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|content=To @orzelc: in your life you'll see Paris and the Taj Mahal. Make sure you meet all the great minds. Go see [[Ed Witten|Ed]]. He's part human. | |||
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|content=[[Ed Witten|Ed Witten]] has no Nobel Prize. | |||
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Now tell me again how this era's physics just feels different because we are too close to it. | |||
|timestamp=11:06 AM Ā· Jul 30, 2009 | |||
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|content=So @orzelc asks me to unpack the No-Nobel/[[Ed Witten|Witten]] tweet.Ā It presupposes at least minor direct contact w/ [[Ed Witten|Ed]] so you don't doubt [[Ed Witten|Ed's]] gift. | |||
|timestamp=12:31 PM Ā· Jul 30, 2009 | |||
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|content=So @orzelc the Quetion is: "Is thisĀ likely the first era of fundamental physics that could produce a 55+ [[Ed Witten|Witten]] nonlaureate?" | |||
|timestamp=12:38 PM Ā· Jul 30, 2009 | |||
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|content=My friend @orzelc asks: "do you consider Wheeler to be in [[Ed Witten|Witten's]] class?" Short answer is no. But I never went 1-1 with a young Wheeler. | |||
|timestamp=1:57 PM Ā· Jul 30, 2009 | |||
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|content=In my whole life @orzelc, I have only had the pleasure to know one other person well who I regard as "in [[Ed Witten|Witten's]] class". [[Isadore Singer|Is Singer]]. | |||
|timestamp=2:03 PM Ā· Jul 30, 2009 | |||
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|content=The nonphysicist disagrees w/ @orzelc. Wheeler lived through the whole build up of the [[Standard Model]]. [[Ed Witten|Ed]] would have pounced repeatedly. | |||
|timestamp=2:12 PM Ā· Jul 30, 2009 | |||
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|timestamp=2:17 PM Ā· Jul 30, 2009 | |||
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|content=In Econ. Krugman is the master chef who can start with deadly pufferfish and dependably prepare elegant fugu thats safe to eat. | |||
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|content=There are three careers in modern physics of which I am envious. The other two are Yang and Dirac. In math: [[Isadore Singer|Singer]], [[Ed Witten|Witten]], Attiyah, [[Raoul Bott|Bott]]... | |||
|timestamp=5:05 AM Ā· Sep 20, 2009 | |||
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|content=And what about Jim Simons? Other than Chern Simons he did amazing stuff. Wu-Yang ...and that holonomy theorem of Berger was first rate. | |||
|timestamp=5:18 AM Ā· Sep 20, 2009 | |||
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|content=Anyone else appreciate that Jim Simons redoing Berger's list of holonomy groups to prove intrinsic sphere transitivity? An artist's theorem. | |||
|timestamp=5:23 AM Ā· Sep 20, 2009 | |||
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|content=Someone else I admire: [[Dan Freed]] at Austin. Dan never gets all the credit he deserves. Every paper nails some loose end for the community. | |||
|timestamp=5:29 AM Ā· Sep 20, 2009 | |||
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|content=Discontinuous innovation is always unlikely. But never impossible. | |||
We are both skeptics. But this UFO story is weird beyond belief Michael. I canāt think of a single story to fit to these reports Iām hearing about. | |||
I welcome your thoughts. As always. | |||
Warm regards, | |||
Eric | |||
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|content=Dear @michaelshermer, | |||
Thanks for this. Very sober. I myself also donāt find the authenticated videos so far released compelling. But I do find your challenge of āno isolated discontinuous innovationā 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/ | |||
|timestamp=10:13 PM Ā· Jun 12, 2021 | |||
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|timestamp=5:40 PM Ā· Jun 13, 2021 | |||
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|content=First of all, I am concerned that the paradigm of being scientifically or technologically ācenturies aheadā is all wrong. This came up in a phone call with our buddy @SamHarrisOrg. | |||
Q: How many centuries ahead is 1952-3 from 1900? Iād have guessed āmanyā (not .5) and been wrong. | |||
|timestamp=5:40 PM Ā· Jun 13, 2021 | |||
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|content=Next challenge: doesnāt your line of reasoning prove that āRenaissance Technologiesā 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. | |||
|timestamp=5:40 PM Ā· Jun 13, 2021 | |||
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|content=Now Iāve had the odd question about Renaissance (front not fraud) for just this reason. But either way, itās 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. | |||
|timestamp=5:40 PM Ā· Jun 13, 2021 | |||
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|content=Next: there are really two metrics on innovations. | |||
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. | |||
|timestamp=5:40 PM Ā· Jun 13, 2021 | |||
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|content=You are, to me, arguing powerfully that certain people canāt exist: Rodney Mullen, Edward Van Halen, Bob Beamon, Dick Fosbury, Hiroji Satoh, Satoshi Nakamoto, etc. | |||
They all exhibited the āa little unlocks a lotā paradigm with Zero-Day exploits that were each decisive. | |||
|timestamp=5:40 PM Ā· Jun 13, 2021 | |||
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|content=And that brings us to theoretical physics. Beginning around 1982 , the son of the worldās 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? | |||
|timestamp=5:40 PM Ā· Jun 13, 2021 | |||
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|content=Itās 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 [[Ed Witten|Witten]] geometrized Quantum Field theory (everything else). | |||
Now, all that change has so far unlocked exactly nothing. | |||
|timestamp=5:40 PM Ā· Jun 13, 2021 | |||
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|content=But itās not that nothing happened in physics. While we were pretending that string theory was working, [[Ed Witten|Witten]] & Co revolutionized our mathematical framework. Think of it as an enormous amount of unrealized gains. Pent up genius & power looking for its 1st application to the š. | |||
|timestamp=5:40 PM Ā· Jun 13, 2021 | |||
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|content=If you gave us [[Ed Witten|E Witten]], [[Jim Simons|J Simons]], [[Isadore Singer|I Singer]], [[CN Yang]], M Atiyah, D Quillen & G Segal, in a quiet program in 1975, I could argue that they didnāt need much more. In fact you donāt need all 7 but for the sake of argument I can make the case using this. But Witten is the main engine. | |||
|timestamp=5:40 PM Ā· Jun 13, 2021 | |||
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|content=Now let me show you how I could get discontinuous innovation if I were China or Russia. I donāt know those systems as well so Iāll 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 wouldnāt. | |||
|timestamp=5:40 PM Ā· Jun 13, 2021 | |||
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|content=If I thought like CCP, Iād 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. | |||
|timestamp=5:40 PM Ā· Jun 13, 2021 | |||
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|content=[Digression: If the US were smarter, weād do it by setting up a mythic secret $B hedge fund that employs top differential geometers, theoretical physicists & ML experts by a national lab & an off brand university w/ inexplicably strong geometry & physics. But enough crazy talk..] | |||
|timestamp=5:40 PM Ā· Jun 13, 2021 | |||
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|content=If CCP could today repeat what Witten (& 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. š¤·āāļø | |||
|timestamp=5:40 PM Ā· Jun 13, 2021 | |||
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|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. | |||
|timestamp=5:40 PM Ā· Jun 13, 2021 | |||
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|content=You donāt 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. | |||
|timestamp=5:40 PM Ā· Jun 13, 2021 | |||
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|content=Which is to say weāre not monitoring. Maybe we think thatās 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 theyāre right? Price the [[Type I & Type II Error|Type I & II error]]. Nuts. | |||
|timestamp=5:40 PM Ā· Jun 13, 2021 | |||
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|content=Said differently Iāve been bullish on positive externalities of mathematical physics. But a lot of great math that got done isnāt [[String Theory|string theory]]. Itās 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 didnāt get hopeless. | |||
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 āWhat 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 Jackiwās point: the era of physics thinking of mathematics as advanced calculus (analysis) wasnāt fruitful. | |||
That changed around 1975 when the quantum began to discover geometry. | |||
Iām honestly confused. What do you mean? | |||
|timestamp=3:00 AM Ā· Dec 24, 2021 | |||
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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. | |||
|timestamp=5:15 AM Ā· Dec 23, 2021 | |||
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|content=[[Quantum Field Theory|QFT]] & cross-sections sound more like particle theory than Astrophysics, Cosmology or even [[General Relativity|GR]]. | |||
Would we agree that the collision of [[Ed Witten|Witten]]/[[Isadore Singer|Singer]]/Quillen/[[Nathan āNatiā Seiberg|Seiberg]]/Freed/Bismut/Maldacena/Penrose/[[Michael Atiyah|Atiyah]]/ | |||
Hitchin/Dijgraff/[[Cumrun Vafa|Vafa]]/Segal/Jackiw/Kontseivich/Alvarez-Gaume/etc has been magic? | |||
|timestamp=6:11 AM Ā· Dec 24, 2021 | |||
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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 donāt want to misunderstand your point. | |||
|timestamp=6:13 AM Ā· Dec 24, 2021 | |||
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=== 2025 === | |||
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|content=Itās as if we, the U.S., hate being the worlds premier homegrown scientific community. All it takes is reversing self inflicted damage. Thatās it. Thatās all. | |||
We seem to hate our own scientists. | |||
It makes no sense. At least to me. | |||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |||
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|content=Yes. Iām saying that the [[Jim Simons]], [[Richard Feynman]], [[Jim Watson]], [[Steven Weinberg]], [[Sidney Coleman]], [[Ken Arrow]], [[Linus Pauling]], [[Isadore Singer]], [[Joshua Lederberg]], [[Steve Smale]], [[Paul Samuelson]], [[Mark Ptashne]], [[John Milnor]], model of homegrown American scientific genius is being destroyed. | |||
|timestamp=8:17 AM Ā· Nov 15, 2025 | |||
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|content=Is anyone concerned about this? It sure doesnāt seem it. | |||
Science needs [[Academic Freedom|academic freedom]]. It needs resources. It needs independence. | |||
Fauci and Collins would have been impossible if we were healthy. | |||
It is not safe to make scientists into mere employees. | |||
Itās way too dangerous. | |||
|timestamp=8:17 AM Ā· Nov 15, 2025 | |||
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