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Given, y'know, the absence of such a thy.
Given, y'know, the absence of such a thy.
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=== 2018 ===
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|content=END/ My bet is on Type III for a reason:
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=1/ "Theories of Everything": A Taxonomy.
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=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=3/ I'm going to lean on the following dictionary of analogies:
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
|timestamp=5:17 PM Ā· Jan 29, 2018
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|content=4/ In my taxonomy, Type I TOEs are our least ambitious but they best match our state of the world.Ā  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) ).
|timestamp=5:24 PM Ā· Jan 29, 2018
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|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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|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=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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|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=9/ Type VI TOEs begin with the hands. Religions are of this type. I pass over this in silence as they aren't scientific.
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.
|timestamp=6:19 PM Ā· Jan 29, 2018
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|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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|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 andā€¦words fail meā€¦outright quackery.
|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]] andā€¦words fail meā€¦outright quackery.
|timestamp=5:13 PM Ā· Nov 7, 2022
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|content=Either way, itā€™s a big deal. Everything changed in the early 70s. Itā€™s impossible to say how much. The moment the Mansfield amendment came in, physics began to stagnate. And [[Quantum Gravity|ā€œQuantum Gravityā€]] destroyed our culture of science. We donā€™t even whisper about its ā€œAnti-Gravityā€ origin.
|content=Either way, itā€™s a big deal. Everything changed in the early 70s. Itā€™s impossible to say how much. The moment the [[Mansfield Amendment (1969)|Mansfield amendment]] came in, physics began to stagnate. And [[Quantum Gravity|ā€œQuantum Gravityā€]] destroyed our culture of science. We donā€™t even whisper about its ā€œAnti-Gravityā€ origin.
|timestamp=4:13 PM Ā· Nov 10, 2022
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No hard feelings.
No hard feelings.
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|content=Respectfully. Here is what I think is going on. Ā 
|content=Respectfully. Here is what I think is going on. Ā 


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.
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,Ā  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. Ā 
II) The National Security and National Interest folks now use science, journalism,Ā  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. Ā 


III) Anyone not going along with I) and II) sticks out like an absolute sore thumb and is targeted for ā€œImage Cheapeningā€. This is abhorrent abuse of power. Ā 
III) Anyone not going along with I) and II) sticks out like an absolute sore thumb and is targeted for [[Image Cheapening|ā€œImage Cheapeningā€]]. This is abhorrent abuse of power. Ā 


IV) @RepLuna isnā€™t stupid. If she can talk about Physical Law and ā€œInterdimensional beingsā€, she can place a phone call or two to our physicists or differential geometers/topologists.Ā  Iā€™m happy to help direct her to good folks.
IV) @RepLuna isnā€™t stupid. If she can talk about Physical Law and ā€œInterdimensional beingsā€, she can place a phone call or two to our physicists or differential geometers/topologists.Ā  Iā€™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 donā€™t know what this about. And I have *zero* proof it involves aliens or interdimensional beings. Ā 
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 donā€™t know what this about. And I have *zero* proof it involves aliens or interdimensional beings. Ā 


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 wasnā€™t made into a cheap farce. Space opera is just dumping cognitive sludge in the middle of a central scientific question. And I donā€™t take kindly to it. Ā 
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 wasnā€™t made into a cheap farce. Space opera is just dumping cognitive sludge in the middle of a central scientific question. And I donā€™t take kindly to it. Ā 
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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
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|peer review]], grants, gatekeepers etc in fields like physics, economics and math is entirely vulnerable. We need to own Ā 
system of journals, peer review, grants, gatekeepers etc in fields like physics, economics and math is entirely vulnerable. We need to own Ā 


X) Lying about COVID and UAP is a modified NIMBY issue for all scientists: Not in our back yard(s). Iā€™m just tired of scientists and technical folks being fed cognitive sludge by NatSec and national interest types we canā€™t see. Interdimensional or otherwise.
X) Lying about COVID and UAP is a modified NIMBY issue for all scientists: Not in our back yard(s). Iā€™m just tired of scientists and technical folks being fed cognitive sludge by NatSec and national interest types we canā€™t see. Interdimensional or otherwise.
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|content=Iā€™m a big fan of yours.
But isnā€™t it a little much to expect a politician to not speak plainly on a podcast but use ā€œscientifically preciseā€ terms?
Regarding the propaganda element of all this, hereā€™s what I believe. The level of discourse recently about UAPā€™s and potential alien activity is refreshing whether or not itā€™s murky.
The fact that we have Government officials going on record to validate that SOMETHING is out there is progress.
Compared to a decade ago where people were demonized and destroyed for even speaking out about this, I see progress.
Respectfully. šŸ™šŸ½
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|timestamp=11:11 PM Ā· Aug 14, 2025
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