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=== Closing Thoughts ===
=== Closing Thoughts ===


[02:43:22] So we will attempt to present the full theory shortly. Keep in mind, this took seven years to just bring me to want to come back to this, but it must be reassembled from decades of notes, and that's part of the problem when you're working alone and you're not really expecting to talk to anybody. So I want to thank you for your patience and your time.


[02:43:39] and I just want to read a bunch of names that people who mattered to me, and if I've done anything wrong, this is no reflection on them. [[Marcus du Sautoy]], [[Peter Thiel]], [[Isadore Singer]], [[Raoul Bott]], [[Michael Grossberg]], Adil Abdulali, Harry and Sophie Rubin, Bret Weinstein and family, Heather Heying and Zach and Toby.
''[https://youtu.be/Z7rd04KzLcg?t=9798 02:43:18]''<br>
So we will attempt to present the full theory shortly. Keep in mind, this took seven years to just bring me to want to come back to this, but it must be reassembled from decades of notes, and that's part of the problem when you're working alone and you're not really expecting to talk to anybody. So I want to thank you for your patience and your time, and I just want to read a bunch of names that people who mattered to me, and if I've done anything wrong, this is no reflection on them.


[02:43:59] Peter Freyd, Scott Axlerod, Nima Arkani Hamed, Louis Alverez Gaume, [[Edward Frankel]]. Dror Bar Natan, [[Shlomo Sternberg]], [[David Kazhdan]], Karen and Les Weinstein, Haynes Miller, Ralph Gomory, John Tate, [[Sidney Coleman]], Graeme Segal, Robert Hermann, and Hira and Esther Malaney. Errors and omissions because I've too many people to thank are all my own. As for the claims that should reflect badly on no one else other than myself.
''[https://youtu.be/Z7rd04KzLcg?t=9826 02:43:46]''<br>
Marcus du Sautoy, Peter Thiel, Isadore Singer, Raoul Bott, Michael Grossberg, Adil Abdulali, Harry and Sophie Rubin, Bret Weinstein and family, Heather Heying, and Zach and Toby, Peter Freyd, Scott Axlerod, Nima Arkani Hamed, Luis Alvarez Gaume, Edward Frankel, Dror Bar Natan, Shlomo Sternberg, David Kazhdan, Daniel Barcay, Karen and Les Weinstein, Haynes Miller, Ralph Gomory, John Tate, Sidney Coleman, Graeme Segal, Robert Hermann, and Hira and Esther Malaney.


[02:44:31] In most, especially, I just want to say that I've asked a tremendous amount from my family to stick with me on this quixotic quest. I want to thank Pia Malaney, Naila Weinstein, and Zev Weinstein. I love you all very much, and thank you for making this possible. I do want to leave you with one thought.
''[https://youtu.be/Z7rd04KzLcg?t=9859 02:44:19]''<br>
Errors and omissions, because I've too many people to thank, are all my own, as for the claims that should reflect badly on no one else other than myself.


[02:44:51] I really think that we've gotten completely bent out of shape about trying to force a formalize and routinize science. It doesn’t work. You cannot mandate sciences, social engineering. You can't decide that science is always in the zeitgeists and done by committee. In fact, it is essential to understand that science will not conform to what you want.
''[https://youtu.be/Z7rd04KzLcg?t=9870 02:44:30]''<br>
And most especially, I just want to say that I've asked a tremendous amount from my family to stick with me on this quixotic quest. I want to thank Pia Malaney, Naila Weinstein, and Zev Weinstein. I love you all very much, and thank you for making this possible.


[02:45:13] One of the things that I, I'm very proud of, I think is quite true is the saying that great science has the scientific method as its radio edit. I don't think that great science is actually done the way we say it's done. And I think that directs 1963 Scientific American article should be read by absolute absolutely everyone.
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[02:45:37] Every time major theories have come out, they've almost always been wrong, but they're not wrong in an important way and I think that we have to fix the political economy of people racing to correct theories or point out that there is no agreement with the experiment. We are killing many of our best ideas by creating a terrible and combative environment, which already attempts to apportion credit for work.
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[02:46:05] And more importantly, risk undertaken by individuals. And I just think that, I want people to understand that. I've always wanted to share this, but I detest the culture that I saw that cropped up around what is now become known as the Seiberg-Witten equations when they were put forward. There was a period of time where I watched people, as if it a feeding trough trying to stay up around the clock to use a new machine tool that had been given to them to claim.


[02:46:38] Credit and it profoundly pushed me away from the community. We have to become more ethical and we have to honor the people who are trying to speak and act imaginatively. Now, if this doesn't work, if it's silly, I'll have egg on my face and I'll go on, I'll be fine. But I'm very worried that maybe some of the best ideas are between the ears of people without the confidence in the chutzpah and just the sort of almost psychotic drive to push things across the finishing line.  
''[https://youtu.be/Z7rd04KzLcg?t=9888 02:44:48]''<br>
I do want to leave you with one thought. I really think that we've gotten completely bent out of shape about trying to formalize and routinize science, and it doesn't work. You cannot mandate science as social engineering, you can't decide that science is always in the zeitgeist and done by committee. In fact, it is essential to understand that science will not conform to what you want. One of the things that I'm very proud of, and I think is quite true, is the saying that great science has the scientific method as its radio edit. I don't think that great science is actually done the way we say it's done, and I think that <a href="https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-evolution-of-the-physicists-picture-of-nature/">Dirac's 1963 Scientific American article</a> should be read by absolutely everyone.


We've got to be kinder and nicer and more decent and stop stealing people's lives, their credit, their future, and their ability to have families and make a living. And that's absolutely essential. Well to me, and I look forward to finding out whether this theory has merit to it or is without merit, but I guarantee that if I'm going to go down with the ship, I'm also not going to be knocked off the ship, as I was many years ago.
''[https://youtu.be/Z7rd04KzLcg?t=9936 02:45:36]''<br>
Every time major theories have come out, they've almost always been wrong, but they're not wrong in an important way, and I think that we have to fix the political economy of people racing to correct theories or point out that there is no agreement with experiment. We are killing many of our best ideas by creating a terrible and combative environment, which already attempts to apportion credit for work, and more importantly, risk undertaken by individuals. And I just think that—I want people to understand that I've always wanted to share this, but I detest the culture that I saw that cropped up around what has now become known as the Seiberg-Witten equations. When they were put forward, there was a period of time where I watched people, as if at a feeding trough, trying to stay up around the clock to use a new machine tool that had been given to them to claim credit, and it profoundly pushed me away from the community. We have to become more ethical and we have to honor the people who are trying to speak and act imaginatively.


[02:47:39] Completely unfairly, and I won't dwell on it. But the amount of power you professors have is absolutely almost without parallel because nobody really understands enough to adjudicate disputes that happen in academics. I'm going to insert just that we fund you better and that you are nicer to the people who depend upon you in this beautiful chain that we call a science, scientific method.
''[https://youtu.be/Z7rd04KzLcg?t=10011 02:46:51]''<br>
Now, if this doesn't work, if it's silly, I'll have egg on my face and I'll go on, I'll be fine. But I'm very worried that maybe some of the best ideas are between the ears of people without the confidence, and the ''chutzpah'', and just the, sort of, almost psychotic drive to push things across the finishing line. We've got to be kinder, and nicer, and more decent, and stop stealing people's lives, their credit, their future, and their ability to have families and make a living, and that's absolutely essential to me.
 
''[https://youtu.be/Z7rd04KzLcg?t=10045 02:47:25]''<br>
And, I look forward to finding out whether this theory has merit to it or is without merit, but I guarantee that if I'm going to go down with the ship, I'm also not going to be knocked off the ship as I was many years ago completely unfairly. And I won't dwell on it, but the amount of power you professors have is absolutely, almost without parallel, because nobody really understands enough to adjudicate disputes that happen in academics. I'm going to insist that we fund you better, and that you are nicer to the people who depend upon you in this beautiful chain that we call scientific method, and most particularly, American science, which I think is still the envy of the world.
 
''[https://youtu.be/Z7rd04KzLcg?t=10092 02:48:12]''<br>
So you've been through The Portal, I know it was a long slog. I hope you found it interesting and enjoyable, and we'll see you again soon. Be well everybody, stay safe.


[02:48:08] And most particularly an American science, which I think is still the envy of the world. So you've been through the portal. I know it was a long slog. I hope you found it interesting and enjoyable and we'll see you again soon. Be well, everybody stay safe.


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