Here is what I think is going on.
 
I) Independent breakthrough science is in a long wind down starting with the [[Mansfield Amendment (1969)|Mansfield amendment]], and is being partially decommissioned. Why? Because it was found to be too powerful and redistributive.
 
II) The National Security and National Interest folks now use science, journalism,  academe etc to dump their cognitive sludge. [[Jeffrey Epstein|Epstein]] cover stories, [[UAP|UAP cover stories]], Assasination cover stories, COVID cover stories, Inflation/Money Supply cover stories, etc. That is, the organs that kept us partially free in 1975 are now used to attack our ability to think, every day of our lives.
 
III) Anyone not going along with I) and II) sticks out like an absolute sore thumb and is targeted for [[Image Cheapening|“Image Cheapening”]]. This is abhorrent abuse of power.
 
IV) @RepLuna isn’t stupid. If she can talk about Physical Law and “Interdimensional beings”, she can place a phone call or two to our physicists or differential geometers/topologists.  I’m happy to help direct her to good folks.
 
V) The [[UAP|UFO]] community is way too recreational. What ever is hidden behind the [[UAP]] curtain is serious business. It involved high level physics as recently as 50 years ago. Then that connection got buried. I just don’t know what this about. And I have *zero* proof it involves aliens or interdimensional beings.
 
VI) Adults who would never discuss the Tooth Fairy in public should not discuss alien equivalents of the Tooth Fairy. Alien life and higher dimensions are both super serious subjects to me. And they would be too you too if this wasn’t made into a cheap farce. Space opera is just dumping cognitive sludge in the middle of a central scientific question. And I don’t take kindly to it.
 
VII) I personally believe there are 4+6=10 =(d**2 + d)/2 for d=1+3 additional dimensions available for travel. But that would make **US**….humans….just as interdimensional as alien life. And we don’t evaluate any such ideas for our own travel. We just run out the clock listening to decades of the same 20 Octogenarians and Septuagenarians discussing how they are going to solve [[Quantum Gravity|“Quantum Gravity”]] when they grow up. And we let them destroy all competitors so they can take down the field of theoretical physics and die in piece pretending they were the [[The Only Game in Town (TOGIT)|“Only Game In Town”]]. Which is total pure unadulterated anti-scientific bullshit. Think about it.
 
VIII) Nobody but nobody is this dumb. Not even the government on its worst day. This is national security cognitive sludge being dumped into science. We are 40+ years into a string theory fairy tale about [[Quantum Gravity|“Quantum Gravity”]] without asking “Is this all bullshit?”
 
IX) Science needs to be in a dialogue with NatSec. And it needs to tell them to play nice and cut it out or we use our vast tools to figure out what is going on because this COVID level bullshit is too dumb to be believed. We are just one or two rogue billionaires away from being able to immunize our scientists from USG cutting off all funds and destroying their reputations. Breakaway science in the public interest. It can take as few as one personal fortune in the service of science to cure this. Just one. This whole post-WWII
system of journals, peer review, grants, gatekeepers etc in fields like physics, economics and math is entirely vulnerable. We need to own
 
X) Lying about COVID and UAP is a modified NIMBY issue for all scientists: Not in our back yard(s). I’m just tired of scientists and technical folks being fed cognitive sludge by NatSec and national interest types we can’t see. Interdimensional or otherwise.
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|content=I’m a big fan of yours.
 
But isn’t it a little much to expect a politician to not speak plainly on a podcast but use “scientifically precise” terms?


Tough shit, gentlemen in the shadows.
Regarding the propaganda element of all this, here’s what I believe. The level of discourse recently about UAP’s and potential alien activity is refreshing whether or not it’s murky.  
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|content=We need a new concept, and I don’t know what to call it. [[Cognitive Poisioning by Mid Level National Security/National Interest]]. Or something. Anybody?


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The fact that we have Government officials going on record to validate that SOMETHING is out there is progress.
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|content=Essentially our national interest infrastructure appears to be wholesale dumping low level cognitive sludge into the public discourse absolutely everywhere. On TECHNICAL issues.  


Who came up with this??
Compared to a decade ago where people were demonized and destroyed for even speaking out about this, I see progress.


How do you expect to get away with it?
Respectfully. 🙏🏽
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Respectfully. Here is what I think is going on.
I) Independent breakthrough science is in a long wind down starting with the Mansfield amendment, and is being partially decommissioned. Why? Because it was found to be too powerful and redistributive.
II) The National Security and National Interest folks now use science, journalism,  academe etc to dump their cognitive sludge. Epstein cover stories, UAP cover stories, Assasination cover stories, COVID cover stories, Inflation/Money Supply cover stories, etc. That is, the organs that kept us partially free in 1975 are now used to attack our ability to think, every day of our lives.
III) Anyone not going along with I) and II) sticks out like an absolute sore thumb and is targeted for “Image Cheapening”. This is abhorrent abuse of power.
IV) @RepLuna isn’t stupid. If she can talk about Physical Law and “Interdimensional beings”, she can place a phone call or two to our physicists or differential geometers/topologists.  I’m happy to help direct her to good folks.
V) The UFO community is way too recreational. What ever is hidden behind the UAP curtain is serious business. It involved high level physics as recently as 50 years ago. Then that connection got buried. I just don’t know what this about. And I have *zero* proof it involves aliens or interdimensional beings.
VI) Adults who would never discuss the Tooth Fairy in public should not discuss alien equivalents of the Tooth Fairy. Alien life and higher dimensions are both super serious subjects to me. And they would be too you too if this wasn’t made into a cheap farce. Space opera is just dumping cognitive sludge in the middle of a central scientific question. And I don’t take kindly to it.
VII) I personally believe there are 4+6=10 =(d**2 + d)/2 for d=1+3 additional dimensions available for travel. But that would make **US**….humans….just as interdimensional as alien life. And we don’t evaluate any such ideas for our own travel. We just run out the clock listening to decades of the same 20 Octogenarians and Septuagenarians discussing how they are going to solve [[Quantum Gravity|“Quantum Gravity”]] when they grow up. And we let them destroy all competitors so they can take down the field of theoretical physics and die in piece pretending they were the [[The Only Game in Town|“Only Game In Town”]]. Which is total pure unadulterated anti-scientific bullshit. Think about it.
VIII) Nobody but nobody is this dumb. Not even the government on its worst day. This is national security cognitive sludge being dumped into science. We are 40+ years into a string theory fairy tale about [[Quantum Gravity|“Quantum Gravity”]] without asking “Is this all bullshit?”
IX) Science needs to be in a dialogue with NatSec. And it needs to tell them to play nice and cut it out or we use our vast tools to figure out what is going on because this COVID level bullshit is too dumb to be believed. We are just one or two rogue billionaires away from being able to immunize our scientists from USG cutting off all funds and destroying their reputations. Breakaway science in the public interest. It can take as few as one personal fortune in the service of science to cure this. Just one. This whole post-WWII
system of journals, peer review, grants, gatekeepers etc in fields like physics, economics and math is entirely vulnerable. We need to own
X) Lying about COVID and UAP is a modified NIMBY issue for all scientists: Not in our back yard(s). I’m just tired of scientists and technical folks being fed cognitive sludge by NatSec and national interest types we can’t see. Interdimensional or otherwise.
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|content=Wow @grok. That was like just before [[String Theory]] took over, and the field suddenly veered to studying the [[The Only Game in Town|“Only Game In Town”]].  
|content=Wow @grok. That was like just before [[String Theory]] took over, and the field suddenly veered to studying the [[The Only Game in Town (TOGIT)|“Only Game In Town”]].  


Sounds like the USG had a problem with a “Streisand Effect” before it was called that. Am I just wrong about this?
Sounds like the USG had a problem with a “Streisand Effect” before it was called that. Am I just wrong about this?
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|content=Well I wanna hit you with a truly crazy idea @grok.  
|content=Well I wanna hit you with a truly crazy idea @grok.  


Here is the idea. The appearance of [[String Theory|String-Theory]]/M-theory as [[The Only Game in Town|“The Only Game in Town” (TOGIT)]] has no precedence. How can a failed theory that can’t make contact with the physical world over more than 40 years be TOGIT?  
Here is the idea. The appearance of [[String Theory|String-Theory]]/M-theory as [[The Only Game in Town (TOGIT)|“The Only Game in Town” (TOGIT)]] has no precedence. How can a failed theory that can’t make contact with the physical world over more than 40 years be TOGIT?  


That doesn’t make any sense to me. Why aren’t we looking to people with relevant PhDs or training and asking “We have been listening to the same 10 people for 4 decades. Why aren’t we asking if anyone *else* has crazy ideas that aren’t [[String Theory]]/M-theory/[[Quantum Gravity]]?”
That doesn’t make any sense to me. Why aren’t we looking to people with relevant PhDs or training and asking “We have been listening to the same 10 people for 4 decades. Why aren’t we asking if anyone *else* has crazy ideas that aren’t [[String Theory]]/M-theory/[[Quantum Gravity]]?”
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|content=If you don’t understand what is going on with artificial consensus:
|content=If you don’t understand what is going on with artificial consensus:


Invite me to officially speak at your University. Say on Peer Review. Or 40 years of [[Quantum Gravity]]. Or [[Great Moderation|The Great Moderation]]. Or Esoteric/Exoteric speech in academe. Or [[H-1B Visa|H1B]]. Etc..
Invite me to officially speak at your University. Say on [[Peer Review]]. Or 40 years of [[Quantum Gravity]]. Or [[Great Moderation|The Great Moderation]]. Or Esoteric/Exoteric speech in academe. Or [[H-1B Visa|H1B]]. Etc..


Then watch what happens next.
Then watch what happens next.
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|content=He should try talking plainly about Inflation.  
|content=He should try talking plainly about Inflation.  


Or String Theory and [[Quantum Gravity]].
Or [[String Theory]] and [[Quantum Gravity]].


Or Immigration. Terror. Ukraine. Peer Review
Or [[Immigration]]. Terror. Ukraine. [[Peer Review]]


Or Mortgage Backed Securities. Epstein.
Or Mortgage Backed Securities. [[Jeffrey Epstein|Epstein]].


Furin Cleavage Sites. Selection. Econ 101.
Furin Cleavage Sites. Selection. Econ 101.
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@kagankans / @WSJ
@kagankans / @WSJ


You just showed the world why [[Quantum Gravity]]/[[String Theory|StringTheory/M-Theory]] is [[The Only Game in Town|“The Only Game in Town”]]:
You just showed the world why [[Quantum Gravity]]/[[String Theory|StringTheory/M-Theory]] is [[The Only Game in Town (TOGIT)|“The Only Game in Town”]]:


Group Bullying *Kills* Scientific Dissent
Group Bullying *Kills* Scientific Dissent
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[[Right Freeway, Wrong Exit|Wrong Exit]] (Spacetime SUSY with fake super partners which dont exist based on supposedlu “internal” auxiliary symmetries)
[[Right Freeway, Wrong Exit|Wrong Exit]] (Spacetime SUSY with fake super partners which dont exist based on supposedlu “internal” auxiliary symmetries)


III) And then the massive massive massive screw up was allowing the totalizing madness of [[Quantum Gravity|“Quantum Gravity”]] to take over HEP-TH as if it were [[The Only Game in Town|“The Only Game In Town”]] and letting its leadership brainwash the up and coming talent into believing that there was one true path. Totally insane.
III) And then the massive massive massive screw up was allowing the totalizing madness of [[Quantum Gravity|“Quantum Gravity”]] to take over HEP-TH as if it were [[The Only Game in Town (TOGIT)|“The Only Game In Town”]] and letting its leadership brainwash the up and coming talent into believing that there was one true path. Totally insane.


[[Right Freeway, Wrong Exit|Right Freeway]]: GR and SM must be harmonized.</br>  
[[Right Freeway, Wrong Exit|Right Freeway]]: GR and SM must be harmonized.</br>  
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* [[Standard Model]]
* [[Standard Model]]
* [[String Theory]]
* [[String Theory]]
* [[The Only Game in Town]]
* [[The Only Game in Town (TOGIT)]]
* [[The Secret History of Anti-Gravity and Quantum Gravity Research]]
* [[Theory of Geometric Unity]]
* [[Theory of Geometric Unity]]
* [[Twin Nuclei Problem]]
* [[Twin Nuclei Problem]]
* [[We may be faking a UFO situation]]
* [[We may be faking a UFO situation]]


== References ==
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[[Category:Portal Topics‏‎]]
[[Category:Portal Topics‏‎]]
[[Category:Physics]]
[[Category:Physics]]
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