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Eric Weinstein uses the term "Einstein's Prison" to describe the constraints imposed by Einsteinian physics—specifically the speed of light as a fundamental limit that makes interstellar travel incredibly difficult. He argues that our current understanding of physics, based on Einstein’s theories, creates a kind of barrier preventing significant breakthroughs in space travel and fundamental physics. | |||
In contrast, the idea of an "Einsteinian Prison Break" is about finding a way beyond these constraints. Weinstein suggests that just as Einstein revolutionized Newtonian physics, we may need a new paradigm shift in physics—one that renders Einstein's theories as approximations rather than the most fundamental laws. He implies that such a breakthrough could allow for previously impossible ideas, like faster-than-light travel, to become feasible. | |||
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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'''.'' | '''''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'''.'' | ||
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- '''Eric Weinstein''', June 17, 2022 on [https://www.youtube.com/live/fdwuhU_zu8Y?t=7235 Into The Impossible 234] | - '''Eric Weinstein''', June 17, 2022 on [https://www.youtube.com/live/fdwuhU_zu8Y?t=7235 Into The Impossible 234] | ||
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== Related Concepts== | |||
* [[Physics Dollars]] | |||
* [[M-theory or String Theory is the Only Game in Town (Edge Essay)]] | |||
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[[Category:Physics]] | [[Category:Physics]] | ||