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'''''Einstein's Prison''' is the distance to the nearest habitable world. So that if we imagine that we're going to somehow travel just below the speed of light in an Einsteinian way, full benefits of time dilation, you found the closest habitable planet, you stayed there for an hour, and you came back, how much older is everyone here on Earth? Even if you were able to make the trip lickety-split, it would be it. It's a depressingly large distance to the outside world. So that moat, effectively, if there is an Einsteinian speed limit, we have to recognize that it belongs to the map, which is known as space-time, which is not the territory which is wherever we actually live, where we do not live in space-time. But that is our best map that we have. So that's what I mean by '''Einstein's Prison'''.'' | |||
- '''Eric Weinstein''', March 5, 2025 on [[Cracking_Einstein_UFOs_Lead_the_Way_Eric_Weinstein_and_Avi_Loeb_(YouTube_Content)|Cracking Einstein UFOs Lead the Way {{!}} Eric Weinstein and Avi Loeb]] | |||
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''Then you start thinking about, okay, well, what about the Moon and Mars? Yeah, the moon you can get to, Mars you can get to, but it's pretty tough to think about, and then you have to think about terraforming. It sounds like science fiction. Bezos weirdly, maybe a little bit better—he's talking about orbital space station's, but if you ask me, you know, you have some super fragile, brittle spinning Ziqi Hills wheel to give you centrifugal centripetal gravity or something like that. That's not gonna work. The real diversity comes from getting beyond Einstein. We don't know whether it's possible, it's possible that the ultimate theory beyond Einstein doesn't allow you to leave either. So right now we're in '''Einstein's Prison'''. And what we need is an '''Einsteinian Prison Break'''. And the way to do that is to ask, can we do to Einstein what Einstein did Newton, which is that you render Einstein an approximate rather than a fundamental theory? At the moment, it's the most fundamental theory we have, along with what's called the Standard Model of Quantum Field Theory. My goal is to say, is the theory that does to Einstein what Einstein did to Newton, does that have a new feature, which is that what previously seemed like faster than light travel becomes possible? And so that should be the question obsessing everyone. But Bezos doesn't seem interested. Biden doesn't seem interested. Musk doesn't seem interested. The Silicon Valley people don't seem—everybody wants to go on an Ayahuasca retreat or build DeFi. And I just look at them. And I just think, you have no effing idea where you are.'' | ''Then you start thinking about, okay, well, what about the Moon and Mars? Yeah, the moon you can get to, Mars you can get to, but it's pretty tough to think about, and then you have to think about terraforming. It sounds like science fiction. Bezos weirdly, maybe a little bit better—he's talking about orbital space station's, but if you ask me, you know, you have some super fragile, brittle spinning Ziqi Hills wheel to give you centrifugal centripetal gravity or something like that. That's not gonna work. The real diversity comes from getting beyond Einstein. We don't know whether it's possible, it's possible that the ultimate theory beyond Einstein doesn't allow you to leave either. So right now we're in '''Einstein's Prison'''. And what we need is an '''Einsteinian Prison Break'''. And the way to do that is to ask, can we do to Einstein what Einstein did Newton, which is that you render Einstein an approximate rather than a fundamental theory? At the moment, it's the most fundamental theory we have, along with what's called the Standard Model of Quantum Field Theory. My goal is to say, is the theory that does to Einstein what Einstein did to Newton, does that have a new feature, which is that what previously seemed like faster than light travel becomes possible? And so that should be the question obsessing everyone. But Bezos doesn't seem interested. Biden doesn't seem interested. Musk doesn't seem interested. The Silicon Valley people don't seem—everybody wants to go on an Ayahuasca retreat or build DeFi. And I just look at them. And I just think, you have no effing idea where you are.'' | ||