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== On X ==
=== 2021 ===
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|content=Said differently Iā€™ve been bullish on positive externalities of mathematical physics. But a lot of great math that got done isnā€™t [[String Theory|string theory]]. Itā€™s claimed to be stringy but it is really mostly mathematical physics or geometric field theory that is claimed by string theorists.
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|content=Things got hard. They didnā€™t get hopeless.
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Yes we spent almost 40 years lying about [[String Theory|string theory]]. But we could stop today. We could have the leaders in the field admit they made a *colossal* bad bet & ask ā€œWhat did we dispose of while we were wildly over-hyping [[String Theory|string theory]]?ā€
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|content=Its increasingly apparent to me that the next physics breakthrough is gonna be from #ai . Its humanly not possible anymore for theoretical physicists ..i was feeling it even around 2010
|timestamp=12:17 AM Ā· Dec 23, 2021
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|timestamp=12:47 AM Ā· Dec 23, 2021
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|content=They can't stop, Eric. They're making a living from writing papers about things no one will ever see. It's a systemic problem that requires a systemic response. And the first step would be to admit they have a problem (which they don't).
|timestamp=4:25 AM Ā· Dec 23, 2021
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|content=Seems likely a lot of the math they developed will wind up handy, but it's a long time to wait for dessert.
|timestamp=4:30 AM Ā· Dec 23, 2021
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|content=Most of what physicists call math is totally uninteresting even for mathematicians. It's just advanced calculus. Look here is my qft and when I crunch it cross-sections fall out.
|timestamp=4:33 AM Ā· Dec 23, 2021
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|content=We may disagree intellectually more than I thought. This is Jackiwā€™s point: the era of physics thinking of mathematics as advanced calculus (analysis) wasnā€™t fruitful.
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That changed around 1975 when the quantum began to discover geometry.
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Iā€™m honestly confused. What do you mean?
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|content=We are talking past each other. I am referring to particle physicists/astrophysicists/cosmologists who crunch out shallow and useless papers in the thousands. There's no interesting math in those. You're talking about something else entirely.
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|content=[[Quantum Field Theory|QFT]] & cross-sections sound more like particle theory than Astrophysics, Cosmology or even [[General Relativity|GR]].
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Would we agree that the collision of [[Ed Witten|Witten]]/[[Isadore Singer|Singer]]/Quillen/[[Nathan ā€œNatiā€ Seiberg|Seiberg]]/Freed/Bismut/Maldacena/Penrose/[[Michael Atiyah|Atiyah]]/
Hitchin/Dijgraff/[[Cumrun Vafa|Vafa]]/Segal/Jackiw/Kontseivich/Alvarez-Gaume/etc has been magic?
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|content=There are a lot of string theorists who have done things that really matter to geometry, topology, analysis on manifolds, representation theory. And I donā€™t want to misunderstand your point.
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