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|content=Disagree....but I recognize these are solid points! It’s great to know where we will pick up when next we meet. I’m always happy to boost your fearless independent voice just as you boost ours! It’s a great read. Thanks @skdh. | |content=Disagree....but I recognize these are solid points! It’s great to know where we will pick up when next we meet. I’m always happy to boost your fearless independent voice just as you boost ours! It’s a great read. Thanks @skdh. | ||
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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=Sabine. Is that close to how you see it? Spinors and Curvature tensors and Symplectic forms as time dependent beauty norms? I don’t buy it. | |content=Sabine. Is that close to how you see it? Spinors and Curvature tensors and Symplectic forms as time dependent beauty norms? I don’t buy it. | ||
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|content=Interesting. May I make the counter argument? There are only 5 Platonic solids. Only 4 normed division algebras. 5 exceptional Lie algebras. Etc. All of those are like Spinors & the Dirac operator in that they are provably best possible structures. Advanced beings do no better. | |content=Interesting. May I make the counter argument? There are only 5 Platonic solids. Only 4 normed division algebras. 5 exceptional Lie algebras. Etc. All of those are like Spinors & the Dirac operator in that they are provably best possible structures. Advanced beings do no better. | ||
|timestamp=7:51 AM · Jun 29, 2018 | |timestamp=7:51 AM · Jun 29, 2018 | ||
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|content=Advanced beings know that there is no simpler Lagrangians made from curvature tensors alone than the Hilbert (Riemannian) and Yang Mills Maxwell (Ehresmannian) lagrangians. They may see more, but in this essential effective layer, this is the maximally beautiful thing to find. | |content=Advanced beings know that there is no simpler Lagrangians made from curvature tensors alone than the Hilbert (Riemannian) and Yang Mills Maxwell (Ehresmannian) lagrangians. They may see more, but in this essential effective layer, this is the maximally beautiful thing to find. | ||
|timestamp=7:56 AM · Jun 29, 2018 | |timestamp=7:56 AM · Jun 29, 2018 | ||
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|content=That wasn’t my point. Icosahedrons aren’t seemingly relevant to astrophysics. But the genius of selection does choose them for T4 phage capsids. [[Erwin Chargaff|Chargaff]] thought DNA would be a beautiful Möbius band. He was lead astray by beauty. But [[Jim Watson|Watson]]&[[Francis Crick|Crick]] found the correct Helical beauty. | |content=That wasn’t my point. Icosahedrons aren’t seemingly relevant to astrophysics. But the genius of selection does choose them for T4 phage capsids. [[Erwin Chargaff|Chargaff]] thought DNA would be a beautiful Möbius band. He was lead astray by beauty. But [[Jim Watson|Watson]]&[[Francis Crick|Crick]] found the correct Helical beauty. | ||
|timestamp=1:44 PM · Jun 29, 2018 | |timestamp=1:44 PM · Jun 29, 2018 | ||
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|content=My point was that in math we can exclude the idea of higher beings finding more of many beautiful structures that we know. And Clifford algebras, curvature tensors & quantization structures are now permanently part of this mathematical canon of provably best “stacked” objects. | |content=My point was that in math we can exclude the idea of higher beings finding more of many beautiful structures that we know. And Clifford algebras, curvature tensors & quantization structures are now permanently part of this mathematical canon of provably best “stacked” objects. | ||
|timestamp=1:51 PM · Jun 29, 2018 | |timestamp=1:51 PM · Jun 29, 2018 | ||
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|content=I agree with you that beauty can and does lead people astray. I also agree that nature doesn’t have to be simple: @garrettlisi’s program is likely a complicated attempt at explaining the world without leaving beauty as a North Star. And I fear it won’t work for him. | |content=I agree with you that beauty can and does lead people astray. I also agree that nature doesn’t have to be simple: @garrettlisi’s program is likely a complicated attempt at explaining the world without leaving beauty as a North Star. And I fear it won’t work for him. | ||
|timestamp=1:54 PM · Jun 29, 2018 | |timestamp=1:54 PM · Jun 29, 2018 | ||
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|content=My two respectful disagreements: | |content=My two respectful disagreements: | ||
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|content=This is why we need to rescue our experts & institutions. We need to stop asking them to lie to us about their needs for growth. If even high energy physics can’t escape its inability to meet growth expectations, then all expert communities are suspect. | |content=This is why we need to rescue our experts & institutions. We need to stop asking them to lie to us about their needs for growth. If even high energy physics can’t escape its inability to meet growth expectations, then all expert communities are suspect. | ||
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|content=I’ve been talking about unmeetable [[Embedded Growth Obligations|“Embedded Growth Obligations” or E.G.O.s]] as the reason why all our expert communities are under unbearable pressure to distort across our institutions. The physics community is *very* trustworthy on the experiment-theory level. Yet even here: | |content=I’ve been talking about unmeetable [[Embedded Growth Obligations|“Embedded Growth Obligations” or E.G.O.s]] as the reason why all our expert communities are under unbearable pressure to distort across our institutions. The physics community is *very* trustworthy on the experiment-theory level. Yet even here: | ||
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|content=This allows us to use Fundamental Physics as a reference for deception. | |content=This allows us to use Fundamental Physics as a reference for deception. | ||
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|content=I may disagree with @skdh on whether we should build another multi-billion dollar accelerator. But she is exactly correct that there is no longer any new physics beyond the [[Standard Model]] expected to be found. She is telling truths above her pay-grade in the eyes of our leaders. | |content=I may disagree with @skdh on whether we should build another multi-billion dollar accelerator. But she is exactly correct that there is no longer any new physics beyond the [[Standard Model]] expected to be found. She is telling truths above her pay-grade in the eyes of our leaders. | ||
|timestamp=5:00 PM · Feb 2, 2019 | |timestamp=5:00 PM · Feb 2, 2019 | ||
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|content=What we need is a multi-decade [[Labor Shortages|“labor shortage”]] in STEM that brings technical employers howling in pain about employee wage demands. Family demands. Maternal demands. | |content=What we need is a multi-decade [[Labor Shortages|“labor shortage”]] in STEM that brings technical employers howling in pain about employee wage demands. Family demands. Maternal demands. | ||
The answer is simple: in STEM the wrong people are in pain. It should be our beloved administrators & employers. | The answer is simple: in STEM the wrong people are in pain. It should be our beloved administrators & employers. | ||
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|content=This is the elephant in the lab. | |content=This is the elephant in the lab. | ||
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|content=You can blame the Principal Investigators who told us this (both male & female). You can blame the universities. You can blame the messenger. But we need to talk about getting STEM moms a LOT more money for help in the house & make more allowances for staying home for 5-10 years. | |content=You can blame the Principal Investigators who told us this (both male & female). You can blame the universities. You can blame the messenger. But we need to talk about getting STEM moms a LOT more money for help in the house & make more allowances for staying home for 5-10 years. | ||
|timestamp=4:10 PM · Feb 26, 2019 | |timestamp=4:10 PM · Feb 26, 2019 | ||
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|content=And yes, Dads can be more present. But before you go too far down that road, consider that some of the STEM women we spoke to said that they would have WANTED to be at home, particularly with little children (<7) and what they really wanted was a way back to research afterwards. | |content=And yes, Dads can be more present. But before you go too far down that road, consider that some of the STEM women we spoke to said that they would have WANTED to be at home, particularly with little children (<7) and what they really wanted was a way back to research afterwards. | ||
|timestamp=4:10 PM · Feb 26, 2019 | |timestamp=4:10 PM · Feb 26, 2019 | ||
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|content=You should answer his call because he clearly doesn’t have my number. He’s a few digits off. | |content=You should answer his call because he clearly doesn’t have my number. He’s a few digits off. | ||
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|content=1/ [[Sabine Hossenfelder]] has done an impressive job collecting and rebutting the arguments for building a new particle accelerator. I find them partially convincing. Let me give the big reasons that no one ever mentions as they are not in her list. | |content=1/ [[Sabine Hossenfelder]] has done an impressive job collecting and rebutting the arguments for building a new particle accelerator. I find them partially convincing. Let me give the big reasons that no one ever mentions as they are not in her list. | ||
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|content=I) Not exactly FTL...but that is fair from what I wrote. I was using shorthand. Guilty. | |content=I) Not exactly FTL...but that is fair from what I wrote. I was using shorthand. Guilty. | ||
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|content=Briefly: | |content=Briefly: | ||
A) Dirac operator actually generates K-theory. | A) Dirac operator actually generates K-theory. | ||
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|content=That said, I think she’s much harder to beat as she gains confidence in her ability to stand for science. It’s an impressive act of conscience & bravery to go it alone like this, and I wish the physics community saw it for what it is. I may disagree at times, but my hat is off. | |content=That said, I think she’s much harder to beat as she gains confidence in her ability to stand for science. It’s an impressive act of conscience & bravery to go it alone like this, and I wish the physics community saw it for what it is. I may disagree at times, but my hat is off. | ||
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|content=We oddly now live in a Hossenfelder era of Theoretical physics. Sabine is almost distinguished by a near total unwillingness/inability to sit quietly through the hype machines in Theoretical physics that feed the demands of lay people, journalists & physicists. But is she right? | |content=We oddly now live in a Hossenfelder era of Theoretical physics. Sabine is almost distinguished by a near total unwillingness/inability to sit quietly through the hype machines in Theoretical physics that feed the demands of lay people, journalists & physicists. But is she right? | ||
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|content=My take is that she is usually right. Not only that, many in the community rail against her when *they* know she is making sense. | |content=My take is that she is usually right. Not only that, many in the community rail against her when *they* know she is making sense. | ||
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|content=Said differently I’ve been bullish on positive externalities of mathematical physics. But a lot of great math that got done isn’t string theory. It’s claimed to be stringy but it is really mostly mathematical physics or geometric field theory that is claimed by string theorists. | |content=Said differently I’ve been bullish on positive externalities of mathematical physics. But a lot of great math that got done isn’t string theory. It’s claimed to be stringy but it is really mostly mathematical physics or geometric field theory that is claimed by string theorists. | ||
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|content=Things got hard. They didn’t get hopeless. | |content=Things got hard. They didn’t get hopeless. | ||
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|content=We may disagree intellectually more than I thought. This is Jackiw’s point: the era of physics thinking of mathematics as advanced calculus (analysis) wasn’t fruitful. | |content=We may disagree intellectually more than I thought. This is Jackiw’s point: the era of physics thinking of mathematics as advanced calculus (analysis) wasn’t fruitful. | ||
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|content=[[Quantum Field Theory|QFT]] & cross-sections sound more like particle theory than Astrophysics, Cosmology or even [[General Relativity|GR]]. | |content=[[Quantum Field Theory|QFT]] & cross-sections sound more like particle theory than Astrophysics, Cosmology or even [[General Relativity|GR]]. | ||
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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 don’t want to misunderstand your point. | |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 don’t want to misunderstand your point. | ||
|timestamp=6:13 AM · Dec 24, 2021 | |timestamp=6:13 AM · Dec 24, 2021 | ||
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|content=I spent a lot of time in beautiful homes and second homes of older research scientists as a grad student. | |content=I spent a lot of time in beautiful homes and second homes of older research scientists as a grad student. | ||
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|content=Keep your mouth shut or lose job security. | |content=Keep your mouth shut or lose job security. | ||
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|content=Beauty *is* a light in the darkness as experiment becomes less accessible. Perhaps our best one. | |content=Beauty *is* a light in the darkness as experiment becomes less accessible. Perhaps our best one. | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=Instantly stop all progress in the world’s most successful scientific community using only two words inducing permanent paralytic failure that cannot be questioned. | |content=Instantly stop all progress in the world’s most successful scientific community using only two words inducing permanent paralytic failure that cannot be questioned. | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=Hi [[Sabine Hossenfelder|Sabine]]! | |content=Hi [[Sabine Hossenfelder|Sabine]]! | ||
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|content=Hmm. As you know I’m historically a big supporter of your courage & insight as critic. Perhaps you know something here that I do not as a nonphysicist. Open to that. | |content=Hmm. As you know I’m historically a big supporter of your courage & insight as critic. Perhaps you know something here that I do not as a nonphysicist. Open to that. | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=It is tied to all sorts of weirdness involving top physics and math people, bizarre funders, forgotten research institutes, aerospace companies, post Manhattan Project government secrecy, [[The Golden Age of General Relativity|the golden age of General Relativity]] and…words fail me…outright quackery. | |content=It is tied to all sorts of weirdness involving top physics and math people, bizarre funders, forgotten research institutes, aerospace companies, post Manhattan Project government secrecy, [[The Golden Age of General Relativity|the golden age of General Relativity]] and…words fail me…outright quackery. | ||
|timestamp=5:13 PM · Nov 7, 2022 | |timestamp=5:13 PM · Nov 7, 2022 | ||
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|content=GUTs are a good test case. I believe you are in error going after Beauty when it comes to Grand Unified Theory. Your critique to Neil Degrasse Tyson recently applied to Georgi and Glashow Basic SU(5)…but not to [[Pati-Salam|Pati-Salaam]] SU(4) x SU(2) x SU(2) for example. | |content=GUTs are a good test case. I believe you are in error going after Beauty when it comes to Grand Unified Theory. Your critique to Neil Degrasse Tyson recently applied to Georgi and Glashow Basic SU(5)…but not to [[Pati-Salam|Pati-Salaam]] SU(4) x SU(2) x SU(2) for example. | ||
|timestamp=5:16 PM · Nov 7, 2022 | |timestamp=5:16 PM · Nov 7, 2022 | ||
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|content=I caution that you not fall into the trap of using Beauty as critique. | |content=I caution that you not fall into the trap of using Beauty as critique. | ||
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|content=@skdh I acknowledge my desires as you see from what I wrote. But a stagnant community always wants outcomes. It wants SUSY. Or [[String Theory|Strings]]. Or some g-2 muon anomaly. Etc. | |content=@skdh I acknowledge my desires as you see from what I wrote. But a stagnant community always wants outcomes. It wants SUSY. Or [[String Theory|Strings]]. Or some g-2 muon anomaly. Etc. | ||
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|content=Now I feel completely alone. | |content=Now I feel completely alone. | ||
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|content=If biological aliens were here from others star systems in crafts that defy the current physics of the standard model and, more importantly, general relativity, I would be one of the few people who would have a guess on day one as to how they must have gotten here. It’s tempting. | |content=If biological aliens were here from others star systems in crafts that defy the current physics of the standard model and, more importantly, general relativity, I would be one of the few people who would have a guess on day one as to how they must have gotten here. It’s tempting. | ||
|timestamp=1:44 PM · Jun 7, 2023 | |timestamp=1:44 PM · Jun 7, 2023 | ||
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|content=I don’t think biological interstellar alien visitors using GR and the SM make much sense. So I try to have a war *inside* my own mind as to what is true. I have a genuine “Need to Know” as to whether this is BS NatSec space opera disinformation theater. Because to me, it is data. | |content=I don’t think biological interstellar alien visitors using GR and the SM make much sense. So I try to have a war *inside* my own mind as to what is true. I have a genuine “Need to Know” as to whether this is BS NatSec space opera disinformation theater. Because to me, it is data. | ||
|timestamp=1:44 PM · Jun 7, 2023 | |timestamp=1:44 PM · Jun 7, 2023 | ||
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|content=What just happened isn’t data. It’s that a sober individual just pushed one of the many longstanding highly conserved NHI narratives collected from *many* diverse sober NatSec informants over the sworn testimony line. And it gets a LOT crazier from here. But it’s not science yet. | |content=What just happened isn’t data. It’s that a sober individual just pushed one of the many longstanding highly conserved NHI narratives collected from *many* diverse sober NatSec informants over the sworn testimony line. And it gets a LOT crazier from here. But it’s not science yet. | ||
|timestamp=1:44 PM · Jun 7, 2023 | |timestamp=1:44 PM · Jun 7, 2023 | ||
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|content=As I‘ve been saying, there is so much deliberate NatSec BS out here that our own scientists are being propagandized. We’re drilling holes in our own scientists’ lifeboat. Last time we saw this it was virologists/immunologists/epidemiologists being gaslit. Now it’s physicists. | |content=As I‘ve been saying, there is so much deliberate NatSec BS out here that our own scientists are being propagandized. We’re drilling holes in our own scientists’ lifeboat. Last time we saw this it was virologists/immunologists/epidemiologists being gaslit. Now it’s physicists. | ||
|timestamp=1:44 PM · Jun 7, 2023 | |timestamp=1:44 PM · Jun 7, 2023 | ||
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|content=Let me be very careful in what I am about to say. We have at least the appearance and optics of scientific self-sabotage. And wanting things to be true is how science dies. | |content=Let me be very careful in what I am about to say. We have at least the appearance and optics of scientific self-sabotage. And wanting things to be true is how science dies. | ||
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|content=We may be looking at the birth of a new UFO religion. Or a moment of contact. Or a long running Disinformation campaign. Etc. | |content=We may be looking at the birth of a new UFO religion. Or a moment of contact. Or a long running Disinformation campaign. Etc. | ||
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|content=What I want to know: | |content=What I want to know: | ||
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|content=What the hell was the [[The Secret History of Anti-Gravity and Quantum Gravity Research|1957 Behnson funded UNC Chapel Hill conference]] actually about? | |content=What the hell was the [[The Secret History of Anti-Gravity and Quantum Gravity Research|1957 Behnson funded UNC Chapel Hill conference]] actually about? | ||
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|content=This is the 50th year of stagnation in the [[Standard Model|Standard Model Lagrangian]]. It is AS IF we are deliberately trying to forget how to do actual physics. Everyone who has succeeded in Particle Theory in standard terms is now over 70. This is insane. In 25 years there will be no one left. | |content=This is the 50th year of stagnation in the [[Standard Model|Standard Model Lagrangian]]. It is AS IF we are deliberately trying to forget how to do actual physics. Everyone who has succeeded in Particle Theory in standard terms is now over 70. This is insane. In 25 years there will be no one left. | ||
|timestamp=1:44 PM · Jun 7, 2023 | |timestamp=1:44 PM · Jun 7, 2023 | ||
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|content=Why are we not admitting that quantum gravity is killing physics and is the public respectable face of 1950s anti-gravity mania that lives on to murder all new theories in their cradle? | |content=Why are we not admitting that quantum gravity is killing physics and is the public respectable face of 1950s anti-gravity mania that lives on to murder all new theories in their cradle? | ||
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|content=If you want to know whether there are biological interstellar visitors here observing us, the short answer is “Almost *certainly* not if they are using our current stagnant non-progressing theories of physics.” | |content=If you want to know whether there are biological interstellar visitors here observing us, the short answer is “Almost *certainly* not if they are using our current stagnant non-progressing theories of physics.” | ||
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|content=Many of you will be shocked by my IV. Which is perhaps why I asked for three… | |content=Many of you will be shocked by my IV. Which is perhaps why I asked for three… | ||
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|content=After seeing my friend @skdh say what is wrong with theoretical physics, I asked her what would theoretical physics done right look like. Specifically, which general approaches and which theorists she was most excited about. | |content=After seeing my friend @skdh say what is wrong with theoretical physics, I asked her what would theoretical physics done right look like. Specifically, which general approaches and which theorists she was most excited about. | ||
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|content=A) The three most promising lines of attack in fundamental physics. This is likely to confuse people who think in terms of “the strong community”, “the amplitudes program”, “the LQG community”. These are the “Team Sports” branches of attack. And team players really only recognize other teams which is a MASSIVE bias. That is why [[String Theory|String Theorists]] view [[Quantum Gravity|Loop Quantum Gravity]] as their hand chosen rigal. It is a team that they believe doesn’t challenge them; a partner to dunk on if you will. | |content=A) The three most promising lines of attack in fundamental physics. This is likely to confuse people who think in terms of “the strong community”, “the amplitudes program”, “the LQG community”. These are the “Team Sports” branches of attack. And team players really only recognize other teams which is a MASSIVE bias. That is why [[String Theory|String Theorists]] view [[Quantum Gravity|Loop Quantum Gravity]] as their hand chosen rigal. It is a team that they believe doesn’t challenge them; a partner to dunk on if you will. | ||
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|content=[[Anything But Physics|“Anything but Physics”]] has tremendous predictive power. | |content=[[Anything But Physics|“Anything but Physics”]] has tremendous predictive power. | ||
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|content=Many of you are asking me to comment on this video. | |content=Many of you are asking me to comment on this video. | ||
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|content=I took your point. For some reason my point doesn’t seem to get through. | |content=I took your point. For some reason my point doesn’t seem to get through. | ||
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|content=People ask me how you can tell whether scientific experts are leveling with them if the lay public doesn’t understand deep science. | |content=People ask me how you can tell whether scientific experts are leveling with them if the lay public doesn’t understand deep science. | ||
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|content=The issue isn’t [[String Theory]] which has obviously failed in the terms it set for itself. | |content=The issue isn’t [[String Theory]] which has obviously failed in the terms it set for itself. | ||
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|content=@skdh I assume we are both familiar with how some of our mutual Physics/Math PhD colleagues have been treated at '''arXiv''' for being deeply off the [[Quantum Gravity]] narrative? I think they could stop treating those people differently from everyone else. | |content=@skdh I assume we are both familiar with how some of our mutual Physics/Math PhD colleagues have been treated at '''arXiv''' for being deeply off the [[Quantum Gravity]] narrative? I think they could stop treating those people differently from everyone else. | ||
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|content=I'm going to explain how profound levels of dissent in physics are driven out of the community. | |content=I'm going to explain how profound levels of dissent in physics are driven out of the community. | ||
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|content=No researcher can afford to lose access to the arXiv. And no one talking openly about the actual [[Quantum Gravity]] mass delusion can have access to the journals & '''arXIv'''. | |content=No researcher can afford to lose access to the arXiv. And no one talking openly about the actual [[Quantum Gravity]] mass delusion can have access to the journals & '''arXIv'''. | ||
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|content=[The field of fundamental physics stagnates in ‘73 when our Lagrangians stop changing.] | |content=[The field of fundamental physics stagnates in ‘73 when our Lagrangians stop changing.] | ||
|timestamp=9:01 PM · Jun 3, 2025 | |timestamp=9:01 PM · Jun 3, 2025 | ||
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|content=I think we have different experiences. | |content=I think we have different experiences. | ||
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|content=It’s not that String Theorists ended up forgetting details of the physical world, so much as they ended up resenting the physical world for existing. | |content=It’s not that String Theorists ended up forgetting details of the physical world, so much as they ended up resenting the physical world for existing. | ||