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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
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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.  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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|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.
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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=@nbashaw @juliagalef If I ask are there any examples of Sudanese people having contrarian views on [[String Theory|string theory]] then i get your point. If I ask are there any examples of Africans contributing to academic thought, it falls very differently. This is a bit weird to be discussing with rationalists!
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|content=@KingCrocoduck I appreciate what you say. I think I’ve covered this *exactly* on @bigthink and @edge. Geometric field theory is a related triumph. The geometrization of the quantum is a related triumph. Stringy math is a related Triumph. Yet [[String Theory|String theory]] as a movement was still an abomination.
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|content=In a recent tweet, I referred to [[String Theory]] as “Post Modern.” It unleashed a flurry of activity from similar looking accounts ridiculing the notion.
 
I wonder if leading String Theorist &amp; head of the @the_IAS @RHDijkgraaf knows that his idea is so foolish as to be laughable...
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|content=That said, I think she’s much harder to beat as she gains confidence in her ability to stand for science. It’s an impressive act of conscience &amp; bravery to go it alone like this, and I wish the physics community saw it for what it is.  I may disagree at times, but my hat is off.
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|content=We oddly now live in a Hossenfelder era of Theoretical physics. Sabine is almost distinguished by a near total unwillingness/inability to sit quietly through the hype machines in Theoretical physics that feed the demands of lay people, journalists &amp; physicists. But is she right?
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|content=In my new video, I explain why I am not a fan of the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics
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|content=My take is that she is usually right. Not only that, many in the community rail against her when *they* know she is making sense.
 
But where she‘s wrong could be very significant. I would love to *try* to defend the role of beauty in physics (tarnished by [[String Theory|string theory]]) from her.
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|content=@nbashaw @juliagalef If I ask are there any examples of Sudanese people having contrarian views on [[String Theory|string theory]] then i get your point. If I ask are there any examples of Africans contributing to academic thought, it falls very differently. This is a bit weird to be discussing with rationalists!
|content=@mike_usher I don’t fully disagree. Let’s put it this way, the '''arxiv''' probably did more good than harm so I’ve been reluctant to discuss its issues. It is also part of a complex and that complex is the issue. It isn’t right to discuss it in isolation. It is part of an ecosystem.
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|content=@KingCrocoduck I appreciate what you say. I think I’ve covered this *exactly* on @bigthink and @edge. Geometric field theory is a related triumph. The geometrization of the quantum is a related triumph. Stringy math is a related Triumph. Yet [[String Theory|String theory]] as a movement was still an abomination.
|content=This is an excellent question. Think of this as the “Good Will Hunting Problem”.
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I tried uploading to '''arxiv''' way back when. They told me that my email address wasn’t a current university address and I could only upload with endorsement from a university or its representative.
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|content=In a recent tweet, I referred to [[String Theory]] as “Post Modern.” It unleashed a flurry of activity from similar looking accounts ridiculing the notion.
|content=On this point our detractors are more correct than our supporters: our ambitions at The Portal are nearly delusional.


I wonder if leading String Theorist &amp; head of the @the_IAS @RHDijkgraaf knows that his idea is so foolish as to be laughable...
The main goal of The Portal is to “Slip the DISC”. Anywhere institutions (like Universities) set up an intellectual caste system via bottlenecking, we’ll engage.
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|content=That said, I think she’s much harder to beat as she gains confidence in her ability to stand for science. It’s an impressive act of conscience &amp; bravery to go it alone like this, and I wish the physics community saw it for what it is. I may disagree at times, but my hat is off.
|content=To your question: can that Bangladeshi Genius kid get on the '''Arxiv''' if she is from some Jute farm in the delta without an endorsement?
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And why if the '''Arxiv''' is open does it discriminate against the blogs of string theory critics???
 
https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=357
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|content=We oddly now live in a Hossenfelder era of Theoretical physics. Sabine is almost distinguished by a near total unwillingness/inability to sit quietly through the hype machines in Theoretical physics that feed the demands of lay people, journalists &amp; physicists. But is she right?
|content=I grant freely that the '''arxiv''' is the absolute best part of the DISC. But it is still suppressing ideas &amp; enforcing a caste system. It is the most progressive part of our regressive system (I was offered a full endorsement exemption from its founder Paul Ginsparg). But DISC it is.
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|content=In my new video, I explain why I am not a fan of the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics
|content=I’m enough of a hypocrite that I reserve rights to use it. But I‘ll be making demands of it too. Peter Woit is a physicist who is treated by the '''arxiv''' as an “internet personality” yet runs the most read physics blog. I demand that they fully explain their history suppressing him.
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|content=My take is that she is usually right. Not only that, many in the community rail against her when *they* know she is making sense.
|content=Thanks for asking that question. Our goal is to save the '''Arxiv''' from being part of the DISC. Its soul is with the rebels. And Paul Ginsparg is oddly an early hero of the revolution despite my issues with the '''Arxiv''' and its administration. 🙏
 
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But where she‘s wrong could be very significant. I would love to *try* to defend the role of beauty in physics (tarnished by [[String Theory|string theory]]) from her.
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|content=@mike_usher I don’t fully disagree. Let’s put it this way, the '''arxiv''' probably did more good than harm so I’ve been reluctant to discuss its issues. It is also part of a complex and that complex is the issue. It isn’t right to discuss it in isolation. It is part of an ecosystem.
|content=Melanie, you‘re one of my favorite stable wave collections co-propagating along the base-space of this twisted chiral Spinor bundle we call reality.
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It seems a crime to waste our time discussing “Many-Worlds” or “String Theory” over the geometric beauty of our existence. Thanks!
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|content=This is an excellent question. Think of this as the “Good Will Hunting Problem”.  
|content=The simple through line is this: your leadership was selected for based on an ability not to upset their own and other institutions while those institutions had to lie about their success &amp; inability to grow.


I tried uploading to '''arxiv''' way back when. They told me that my email address wasn’t a current university address and I could only upload with endorsement from a university or its representative.
This leadership cohort is generation ponzi. That’s their superpower.🙏
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|content=On this point our detractors are more correct than our supporters: our ambitions at The Portal are nearly delusional.
|content=People ask why I’m on about masks. I’m not focused on them. I’ve been trying to tell you about my theory of Embedded Growth Obligations and how our *entire* civilian lead leadership has become deranged by them.


The main goal of The Portal is to “Slip the DISC”. Anywhere institutions (like Universities) set up an intellectual caste system via bottlenecking, we’ll engage.
Masks just show us they‘re willing to kill, and without blinking.
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|content=To your question: can that Bangladeshi Genius kid get on the '''Arxiv''' if she is from some Jute farm in the delta without an endorsement?
|content=2008 was about the theory of E.G.O.s. And it looked like this. Sooner or later we‘ll get to serious armed conflict w/ developed nations if we want to sit &amp; wait for that.


https://arxiv.org/help/endorseme
I guess I have a vague hope that we will wake up earlier when we see Doctors &amp; Nurses in Queens put at risk.
 
|timestamp=4:26 PM ¡ Mar 31, 2020
And why if the '''Arxiv''' is open does it discriminate against the blogs of string theory critics???
 
https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=357
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|content=I grant freely that the '''arxiv''' is the absolute best part of the DISC. But it is still suppressing ideas &amp; enforcing a caste system. It is the most progressive part of our regressive system (I was offered a full endorsement exemption from its founder Paul Ginsparg). But DISC it is.
|content=But maybe this is getting boring. I mean, it’s just our governmental &amp; world organization leaders pushing us in front of a train to cover for their failures so that their careers aren’t interrupted with so much as a hiccup. So same old, same old.
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Frankly, I want off the Titanic.
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|content=I’m enough of a hypocrite that I reserve rights to use it. But I‘ll be making demands of it too. Peter Woit is a physicist who is treated by the '''arxiv''' as an “internet personality” yet runs the most read physics blog. I demand that they fully explain their history suppressing him.
|content=There is some rule that leaders never pay w/ their careers or their freedom. That didn’t use to be true. We used to jail people, clawback their gains, and promote based on vigor/ability. And we will again. We just have to flush two generations of leaders that changed our rules.
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|content=Thanks for asking that question. Our goal is to save the '''Arxiv''' from being part of the DISC. Its soul is with the rebels. And Paul Ginsparg is oddly an early hero of the revolution despite my issues with the '''Arxiv''' and its administration. 🙏
|content=So no, it’s not about masks. It’s not about forest fire management. It’s not about central bank tampering. It’s not about campaign finance. It’s not about H1B. It’s not about String Theory or a reproducibility crisis.
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It’s about their parent theory: Embedded-Growth-Obligations.
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|content=Melanie, you‘re one of my favorite stable wave collections co-propagating along the base-space of this twisted chiral Spinor bundle we call reality.
|content=A) We could be 1/3 of the way through the era of baby boomer presidents by then.
 
B) A news article asking about Ghislaine’s whereabouts could appear.
 
C) String Theory is revealed to be a drunken prank that “got out of control.”


It seems a crime to waste our time discussing “Many-Worlds” or “String Theory” over the geometric beauty of our existence. Thanks!
D) Post-Einsteinian physics &amp; hacking the cosmos.
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|content=The simple through line is this: your leadership was selected for based on an ability not to upset their own and other institutions while those institutions had to lie about their success &amp; inability to grow.
|content=@SquareBearBets Water isn’t 100% safe. Scientists don’t talk like that.
 
This leadership cohort is generation ponzi. That’s their superpower.🙏
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|content=People ask why I’m on about masks. I’m not focused on them. I’ve been trying to tell you about my theory of Embedded Growth Obligations and how our *entire* civilian lead leadership has become deranged by them.
|content=How to restore faith in science:
 
Seat the tables in our meeting rooms w/ who *didn’t* go along with crowds. This is not that hard.


Masks just show us they‘re willing to kill, and without blinking.
Who didn’t go along w “masks don’t work”?
|timestamp=4:26 PM ¡ Mar 31, 2020
 
Who didn’t go along w String Theory?
 
Who worries about climate yet doesn’t claim as “Settled science”?
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|content=2008 was about the theory of E.G.O.s. And it looked like this. Sooner or later we‘ll get to serious armed conflict w/ developed nations if we want to sit &amp; wait for that.
|content=Who supports vaccines but refuses to claim “Vaccines are 100% safe.”?
 
Who refuses to parrot the words of central bankers like “relief, stability, confidence, liquidity, orderly” as they bail out speculators?


I guess I have a vague hope that we will wake up earlier when we see Doctors &amp; Nurses in Queens put at risk.
Who didn’t go along with turning our STEM labor force over to the PRC?
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|content=But maybe this is getting boring. I mean, it’s just our governmental &amp; world organization leaders pushing us in front of a train to cover for their failures so that their careers aren’t interrupted with so much as a hiccup. So same old, same old.
|content=Look at all the obviously insane things we have been doing &amp; look who doesn’t go along with crowds. Because it‘s so clear and there are so few objecting this-is-not-difficult.


Frankly, I want off the Titanic.
It’s so easy because there are so few people who actually believe in science. It’s down to a very few.
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|content=There is some rule that leaders never pay w/ their careers or their freedom. That didn’t use to be true. We used to jail people, clawback their gains, and promote based on vigor/ability. And we will again. We just have to flush two generations of leaders that changed our rules.
|content=Why did this work? Because String Theory attracted top minds from what had traditionally been the cream of the Quantum Field Theory community, and they‘d clearly found a large piece of mathematical structure. What they failed to find was a connection from that to real physics. 🙏
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|content=So no, it’s not about masks. It’s not about forest fire management. It’s not about central bank tampering. It’s not about campaign finance. It’s not about H1B. It’s not about String Theory or a reproducibility crisis.  
|content=I don’t think there is a problem with string theory per se.  


It’s about their parent theory: Embedded-Growth-Obligations.
The problem was with *string theorists*. Quite simply, String theory allowed its proponents to put down the work of everyone else by allowing its boosters to claim an imminent solution which never actually ships.
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|content=A) We could be 1/3 of the way through the era of baby boomer presidents by then.
|content=Further, when ever anyone did something (call it X) that was important but seemingly non stringy or anti-string, the string theorists would publish an all but unreadable paper titled like “X and its Stringy Origin” to claim that *all* good ideas are subsumed by String Theory.
 
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C) String Theory is revealed to be a drunken prank that “got out of control.”
 
D) Post-Einsteinian physics &amp; hacking the cosmos.
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=@SquareBearBets Water isn’t 100% safe. Scientists don’t talk like that.
|content=Student Debt, PATRIOT Act, Diversity &amp; Inclusion Oaths, Rollback of Mandatory Requirement, [[Jeffrey Epstein|Epstein Suicide]], Andrew Yang primary coverage, 1619 Project, Coordinated Bans by Tech Platforms, University Tuition Hike Explanations, [[Labor Shortages|STEM worker shortages despite wage mechanism]]..
 
<nowiki>#</nowiki>GOLD!
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|content=How to restore faith in science:  
|content=A weird way to describe [[String Theory]], Neoclassical Economics, Critical Theory, The Neo-Darwinian Synthesis, Public Health, Trust &amp; Safety, Mainstream Media, The Fed, [[Peer Review]], [[Great Moderation|The Great Moderation]], Cancel Culture and Political Polling...but ya know what? He’s right. It works!
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|content=Evidence you might be in a Cult::
 
When you stop thinking for yourself and you’ve empowered a select few others in your group to do your thinking for you.
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Seat the tables in our meeting rooms w/ who *didn’t* go along with crowds. This is not that hard.
Who didn’t go along w “masks don’t work”?
Who didn’t go along w String Theory?


Who worries about climate yet doesn’t claim as “Settled science”?
|timestamp=8:04 PM ¡ Jun 18, 2020
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Who supports vaccines but refuses to claim “Vaccines are 100% safe.”?
|content=Many years ago 2002-6, I would give talks about Madoff &amp; Epstein using “Black Arts Capital LLC” as a proxy, with the tag line “We’d tell you what we’re doing, but then...”


Who refuses to parrot the words of central bankers like “relief, stability, confidence, liquidity, orderly” as they bail out speculators?
I guessed BM might be front-running his own business. Boy was I wrong on the specifics.


Who didn’t go along with turning our STEM labor force over to the PRC?
RIP Bernie Madoff.
|timestamp=8:04 PM ¡ Jun 18, 2020
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|content=“In today’s regulatory environment It’s virtually impossible to violate rules. And this is something the public really doesn’t understand...It’s impossible for a violation to go undetected; certainly not for an extended period of time.” -Former NASDQ Chairman, Bernie Madoff
|timestamp=3:05 PM ¡ Apr 14, 2021
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=Look at all the obviously insane things we have been doing &amp; look who doesn’t go along with crowds. Because it‘s so clear and there are so few objecting this-is-not-difficult.
|content=This is what [[Universal Institutional Betrayal|institutional betrayal]] looks like when you stare straight in its eyes: relaxed, confident, respectable, smooth, knowledgeable.
 
It’s COVID pronouncements. Or [[String Theory]]. Or [[CPI]] revisions. Or “[[Labor Shortages]]”. Or fast-track trade treaties:


It’s so easy because there are so few people who actually believe in science. It’s down to a very few.
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|content=Why did this work? Because String Theory attracted top minds from what had traditionally been the cream of the Quantum Field Theory community, and they‘d clearly found a large piece of mathematical structure. What they failed to find was a connection from that to real physics. 🙏
|content=One last thought. If there aren’t very compelling UAF revelations coming our way, I’d redirect our interest in aliens towards terrestrial physics done by humans. If there were such revelations, then I’d *still* look to physics before tech, as 👽 *still* implies new physics to me.
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|content=I don’t think there is a problem with string theory per se.  
|content=I’d propose total reassessment of the National Physics program.


The problem was with *string theorists*. Quite simply, String theory allowed its proponents to put down the work of everyone else by allowing its boosters to claim an imminent solution which never actually ships.
Much greater autonomy for theorists.</br>
|timestamp=3:41 AM ¡ Oct 19, 2020
<nowiki>*</nowiki>Much* higher salaries.</br>
Much greater *diversity* of approaches.</br>
More high precision work.</br>
Fewer graduate programs.</br>
Physics = economic/security priority.</br>
Admit [[String Theory|String Thy]] failure.
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|content=I see now you had a tweetstorm on this, rather than a single tweet. You're right, the physics of UFOs would be world changing, for good and for bad. What do you propose? Somehow keeping the tech within the US gov/military? Eventually it will leak out. Then what? No good solutions
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|content=Further, when ever anyone did something (call it X) that was important but seemingly non stringy or anti-string, the string theorists would publish an all but unreadable paper titled like “X and its Stringy Origin” to claim that *all* good ideas are subsumed by String Theory.
|content=We need to hire people who will upset the living hell out of the people doing the hiring.
|timestamp=3:41 AM ¡ Oct 19, 2020
 
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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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=Student Debt, PATRIOT Act, Diversity &amp; Inclusion Oaths, Rollback of Mandatory Requirement, [[Jeffrey Epstein|Epstein Suicide]], Andrew Yang primary coverage, 1619 Project, Coordinated Bans by Tech Platforms, University Tuition Hike Explanations, [[Labor Shortages|STEM worker shortages despite wage mechanism]]..
|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?
 
|timestamp=4:06 PM ¡ Apr 22, 2021
<nowiki>#</nowiki>GOLD!
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
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|content=A weird way to describe [[String Theory]], Neoclassical Economics, Critical Theory, The Neo-Darwinian Synthesis, Public Health, Trust &amp; Safety, Mainstream Media, The Fed, [[Peer Review]], [[Great Moderation|The Great Moderation]], Cancel Culture and Political Polling...but ya know what? He’s right. It works!
|content=Or should we do yet more 2D Yang Mills on irrelevant groups in non physical signatures? Squarks/Sleptons? Ha!
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|content=Evidence you might be in a Cult::


When you stop thinking for yourself and you’ve empowered a select few others in your group to do your thinking for you.
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=Many years ago 2002-6, I would give talks about Madoff &amp; Epstein using “Black Arts Capital LLC” as a proxy, with the tag line “We’d tell you what we’re doing, but then...”
|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.


I guessed BM might be front-running his own business. Boy was I wrong on the specifics.
Toy physics is real geometry &amp; topology. But it ain’t physics.
 
|timestamp=4:06 PM ¡ Apr 22, 2021
RIP Bernie Madoff.
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|content=“In today’s regulatory environment It’s virtually impossible to violate rules. And this is something the public really doesn’t understand...It’s impossible for a violation to go undetected; certainly not for an extended period of time.” -Former NASDQ Chairman, Bernie Madoff
|content=Real physics:
|timestamp=3:05 PM ¡ Apr 14, 2021
 
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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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=This is what [[Universal Institutional Betrayal|institutional betrayal]] looks like when you stare straight in its eyes: relaxed, confident, respectable, smooth, knowledgeable.
|content=We tell people who are basically mathematicians that they’re physicists.


It’s COVID pronouncements. Or [[String Theory]]. Or [[CPI]] revisions. Or “[[Labor Shortages]]”. Or fast-track trade treaties:
Well, they aren’t. Physicists say things about the world. And those things *need* to be potentially wrong to qualify as physics.


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We have a culture of people who can’t *afford* error. So they just do math.
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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=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=I’d propose total reassessment of the National Physics program.
|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.”


Much greater autonomy for theorists.</br>
Young Colleague: “How does NO sound?”
<nowiki>*</nowiki>Much* higher salaries.</br>
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Much greater *diversity* of approaches.</br>
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More high precision work.</br>
Fewer graduate programs.</br>
Physics = economic/security priority.</br>
Admit [[String Theory|String Thy]] failure.
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|content=I see now you had a tweetstorm on this, rather than a single tweet. You're right, the physics of UFOs would be world changing, for good and for bad. What do you propose? Somehow keeping the tech within the US gov/military? Eventually it will leak out. Then what? No good solutions
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|content=We need to hire people who will upset the living hell out of the people doing the hiring.
|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 [[Bundles|normal bundle of metrics]].  


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?
That’s not a bug.
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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=Yet you can’t do this in academic depts.
 
[[Morals|Moral]]: we destroyed our ability to self-police. Peer review won’t work. We need to go back to doing physics. What’s holding us back may not be physics but the political economy of academic labor, citation, reputation &amp; attribution.🙏
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|content=Or should we do yet more 2D Yang Mills on irrelevant groups in non physical signatures? Squarks/Sleptons? Ha!
|content=If you would be interested, @michiokaku, in bringing your theories &amp; views on The Portal, I would be happy to host you for several hours.
 
I think we have much on which we agree and no shortage of things that divide us. Would be lively. Up to you.


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.
<nowiki>#</nowiki>StringTheory #GodEquation #TOE
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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=Should we discuss? Perhaps I misunderstood you @michiokaku. But, if so, you are welcome to educate me on my show. But I feel you are *incredibly* aggressive against all non string theorists and you are not comparably challenged by all who know better for reasons I can’t fathom.
 
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Toy physics is real geometry &amp; topology. But it ain’t physics.
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|content=Real physics:
|content=I feel [[String Theory|string theorists]] know all the things wrong with this statement. Yet you & your community remain silent.


A) Works with dimension 4.</br>
Let’s try it differently: “If Einstein had never been born, Differential Geometry & Variational Calculus would have found General Relativity anyway.”
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.
How am I wrong?
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|content=If Einstein had never been born ...
string theory would have found general relativity anyway. The lowest vibrations of the string contain spin-two massless particles (the graviton) which in turn can be used to generate the entire theory of general relativity.
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|content=We tell people who are basically mathematicians that they’re physicists.
|content=“If Maxwell and Yang had never been born, Bundle Geometry &amp; Variational Calculus would have found Yang-Mills anyway. If Bohr and Planck had never been born Symplectic Geometry of line bundles would have found quantum theory anyway.”


Well, they aren’t. Physicists say things about the world. And those things *need* to be potentially wrong to qualify as physics.
Again: am I wrong?
 
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We have a culture of people who can’t *afford* error. So they just do math.
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|content=Also, to be a fundamental physicist you really should be telling us what we now have wrong. Every advance partially recovers the one before it but also invalidates it, telling us where to look for error. We’ve made hidden assumptions so you have to tell your elders they goofed.
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“If Dirac had never been born, Index Theory &amp; Bordism would have found Quantum Field Theory anyway as an enhanced extraordinary cohomology theory.”
 
I’m sorry, but all my statements are as or more accurate than what you tweeted.
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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=Why do string theorists pretending to do physics get to BS everyone actually trying to do physics.
 
We have worked out a world where string theorists and their supporters attack everyone else but say much more outrageous bullshit to the public than any other group by far.
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Elder “You should work on AdS/CFT or ‘BH information’ if you want to get a job.”


Young Colleague: “How does NO sound?”
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|content=When I say “There are only two true generations of Fermions.” I’m potentially wrong.
|content=Every threat against a head of state is taken seriously. Even the absurd ones. It is cheaper to dot a few “i”s and cross a few “t”s than to not worry about such threats.


When I listed quantum numbers of the remaining particles, I’m potentially wrong.
Obviously.


As when I claimed Pati-Salam is a maximal compact subgroup of the [[Bundles|normal bundle of metrics]].  
[[UAP]], Gain Of Function, New Physics, MANPADS, loose nukes, etc should be the same.


That’s not a bug.
Obviously.
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|content=Yet you can’t do this in academic depts.
|content=When our experts now talk openly about all these UFOs they talk about their “technology”.


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.🙏
And every time they do, I replace the word “technology” with the word “physics” for the obvious reasons. Because if non-terrestrial craft are here, physics &gt; technology.
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|content=If you would be interested, @michiokaku, in bringing your theories &amp; views on The Portal, I would be happy to host you for several hours.
|content=Imagine if these [[UAP]] were actually visitors from beyond the local solar neighborhood. You wouldn’t be focused on their technology first. You’d want to understand how they got here and if they used new physics to do so. Most importantly, you’d want to know about dimension hacking.
 
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I think we have much on which we agree and no shortage of things that divide us. Would be lively. Up to you.
 
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|content=Should we discuss? Perhaps I misunderstood you @michiokaku. But, if so, you are welcome to educate me on my show. But I feel you are *incredibly* aggressive against all non string theorists and you are not comparably challenged by all who know better for reasons I can’t fathom.
|content=A key issue in [[Theory of Geometric Unity|Geometric Unity]] for me is whether additional temporal &amp; spatial degrees of freedom are accessible or shielded from manipulation. But consider what 6 additional temporal dimensions or the ability to manipulate rulers and protractors fundamentally could yield.
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|content=I feel [[String Theory|string theorists]] know all the things wrong with this statement. Yet you & your community remain silent.
|content=We are somehow no longer worried about any new physics. We are so sure it won’t suddenly progress in an unexpected way or unlock anything new that we aren’t even paying attention to the field. After [[String Theory]] it all feels ironic.
 
This is potentially a *catastrophic* mistake.
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Let’s try it differently: “If Einstein had never been born, Differential Geometry & Variational Calculus would have found General Relativity anyway.”


How am I wrong?
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|content=If Einstein had never been born ...
string theory would have found general relativity anyway. The lowest vibrations of the string contain spin-two massless particles (the graviton) which in turn can be used to generate the entire theory of general relativity.
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|content=“If Maxwell and Yang had never been born, Bundle Geometry &amp; Variational Calculus would have found Yang-Mills anyway. If Bohr and Planck had never been born Symplectic Geometry of line bundles would have found quantum theory anyway.”
|content=In a certain sense, that is the main through-line of my politics. Any institution that gaslights an ordinary human trying to make sense of the world in a reasonable fashion is wrong to me in a particularly profound way.


Again: am I wrong?
Don’t know how to describe this as a political perspective.
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|content=Just to finish up for completeness:  
|content=You can recover a surprising amount  from just one simple statement: UAP, public health, standardized testing, immigration, mortgage backed securities, crypto, inflation methodology, String Theory, Aaron Swartz, Etc.
 
“Institutions do not have the right to gaslight individuals.”
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“If Dirac had never been born, Index Theory &amp; Bordism would have found Quantum Field Theory anyway as an enhanced extraordinary cohomology theory.”


I’m sorry, but all my statements are as or more accurate than what you tweeted.
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|content=Why do string theorists pretending to do physics get to BS everyone actually trying to do physics.
|content=Discontinuous innovation is always unlikely. But never impossible.
 
We are both skeptics. But this UFO story is weird beyond belief Michael. I can’t think of a single story to fit to these reports I’m hearing about.  


We have worked out a world where string theorists and their supporters attack everyone else but say much more outrageous bullshit to the public than any other group by far.
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|content=Every threat against a head of state is taken seriously. Even the absurd ones. It is cheaper to dot a few “i”s and cross a few “t”s than to not worry about such threats.
|content=Dear @michaelshermer,


Obviously.
Thanks for this. Very sober. I myself also don’t find the authenticated videos so far released compelling. But I do find your challenge of “no isolated discontinuous innovation” quite interesting!


[[UAP]], Gain Of Function, New Physics, MANPADS, loose nukes, etc should be the same.
Might I propose a friendly debate among friendly skeptics?
 
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|content=Dear @EricRWeinstein Please see my argument for why [[UAP|UAPs]] cannot be foreign assets capable of physics & aerodynamics attributed to [[UAP|UAPs]] that if true would be decades or centuries ahead of us. History shows no nations/companies of comp development so lag.
https://quillette.com/2021/06/03/understanding-the-unidentified/
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|content=When our experts now talk openly about all these UFOs they talk about their “technology”.
|content=First of all, I am concerned that the paradigm of being scientifically or technologically “centuries ahead” is all wrong. This came up in a phone call with our buddy @SamHarrisOrg.


And every time they do, I replace the word “technology” with the word “physics” for the obvious reasons. Because if non-terrestrial craft are here, physics &gt; technology.
Q: How many centuries ahead is 1952-3 from 1900? I’d have guessed “many” (not .5) and been wrong.
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|content=Imagine if these [[UAP]] were actually visitors from beyond the local solar neighborhood. You wouldn’t be focused on their technology first. You’d want to understand how they got here and if they used new physics to do so. Most importantly, you’d want to know about dimension hacking.
|content=Next challenge: doesn’t your line of reasoning prove that “Renaissance Technologies” is either a fraud or a front? Their Medallion Fund is otherwise a long term unbreached secret, discontinuous from any other know investment fund seemingly thousands of years ahead of competitors.
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|content=A key issue in [[Theory of Geometric Unity|Geometric Unity]] for me is whether additional temporal &amp; spatial degrees of freedom are accessible or shielded from manipulation. But consider what 6 additional temporal dimensions or the ability to manipulate rulers and protractors fundamentally could yield.
|content=Now I’ve had the odd question about Renaissance (front not fraud) for just this reason. But either way, it’s either a counter example to your claims on discontinuous innovation if it is merely a fund or a counter-example to your secrecy claims if it is our secret physics program.
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|content=We are somehow no longer worried about any new physics. We are so sure it won’t suddenly progress in an unexpected way or unlock anything new that we aren’t even paying attention to the field. After [[String Theory]] it all feels ironic.
|content=Next: there are really two metrics on innovations.


This is potentially a *catastrophic* mistake.
Metric I: How big the incremental jump in difficulty.  
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Metric II: How big the jump in what is unlocked.


The great fear is that a small jump measured by 1 leading to an ENORMOUS jump in as measured by II.
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|content=In a certain sense, that is the main through-line of my politics. Any institution that gaslights an ordinary human trying to make sense of the world in a reasonable fashion is wrong to me in a particularly profound way.
|content=You are, to me, arguing powerfully that certain people can’t exist: Rodney Mullen, Edward Van Halen, Bob Beamon, Dick Fosbury, Hiroji Satoh, Satoshi Nakamoto, etc.


Don’t know how to describe this as a political perspective.
They all exhibited the “a little unlocks a lot” paradigm with Zero-Day exploits that were each decisive.
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|content=You can recover a surprising amount  from just one simple statement: UAP, public health, standardized testing, immigration, mortgage backed securities, crypto, inflation methodology, String Theory, Aaron Swartz, Etc.
|content=And that brings us to theoretical physics. Beginning around 1982 , the son of the world’s top employed anti-gravity researcher(?!) of the 1950s turned in what may be the most impressive 15yr output in the history of the subject by my estimation. How can I begin to explain this?
 
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|content=Discontinuous innovation is always unlikely. But never impossible.
|content=It’s not physics exactly. But Edward Witten w support from a small number of folks rewrote Quantum Field Theory as geometry. If Einstein geometrized gravity, then Witten geometrized Quantum Field theory (everything else).


We are both skeptics. But this UFO story is weird beyond belief Michael. I can’t think of a single story to fit to these reports I’m hearing about.  
Now, all that change has so far unlocked exactly nothing.
 
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|content=Dear @michaelshermer,
|content=But it’s not that nothing happened in physics. While we were pretending that string theory was working, Witten &amp; Co revolutionized our mathematical framework. Think of it as an enormous amount of unrealized gains. Pent up genius &amp; power looking for its 1st application to the 🌎.
 
Thanks for this. Very sober. I myself also don’t find the authenticated videos so far released compelling. But I do find your challenge of “no isolated discontinuous innovation” quite interesting!
 
Might I propose a friendly debate among friendly skeptics?
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|content=Dear @EricRWeinstein Please see my argument for why [[UAP|UAPs]] cannot be foreign assets capable of physics & aerodynamics attributed to [[UAP|UAPs]] that if true would be decades or centuries ahead of us. History shows no nations/companies of comp development so lag.
https://quillette.com/2021/06/03/understanding-the-unidentified/
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|content=First of all, I am concerned that the paradigm of being scientifically or technologically “centuries ahead” is all wrong. This came up in a phone call with our buddy @SamHarrisOrg.
|content=If you gave us E Witten, J Simons, I Singer, CN Yang, M Atiyah, D Quillen &amp; G Segal, in a quiet program in 1975, I could argue that they didn’t need much more. In fact you don’t need all 7 but for the sake of argument I can make the case using this. But Witten is the main engine.
 
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Q: How many centuries ahead is 1952-3 from 1900? I’d have guessed “many” (not .5) and been wrong.
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|content=Next challenge: doesn’t your line of reasoning prove that “Renaissance Technologies” is either a fraud or a front? Their Medallion Fund is otherwise a long term unbreached secret, discontinuous from any other know investment fund seemingly thousands of years ahead of competitors.
|content=Now let me show you how I could get discontinuous innovation if I were China or Russia. I don’t know those systems as well so I’ll use the US example.
 
We know most of the top minds. We pretend that there is a lot of subjectivity about this for social reasons but China wouldn’t.
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|content=Now I’ve had the odd question about Renaissance (front not fraud) for just this reason. But either way, it’s either a counter example to your claims on discontinuous innovation if it is merely a fund or a counter-example to your secrecy claims if it is our secret physics program.
|content=If I thought like CCP, I’d create a lavish secret theoretical physics program modeled on the Russian Sharashka system. The key would be to get it to look like something else. A boring Tech company or some weird Chinese fund to disguise the reason for the secretive lavish campus.
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|content=Next: there are really two metrics on innovations.
|content=[Digression: If the US were smarter, we’d do it by setting up a mythic secret $B hedge fund that employs top differential geometers, theoretical physicists &amp; ML experts by a national lab &amp; an off brand university w/ inexplicably strong geometry &amp; physics. But enough crazy talk..]
 
Metric I: How big the incremental jump in difficulty.
 
Metric II: How big the jump in what is unlocked.
 
The great fear is that a small jump measured by 1 leading to an ENORMOUS jump in as measured by II.
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|content=You are, to me, arguing powerfully that certain people can’t exist: Rodney Mullen, Edward Van Halen, Bob Beamon, Dick Fosbury, Hiroji Satoh, Satoshi Nakamoto, etc.
|content=If CCP could today repeat what Witten (&amp; friends) did building off Geometric Quantum Field Thy, the US would have Zero clue what it unlocks. Even by your own incrementalist theory. It might unlock absolutely nothing. Or passage to the stars via additional degrees of freedom. 🤷‍♂️
 
They all exhibited the “a little unlocks a lot” paradigm with Zero-Day exploits that were each decisive.
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|content=And that brings us to theoretical physics. Beginning around 1982 , the son of the world’s top employed anti-gravity researcher(?!) of the 1950s turned in what may be the most impressive 15yr output in the history of the subject by my estimation. How can I begin to explain this?
|content=One last point. I released such a theory. Could well be wrong.
 
But I can tell you I should have received a call from DOE. Because calls are cheap and relevant trained PhDs are *very* finite. The US should track every geometer, General Relativist, and Particle Theorist working.
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|content=It’s not physics exactly. But Edward Witten w support from a small number of folks rewrote Quantum Field Theory as geometry. If Einstein geometrized gravity, then Witten geometrized Quantum Field theory (everything else).
|content=You don’t have to take a position on me or GU. You can ask Wolfram or Lisi or Barbour or Deutsche or anyone outside the system whether such calls are placed. They are not. No one *in* the system believes in wild discontinuous change from *outside* the system. As per your article.
 
Now, all that change has so far unlocked exactly nothing.
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|content=But it’s not that nothing happened in physics. While we were pretending that string theory was working, Witten &amp; Co revolutionized our mathematical framework. Think of it as an enormous amount of unrealized gains. Pent up genius &amp; power looking for its 1st application to the 🌎.
|content=Which is to say we’re not monitoring. Maybe we think that’s a waste of taxpayer dollars. Maybe we think that a Grisha Perelman of physics is impossible.
 
How much does a phone call cost if a researcher is wrong vs not bothering if they’re right? Price the Type I &amp; II error. Nuts.
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|content=If you gave us E Witten, J Simons, I Singer, CN Yang, M Atiyah, D Quillen &amp; G Segal, in a quiet program in 1975, I could argue that they didn’t need much more. In fact you don’t need all 7 but for the sake of argument I can make the case using this. But Witten is the main engine.
|content=And I think NDT is enforcing a dangerous “Copernican” consensus that we are too insignificant to even monitor or visit, to go along with “We’ve had Nukes for 70 years without losing a city. I wouldn’t worry. What could possibly go wrong.”
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This is just a human rationality flaw.🙏
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|content=Now let me show you how I could get discontinuous innovation if I were China or Russia. I don’t know those systems as well so I’ll use the US example.
|content=I subscribe to an unpopular position. Consider 3 kinds of 🌎:
 
A) Ones with no life or at least no life within striking distance of the source code (ToE).
 
B) Worlds that are on the verge of gaining the source code but are confined to a terrestrial surface.


We know most of the top minds. We pretend that there is a lot of subjectivity about this for social reasons but China wouldn’t.
C) Root level access.
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|content=I see your point, but I would ask, wouldn’t there be a difference between basic recognition and categorization, and actively studying and interacting?  One would assume that other species would still be resource and time limited, therefore forced to prioritize their attention?
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|content=If I thought like CCP, I’d create a lavish secret theoretical physics program modeled on the Russian Sharashka system. The key would be to get it to look like something else. A boring Tech company or some weird Chinese fund to disguise the reason for the secretive lavish campus.
|content=Now, if you can jack into the cosmos as ‘Root’ it MAY facilitate stuff that’s unimaginable (e.g. dimension hacking) yet only one remaining big upgrade away from being able to fuse nuclei. Which is where we are now.
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I’d guess all civilizations that are Root care about each other.
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|content=[Digression: If the US were smarter, we’d do it by setting up a mythic secret $B hedge fund that employs top differential geometers, theoretical physicists &amp; ML experts by a national lab &amp; an off brand university w/ inexplicably strong geometry &amp; physics. But enough crazy talk..]
|content=The following is pure speculation (Tutored by experience w/ GU):
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I think we sent a signal to the cosmos in 1945 and then on Nov. 1, 1952. Fusing Nuclei is what you do JUST before you become root. If this is right, we let the cosmos know “Earth is root adjacent” w/o awareness.
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|content=If CCP could today repeat what Witten (&amp; friends) did building off Geometric Quantum Field Thy, the US would have Zero clue what it unlocks. Even by your own incrementalist theory. It might unlock absolutely nothing. Or passage to the stars via additional degrees of freedom. 🤷‍♂️
|content=Is there anyone in the cosmos listening? Perhaps not. But we are all acting as if living on a terrestrial surface with the ability to fuse nuclei is some totally normal thing due to &lt;70 years of good luck. Which is insane.
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Now what if I’m right in the above and the cosmos cares?
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|content=One last point. I released such a theory. Could well be wrong.
|content=The idea of a newly space-time-faring unwise civilization with fresh root level access is a nightmare. And no one but no one on earth takes this seriously anymore. After 1952 fundamental physics went on progressing normally for ~20yrs. So after that it’s been~50yrs of stagnation.
 
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|content=You don’t have to take a position on me or GU. You can ask Wolfram or Lisi or Barbour or Deutsche or anyone outside the system whether such calls are placed. They are not. No one *in* the system believes in wild discontinuous change from *outside* the system. As per your article.
|content=In those ~50yrs we learned to stop worrying. About Fusion-weapons, interstellar travel, a cosmos that listens or even our ability to progress to the end. In 1984, physicists were talking about the end of physics without irony. They then failed, while failing to report failure.
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|content=Which is to say we’re not monitoring. Maybe we think that’s a waste of taxpayer dollars. Maybe we think that a Grisha Perelman of physics is impossible.
|content=So they told another story: “String theory didn’t fail!! It may take 100s of years to figure it out!” That is “If we String Theorists can’t make progress, a Theory of Everything is now far over the Horizon for everyone else.” But that’s not logically necessary. I say we’re close.
 
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|content=And I think NDT is enforcing a dangerous “Copernican” consensus that we are too insignificant to even monitor or visit, to go along with “We’ve had Nukes for 70 years without losing a city. I wouldn’t worry. What could possibly go wrong.”
|content=It makes sense to worry about *every* small boutique  program: Lisi, Wolfram, Barbour, LQG, Tegmark, ConnesLott, Octonions, amplitudhedron, etc. Our science/defense establishment doesn’t seem to get this idea: after 50yrs of no progress it seems too abstract to practical men.
 
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|content=I subscribe to an unpopular position. Consider 3 kinds of 🌎:
|content=I learned from my buddy @SamHarrisOrg that he thought 👽 would be Millenia ahead of us.
Look at Nov 1, 1952 from Nov 1 1902: you don’t have powered flight, know what relativity or the quantum is, know that neutrons exist, know about anti-matter, etc.


A) Ones with no life or at least no life within striking distance of the source code (ToE).
From ‘02, ‘52 IS millennia.
 
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|content=Now, if you can jack into the cosmos as ‘Root’ it MAY facilitate stuff that’s unimaginable (e.g. dimension hacking) yet only one remaining big upgrade away from being able to fuse nuclei. Which is where we are now.
|content=Well, we may or may not have a major update in our future. And if it unlocks dimension hacking, looking glass matter, VEV/potential hacking, multi-temporal pseudo-Riemannian metrics, Dark Chemisty, Dark Light, additional families, RaritaSchwinger fields, etc then we get upgraded.
 
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|content=The following is pure speculation (Tutored by experience w/ GU):
|content=And I believe all at once.
 
What does that mean? I honestly don’t know.


I think we sent a signal to the cosmos in 1945 and then on Nov. 1, 1952. Fusing Nuclei is what you do JUST before you become root. If this is right, we let the cosmos know “Earth is root adjacent” w/o awareness.
But Imagine you sent a chainsaw, a Bugatti, Ibogaine, “My-1st-Crisper”, and an F-18 to a badly behaved 5yr old child for a birthday present w a simple card: “Enjoy!” We’d worry specifically b/c immaturity.
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|content=Is there anyone in the cosmos listening? Perhaps not. But we are all acting as if living on a terrestrial surface with the ability to fuse nuclei is some totally normal thing due to &lt;70 years of good luck. Which is insane.
|content=That’s what NDT has most wrong. He thinks we are far behind anything that could visit us, but that ISN’T backed up by science. He’d have to explain why we aren’t “root adjacent” right now or that root buys us nothing. Well?


Now what if I’m right in the above and the cosmos cares?
Think of the relationship of Iran to nukes for example.
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|content=The idea of a newly space-time-faring unwise civilization with fresh root level access is a nightmare. And no one but no one on earth takes this seriously anymore. After 1952 fundamental physics went on progressing normally for ~20yrs. So after that it’s been~50yrs of stagnation.
|content=Iran is now Nuke adjacent. And their facilities and scientists keep running into mysterious problems.   Why? Surely not because Iran is too insignificant to her more advanced neighbors. That would mirror NDT’s argument. My argument is that root level access to nuclei *suffices*.
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|content=In those ~50yrs we learned to stop worrying. About Fusion-weapons, interstellar travel, a cosmos that listens or even our ability to progress to the end. In 1984, physicists were talking about the end of physics without irony. They then failed, while failing to report failure.
|content=Am I saying “Aliens are here”? Of course not. But the “Root Adjacency Hypothesis” is not properly discussed almost anywhere. Which defies all explanation.
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Perhaps everyone else is right &amp; I’m wrong. Absolutely! But it’s common for the world to make a crazy dumb idea a consensus.
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|content=So they told another story: “String theory didn’t fail!! It may take 100s of years to figure it out!” That is “If we String Theorists can’t make progress, a Theory of Everything is now far over the Horizon for everyone else.” But that’s not logically necessary. I say we’re close.
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|content=It makes sense to worry about *every* small boutique  program: Lisi, Wolfram, Barbour, LQG, Tegmark, ConnesLott, Octonions, amplitudhedron, etc. Our science/defense establishment doesn’t seem to get this idea: after 50yrs of no progress it seems too abstract to practical men.
|content=Physics’ Overton Window.
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We can talk about CRAZY stuff that’s irrelevant to our lives &amp; never progresses: Boltzmann Brains, Many Worlds, String Theory Unification, AdS, Super-partners, etc.
 
We can’t talk about anything that COULD suddenly change everything. UAP, other TOEs, etc
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|content=I learned from my buddy @SamHarrisOrg that he thought 👽 would be Millenia ahead of us.
|content=The point is who labels others crackpots. Or haven’t we noticed?
Look at Nov 1, 1952 from Nov 1 1902: you don’t have powered flight, know what relativity or the quantum is, know that neutrons exist, know about anti-matter, etc.


From ‘02, ‘52 IS millennia.
It’s the class who said Hilary would win easily. That we’d banished volatility before 2008. That the Wuhan Lab Leak was racism. That labor shortages exist in mkt economies. That carbs are good, while fat is bad.
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|content=Well, we may or may not have a major update in our future. And if it unlocks dimension hacking, looking glass matter, VEV/potential hacking, multi-temporal pseudo-Riemannian metrics, Dark Chemisty, Dark Light, additional families, RaritaSchwinger fields, etc then we get upgraded.
|content=Those who believe Jeffery Epstein was a “disgraced financier” rather than a construct of an Intelligence Community &amp; who never ran a billion $ forex hedge fund. People who think String Theory is our leading theory of physics. Or who said NAFTA lifts all boats like a rising tide.
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|content=And I believe all at once.
|content=People who believe an octave has 12 notes, but can’t say why 12. Those who think MSNBC just kept misreporting Andrew Yang’s candidacy by accident over and over again. At some point you just have to realize that those who can’t think for themselves HAVE to call those who do names.
 
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What does that mean? I honestly don’t know.
 
But Imagine you sent a chainsaw, a Bugatti, Ibogaine, “My-1st-Crisper”, and an F-18 to a badly behaved 5yr old child for a birthday present w a simple card: “Enjoy!” We’d worry specifically b/c immaturity.
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|content=That’s what NDT has most wrong. He thinks we are far behind anything that could visit us, but that ISN’T backed up by science. He’d have to explain why we aren’t “root adjacent” right now or that root buys us nothing. Well?
|content=It’s tough getting things wrong over &amp; over again as per the above. And every time we go through the exercise the increasingly desperate normies who cling to groups/experts should become more obvious to you. If you’ve followed this account, know that this behavior will NEVER die.
 
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Think of the relationship of Iran to nukes for example.
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|content=Iran is now Nuke adjacent. And their facilities and scientists keep running into mysterious problems.   Why? Surely not because Iran is too insignificant to her more advanced neighbors. That would mirror NDT’s argument. My argument is that root level access to nuclei *suffices*.
|content=The sheep among us will always be angry because their gods will always fail them until we reform our institutions. Which may or may not happen. Time will tell.
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|content=Am I saying “Aliens are here”? Of course not. But the “Root Adjacency Hypothesis” is not properly discussed almost anywhere. Which defies all explanation.


Perhaps everyone else is right &amp; I’m wrong. Absolutely! But it’s common for the world to make a crazy dumb idea a consensus.
But have some compassion: Hug a sheep or NPC today. Tell them there is still hope and it’s not to late to become human.
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|content=I have a very strong emotional connection to Witten’s work and Yang’s. Weinberg always struck me as immensely powerful, but I could never get the sense of “That’s Weinbergian”. That is stylistically rare.
 
A total genius. But one that I couldn’t understand well enough. Alas. RIP
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|content=Physics’ Overton Window.
|content=There were three candidates for world’s greatest living theoretical physicist as I saw it:


We can talk about CRAZY stuff that’s irrelevant to our lives &amp; never progresses: Boltzmann Brains, Many Worlds, String Theory Unification, AdS, Super-partners, etc.
A) CN Yang</br>
B) Steven Weinberg</br>
C) Edward Witten


We can’t talk about anything that COULD suddenly change everything. UAP, other TOEs, etc
Weinberg was the favorite of many people I respect. I found his writing style to somehow be both clear and impenetrable at the same time.
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|content=The point is who labels others crackpots. Or haven’t we noticed?
|content=But what we just lost is one of our few links back to fundamental physicists who did….words fail me…actual work on the physics of the 🌎 we live within.


It’s the class who said Hilary would win easily. That we’d banished volatility before 2008. That the Wuhan Lab Leak was racism. That labor shortages exist in mkt economies. That carbs are good, while fat is bad.
It is not much of an exaggeration to say that sometime in the last 20 years, we stopped even trying to do fundamental work.
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|content=Those who believe Jeffery Epstein was a “disgraced financier” rather than a construct of an Intelligence Community &amp; who never ran a billion $ forex hedge fund. People who think String Theory is our leading theory of physics. Or who said NAFTA lifts all boats like a rising tide.
|content=I met Steven only once. It was an unremarkable interaction. My impression was that he was so smart that he knew to get out of High Energy Theory for the most part. He dutifully defended string theory at times but voted with his feet and his offbeat ideas like Asymptotic Safety.
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|content=People who believe an octave has 12 notes, but can’t say why 12. Those who think MSNBC just kept misreporting Andrew Yang’s candidacy by accident over and over again. At some point you just have to realize that those who can’t think for themselves HAVE to call those who do names.
|content=This isn’t an obscure idea or in any way original to me or particular to you or physics:
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“Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.”
 
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|content=It’s tough getting things wrong over &amp; over again as per the above. And every time we go through the exercise the increasingly desperate normies who cling to groups/experts should become more obvious to you. If you’ve followed this account, know that this behavior will NEVER die.
|content=My colleague Peter Woit at Columbia Univ and @notevenwrong, has an interesting idea for unifying physcis. I am shocked that those claiming to do physics are not interestied in those actually trying to do physics.
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Let me take a quick stab at Peter's idea:
 
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|content=The sheep among us will always be angry because their gods will always fail them until we reform our institutions. Which may or may not happen. Time will tell.
|content=If you start with the mystery of non gravitational forces, up to a small lie, you have three symmetries for three forces:
 
A) U(1) --&gt;  ElectroMagnetism
B) SU(2) --&gt; Weak Force (Beta Decay)
C) SU(3) ---&gt; Strong Nuclear Force


But have some compassion: Hug a sheep or NPC today. Tell them there is still hope and it’s not to late to become human.
But SU(3) is special here.
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|content=I have a very strong emotional connection to Witten’s work and Yang’s. Weinberg always struck me as immensely powerful, but I could never get the sense of “That’s Weinbergian”. That is stylistically rare.  
|content=U(1) and SU(2) have many names:
 
U(1) = S^1=SO(2)=Spin(2)=Circle=Unit Complex #s
 
SU(2) = S^3 = Sp(1) = Spin(3) = Unit Quaternions
 
But SU(3) is distinguished among small symmetry groups by having only one known avatar.


A total genius. But one that I couldn’t understand well enough. Alas. RIP
So Woit/Penrose make it's explanation central.
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|content=There were three candidates for world’s greatest living theoretical physicist as I saw it:
|content=Woit replaces spacetime with CP^3=SU(4)/U(3) where SU(3) is inside U(3). This makes SU(3)'s appearance totally natural, by making it the (unmotivated) starting point.


A) CN Yang</br>
He then finds both Euclidean &amp; Einsteinian space-times inside this CP^3 locating SU(2) inside the Euclidean ST.
B) Steven Weinberg</br>
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Weinberg was the favorite of many people I respect. I found his writing style to somehow be both clear and impenetrable at the same time.
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|content=But what we just lost is one of our few links back to fundamental physicists who did….words fail me…actual work on the physics of the 🌎 we live within.
|content=He finds another U(1) as well so he cobbles together a copy of the forces of nature, a copy of Flat SpaceTime and a copy of the Euclidean 'WickRotated' SpaceTime physicists need to tame some calculations.


It is not much of an exaggeration to say that sometime in the last 20 years, we stopped even trying to do fundamental work.
I don't want to share criticism here. It's a neat idea for real physics.
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|content=I met Steven only once. It was an unremarkable interaction. My impression was that he was so smart that he knew to get out of High Energy Theory for the most part. He dutifully defended string theory at times but voted with his feet and his offbeat ideas like Asymptotic Safety.
|content=I've heard very little interest in his idea. I would like to know why. I have been going to physics seminars in LA recently and this is MUCH closer to actual physics than most of what is being discussed. This idea that people are too busy to waste time on real attempts is absurd.
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|content=This isn’t an obscure idea or in any way original to me or particular to you or physics:
|content=I think those of us interested in working on the physical world should have a thumbnail sketch of each other's ideas given that most claiming to do physics are not doing any real physics at all. Would love to hear @garrettlisi, @skdh, @stephen_wolfram, @DrBrianKeating on this.
 
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|content=My colleague Peter Woit at Columbia Univ and @notevenwrong, has an interesting idea for unifying physcis. I am shocked that those claiming to do physics are not interestied in those actually trying to do physics.
|content=I think it's a cool idea. I can share criticism another time but the most important thing to say is I tried reading it and was glad to see a new kind of unification attempt. Nice ideas Peter! cc: @DavidDeutschOxf, @tegmark, @FQXi, @seanmcarroll, @SimonsFdn, @KITP_UCSB @lexfridman
 
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|content=If you start with the mystery of non gravitational forces, up to a small lie, you have three symmetries for three forces:
|content=Eric, I have literally written an entire book explaining why theories of everything and grand unified dreams are a waste of time. If you and Peter want to pursue this, fine with me, it's your life. But I have my own research to do.
 
A) U(1) --&gt;  ElectroMagnetism
B) SU(2) --&gt; Weak Force (Beta Decay)
C) SU(3) ---&gt; Strong Nuclear Force
 
But SU(3) is special here.
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|content=U(1) and SU(2) have many names:
|content=I read your book. I didn’t agree with it in some very important places. But I found a lot in it. As I recall, we flew people to LA to hold an entire mini-conference around your ideas in it, where we were worried that you were being treated as a waste of time.


U(1) = S^1=SO(2)=Spin(2)=Circle=Unit Complex #s
You sound busy now.
 
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SU(2) = S^3 = Sp(1) = Spin(3) = Unit Quaternions
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But SU(3) is distinguished among small symmetry groups by having only one known avatar.
 
So Woit/Penrose make it's explanation central.
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|content=Woit replaces spacetime with CP^3=SU(4)/U(3) where SU(3) is inside U(3). This makes SU(3)'s appearance totally natural, by making it the (unmotivated) starting point.
|content=You don’t have to read Peter’s paper. But it’s interesting. I too have my own work, but part of not signing on to the string program for me was not adopting their “This is a waste of time.” Approach to colleague’s work. Because that is what they have done to all other approaches.
 
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He then finds both Euclidean &amp; Einsteinian space-times inside this CP^3 locating SU(2) inside the Euclidean ST.
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|content=He finds another U(1) as well so he cobbles together a copy of the forces of nature, a copy of Flat SpaceTime and a copy of the Euclidean 'WickRotated' SpaceTime physicists need to tame some calculations.
|content=So feel free to keep going as you are. But Peter is a colleague. And he’s on to something. I don’t think it’s right and I don’t think it will work. But it’s a respectable idea. And you won’t know that It’s not even a “theory of everything” as you say, until you read it. As I did.
 
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I don't want to share criticism here. It's a neat idea for real physics.
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|content=I've heard very little interest in his idea. I would like to know why. I have been going to physics seminars in LA recently and this is MUCH closer to actual physics than most of what is being discussed. This idea that people are too busy to waste time on real attempts is absurd.
|content=I was explicitly referring to TOEs and GUTs above. As I have said before, solve a problem and I'll look at it. And so will thousands of other physicists.
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|content=I think those of us interested in working on the physical world should have a thumbnail sketch of each other's ideas given that most claiming to do physics are not doing any real physics at all. Would love to hear @garrettlisi, @skdh, @stephen_wolfram, @DrBrianKeating on this.
|content=Let’s leave me aside.
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Peter’s Penrose approach solves a few problems.  But you won’t know that unless you read it. I have spent more time in this back and forth than I did to see that. But, of course, feel free not to read it. He’s a solid colleague so I spent the 15 minutes.
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|content=I think it's a cool idea. I can share criticism another time but the most important thing to say is I tried reading it and was glad to see a new kind of unification attempt. Nice ideas Peter! cc: @DavidDeutschOxf, @tegmark, @FQXi, @seanmcarroll, @SimonsFdn, @KITP_UCSB @lexfridman
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|content=Eric, I have literally written an entire book explaining why theories of everything and grand unified dreams are a waste of time. If you and Peter want to pursue this, fine with me, it's your life. But I have my own research to do.
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|content=I read your book. I didn’t agree with it in some very important places. But I found a lot in it. As I recall, we flew people to LA to hold an entire mini-conference around your ideas in it, where we were worried that you were being treated as a waste of time.
|content=Sounds like you have moved quite a bit over the years. Maybe I just need to update. Be well.
 
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You sound busy now.
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|content=You don’t have to read Peter’s paper. But it’s interesting. I too have my own work, but part of not signing on to the string program for me was not adopting their “This is a waste of time.” Approach to colleague’s work. Because that is what they have done to all other approaches.
|content=Sabine, your book was great, but I don’t think that’s a fair characterization of the thesis you very compellingly argues for. Mostly you establish that we shouldn’t put all eggs in the string theory basket, and more excitingly, in the ‘naturalness’ basket.
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Reality is still one.
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|content=So feel free to keep going as you are. But Peter is a colleague. And he’s on to something. I don’t think it’s right and I don’t think it will work. But it’s a respectable idea. And you won’t know that It’s not even a “theory of everything” as you say, until you read it. As I did.
|content=The great danger in being a [[String Theory]] critic is that you take on their mindset when you fight them. Their “Waste of time.” mantra was their modal response to why they didn’t have to read Woit and Smolin’s String-critical books in 2006 and 2007. And Sabine’s in 2018. So odd. https://t.co/EiR950XauZ
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|content=Let’s leave me aside.
|content=@TheLastSisyphus I don’t think so. String theory is a deep guess about the world. It reflects deep mathematical structure. It has revealed a world of ideas and relationships like no other modern theory has.


Peter’s Penrose approach solves a few problems.  But you won’t know that unless you read it. I have spent more time in this back and forth than I did to see that. But, of course, feel free not to read it. He’s a solid colleague so I spent the 15 minutes.
But it hasn’t worked as advertised. The issue isn’t just experiment but intractability.
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|content=One problem is explaining the uniquely asymmetric nature of Weak Isospin. Peter gets asymmetry to come out of a kind of Wick rotated Euclidean theory that is co-equal to the Lorentzian by virtue of Spin(4)’s semi-simplicity. Picks up a U(1) as well.
|content=Things got hard. They didn’t get hopeless.


But I’m not here to sell it.
Yes we spent almost 40 years lying about string theory. But we could stop today. We could have the leaders in the field admit they made a *colossal* bad bet &amp; ask “What did we dispose of while we were wildly over-hyping string theory?”
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|content=Sounds like you have moved quite a bit over the years. Maybe I just need to update. Be well.
|content=At times, the field needs the courage to stand up to its greatest minds just as it has stood by and for them.
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String theory has not worked as it was claimed it would by those who sold it over competitors.
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|content=Sabine, your book was great, but I don’t think that’s a fair characterization of the thesis you very compellingly argues for.  Mostly you establish that we shouldn’t put all eggs in the string theory basket, and more excitingly, in the ‘naturalness’ basket.


Reality is still one.
We must face the facts: our physics leadership was simply wrong. Period.
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|content=The great danger in being a [[String Theory]] critic is that you take on their mindset when you fight them. Their “Waste of time.” mantra was their modal response to why they didn’t have to read Woit and Smolin’s String-critical books in 2006 and 2007. And Sabine’s in 2018. So odd. https://t.co/EiR950XauZ
|content=We don’t know that string theory is wrong or unsalvageable. What we know is that we were told back in the 1980s that ST was clearly a slam dunk and would be quickly shown to be the unique possible path forward. That is now clearly false. And what is more, there isn’t a mea culpa.
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|content=@TheLastSisyphus I don’t think so. String theory is a deep guess about the world. It reflects deep mathematical structure. It has revealed a world of ideas and relationships like no other modern theory has.
 
But it hasn’t worked as advertised. The issue isn’t just experiment but intractability.
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Yes we spent almost 40 years lying about string theory. But we could stop today. We could have the leaders in the field admit they made a *colossal* bad bet &amp; ask “What did we dispose of while we were wildly over-hyping string theory?”
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String theory has not worked as it was claimed it would by those who sold it over competitors.
 
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|content=We don’t know that string theory is wrong or unsalvageable. What we know is that we were told back in the 1980s that ST was clearly a slam dunk and would be quickly shown to be the unique possible path forward. That is now clearly false. And what is more, there isn’t a mea culpa.
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|content=@martinmbauer Seiberg/Witten/Dijkgraaf/Maldacena
|content=@martinmbauer [[Nathan “Nati” Seiberg|Seiberg]]/[[Ed Witten|Witten]]/Dijkgraaf/Maldacena


All string folks.  
All string folks.  


Maybe get a string theorist to admit this to you. Brian Greene likely wouldn’t disagree with me.
Maybe get a [[String Theory|string theorist]] to admit this to you. [[Brian Greene]] likely wouldn’t disagree with me.
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|content=It really depends. Being totally honest:


“String Theory” has done a *tremendous* amount of good while “String Maximalism” has done even more harm.
[[String Theory|“String Theory”]] has done a *tremendous* amount of good while “String Maximalism” has done even more harm.


If the String Theorists who led the movement were to undo some of the damage by admitting what happened, it’d be a major positive.
If the [[String Theory|String Theorists]] who led the movement were to undo some of the damage by admitting what happened, it’d be a major positive.
 
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|content=Here is where I respectfully disagree with my colleague @skdh. You can’t ‘get rid of string theory’. String-like objects are natural and have an unbelievably rich and beautiful interlocking mathematics. The beguiling beauty isn’t the problem in my opinion. Beauty is the excuse.
|content=Here is where I respectfully disagree with my colleague @skdh. You can’t ‘get rid of [[String Theory|string theory]]’. String-like objects are natural and have an unbelievably rich and beautiful interlocking mathematics. The beguiling beauty isn’t the problem in my opinion. Beauty is the excuse.
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|content=During that time String Theory diverted the entire field into a magical never-land of “toy physics”. Models that aren’t in any way real. You now have “particle physicists” at the end of their careers who have never worked with anything like a particle and can’t remember them.
|content=During that time [[String Theory]] diverted the entire field into a magical never-land of “toy physics”. Models that aren’t in any way real. You now have “particle physicists” at the end of their careers who have never worked with anything like a particle and can’t remember them.
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|content=So, here’s my analysis. In a world where David Gross, Ed Witten, Lenny Susskind, Cumrun Vafa, Michio Kaku had a public Come To Jesus moment where they admitted the disaster in front of the community faithful, I’d be up for having ST as a major theory. But without that I’m unsure.
|content=So, here’s my analysis. In a world where [[David Gross]], [[Ed Witten]], [[Lenny Susskind]], [[Cumrun Vafa]], [[Michio Kaku]] had a public Come To Jesus moment where they admitted the disaster in front of the community faithful, I’d be up for having [[String Theory|ST]] as a major theory. But without that I’m unsure.
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|content=The damage to the culture of High Energy Physics is more severe than the damage done by Geoffery Chew in a different era. And here I support @skdh, Peter Woit, Lee Smolin etc. These are brave people who paid with abuse to communicate that physics was diverting into pure fantasy.
|content=The damage to the culture of High Energy Physics is more severe than the damage done by Geoffery Chew in a different era. And here I support @skdh, [[Peter Woit]], [[Lee Smolin]] etc. These are brave people who paid with abuse to communicate that physics was diverting into pure fantasy.
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|content=So to sum up:  


String Theory deserves to be a major branch. But it has already mostly given up on the ‘80s promises/lies it told us to gobble up all the resources of the community (brains, mind share, $$$). That was a crime which may prove fatal to our being able to do physics.
[[String Theory]] deserves to be a major branch. But it has already mostly given up on the ‘80s promises/lies it told us to gobble up all the resources of the community (brains, mind share, $$$). That was a crime which may prove fatal to our being able to do physics.
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|content=@martinmbauer String theory was a giant percentage of a tiny priesthood. That was the same tiny priesthood that brought us Thermo Nuclear devices. And if you want to pay for me to research the numbers I’m willing to hire somebody to put together the data after 1984. It’s not usually contested.
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Physics in total? Is a large field.
Physics in total? Is a large field.


Beyond the standard model theory? Is a small field. Tiny. But hugely consequential. And the percentage and effect wasn’t small. Do you really dispute this??? Look at the IAS professors.
Beyond the [[Standard Model|standard model theory]]? Is a small field. Tiny. But hugely consequential. And the percentage and effect wasn’t small. Do you really dispute this??? Look at the IAS professors.
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=== 2023 ===
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|content=Discussion of the future of theoretical physics seems like a game of "Intellectual Keepaway."
|content=Discussion of the future of theoretical physics seems like a game of [[Intellectual Keep-Away|"Intellectual Keepaway."]]


Its the same group of mandarins who predicted LHC SuperSymmetry, Mini-Black holes, SU(5) Grand Unification, String Theory, Q-Gravity would work.  
Its the same group of mandarins who predicted LHC SuperSymmetry, Mini-Black holes, SU(5) Grand Unification, [[String Theory]], [[Quantum Gravity|Q-Gravity]] would work.  


What do our *heretics* say instead?
What do our *heretics* say instead?
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|content=Past ACP President Michael Turner and Maria Spiropulu in conversation with @overbye of @nytimes discuss the future of Physics! #physics #particlephysics #spacetime #stringtheory #physicists
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Here goes. What if the problem is our leadership. What if we asked  
Here goes. What if the problem is our leadership. What if we asked  


"Who believe String Theory wouldn't work?"
"Who believe [[String Theory]] wouldn't work?"
"Who never claimed LHC SUSY was imminent?"
"Who never claimed LHC SUSY was imminent?"
"Who never said Proton Decay was going to be found?"
"Who never said Proton Decay was going to be found?"
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|content=Said differently, what if our leadership is brilliant but SPECIFICALLY untrustworthy in identifying the path forward. What if 1000 David Gross &amp; Ed Wit1ten Keynotes setting the agenda are the problem? What if Lenny Susskind is not correct sbout non-string people wasting our time.
|content=Said differently, what if our leadership is brilliant but SPECIFICALLY untrustworthy in identifying the path forward. What if 1000 [[David Gross]] &amp; [[Ed Witten|Ed Wit1ten]] Keynotes setting the agenda are the problem? What if [[Lenny Susskind]] is not correct sbout non-string people wasting our time.
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|content=What if we *excluded* people who are consistently wrong about the path forward and asked:  
|content=What if we *excluded* people who are consistently wrong about the path forward and asked:  


"Are there any OTHER ideas? Not Strings. Not Loops. Not Asymptotic Safety. Not Simple Compact GUTs. Not Quantum Computing. Not Black Hole Information. Not Technicolor. Not Amplitudes."
"Are there any OTHER ideas? Not [[String Theory|Strings]]. Not Loops. Not Asymptotic Safety. Not Simple Compact GUTs. Not Quantum Computing. Not Black Hole Information. Not Technicolor. Not Amplitudes."
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|content=Look, we could just hold a conference: "Fundamental Physics: Can't *Anybody* Here Play This Game?"
|content=Look, we could just hold a conference: [[Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game|"Fundamental Physics: Can't *Anybody* Here Play This Game?"]]


David, Ed, Maria, Cumrun, Nati, Lenny, Juan, Lee etc. could be respondents giving constructive feedback. We would then at least learn why we are where we are. But this is nuts.
[[David Gross|David]], [[Ed Witten|Ed]], Maria, [[Cumrun Vafa|Cumrun]], [[Nathan “Nati” Seiberg|Nati]], [[Lenny Susskind|Lenny]], Juan, [[Lee Smolin|Lee]] etc. could be respondents giving constructive feedback. We would then at least learn why we are where we are. But this is nuts.
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|content=@arivero Not my read. It took place just before the G-S anomaly cancellation. The Murray keynote is the best summary of the problem that lead to the String Theology. It mentions String Theory but doesn’t focus on it. It is the last gasp before the transition.
|content=@arivero Not my read. It took place just before the G-S anomaly cancellation. The Murray keynote is the best summary of the problem that lead to the String Theology. It mentions [[String Theory]] but doesn’t focus on it. It is the last gasp before the transition.
|timestamp=12:16 AM ¡ Jan 27, 2023
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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=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=Wonderful to exchange ideas with @RogerPenrose5 @bgreene @tasneemzhusain on String Theory and the underlying source of the unique  controversy that has swirled around it for decades. Thanks to @HTLGIFestival for putting this together! Great panelists and moderation!
|content=Wonderful to exchange ideas with @RogerPenrose5 @bgreene @tasneemzhusain on [[String Theory]] and the underlying source of the unique  controversy that has swirled around it for decades. Thanks to @HTLGIFestival for putting this together! Great panelists and moderation!
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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 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 Theorists stopped being scientists.
I believe this is how [[String Theory|String Theorists]] stopped being scientists.


I just want our data &amp; the physics.
I just want our data &amp; the physics.
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It’s a total disconnect. A sense of an imagined life as researchers and scientists that has nothing to do with reality.
It’s a total disconnect. A sense of an imagined life as researchers and scientists that has nothing to do with reality.


Ask questions about COVID, [[String Theory]], '''CPI''', etc and you will *not* find this. 🙏
Ask questions about COVID, [[String Theory]], [[CPI]], etc and you will *not* find this. 🙏
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|content=It is time to face up to the disaster of string theory. But we need to be fair about what failed and why. The equations of 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=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.


It’s time to face up to what actually happened 40 years ago. And it ain’t pretty. 🙏
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 Theorist, Prof. @bgreene and I debating [[String Theory]] in Wales in May at @HTLGIFestival.  
|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.  


Check it out:  
Check it out:  
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|content=To sum it up: when 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 is not being honest?
|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.” in front of the public. No?  
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.” in front of the public. No?  
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|content=I can confirm this indeed blows up ones notifications.
|content=I can confirm this indeed blows up ones notifications.


But, in case of doubt or misunderstanding, 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.
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.
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|content=My responsibility is to make accurate statements (and yes, everything is my (professional) opinion).
|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 and the complex  of ideas are around it are more serious than any competitors, IMO objectively true.
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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Feynman, Glashow, Wilczek never found them objectively or absolutely compelling.
Feynman, Glashow, Wilczek never found them objectively or absolutely compelling.


String theorists like Friedan have written harshly of the Failures.
[[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.  
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.  


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 has taught us so much about how it is to be done eventually, and that there is no remotely comparable framework for doing so!”
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.
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=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.


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 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.
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=The question about where [[String Theory|string theory]] stands in comparison to other approaches to quantum gravity. I think it objectively true that [[String Theory|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=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=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|string theory]] has the position it does DESPITE the lack of direct experimental evidence for it
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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” is the answer to a question you formulated: “Of all the approaches to quantizing  gravity which haven’t worked, which is the best?”
|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.
My argument is with that framing.
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|content=The problem I have is with string theorists framing of the field and its issues and questions. I think [[String Theory]] is dangerous for this reason.  
|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.  


Try these instead:
Try these instead:
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|content=Thought experiment. Assume the final theory exists, is agreed upon in 2024, and has nothing to do with String Theory.
|content=Thought experiment. Assume the final theory exists, is agreed upon in 2024, and has nothing to do with [[String Theory]].


How would historians account for the monomania of the last 40 years? As a cult? A scientific mass delusion? The political economy of a failed generation? A hoax?
How would historians account for the monomania of the last 40 years? As a cult? A scientific mass delusion? The political economy of a failed generation? A hoax?
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|content=@TomBilyeu @JosephPConlon My completely crazy claim: I don’t think there is a log jam. String theory is relentlessly jamming the future. It has taught people how to *stop* progress.  
|content=@TomBilyeu @JosephPConlon My completely crazy claim: I don’t think there is a log jam. [[String Theory|String theory]] is relentlessly jamming the future. It has taught people how to *stop* progress.  


The future of physics is not necessarily evenly distributed.
The future of physics is not necessarily evenly distributed.
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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=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.  


In the midst of a thread with Prof. @JosephPConlon, author of “Why String Theory?” I set out the dangers of allowing string theorists to be the arbiters judges and juries of what is important in physics.
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.


Simply put, they mis-framed almost everything to explain the last 40 inexplicable years of 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 Failure?”
Simply put, they mis-framed almost everything to explain the last 40 inexplicable years of 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 Failure?”
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|content=The problem I have is with string theorists framing of the field and its issues and questions. I think [[String Theory]] is dangerous for this reason.  
|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.  


Try these instead:
Try these instead:
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|content=Sorry. By whom? Do I expect to be taken seriously by the many String Theorists who called their colleagues morons, frauds and “not serious” behind their backs? No. I don’t.  
|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.  


I expect them to leave the field. Then we can get back to doing physics. The subset of reasonable 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.  
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.  


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.
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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|content=Thank you for asking for the Steel-manned version of the issue with String Theory from a critic.
|content=Thank you for asking for the Steel-manned version of the issue with [[String Theory]] from a critic.


String theory is basically a fairly self consistent mathematical constellation of geometric ideas related to Quantum Field Theory developed by brilliant minds. If Gravity is to be quantized in the form that physicists naively expected, it would be likely that it would be our first or at worst second best guess as to how that works. I am willing to say this clearly. But there is no one telling us that gravity must be naively quantized.
[[String Theory|String theory]] is basically a fairly self consistent mathematical constellation of geometric ideas related to Quantum Field Theory developed by brilliant minds. If Gravity is to be quantized in the form that physicists naively expected, it would be likely that it would be our first or at worst second best guess as to how that works. I am willing to say this clearly. But there is no one telling us that gravity must be naively quantized.


ST has taught us many things (e.g.  dualities in QFT, to means of avoiding super luminal Rarita Schwinger fields, coupled to internal symmetry, etc.) that are now part of our knowledge base.
ST has taught us many things (e.g.  dualities in QFT, to means of avoiding super luminal Rarita Schwinger fields, coupled to internal symmetry, etc.) that are now part of our knowledge base.
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The quantum gravity fanaticism is the problem. There is no reason that gravity has to be *naively* quantized as claimed. A giant 70 year mistake that actually predates theory by over a decade. Simply put, we are *not* being called to quantize gravity as the overarching organizing principal for modern particle theory research.  
The quantum gravity fanaticism is the problem. There is no reason that gravity has to be *naively* quantized as claimed. A giant 70 year mistake that actually predates theory by over a decade. Simply put, we are *not* being called to quantize gravity as the overarching organizing principal for modern particle theory research.  


Think of String Theorists as akin to a fanatical absolutist monastic order discovering and developing Linear Algebra as a proof of the literal story of Jesus. The problem wouldn’t be with  the linear algebra!! It’s the claimed strength of the application and it’s motivation that is the problem.
Think of [[String Theory|String Theorists]] as akin to a fanatical absolutist monastic order discovering and developing Linear Algebra as a proof of the literal story of Jesus. The problem wouldn’t be with  the linear algebra!! It’s the claimed strength of the application and its motivation that is the problem.


ST is at least mathematics. But it just doesn’t work as a leading program for physics because of its fanatical behavior patterns. That screwed up fundamental physics.  
ST is at least mathematics. But it just doesn’t work as a leading program for physics because of its fanatical behavior patterns. That screwed up fundamental physics.  
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|content=I don’t mean to be judgmental. But I don’t think this makes physical sense as explained. That is quite independent of the issue of additional dimensions.


Higher dimensions aren’t all about holography, Calabi-Yau manifolds, String Theory etc. This sounds wrong at a physics level.
Higher dimensions aren’t all about holography, Calabi-Yau manifolds, [[String Theory]] etc. This sounds wrong at a physics level.
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|content=My old friend @edfrenkel on coming back from the big String Theory conference in Canada:
|content=My old friend @edfrenkel on coming back from the big [[String Theory]] conference in Canada:


“[F]or the health of the subject going forward, I believe it is necessary to reckon with the past and accept responsibility.”
“[F]or the health of the subject going forward, I believe it is necessary to reckon with the past and accept responsibility.”
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You might consider that when you next hear epithets.
You might consider that when you next hear epithets.
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There is *obviously* a crisis in fundamental physics. There is no way to pretend otherwise any longer. How is this continuing? We should have this out as a scientific discussion.
There is *obviously* a crisis in fundamental physics. There is no way to pretend otherwise any longer. How is this continuing? We should have this out as a scientific discussion.
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|content=Went to a string theory conference with many of the top researchers in the field centered around tackling the question “what is string theory” and the consensus after the conference was that nobody knows lmao
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|content=Respectfully. Here is what I think is going on.  
|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.
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. 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.  
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”. This is abhorrent abuse of power.  
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.
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.  
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.  
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.  
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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.
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?
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.
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. 🙏🏽
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