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=== 2023 ===
=== 2023 ===


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|content=Witten is amazing.
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|content=Thank you. Really appreciate this.
 
Trying to figure out if people want to go deeper into the physics history (e.g. the mixed blessing of Wilsonian Renormalization).
 
But I got a lot of feedback: The constructive comments on this thread were super helpful to me. Thanks all! 🙏
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|content=Hands down the best JRE Episode. This is one of the most inspiring interviews I've seen in some time. So many great points articulated in ways that are beyond my own ability by Eric Weinstein so it is not a shame to say I had to google some stuff. 😉
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|content=I ended up watching about 3hrs of Edward Witten.  So many fun threads to chase down.
|timestamp=7:44 PM · Feb 28, 2023
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|content=So you have my list. It is incomplete and idiosyncratic. I’d love to have your corrections and additions.
So….Where is yours? Thanks again.
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[[CN Yang]] (with Lee and Simons)</br>
[[CN Yang]] (with Lee and Simons)</br>
Paul Dirac</br>
[[Paul Dirac]]</br>
Ernst Stueckelberg</br>
Ernst Stueckelberg</br>
Madame Wu</br>
[[Madame Wu]]</br>
David Bohm</br>
David Bohm</br>
Abdus Salam</br>
Abdus Salam</br>
Ken Wilson</br>
[[Ken Wilson]]</br>
Emmy Noether</br>
Emmy Noether</br>
Ettore Majorana</br>
Ettore Majorana</br>
Carlo Rubio</br>
Carlo Rubio</br>
Shin'ichirō Tomonaga</br>
Shin'ichirō Tomonaga</br>
Lev Landau</br>
[[Lev Landau]]</br>
Simon Van der Meer</br>
Simon Van der Meer</br>
Freeman Dyson</br>
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Would be curious to hear names from others.
Would be curious to hear names from others.
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|content=i was hoping that the oppenheimer movie would inspire a generation of kids to be physicists but it really missed the mark on that.
let's get that movie made!
(i think the social network managed to do this for startup founders.)
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|timestamp=4:54 AM · Jul 23, 2023
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|content=But let’s face facts: inspiration is not the issue. Fundamental Physics needs to be a good life. What is holding us back is:
A) Terrible Pay.
B) Worse Odds of Survival
C) Decoupling of Success at Physics from Success in Physics
D) The Matthew Effect.
E) Math and Physics Pricks
F) Tyranny of large programs over individuals.
G) Multi Decade Stagnation
H) Un Scientific And even Anti-scientific behavior.
I) The Matilde Effect
J) The Sudarshan Effect
K) Ethics Collapse
L) Needlessly long pedagogical sequence (e.g. intro physics -> Classical Mechanics -> Grad Classical Mechanics -> Symplectic Geometry)  driven by history.
M) Socializing physics into a team sport in areas dominated by individuals and iconoclasts.
N) Tolerance for Program level failure (e.g. *obsessive* use of toy model physics to evade a reckoning).
O) Intolerance for individual error and failure by those in programs.
P) Failure to reward early contributions (e.g. *Abelian* Chern Simons QFT).
Q) Atrocious MSM journalism distorting the public understanding.
R) Relentless discussion of woo physics in public and 3-5 real topics (e.g. somebodies cat).
S) Learned Helplessness coming from over-learning Ken Wilson.
T) Inability to support motherhood of female physicists.
U) Inability to keep physics marriages easily together with jobs.
V) DEI loyalty oaths and loss of autonomy.
W) Flooding of markets with disposable labor and abuse apprenticeship as labor.
X) Kicking up on attribution.
Y) Overpaying for cherry topping.
Z) Fetishizing the quantum when innovation in classical field theory remains the heart of QFT.
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|content=But lastly, if outsiders want to fund and fix movies, you will find that going to the “Leading physicists” won’t work. Peer review can’t work when the leadership *is* the problem. You get more failure.
You need to hold meetings where you get disagreement. So choose the leaders and iconoclasts with great care. Patrick Collison isn’t terrible at this. B+. Best I have ever seen. Start there. Good luck. 🙏
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