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|content=I find it peculiar how many theorists want to explain just how things work in "Quantum Gravity."
 
Given, y'know, the absence of such a thy.
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|content=There is an interesting story I don’t know well enough. Many will recall the phrase “Unified Field Theory” as the hoped for ‘Theory of Everything.’ At some point this got replaced by “Quantum Gravity” as the goal. Does anyone know the full story behind this? Was it ‘70s? And how?
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|content=Ok. This is a weird take. The reluctance to engage foundations of quantum mechanics stemmed from the fact that it was far less generative than research in quantum field thy for decades. When Standard Model QFT stagnated & Quantum Gravity stumbled, the opportunity cost decreased.
|timestamp=10:09 PM · Sep 8, 2019
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|content=Does anyone know what @elonmusk thinks about the state of fundamental physics, unification, quantum gravity and the impact any such progress may have on humanity’s chance for survival? I realize that I’ve never heard him connect fundamental physics progress to plans for humanity.
|timestamp=3:50 AM · Oct 8, 2019
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|content=By mumbling “Quantum Gravity” every 2 minutes as a mantra and recasting actual High Energy Physics as “Phenomenology” they mis-educated an entire generation to think “toy physics” was real physics. It’s unbelievable.
Toy physics is real geometry & topology. But it ain’t physics.
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|content=Physics in 1980: “I’m trying to grasp why nature has 3 generations of chiral fermions with SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1) internal symmetry.”
Physics Today: “Remind me again what the internal quantum numbers are? I do quantum gravity so it’s not something I’ve worked with since my QFT class.”
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|content=I met this rot first in “Quantum Gravity”
 
Then in “Neo-Classical Economics”
 
Then in “Scientific Manpower Theory”
 
To hear it in virology with MILLIONS dead? Totally mind blowing.
 
Take back science, by any means necessary. It is now a matter of survival:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtfIIG8iYIk
|timestamp=5:52 PM · Oct 10, 2022
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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.
 
I’ll go first: “Quantum Gravity”
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|content=Quantum Gravity is a 69 year long slow-motion suicide pact. Can we discuss it? No we cannot. That would require discussing its modern origins in 1953 and 1957.
It is, by now, too big to fail. It is not even the elephant in the room. It’s the blue whale in physics’ linen closet.
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|content=@dingobabyboy Subsumed by Quantum Gravity.
|timestamp=3:48 PM · Nov 7, 2022
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|content=@CurtM2566 You are being distracted then. Focus on Quantum Gravity. Entanglement is real.
|timestamp=4:06 PM · Nov 7, 2022
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|content=@skdh I caution that you not fall into the trap of using Beauty as critique.
The abuse of Beauty in String Theory and Quantum Gravity more generally is valid as a target.
Critiquing the use of beauty, by contrast is a suicide mission. And I don’t want to see you on it. As a friend.
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|content=Either way, it’s a big deal. Everything changed in the early 70s. It’s impossible to say how much. The moment the Mansfield amendment came in, physics began to stagnate. And “Quantum Gravity” destroyed our culture of science. We don’t even whisper about its “Anti-Gravity” origin.
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|content=Other things that made/make me feel dumb:
Bernie Madoff’s Returns</br>
COVID origin questions = Racism</br>
Fauci</br>
Hilary’s Inevitability</br>
Quantum Gravity</br>
Jeffrey Epstein’s CCY trading Claims</br>
CPI Construction</br>
UFO/UAP</br>
Chinese Graduate Students in STEM</br>
Open Borders</br>
Defund The Police</br>
DEI</br>
NIH
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|content=What specific Quantum Gravity theory do you imagine has now been openned up for testing? Are these your words, and, if not, do you know what they mean?
I do not:
"dynamics expected from crossing a traversable wormhole, opening up possibilities to test quantum gravity theories."
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|content=Not trying to be difficult, but this sounds like an enormous announcement from Google as I assume you mean it to be as a CEO....and I don't get what is really being claimed in testing quantum gravity. Thx.
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