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Eric Weinstein coined the term "Einstein's Prison" to describe the constraints imposed by Einsteinian physics—specifically the speed of light as a fundamental limit that makes interstellar travel incredibly difficult. He argues that our current understanding of physics, based on Einstein’s theories, creates a kind of barrier preventing significant breakthroughs in space travel and fundamental physics. | |||
In contrast, the idea of an "Einsteinian Prison Break" is about finding a way beyond these constraints. Weinstein suggests that just as Einstein revolutionized Newtonian physics, we may need a new paradigm shift in physics—one that renders Einstein's theories as approximations rather than the most fundamental laws. He implies that such a breakthrough could allow for previously impossible ideas, like faster-than-light travel, to become feasible. | |||
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'''''Einstein's Prison''' is the distance to the nearest habitable world. So that if we imagine that we're going to somehow travel just below the speed of light in an Einsteinian way, full benefits of time dilation, you found the closest habitable planet, you stayed there for an hour, and you came back, how much older is everyone here on Earth? Even if you were able to make the trip lickety-split, it would be it. It's a depressingly large distance to the outside world. So that moat, effectively, if there is an Einsteinian speed limit, we have to recognize that it belongs to the map, which is known as space-time, which is not the territory which is wherever we actually live, where we do not live in space-time. But that is our best map that we have. So that's what I mean by '''Einstein's Prison'''.'' | '''''Einstein's Prison''' is the distance to the nearest habitable world. So that if we imagine that we're going to somehow travel just below the speed of light in an Einsteinian way, full benefits of time dilation, you found the closest habitable planet, you stayed there for an hour, and you came back, how much older is everyone here on Earth? Even if you were able to make the trip lickety-split, it would be it. It's a depressingly large distance to the outside world. So that moat, effectively, if there is an Einsteinian speed limit, we have to recognize that it belongs to the map, which is known as space-time, which is not the territory which is wherever we actually live, where we do not live in space-time. But that is our best map that we have. So that's what I mean by '''Einstein's Prison'''.'' | ||
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- '''Eric Weinstein''', June 17, 2022 on [https://www.youtube.com/live/fdwuhU_zu8Y?t=7235 Into The Impossible 234] | - '''Eric Weinstein''', June 17, 2022 on [https://www.youtube.com/live/fdwuhU_zu8Y?t=7235 Into The Impossible 234] | ||
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|content=So if #ufotwitter ever wanted to know why I didn’t take [[UAP|#UFO]] seriously, it was because I thought it was *preposterous* given lack of evidence. | |||
And if #ScienceTwitter wants to know why I spun on a dime, it’s because it IS linked to the post-Einsteinian physics of our survival. | |||
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|content=Under [[Isaac Newton|Newton]], we were free to explore the cosmos: 1686-1905. | |||
Einstein then enforced house arrest to our solar system:1905-Now. | |||
@elonmusk then said chemical rockets could get us 2 more spheres w Newtonian laws. | |||
But survival hinges on going *beyond* Einstein, not back to Newton. | |||
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|content=Did you really say that, Eric? | |||
Like EVERY civilisation before us, not destroyed by some rival, we are on course to self-destruct long before we become a multi-planetary species. | |||
Your Brother, Bret's, #EvolutionaryLens should reveal this to him, but doesn't seem to have done. | |||
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|content=I’m not going to complicate the basic story with caveats. That’s the basic plot. | |||
Either there is freedom to leave based on new ideas, like [[Theory of Geometric Unity|GU]], or the [[Einstein’s Prison|Einsteinian restrictions]] will persist. | |||
If they persist; we probably can mildly elongate survival here by decades via wisdom. | |||
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|content=But if we can leave to explore the universe by going beyond Einstein, anyone else out there can visit. | |||
This brings us to [[UAP|UFO/UAP]]. Assuming a distribution of life in the cosmos:: some life is behind us in science, with others ahead. | |||
A (loose) argument then links [[UAP]] to survival: | |||
|timestamp=5:01 PM · Sep 14, 2022 | |||
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|content=If life is abundant & we’re not the top of the hierarchy (which is reasonable to me), I’d guess that [[UAP]] would be here if that is possible in Einstein’s successor theories. The absence of [[UAP]] is strong but *inconclusive* proof that [[Einstein’s Prison|Einstein’s restrictions]] persist in all theory. | |||
|timestamp=5:05 PM · Sep 14, 2022 | |||
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|content=Hence my interest in [[UAP]]. [[UAP]] from distant worlds would be a strong indication that it is possible to diversify our shared risk which is that all known technological life is dependent on one atmosphere linking our three main existential risks: | |||
A) Climate</br> | |||
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C) Radiation | |||
|timestamp=5:08 PM · Sep 14, 2022 | |||
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== Related Concepts== | |||
* [[Albert Einstein]] | |||
* [[Anything But Physics]] | |||
* [[Don't wait for the bread to rise]] | |||
* [[Earth Is Our Womb, Not Our Home]] | |||
* [[Enforced Helplessness]] | |||
* [[General Relativity]] | |||
* [[High Agency]] | |||
* [[The Long Nap]] | |||
* [[M-theory or String Theory is the Only Game in Town (Edge Essay)]] | |||
* [[New Orchards]] | |||
* [[Observerse]] | |||
* [[Physics Dollars]] | |||
* [[Sinclairs Prison|Sinclair's Prison]] | |||
* [[Theory of Geometric Unity]] | |||
* [[The Solar System is an Escape Room for Mankind]] | |||
* [[True Elite]] | |||
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