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|content=Why am I brought up on the names Einstein, Dirac, Heisenberg, [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]], Weinberg, etc ....and not flippin' Yang??? Yang=Da Man. | |content=Why am I brought up on the names Einstein, Dirac, Heisenberg, [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]], Weinberg, etc ....and not flippin' Yang??? Yang=Da Man. | ||
|timestamp=1:59 AM · Aug 12, 2009 | |timestamp=1:59 AM · Aug 12, 2009 | ||
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|content=Recommendation: If you must compare "[[Kung Fu Panda]]" to "Godfather I" or "War and Peace" do it on a Saturday in late August. #mytwocents | |content=Recommendation: If you must compare "[[Kung Fu Panda]]" to "Godfather I" or "War and Peace" do it on a Saturday in late August. #mytwocents | ||
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|content=New topic: the importance of "Kung Fu Panda". | |content=New topic: the importance of "Kung Fu Panda". | ||
|timestamp=3:34 PM · Aug 22, 2009 | |timestamp=3:34 PM · Aug 22, 2009 | ||
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|content=To begin with, like a Beethoven symphony, [[Kung Fu Panda]] is meant to be accessed on multiple levels with "Believe in yourself" as the lowest. | |content=To begin with, like a Beethoven symphony, [[Kung Fu Panda]] is meant to be accessed on multiple levels with "Believe in yourself" as the lowest. | ||
|timestamp=3:38 PM · Aug 22, 2009 | |timestamp=3:38 PM · Aug 22, 2009 | ||
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|content=The voice performances (w/ exception of Jolie) are all strong. Dustin Hoffman is fantastic. Jack Black solid, McShane and Duk Kim brilliant. | |content=The voice performances (w/ exception of Jolie) are all strong. Dustin Hoffman is fantastic. Jack Black solid, McShane and Duk Kim brilliant. | ||
|timestamp=3:53 PM · Aug 22, 2009 | |timestamp=3:53 PM · Aug 22, 2009 | ||
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|content=But what makes Kung Fu Panda the film of the decade (ergo century, ergo millenium) is that it alone tackles a central issue of science. | |content=But what makes Kung Fu Panda the film of the decade (ergo century, ergo millenium) is that it alone tackles a central issue of science. | ||
|timestamp=4:10 PM · Aug 22, 2009 | |timestamp=4:10 PM · Aug 22, 2009 | ||
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|content=Driving Kung Fu Panda is the tension between dual modes of learning: Knowledge Transfer and Discovery. As innovator, Oogway is heirless. | |content=Driving Kung Fu Panda is the tension between dual modes of learning: Knowledge Transfer and Discovery. As innovator, Oogway is heirless. | ||
|timestamp=4:26 PM · Aug 22, 2009 | |timestamp=4:26 PM · Aug 22, 2009 | ||
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|content=But Oogway who has a star mentee is not content with the fate of [[Paul Dirac|Dirac]], [[Albert Einstein|Einstein]], [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]], etc... in not leaving an innovator-successor. | |content=But Oogway who has a star mentee is not content with the fate of [[Paul Dirac|Dirac]], [[Albert Einstein|Einstein]], [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]], etc... in not leaving an innovator-successor. | ||
|timestamp=4:29 PM · Aug 22, 2009 | |timestamp=4:29 PM · Aug 22, 2009 | ||
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|content=[I know taking Kung Fu Panda seriously will lose followers....but I don't care about those eyeballs as the issue and film are too important] | |content=[I know taking Kung Fu Panda seriously will lose followers....but I don't care about those eyeballs as the issue and film are too important] | ||
|timestamp=4:31 PM · Aug 22, 2009 | |timestamp=4:31 PM · Aug 22, 2009 | ||
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|content=So while Oogway is master to Shifu who is/was master to both Tai Lung and Tigress he chooses to elevate the ostensibly inexplicable Panda. | |content=So while Oogway is master to Shifu who is/was master to both Tai Lung and Tigress he chooses to elevate the ostensibly inexplicable Panda. | ||
|timestamp=4:36 PM · Aug 22, 2009 | |timestamp=4:36 PM · Aug 22, 2009 | ||
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|content=In fact, Panda has demonstrated two features in strapping himself to a firework propelled chair: a willingness to innovate and break rules. | |content=In fact, Panda has demonstrated two features in strapping himself to a firework propelled chair: a willingness to innovate and break rules. | ||
|timestamp=4:38 PM · Aug 22, 2009 | |timestamp=4:38 PM · Aug 22, 2009 | ||
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|content=The film then shows the presumed successor (Tigress) as willing to break rules but previously shows this liniage to be prestige focused. | |content=The film then shows the presumed successor (Tigress) as willing to break rules but previously shows this liniage to be prestige focused. | ||
|timestamp=4:40 PM · Aug 22, 2009 | |timestamp=4:40 PM · Aug 22, 2009 | ||
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|content=Think of the Panda as having a major & minor advisor. The major advisor (Oogway) he meets only twice. To the minor advisor falls training. | |content=Think of the Panda as having a major & minor advisor. The major advisor (Oogway) he meets only twice. To the minor advisor falls training. | ||
|timestamp=8:44 PM · Aug 22, 2009 | |timestamp=8:44 PM · Aug 22, 2009 | ||
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|content=So university based PhD advising is based on the failed Shifu-Tigress model. But great science seeks the added Oogway-Panda dimension. | |content=So university based PhD advising is based on the failed Shifu-Tigress model. But great science seeks the added Oogway-Panda dimension. | ||
|timestamp=9:00 PM · Aug 22, 2009 | |timestamp=9:00 PM · Aug 22, 2009 | ||
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|content=Imagine before [[Jim Watson|Watson]]-[[Francis Crick|Crick]] I asked you: "Go nuts. What could possibly make [[Erwin Chargaff|Chargaff's]] Equimolar rules gorgeous, motivated and canonical?" | |content=Imagine before [[Jim Watson|Watson]]-[[Francis Crick|Crick]] I asked you: "Go nuts. What could possibly make [[Erwin Chargaff|Chargaff's]] Equimolar rules gorgeous, motivated and canonical?" | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=Ever heard an organized religion complain that G-d would never slap some butt ugly quartic potential on the world to give it mass? | |content=Ever heard an organized religion complain that G-d would never slap some butt ugly quartic potential on the world to give it mass? | ||
|timestamp=2:33 AM · Sep 2, 2009 | |timestamp=2:33 AM · Sep 2, 2009 | ||
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|content=To Dave Bacon: "Butt ugly" referred to the present motivation for the Higgs terms as intellectual spackle. Soft mass won't likely stay ugly | |content=To Dave Bacon: "Butt ugly" referred to the present motivation for the Higgs terms as intellectual spackle. Soft mass won't likely stay ugly | ||
|timestamp=3:39 AM · Sep 2, 2009 | |timestamp=3:39 AM · Sep 2, 2009 | ||
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|content=Higgs mass is akin to the once poorly motivated "neutral currents" rejected by [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] as merely invoked for renormalizabilty. Now: not so. | |content=Higgs mass is akin to the once poorly motivated "neutral currents" rejected by [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] as merely invoked for renormalizabilty. Now: not so. | ||
|timestamp=3:49 AM · Sep 2, 2009 | |timestamp=3:49 AM · Sep 2, 2009 | ||
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|content=Challenge to my physics followers: what could possibly make the Mexican Hat quartic gorgeous, natural and canonical? #daretodream | |content=Challenge to my physics followers: what could possibly make the Mexican Hat quartic gorgeous, natural and canonical? #daretodream | ||
|timestamp=3:53 AM · Sep 2, 2009 | |timestamp=3:53 AM · Sep 2, 2009 | ||
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|content=Fascinated by [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] fans who don't realize he would have humiliated them just to steal their wives at the end of the seminar. | |content=Fascinated by [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] fans who don't realize he would have humiliated them just to steal their wives at the end of the seminar. | ||
|timestamp=2:32 PM · Sep 5, 2009 | |timestamp=2:32 PM · Sep 5, 2009 | ||
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|content=Q: Was [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] initially incapable of explaining his theory at a technical or a sociological level? (e.g. w/ Bohr, Oppenheimer) | |content=Q: Was [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] initially incapable of explaining his theory at a technical or a sociological level? (e.g. w/ Bohr, Oppenheimer) | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=Here's something I never got. Why did [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] need Dyson to explain his theory? Did he? Or did he just need a non-Feynman? | |content=Here's something I never got. Why did [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] need Dyson to explain his theory? Did he? Or did he just need a non-Feynman? | ||
|timestamp=5:39 AM · Sep 23, 2009 | |timestamp=5:39 AM · Sep 23, 2009 | ||
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|content=I understand the Dyson added value by tying together Schwinger with [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]]. But it seems like [[Richard Feynman|RF]] couldn't get past the resistance. | |content=I understand the Dyson added value by tying together Schwinger with [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]]. But it seems like [[Richard Feynman|RF]] couldn't get past the resistance. | ||
|timestamp=5:43 AM · Sep 23, 2009 | |timestamp=5:43 AM · Sep 23, 2009 | ||
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|content=Q1: Why did [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] ask to be removed from the National Academy of Sciences? | |content=Q1: Why did [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] ask to be removed from the National Academy of Sciences? | ||
Q2: How common is that? | Q2: How common is that? | ||
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|content=Debating whether to remind actual physicists of the role of experimenters in the Tau-Theta circus. [[Richard Feynman|Feynman's]] take: http://www.gorgorat.com/ | |content=Debating whether to remind actual physicists of the role of experimenters in the Tau-Theta circus. [[Richard Feynman|Feynman's]] take: http://www.gorgorat.com/ | ||
|timestamp=10:52 PM · Nov 11, 2009 | |timestamp=10:52 PM · Nov 11, 2009 | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=Oppenheimer's famous repeating of Wigner's calling [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] 'a second Dirac' somehow managed to do no service to any of these heros. #nofecta | |content=Oppenheimer's famous repeating of Wigner's calling [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] 'a second Dirac' somehow managed to do no service to any of these heros. #nofecta | ||
|timestamp=5:37 PM · Dec 1, 2009 | |timestamp=5:37 PM · Dec 1, 2009 | ||
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|content=Cost of 1947 Shelter Island Conference : $850. | |content=Cost of 1947 Shelter Island Conference : $850. | ||
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|content="There have been many conferences in the world since, but I've never felt any to be as important as this." -[[Richard Feynman|R.Feynman]] on [[Shelter Island Conference (1947)|Shelter Island 1947]] | |content="There have been many conferences in the world since, but I've never felt any to be as important as this." -[[Richard Feynman|R.Feynman]] on [[Shelter Island Conference (1947)|Shelter Island 1947]] | ||
|timestamp=3:09 PM · Feb 9, 2010 | |timestamp=3:09 PM · Feb 9, 2010 | ||
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|content=How GREAT science really looks at the brink. Wrong/Uncredentialed/Glorious. Teller-Gamow-[[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] on genes: http://bit.ly/dcbIxa | |content=How GREAT science really looks at the brink. Wrong/Uncredentialed/Glorious. Teller-Gamow-[[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] on genes: http://bit.ly/dcbIxa | ||
|timestamp=2:34 AM · Feb 16, 2010 | |timestamp=2:34 AM · Feb 16, 2010 | ||
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|content=Lamentably, ZZ Top took its name from bluesmen BB King/ZZ Hill rather than a [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] diag. scattering heavy hadrons by neutral currents. | |content=Lamentably, ZZ Top took its name from bluesmen BB King/ZZ Hill rather than a [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] diag. scattering heavy hadrons by neutral currents. | ||
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|content=The battle for primacy in physics between Hamilton & Lagrange was largely decided by [[Richard Feynman]]. But ZZ Top didn't hurt. | |content=The battle for primacy in physics between Hamilton & Lagrange was largely decided by [[Richard Feynman]]. But ZZ Top didn't hurt. | ||
|timestamp=12:16 PM · Feb 24, 2010 | |timestamp=12:16 PM · Feb 24, 2010 | ||
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|content="In what sense is what happens at one place in a string independent of what happens at another?" -[[Richard Feynman|Feynman's]] last BBoard http://bit.ly/FStrng | |content="In what sense is what happens at one place in a string independent of what happens at another?" -[[Richard Feynman|Feynman's]] last BBoard http://bit.ly/FStrng | ||
|timestamp=5:05 AM · Mar 3, 2010 | |timestamp=5:05 AM · Mar 3, 2010 | ||
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|content="Take a risk w/ your lives that you will never be heard of again, & go off in the wild blue yonder & see if you can figure it out."[[Richard Feynman|R.Feynman]] | |content="Take a risk w/ your lives that you will never be heard of again, & go off in the wild blue yonder & see if you can figure it out."[[Richard Feynman|R.Feynman]] | ||
|timestamp=5:34 AM · Mar 9, 2010 | |timestamp=5:34 AM · Mar 9, 2010 | ||
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|content=Ron Unz was one of the smartest & most arrogant young people I met in HS. | |content=Ron Unz was one of the smartest & most arrogant young people I met in HS. | ||
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|content=If I recall correctly, "Foo" in pig latin is the name [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] used to sign his artworks. #foocamp #foo | |content=If I recall correctly, "Foo" in pig latin is the name [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] used to sign his artworks. #foocamp #foo | ||
|timestamp=5:58 PM · Jun 25, 2010 | |timestamp=5:58 PM · Jun 25, 2010 | ||
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|content=[[Richard Feynman|Feynman's]] 10 year correspondence oddessy to resign from the National Academy of Sciences (1959-1969): http://bit.ly/9Axzu9 | |content=[[Richard Feynman|Feynman's]] 10 year correspondence oddessy to resign from the National Academy of Sciences (1959-1969): http://bit.ly/9Axzu9 | ||
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|content="I detest the National Academy of Sciences. I didn't have the guts to resign as [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] did." -Freeman Dyson ABD, (All But Dissertation) | |content="I detest the National Academy of Sciences. I didn't have the guts to resign as [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] did." -Freeman Dyson ABD, (All But Dissertation) | ||
|timestamp=6:02 PM · Jul 21, 2010 | |timestamp=6:02 PM · Jul 21, 2010 | ||
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|content=The subordination of the insobordinate elite: | |content=The subordination of the insobordinate elite: | ||
"That [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] is becoming a real pain" | "That [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] is becoming a real pain" | ||
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|content=Oddly, a mural to [[Richard Feynman|R. Feynman]] is built directly into the Ross 'dress for less' at 449 Shoppers Ln Pasadena CA, visible in Google StreetView, | |content=Oddly, a mural to [[Richard Feynman|R. Feynman]] is built directly into the Ross 'dress for less' at 449 Shoppers Ln Pasadena CA, visible in Google StreetView, | ||
|timestamp=11:48 AM · Feb 8, 2011 | |timestamp=11:48 AM · Feb 8, 2011 | ||
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|content=@BikeMath @CIA Dunno. It's often amazing what a single toxic person can do: [[Richard Feynman|R Feynman]], M Davis, [[Jim Watson|J Watson]], W Pauli, etc... Not a short list. | |content=@BikeMath @CIA Dunno. It's often amazing what a single toxic person can do: [[Richard Feynman|R Feynman]], M Davis, [[Jim Watson|J Watson]], W Pauli, etc... Not a short list. | ||
|timestamp=8:06 PM · Dec 12, 2016 | |timestamp=8:06 PM · Dec 12, 2016 | ||
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|content=@Aaron__FF Jim Watson rules for succeeding in science. [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] and [[Albert Einstein|Einstein's]] prose. Double helix and 8th day of creation. Shape of space. | |content=@Aaron__FF Jim Watson rules for succeeding in science. [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] and [[Albert Einstein|Einstein's]] prose. Double helix and 8th day of creation. Shape of space. | ||
|timestamp=7:18 AM · Jan 27, 2017 | |timestamp=7:18 AM · Jan 27, 2017 | ||
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|content=Arguably the second greatest physicist of the 20th century as drawn by another in the top tier (some would argue, top 5). Quite an honor. | |content=Arguably the second greatest physicist of the 20th century as drawn by another in the top tier (some would argue, top 5). Quite an honor. | ||
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|content=@rcanacci @skdh Begin with Dirac, Einstein, Yang, Maxwell, Noether, Newton, Hamilton, Stuckelberg, [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] as principle authors of the most fundamental equations and principles. And I'm not sure I am not stretching it slightly to appear broad minded. | |content=@rcanacci @skdh Begin with Dirac, Einstein, Yang, Maxwell, Noether, Newton, Hamilton, Stuckelberg, [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] as principle authors of the most fundamental equations and principles. And I'm not sure I am not stretching it slightly to appear broad minded. | ||
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|content=In "Lost in Math", @skdh has written a necessary book that I've always hoped someone would never write. It lays out the argument that "Beauty" is a dangerous Siren for physics, which is almost always true. Except, unfairly, for a tiny top tier. | |content=In "Lost in Math", @skdh has written a necessary book that I've always hoped someone would never write. It lays out the argument that "Beauty" is a dangerous Siren for physics, which is almost always true. Except, unfairly, for a tiny top tier. | ||
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|content=If you want a great introduction to the unusual thinking and sui generis wisdom of this man, you could do worse than his article on “Missed Opportunites”: | |content=If you want a great introduction to the unusual thinking and sui generis wisdom of this man, you could do worse than his article on “Missed Opportunites”: | ||
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|content=Was not expecting to bump into one of the most inspiring scientists of our time. [[Freeman Dyson|Freeman Dyson’s]] trajectory is a life to study. In particular his defeat of Oppenheimer’s opposition to [[Richard Feynman|Feynman’s]] Sum-Over-Historys at the @the_IAS taught me a lot about how great minds spar. | |content=Was not expecting to bump into one of the most inspiring scientists of our time. [[Freeman Dyson|Freeman Dyson’s]] trajectory is a life to study. In particular his defeat of Oppenheimer’s opposition to [[Richard Feynman|Feynman’s]] Sum-Over-Historys at the @the_IAS taught me a lot about how great minds spar. | ||
|timestamp=6:20 PM · Oct 16, 2018 | |timestamp=6:20 PM · Oct 16, 2018 | ||
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|content=Under no circumstances should you give this material to kids: | |content=Under no circumstances should you give this material to kids: | ||
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|content=What a world. How exciting Science was. Can you imagine a world in which such big questions were comparatively elementary and wide open? Huge minds were so boldly imaginative. Playing. Like kids. [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]]/Gamow/Teller/[[Francis Crick|Crick]]/Rich/[[Sydney Brenner|Brenner]].😮 | |content=What a world. How exciting Science was. Can you imagine a world in which such big questions were comparatively elementary and wide open? Huge minds were so boldly imaginative. Playing. Like kids. [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]]/Gamow/Teller/[[Francis Crick|Crick]]/Rich/[[Sydney Brenner|Brenner]].😮 | ||
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|content=Got to geek out on the death of [[Sydney Brenner]]. | |content=Got to geek out on the death of [[Sydney Brenner]]. | ||
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|content=@willwilkinson @seanilling It’s not all Feels. Look at E8 and tell me how you “feel”. Who came up with that? Killing? Freudenthal? Lie? No way. Not even Grothedieck and [[Ed Witten|Witten]] with [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] and Von Neumann’s help. None of us know what it is. Is hemoglobin socially constructed? Who asks this? No one I know. | |content=@willwilkinson @seanilling It’s not all Feels. Look at E8 and tell me how you “feel”. Who came up with that? Killing? Freudenthal? Lie? No way. Not even Grothedieck and [[Ed Witten|Witten]] with [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] and Von Neumann’s help. None of us know what it is. Is hemoglobin socially constructed? Who asks this? No one I know. | ||
|timestamp=6:42 AM · May 9, 2019 | |timestamp=6:42 AM · May 9, 2019 | ||
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|content=Thoughts on where we are and why we are stuck. Also, the parable of [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] and the Rogers Challenger Commission. https://t.co/uSXbLAaxVV | |content=Thoughts on where we are and why we are stuck. Also, the parable of [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] and the Rogers Challenger Commission. https://t.co/uSXbLAaxVV | ||
|timestamp=10:08 PM · Apr 25, 2020 | |timestamp=10:08 PM · Apr 25, 2020 | ||
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|content=Freeman Dyson</br> | |content=Freeman Dyson</br> | ||
@brookedallas</br> | @brookedallas</br> | ||
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|content=Tom Lehrer</br> | |content=Tom Lehrer</br> | ||
Noam Elkies</br> | Noam Elkies</br> | ||
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|content=We’ve never spoken. Lex and Joe have my contact info. I wanna get way outta here. Like yesterday. | |content=We’ve never spoken. Lex and Joe have my contact info. I wanna get way outta here. Like yesterday. | ||
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|content=I have waited 55 years to see the richest man in the world stick it to “The Richest Man...IN THE WORLD!” | |content=I have waited 55 years to see the richest man in the world stick it to “The Richest Man...IN THE WORLD!” | ||
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|content=Huh. I also have a preference for Hamilton due to geometric quantization using pre-quantum line bundles to explain Heisenberg (cf Woodhouse). Legendre & [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] not withstanding. | |content=Huh. I also have a preference for Hamilton due to geometric quantization using pre-quantum line bundles to explain Heisenberg (cf Woodhouse). Legendre & [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] not withstanding. | ||
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|content=“Hell, if I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel prize.” -[[Richard Feynman|Richard P Feynman]] | |content=“Hell, if I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel prize.” -[[Richard Feynman|Richard P Feynman]] | ||
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|content=It’s tough when you see patterns invisible to the 🌎. Ask any tall woman, and she will tell you all the comments she hears every day. Or any Sikh wearing a Turban. Or any soul who is blind. Or any gay couple with kids.. | |content=It’s tough when you see patterns invisible to the 🌎. Ask any tall woman, and she will tell you all the comments she hears every day. Or any Sikh wearing a Turban. Or any soul who is blind. Or any gay couple with kids.. | ||
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|content=Neil deGrasse Tyson is picking on the wrong guy. | |content=Neil deGrasse Tyson is picking on the wrong guy. | ||
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|content=They were smart. We were smart. They had Spassky, We had Fischer. They had Shostakovich, we had Van Cliburn. Vysotsky v Dylan. [[Lev Landau|Landau]] v [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]]. | |content=They were smart. We were smart. They had Spassky, We had Fischer. They had Shostakovich, we had Van Cliburn. Vysotsky v Dylan. [[Lev Landau|Landau]] v [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]]. | ||
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|content=@robnormal That’s the beginning. Then that the listeners be *highly* motivated. Also intelligent. Also, that no listeners are trying not to understand. Etc | |content=@robnormal That’s the beginning. Then that the listeners be *highly* motivated. Also intelligent. Also, that no listeners are trying not to understand. Etc | ||
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|content=“If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.” - [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] | |content=“If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.” - [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] | ||
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|content=Even the great [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] said a great many meretricious things about science. Mostly because he wanted to speak in a powerful and overly simplistic fashion that lay people loved. “Hey, if I can’t understand you, it’s because YOU don’t get it! Ha.” | |content=Even the great [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] said a great many meretricious things about science. Mostly because he wanted to speak in a powerful and overly simplistic fashion that lay people loved. “Hey, if I can’t understand you, it’s because YOU don’t get it! Ha.” | ||
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|content=This is a description of how [[Richard Feynman|Feynman’s]] brilliant “Sum Over Histories” technique went over at the Pocono conference in the spring of 1948. [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] wasn’t able to explain what he was doing to even the world’s very top experts in Theoretical Physics! | |content=This is a description of how [[Richard Feynman|Feynman’s]] brilliant “Sum Over Histories” technique went over at the Pocono conference in the spring of 1948. [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] wasn’t able to explain what he was doing to even the world’s very top experts in Theoretical Physics! | ||
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|content=Very simply: “My machines came from too far away.” | |content=Very simply: “My machines came from too far away.” | ||
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|content=Disagree? Great. Prove it! | |content=Disagree? Great. Prove it! | ||
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|content=If you still love repeating that [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] quote despite the greater context provided, here’s some material. Ask your expository heroes to explain it. | |content=If you still love repeating that [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] quote despite the greater context provided, here’s some material. Ask your expository heroes to explain it. | ||
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|content=Note: The quote in the original tweet has a typographical error. It should be: | |content=Note: The quote in the original tweet has a typographical error. It should be: | ||
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|content=@Eluminat1 Witten? Dirac? Did they make the cut? | |content=@Eluminat1 Witten? Dirac? Did they make the cut? | ||
|timestamp=6:53 AM · Dec 15, 2021 | |timestamp=6:53 AM · Dec 15, 2021 | ||
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|content=@karlbykarlsmith Not as I understand it. [[Richard Feynman|Feynman’s]] diagrams are just an indexing scheme for series terms albeit a provocative one. The apparent classical localization of position & momentum is taking place in the indexing diagram, NOT in the quantum propagator which the diagrams sum to construct. | |content=@karlbykarlsmith Not as I understand it. [[Richard Feynman|Feynman’s]] diagrams are just an indexing scheme for series terms albeit a provocative one. The apparent classical localization of position & momentum is taking place in the indexing diagram, NOT in the quantum propagator which the diagrams sum to construct. | ||
|timestamp=7:02 AM · Dec 15, 2021 | |timestamp=7:02 AM · Dec 15, 2021 | ||
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|content=@NukeBeach Ultimately it required more time, more conferences, and Dyson, Bethe, and [[Ken Wilson|Wilson]] to put the full Theory in a form where it was accepted. | |content=@NukeBeach Ultimately it required more time, more conferences, and Dyson, Bethe, and [[Ken Wilson|Wilson]] to put the full Theory in a form where it was accepted. | ||
|timestamp=7:05 AM · Dec 15, 2021 | |timestamp=7:05 AM · Dec 15, 2021 | ||
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|content=@rolfascending @travislambirth Great. Just apply your critique in the terms you understand it to the challenge problem of the thread so I can fully appreciate the point of what you are saying. Thanks. | |content=@rolfascending @travislambirth Great. Just apply your critique in the terms you understand it to the challenge problem of the thread so I can fully appreciate the point of what you are saying. Thanks. | ||
|timestamp=8:36 AM · Dec 15, 2021 | |timestamp=8:36 AM · Dec 15, 2021 | ||
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|content=@theoctobear It’s a test. Show us what it means to explain a proven theorem in simple terms. So easy. Find the experts who understand it and have them explain it in these simple terms that all interested parties can understand. Piece of cake I would think. | |content=@theoctobear It’s a test. Show us what it means to explain a proven theorem in simple terms. So easy. Find the experts who understand it and have them explain it in these simple terms that all interested parties can understand. Piece of cake I would think. | ||
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|content=@AbleEyes4 No, he wouldn’t. He would instead walk on water powered only by science and never ego to distribute bread to the hungry with Christopher Hitchens who also was never wrong. And then w/ the dear leader, they were raptured to heaven on a mountain top near Pyongyang. Because Science! | |content=@AbleEyes4 No, he wouldn’t. He would instead walk on water powered only by science and never ego to distribute bread to the hungry with Christopher Hitchens who also was never wrong. And then w/ the dear leader, they were raptured to heaven on a mountain top near Pyongyang. Because Science! | ||
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|content=A beautiful visual illustration of the relationship between configuration space (position only) and phase space Hamiltonian Dynamics (position + momentum). The tip of their common pendulum is the orbit in phase space of the configuration space of any of the 8 balls. | |content=A beautiful visual illustration of the relationship between configuration space (position only) and phase space Hamiltonian Dynamics (position + momentum). The tip of their common pendulum is the orbit in phase space of the configuration space of any of the 8 balls. | ||
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|content=Here is the illustrated recipe for Hamiltonian dynamics. | |content=Here is the illustrated recipe for Hamiltonian dynamics. | ||
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|content=C) Write down the ball’s total energy as a function on phase space (kinetic + potential energies). | |content=C) Write down the ball’s total energy as a function on phase space (kinetic + potential energies). | ||
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|content=F) Flow along that vector field in phase space as the pendulum tip is doing. | |content=F) Flow along that vector field in phase space as the pendulum tip is doing. | ||
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|content=That is one of the universe’s most beautiful stories. Arguably, its *most* beautiful (there is a rival version called Lagrangian dynamics). | |content=That is one of the universe’s most beautiful stories. Arguably, its *most* beautiful (there is a rival version called Lagrangian dynamics). | ||
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|content=I have plans to use the Portal to show you so many such things, but I get bored of endless negging and interpersonal drama queens (e.g. being told that [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] could explain it to his poodle so I obviously don’t get it). | |content=I have plans to use the Portal to show you so many such things, but I get bored of endless negging and interpersonal drama queens (e.g. being told that [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] could explain it to his poodle so I obviously don’t get it). | ||
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|content=Interpersonal drama take the fun out of life for me & I have many things I enjoy doing besides the Portal. But I miss you all! | |content=Interpersonal drama take the fun out of life for me & I have many things I enjoy doing besides the Portal. But I miss you all! | ||
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|content=And by the way, everything I put together I ran by experts like physics historian David Kaiser at MIT. | |content=And by the way, everything I put together I ran by experts like physics historian David Kaiser at MIT. | ||
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|content=You aren’t getting it. | |content=You aren’t getting it. | ||
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|content=That famous “G-mu-nu” story where [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] can’t remember which North Carolina University is hosting the Gravity conference? Is about Bahnson and an *anti-gravity* initiative. Again, you just didn’t notice because of the way we tell the story. Higgs? UNC Physical Fields institute. | |content=That famous “G-mu-nu” story where [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] can’t remember which North Carolina University is hosting the Gravity conference? Is about Bahnson and an *anti-gravity* initiative. Again, you just didn’t notice because of the way we tell the story. Higgs? UNC Physical Fields institute. | ||
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|content=The entire “Golden Age of General Relativity” is misportrayed. [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] and Uri Geller? [[Linus Pauling|Pauling]] and [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] at Esselen? The LSD stories? The story about nuclear powered airplane patents? It’s some super freaky pseudo-scientific seeming story about many of our greatest scientists. | |content=The entire “Golden Age of General Relativity” is misportrayed. [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] and Uri Geller? [[Linus Pauling|Pauling]] and [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] at Esselen? The LSD stories? The story about nuclear powered airplane patents? It’s some super freaky pseudo-scientific seeming story about many of our greatest scientists. | ||
|timestamp=7:51 PM · Feb 12, 2022 | |timestamp=7:51 PM · Feb 12, 2022 | ||
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|content=The fact that many of you never noticed is on you. Do I know what it means? No. My leading theory is that scientists disappeared into the military industrial complex to take $$ for pseudo-science. But that’s only one theory. Shoot the messenger if you like, but you didn’t get it. | |content=The fact that many of you never noticed is on you. Do I know what it means? No. My leading theory is that scientists disappeared into the military industrial complex to take $$ for pseudo-science. But that’s only one theory. Shoot the messenger if you like, but you didn’t get it. | ||
|timestamp=7:54 PM · Feb 12, 2022 | |timestamp=7:54 PM · Feb 12, 2022 | ||
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|content=@AlexanderRKlotz @martinmbauer Outsiders? I see. | |content=@AlexanderRKlotz @martinmbauer Outsiders? I see. | ||
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|content=I have no understanding of why we make the career paths of our most singular & powerful US scientists a living hell. We would today drive [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]], [[Jim Watson|Watson]], and [[Albert Einstein|Einstein]] out of science. | |content=I have no understanding of why we make the career paths of our most singular & powerful US scientists a living hell. We would today drive [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]], [[Jim Watson|Watson]], and [[Albert Einstein|Einstein]] out of science. | ||
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|content=@dkb003 Official panels tend to be tightly controlled in advance through use of insiders. Occasionally that screws up and you get a Jeff Sachs (Lancet) or a [[Richard Feynman]]/Gen Kutyna (Challenger). Galileo Project is an outsider project. Prefer the latter. | |content=@dkb003 Official panels tend to be tightly controlled in advance through use of insiders. Occasionally that screws up and you get a Jeff Sachs (Lancet) or a [[Richard Feynman]]/Gen Kutyna (Challenger). Galileo Project is an outsider project. Prefer the latter. | ||
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|content=Thanks for the help. But I must regretfully decline. | |content=Thanks for the help. But I must regretfully decline. | ||
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|content=Snark is so much more fun when academics forget their own subjects and need to be reminded of their own history by...checks notes...a podcast host who's not a physicist. | |content=Snark is so much more fun when academics forget their own subjects and need to be reminded of their own history by...checks notes...a podcast host who's not a physicist. | ||
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|content=From the birth of Dirac's Quantum Electrodynamics in 1928, the subject couldn't compute results because infinities infested the calculations. This went on for nearly 20 years as the aging leaders of the field proposed crazy fixes that didn't work. Enter [[Duncan McInnes]]. | |content=From the birth of Dirac's Quantum Electrodynamics in 1928, the subject couldn't compute results because infinities infested the calculations. This went on for nearly 20 years as the aging leaders of the field proposed crazy fixes that didn't work. Enter [[Duncan McInnes]]. | ||
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|content=On January 21 1946, McInnes suggested to [[Frank Jewett]] a radical conference based around the UNTESTED young people rather than the failed leaders. As head of the [[National Academy of Sciences (NAS)|National Academy of Sciences]], [[Frank Jewett|Jewett]] allocated a grand total of...wait for it...$1500 for a conference in Long Island. | |content=On January 21 1946, McInnes suggested to [[Frank Jewett]] a radical conference based around the UNTESTED young people rather than the failed leaders. As head of the [[National Academy of Sciences (NAS)|National Academy of Sciences]], [[Frank Jewett|Jewett]] allocated a grand total of...wait for it...$1500 for a conference in Long Island. | ||
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|content=Beginning on [[Shelter Island Conference (1947)|June 1, 1947 at the Rams Head Inn on Shelter Island NY and ending on Weds June 4th]], 24 mostly untested participants "hung out" together. | |content=Beginning on [[Shelter Island Conference (1947)|June 1, 1947 at the Rams Head Inn on Shelter Island NY and ending on Weds June 4th]], 24 mostly untested participants "hung out" together. | ||
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|content=So by simply getting rid of most of the failed 1928-1947 leadership and focusing on the most promising untested physicists, a $12K slush fund in today's dollars changed history ending a two decade stagnation debuting [[Richard Feynman|Feynman's]] Path Integral, the Lamb Shift & the two Meson theory. | |content=So by simply getting rid of most of the failed 1928-1947 leadership and focusing on the most promising untested physicists, a $12K slush fund in today's dollars changed history ending a two decade stagnation debuting [[Richard Feynman|Feynman's]] Path Integral, the Lamb Shift & the two Meson theory. | ||
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|content=So why do I suggest Hundreds of thousands rather than tens of thousands? Good question! First, it is harder to get rid of the failed leadership because our stagnation as of Februrary 2023 is 50 years old not 19. But also, Shelter Island needed two companion conferences in 1948-9. | |content=So why do I suggest Hundreds of thousands rather than tens of thousands? Good question! First, it is harder to get rid of the failed leadership because our stagnation as of Februrary 2023 is 50 years old not 19. But also, Shelter Island needed two companion conferences in 1948-9. | ||
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|content=The Pocono Manor Inn meeting in Pennsylvania & the Oldstone conference in Peeskill NY were around $1200 each in 1948 and 1949 respectively. As it turned out, the electron mass in the QED theory and the measured mass had been set equal when they were distinct quantities. Who knew! | |content=The Pocono Manor Inn meeting in Pennsylvania & the Oldstone conference in Peeskill NY were around $1200 each in 1948 and 1949 respectively. As it turned out, the electron mass in the QED theory and the measured mass had been set equal when they were distinct quantities. Who knew! | ||
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|content=According to many of the participants these three conferences (but particularly [[Shelter Island Conference (1947)|Shelter Island]]) were the most important conferences of their entire careers. [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] was in his late 20s. This is how you get unstuck. How you build leadership. How you stop failing year after year... | |content=According to many of the participants these three conferences (but particularly [[Shelter Island Conference (1947)|Shelter Island]]) were the most important conferences of their entire careers. [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] was in his late 20s. This is how you get unstuck. How you build leadership. How you stop failing year after year... | ||
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|content=Those 3 conferences fixed the problem of infinites destroying the explanatory power of QED. | |content=Those 3 conferences fixed the problem of infinites destroying the explanatory power of QED. | ||
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|content=That isn't the issue. The issue is that the leadership is not passing the baton and there are no McInnes or [[Frank Jewett|Jewett]] figures. And professors now don't even know this history it seems! Don't they teach this in Physics class? Maybe it's too dangerous to learn how physics works. ;-) | |content=That isn't the issue. The issue is that the leadership is not passing the baton and there are no McInnes or [[Frank Jewett|Jewett]] figures. And professors now don't even know this history it seems! Don't they teach this in Physics class? Maybe it's too dangerous to learn how physics works. ;-) | ||
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|content=So...feel free to try to snark your way out of this. But I'll stand my ground. We don't need to go "Funeral by Funeral", but I'm tiring of "Calabi-Yau Phenomenology" or Multiverse excuses as a replacement for actual physics. We need to go back to science. https://snarxiv.org/vs-arxiv/ | |content=So...feel free to try to snark your way out of this. But I'll stand my ground. We don't need to go "Funeral by Funeral", but I'm tiring of "Calabi-Yau Phenomenology" or Multiverse excuses as a replacement for actual physics. We need to go back to science. https://snarxiv.org/vs-arxiv/ | ||
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|content=As to what's wrong with modern physics: let's start with [[Quantum Gravity]]. Bryce DeWitt started a failed 70 year wild goose chase in 1953 that is not working. If we lost 20 years on conflating Bare v Dressed masses, we just lost 70 years on [[Quantum Gravity]]. Maybe take a time out? | |content=As to what's wrong with modern physics: let's start with [[Quantum Gravity]]. Bryce DeWitt started a failed 70 year wild goose chase in 1953 that is not working. If we lost 20 years on conflating Bare v Dressed masses, we just lost 70 years on [[Quantum Gravity]]. Maybe take a time out? | ||
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|content=I have thought this through. It isn't a cheap shot. And I have waited until the 50th anniversary to be this frontal about it. But it has never been controversial since Planck to suggest that aged failed leaders are a huge issue. I'm not the Funeral by Funeral guy. He was. ;-) | |content=I have thought this through. It isn't a cheap shot. And I have waited until the 50th anniversary to be this frontal about it. But it has never been controversial since Planck to suggest that aged failed leaders are a huge issue. I'm not the Funeral by Funeral guy. He was. ;-) | ||
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|content=Lastly, I can't stand anti-collegial snark. We can escalate if you want, but if instead you would like to have a serious discussion next time, it would be my pleasure. Shall we try this again? | |content=Lastly, I can't stand anti-collegial snark. We can escalate if you want, but if instead you would like to have a serious discussion next time, it would be my pleasure. Shall we try this again? | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=@MBKplus Sorry to be slow, but you used a screenshot so I wouldn’t see your response rather than a quote tweet. | |content=@MBKplus Sorry to be slow, but you used a screenshot so I wouldn’t see your response rather than a quote tweet. | ||
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|content=Nah. It’s a sensitive topic. Almost 40 years of [[String Theory|string theology]]. 50 years of stagnation. 70 years of quantum gravity not shipping a theory. | |content=Nah. It’s a sensitive topic. Almost 40 years of [[String Theory|string theology]]. 50 years of stagnation. 70 years of quantum gravity not shipping a theory. | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=I have no underlying animosity towards Mike. Let’s see what happens next. | |content=I have no underlying animosity towards Mike. Let’s see what happens next. | ||
|timestamp=9:21 AM · Jan 26, 2023 | |timestamp=9:21 AM · Jan 26, 2023 | ||
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|content=See I was thinking pads of paper, pens, and a whiteboard or blackboard. Maybe some coffee. A bit of LaTeX. | |content=See I was thinking pads of paper, pens, and a whiteboard or blackboard. Maybe some coffee. A bit of LaTeX. | ||
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|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? | |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? | ||
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|content=“[[String Theory]] is absolutely…the most likely to be true set of ideas about what sits at the intersection of the [[Standard Model]] and [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]].” | |content=“[[String Theory]] is absolutely…the most likely to be true set of ideas about what sits at the intersection of the [[Standard Model]] and [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]].” | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=If you said “electrons are absolutely fractional spin fields in the standard model” I wouldn’t disagree with that statement. It isn’t at all about what you think. It is a true statement. | |content=If you said “electrons are absolutely fractional spin fields in the standard model” I wouldn’t disagree with that statement. It isn’t at all about what you think. It is a true statement. | ||
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|content=“IMO objectively true” | |content=“IMO objectively true” | ||
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|content=I don’t think that’s the issue Joseph. At all. | |content=I don’t think that’s the issue Joseph. At all. | ||
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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. | ||
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|content=Joseph. Imagine I were to temporarily stipulate to the idea that of all the known approaches to quantizing the metric field that leads to gravitation, [[String Theory]] is by far the most advanced. I don’t think that is unreasonable whether or not it is true. It’s a solid argument. | |content=Joseph. Imagine I were to temporarily stipulate to the idea that of all the known approaches to quantizing the metric field that leads to gravitation, [[String Theory]] is by far the most advanced. I don’t think that is unreasonable whether or not it is true. It’s a solid argument. | ||
|timestamp=3:14 AM · Jul 13, 2023 | |timestamp=3:14 AM · Jul 13, 2023 | ||
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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|“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?” | ||
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|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. | |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. | ||
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|content=C) Which approach is most likely to shed light on why there are 3 generations of observed fermions? | |content=C) Which approach is most likely to shed light on why there are 3 generations of observed fermions? | ||
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|content=H) Which community is most likely to spend all their careers working on toy models with the wrong dimensions, signatures or field content claiming that we are building up the toolkit? | |content=H) Which community is most likely to spend all their careers working on toy models with the wrong dimensions, signatures or field content claiming that we are building up the toolkit? | ||
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|content=J) Which approach has been the most investigated and thus thoroughly picked over for low hanging fruit? | |content=J) Which approach has been the most investigated and thus thoroughly picked over for low hanging fruit? | ||
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|content=M) Which approach comes closest to explaining the origin of the internal symmetry structure group of the Standard model? | |content=M) Which approach comes closest to explaining the origin of the internal symmetry structure group of the Standard model? | ||
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|content=O) Which approach is most at risk of invoking “The Landscape” of impossibly many theories to test after saying that the power of the approach was that there were only 5 possible theories? | |content=O) Which approach is most at risk of invoking “The Landscape” of impossibly many theories to test after saying that the power of the approach was that there were only 5 possible theories? | ||
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|content=Q) Which community is least collegial and most insulting to colleagues outside the approach? | |content=Q) Which community is least collegial and most insulting to colleagues outside the approach? | ||
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|content=V) Which community substitutes mathematics results for results about the actual physical world we live in when talking to the public? | |content=V) Which community substitutes mathematics results for results about the actual physical world we live in when talking to the public? | ||
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|content=That is why this conversation doesn’t work. It is what magicians call “Magicians Choice”: the lay person is lead into thinking they are free to disagree. But the question you keep asking is DESiGNED to make it look like [[String Theory]] is our top community. | |content=That is why this conversation doesn’t work. It is what magicians call “Magicians Choice”: the lay person is lead into thinking they are free to disagree. But the question you keep asking is DESiGNED to make it look like [[String Theory]] is our top community. | ||
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|content=Who turned out to be right? | |content=Who turned out to be right? | ||
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|content=Some have been making this point for 39 years. We are not now “At a point where we really ought to question…”. | |content=Some have been making this point for 39 years. We are not now “At a point where we really ought to question…”. | ||
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|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. | |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. | ||
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|content=So you have my list. It is incomplete and idiosyncratic. I’d love to have your corrections and additions. | |content=So you have my list. It is incomplete and idiosyncratic. I’d love to have your corrections and additions. | ||
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|content=It is an interesting question as to who inspires us in physics. Here is a list of 20th century giants whose work inspired me that might work as protagonists with interesting stories that deserve to be considered along with the best known Einstein/Hawking/Oppenheimer/Etc.: | |content=It is an interesting question as to who inspires us in physics. Here is a list of 20th century giants whose work inspired me that might work as protagonists with interesting stories that deserve to be considered along with the best known Einstein/Hawking/Oppenheimer/Etc.: | ||
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|content=But let’s face facts: inspiration is not the issue. Fundamental Physics needs to be a good life. What is holding us back is: | |content=But let’s face facts: inspiration is not the issue. Fundamental Physics needs to be a good life. What is holding us back is: | ||
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|content=But lastly, if outsiders want to fund and fix movies, you will find that going to the “Leading physicists” won’t work. [[Peer Review|Peer review]] can’t work when the leadership *is* the problem. You get more failure. | |content=But lastly, if outsiders want to fund and fix movies, you will find that going to the “Leading physicists” won’t work. [[Peer Review|Peer review]] can’t work when the leadership *is* the problem. You get more failure. | ||
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|content=@Perterra1 No. And it doesn’t include people for different reasons. [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] is already known to the public. People have no idea who [[Robert Hermann|Robert Herman]] is. Etc. | |content=@Perterra1 No. And it doesn’t include people for different reasons. [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] is already known to the public. People have no idea who [[Robert Hermann|Robert Herman]] is. Etc. | ||
|timestamp=4:59 AM · Jul 23, 2023 | |timestamp=4:59 AM · Jul 23, 2023 | ||
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|content=[[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] was great. But I’d read that story again quite carefully in a Straussian fashion. Just a thought. | |content=[[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] was great. But I’d read that story again quite carefully in a Straussian fashion. Just a thought. | ||
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|content=Huh. I had a very different read on that story. So did Feynman. | |content=Huh. I had a very different read on that story. So did Feynman. | ||
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|content=Ah. Why are European-Americans suddenly so inferior at math since like 1998? Why are the people of Newton, [[Albert Einstein|Einstein]], [[Paul Dirac|Dirac]], [[Francis Crick|Crick]], [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]], Heisenberg etc suddenly no longer able to do first rate science? Excellent question! | |content=Ah. Why are European-Americans suddenly so inferior at math since like 1998? Why are the people of Newton, [[Albert Einstein|Einstein]], [[Paul Dirac|Dirac]], [[Francis Crick|Crick]], [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]], Heisenberg etc suddenly no longer able to do first rate science? Excellent question! | ||
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|content=Let me be clear. This post is not targeted at foreign born STEM. [My apologies to those of you who know me well on this point for decades. But it is always deliberately misinterpreted by those who seek to depress salaries.] | |content=Let me be clear. This post is not targeted at foreign born STEM. [My apologies to those of you who know me well on this point for decades. But it is always deliberately misinterpreted by those who seek to depress salaries.] | ||
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|content=Woah. Slow down. Because then we would be stuck with American STEM workers. Ya know, those lazy, stupid, unmotivated can't do, low-IQ pseudoscientific stoners who play video games all day long and can't be bothered to crack a book. | |content=Woah. Slow down. Because then we would be stuck with American STEM workers. Ya know, those lazy, stupid, unmotivated can't do, low-IQ pseudoscientific stoners who play video games all day long and can't be bothered to crack a book. | ||
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|content=This is a pretty good thread. Likely true! | |content=This is a pretty good thread. Likely true! | ||
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|content=<nowiki>*</nowiki>electron. My bad. | |content=<nowiki>*</nowiki>electron. My bad. | ||
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|content=Quality Control: the scourge of Great Science. | |content=Quality Control: the scourge of Great Science. | ||
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|content=“[[Richard Feynman|Mr Feynman]]: what is the measure on that integral?” | |content=“[[Richard Feynman|Mr Feynman]]: what is the measure on that integral?” | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1941647338206036281 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1941647338206036281 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
|username= | |username=ericweinstein | ||
|content=I appreciate the thoughtful answer. | |content=I appreciate the thoughtful answer. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1941522171886739479 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1941522171886739479 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
|username= | |username=ericweinstein | ||
|content=I would like to talk to @MickWest and @michaelshermer and @francis_collins and @neiltyson and @seanmcarroll and @nytimes about the role of [[Prebunked Malinformation|debunking]] and [[Image Cheapening|discrediting]] professionals who do not buy into narratives that are later found to be cover stories about national interest. | |content=I would like to talk to @MickWest and @michaelshermer and @francis_collins and @neiltyson and @seanmcarroll and @nytimes about the role of [[Prebunked Malinformation|debunking]] and [[Image Cheapening|discrediting]] professionals who do not buy into narratives that are later found to be cover stories about national interest. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1941522174428565613 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1941522174428565613 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
|username= | |username=ericweinstein | ||
|content=We have a COVID=Wet Market narrative.</br> | |content=We have a COVID=Wet Market narrative.</br> | ||
We have an Inflation and [[CPI]] narrative.</br> | We have an Inflation and [[CPI]] narrative.</br> | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1941522806547829032 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1941522806547829032 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
|username= | |username=ericweinstein | ||
|content=We need to talk about what debunking was before it became “Covert influence operations”, “[[Image Cheapening|Image Cheapneing]]”‘and personal destruction warfare. | |content=We need to talk about what debunking was before it became “Covert influence operations”, “[[Image Cheapening|Image Cheapneing]]”‘and personal destruction warfare. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1941547929325777172 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1941547929325777172 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
|username= | |username=ericweinstein | ||
|content=This is part of the problem with debunking. | |content=This is part of the problem with debunking. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1941593330988781917 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1941593330988781917 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
|username= | |username=ericweinstein | ||
|content=I think you are avoiding the reality that at a minimum, our government(s) is/are almost certainly faking a UFO/NHI presence from time to time. That we have [[UAP=SAP|UFO/NHI SAPs]] that we deny. That UFO/NHI is used as cover for aerospace at a minimum. That we do harm to our own people by pretending that everything has a prosaic explanation. | |content=I think you are avoiding the reality that at a minimum, our government(s) is/are almost certainly faking a UFO/NHI presence from time to time. That we have [[UAP=SAP|UFO/NHI SAPs]] that we deny. That UFO/NHI is used as cover for aerospace at a minimum. That we do harm to our own people by pretending that everything has a prosaic explanation. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1941617811438305343 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1941617811438305343 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
|username= | |username=ericweinstein | ||
|content=Let’s find out if true. | |content=Let’s find out if true. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1989612740046905377 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1989612740046905377 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
|username= | |username=ericweinstein | ||
|content=It’s as if we, the U.S., hate being the worlds premier homegrown scientific community. All it takes is reversing self inflicted damage. That’s it. That’s all. | |content=It’s as if we, the U.S., hate being the worlds premier homegrown scientific community. All it takes is reversing self inflicted damage. That’s it. That’s all. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1989608579163460068 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1989608579163460068 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
|username= | |username=ericweinstein | ||
|content=Yes. I’m 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. | |content=Yes. I’m 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 · Nov 15, 2025 | |timestamp=8:17 AM · Nov 15, 2025 | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1989608581470327007 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1989608581470327007 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
|username= | |username=ericweinstein | ||
|content=Is anyone concerned about this? It sure doesn’t seem it. | |content=Is anyone concerned about this? It sure doesn’t seem it. | ||