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|content=Yet you canāt do this in academic depts. | |content=Yet you canāt do this in academic depts. | ||
Moral: we destroyed our ability to self-police. Peer review wonāt work. We need to go back to doing physics. Whatās holding us back may not be physics but the political economy of academic labor, citation, reputation & attribution.š | [[Morals|Moral]]: we destroyed our ability to self-police. Peer review wonāt work. We need to go back to doing physics. Whatās holding us back may not be physics but the political economy of academic labor, citation, reputation & attribution.š | ||
|timestamp=4:06 PM Ā· Apr 22, 2021 | |timestamp=4:06 PM Ā· Apr 22, 2021 | ||
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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]], [[Quantum Gravity|Q-Gravity]] would work. Ā | 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. Ā | ||
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 | |||
|timestamp=11:03 PM Ā· Jan 24, 2023 | |||
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|timestamp=8:36 PM Ā· Jan 25, 2023 | |timestamp=8:36 PM Ā· Jan 25, 2023 | ||
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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 & 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]] & [[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. | ||
|timestamp=8:36 PM Ā· Jan 25, 2023 | |timestamp=8:36 PM Ā· Jan 25, 2023 | ||
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|content=What if we *excluded* people who are consistently wrong about the path forward and asked: Ā | |content=What if we *excluded* people who are consistently wrong about the path forward and asked: Ā | ||
"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." | ||
|timestamp=8:36 PM Ā· Jan 25, 2023 | |timestamp=8:36 PM Ā· Jan 25, 2023 | ||
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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: [[Canāt 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 āNatiā 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. | ||
|timestamp=8:36 PM Ā· Jan 25, 2023 | |timestamp=8:36 PM Ā· Jan 25, 2023 | ||
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|content=Respectfully. Here is what I think is going on. Ā | |content=Respectfully. Here is what I think is going on. Ā | ||
I) Independent breakthrough science is in a long wind down starting with the Mansfield amendment, and is being partially decommissioned. Why? Because it was found to be too powerful and redistributive. | I) Independent breakthrough science is in a long wind down starting with the [[Mansfield Amendment (1969)|Mansfield amendment]], and is being partially decommissioned. Why? Because it was found to be too powerful and redistributive. | ||
II) The National Security and National Interest folks now use science, journalism,Ā academe etc to dump their cognitive sludge. Epstein cover stories, UAP cover stories, Assasination cover stories, COVID cover stories, Inflation/Money Supply cover stories, etc. That is, the organs that kept us partially free in 1975 are now used to attack our ability to think, every day of our lives. Ā | II) The National Security and National Interest folks now use science, journalism,Ā academe etc to dump their cognitive sludge. [[Jeffrey Epstein|Epstein]] cover stories, [[UAP|UAP cover stories]], Assasination cover stories, COVID cover stories, Inflation/Money Supply cover stories, etc. That is, the organs that kept us partially free in 1975 are now used to attack our ability to think, every day of our lives. Ā | ||
III) Anyone not going along with I) and II) sticks out like an absolute sore thumb and is targeted for āImage Cheapeningā. This is abhorrent abuse of power. Ā | III) Anyone not going along with I) and II) sticks out like an absolute sore thumb and is targeted for [[Image Cheapening|āImage Cheapeningā]]. This is abhorrent abuse of power. Ā | ||
IV) @RepLuna isnāt stupid. If she can talk about Physical Law and āInterdimensional beingsā, she can place a phone call or two to our physicists or differential geometers/topologists.Ā Iām happy to help direct her to good folks. | IV) @RepLuna isnāt stupid. If she can talk about Physical Law and āInterdimensional beingsā, she can place a phone call or two to our physicists or differential geometers/topologists.Ā Iām 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 donāt know what this about. And I have *zero* proof it involves aliens or interdimensional beings. Ā | V) The [[UAP|UFO]] community is way too recreational. What ever is hidden behind the [[UAP]] curtain is serious business. It involved high level physics as recently as 50 years ago. Then that connection got buried. I just donāt know what this about. And I have *zero* proof it involves aliens or interdimensional beings. Ā | ||
VI) Adults who would never discuss the Tooth Fairy in public should not discuss alien equivalents of the Tooth Fairy. Alien life and higher dimensions are both super serious subjects to me. And they would be too you too if this wasnāt made into a cheap farce. Space opera is just dumping cognitive sludge in the middle of a central scientific question. And I donāt take kindly to it. Ā | VI) Adults who would never discuss the Tooth Fairy in public should not discuss alien equivalents of the Tooth Fairy. Alien life and higher dimensions are both super serious subjects to me. And they would be too you too if this wasnāt made into a cheap farce. Space opera is just dumping cognitive sludge in the middle of a central scientific question. And I donāt take kindly to it. Ā | ||
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X) Lying about COVID and UAP is a modified NIMBY issue for all scientists: Not in our back yard(s). Iām just tired of scientists and technical folks being fed cognitive sludge by NatSec and national interest types we canāt see. Interdimensional or otherwise. | X) Lying about COVID and UAP is a modified NIMBY issue for all scientists: Not in our back yard(s). Iām just tired of scientists and technical folks being fed cognitive sludge by NatSec and national interest types we canāt see. Interdimensional or otherwise. | ||
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|content=Iām a big fan of yours. | |||
But isnāt it a little much to expect a politician to not speak plainly on a podcast but use āscientifically preciseā terms? | |||
Regarding the propaganda element of all this, hereās what I believe. The level of discourse recently about UAPās and potential alien activity is refreshing whether or not itās 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. šš½ | |||
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|timestamp=11:11 PM Ā· Aug 14, 2025 | |timestamp=11:11 PM Ā· Aug 14, 2025 | ||
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