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|content=I have a very strong emotional connection to [[Ed Witten|Wittenā€™s]] work and [[CN Yang|Yangā€™s]]. Weinberg always struck me as immensely powerful, but I could never get the sense of ā€œThatā€™s Weinbergianā€. That is stylistically rare.
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A total genius. But one that I couldnā€™t understand well enough. Alas. RIP
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|content=There were three candidates for worldā€™s greatest living theoretical physicist as I saw it:
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A) [[CN Yang]]</br>
B) Steven Weinberg</br>
C) [[Ed Witten|Edward Witten]]
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Weinberg was the favorite of many people I respect. I found his writing style to somehow be both clear and impenetrable at the same time.
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|content=But what we just lost is one of our few links back to fundamental physicists who didā€¦.words fail meā€¦actual work on the physics of the šŸŒŽ we live within.
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It is not much of an exaggeration to say that sometime in the last 20 years, we stopped even trying to do fundamental work.
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|content=I met Steven only once. It was an unremarkable interaction. My impression was that he was so smart that he knew to get out of High Energy Theory for the most part. He dutifully defended [[String Theory|string theory]] at times but voted with his feet and his offbeat ideas like Asymptotic Safety.
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|content=You know we all want to be loved. And we all want money. And we all want status.
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But nothing compares to physics. And Iā€™ll believe the best of him until we talk because that is a path of hope. And he may have a genius plan. I just donā€™t happen to know it &amp; itā€™s taking too long.
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|content=I get it. But can we *actually* build something that does post-relativistic physics? Asking for some friends.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Tits
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|content=Am thinking of starting new university:</br>
Texas Institute of Technology & Science
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|content=fuck... we could do so much more... merch. gagh. Suspect Musk is being ironic. It's that time of the evening when he spits out bs. But ugh, i feel this frustration re meaningful pursuits like actual physics. Why does no one care?
|timestamp=7:33 AM Ā· Oct 29, 2021
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|content=No idea. But as brilliant &amp; rich as he is, we canā€™t afford to get sucked in.
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Iā€™m actually up for the dick jokes. What Iā€™m not up for is the tease. He had the right idea (get off planet), the right resources, and the right background (physics). But it became just one more farce.
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|content=In what way has it become a farce?
|timestamp=7:51 AM Ā· Oct 29, 2021
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|content=@Burchoff @ellleighclarke The part of physics that might accomplish his stated dream is dying every month. Go to any physics department &amp; attend a high energy physics or particle theory talk. Maybe 1/10 is still about physics. He is burning time like crazy when he could just endow the field. Donā€™t ask me.
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|content=i blame witten and greene for making string sexy... And then the academia industrial complex for creating the gamification of publishing.
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|content=@ellleighclarke @Burchoff Maxwell, [[Eilberg Amendment (1976)|Eilenberg]], [[Bayh-Dole Act (1980)|Bayh-Dole]], [[Mansfield Amendment (1969)|Mansfield]], [[IMMACT90|Immact90]], SSC cancellation, etc. We are down to embers. Itā€™s not [[Ed Witten|Witten]] and [[Brian Greene|Greene]]. It was the lack of freedom to deviate from Witten and Company. To tell your failing elders that you wonā€™t be signing on to their failed programs.
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|content=@Eluminat1 Witten? Dirac? Did they make the cut?
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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. 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=@skdh @WeLivetoServe [[Quantum Field Theory|QFT]] &amp; cross-sections sound more like particle theory than Astrophysics, Cosmology or even GR.
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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