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=== 2010 ===
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|content=That [[Quantum Field Theory]] is now far more geometric than General Relativity ever was, seems a needlessly well kept secret from the layman.
|timestamp=5:43 AM ¡ Mar 1, 2010
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|content=I am only now understanding that even other physicists don't grasp how much 'string theorists' have explained in [[Quantum Field Theory|quantum field theory]].
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|content=The cost of misrepresenting string theory for a 1/4 century is not only loss of public trust. It's many successes trapped in snakeoil jars.
|timestamp=12:34 PM ¡ Mar 7, 2010
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|timestamp=12:39 PM ¡ Mar 7, 2010
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|content=It is gnawing at me that topological [[Quantum Field Theory|quantum field theory]] lacks a deRahm version and was born in Hodge formulation.
|timestamp=4:32 PM ¡ Aug 26, 2010
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|content=Q: Is it possible that the *framework* of [[Quantum Field Theory|'quantum field theory']] is no more limited to physics than was differential calculus?
|timestamp=1:57 PM ¡ Sep 1, 2010
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=== 2011 ===
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|content=I am saddened to read of the death of Dan Quillen. He is arguably the only one of us to have deepened quantum field theory 'en passant.'
|timestamp=12:43 AM ¡ May 3, 2011
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=== 2017 ===
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|content=@ChaosRapist But if you want to make a human centered argument for non Abelian Lie groups and [[Quantum Field Theory|Quantum field theory]] I wish you the best. Ciao
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|content=@ChaosRapist @SamHarrisOrg @jordanbpeterson
When you're done with Pepe, I'll find some energy.
|timestamp=5:50 AM ¡ Feb 1, 2017
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|content=@ChaosRapist I looked at your post-Pepe feed. "Retard", "Nazi babies", pentagrams, physical fighting challenges, Yet smart.Don't love combo.
|timestamp=3:17 PM ¡ Feb 1, 2017
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|content=@ChaosRapist I'll say a few brief things and then check out. My objection is predicated on the richness of the objects in standard math/phys
|timestamp=3:19 PM ¡ Feb 1, 2017
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|content=@ChaosRapist Freudenthal-Tits, monster group, Spinor reps, Atiyah Singer, Bott periodicity. These are all beyond human ability to create.
|timestamp=3:21 PM ¡ Feb 1, 2017
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|content=@ChaosRapist Further my theory of Geometric Unity suggests an inevitable universe that bootstraps itself into emergent existence from nothin
|timestamp=3:23 PM ¡ Feb 1, 2017
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|content=@ChaosRapist So an inevitable emergently rich physical and mathematical universe beyond human ingenuity is my substrate and starting point.
|timestamp=3:25 PM ¡ Feb 1, 2017
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|content=@ChaosRapist That said, this is not a formal refutation of a human centered universe. It is a refutation based on taste and plausibility.
|timestamp=3:27 PM ¡ Feb 1, 2017
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|content=@ChaosRapist I can steelman intuitionistic arguments to make them unkillable at a corresponding cost of implausibility. That kills interest.
|timestamp=3:29 PM ¡ Feb 1, 2017
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|timestamp=3:32 PM ¡ Feb 1, 2017
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|content=End/ An interpretation is that [[Ed Witten|Witten]], the greatest living mathematical physicist, was indicating to us that it was only these *abstractions* that were likely to survive, while the instantiations (i.e. the exact equations we still use) would likely perish.
A msg never recieived.
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|content=If I had but one paragraph to recommend as the most important in all of literature, it might well be this one. However, as you might imagine, unpacking it, could take up your entire life.
[There is a 'flaw' in the paragraph. The word 'gauge' should be replaced by
'structure'.]
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|timestamp=4:21 PM ¡ Nov 8, 2017
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|content=1/ Interesting esoteric features: </br>
i) refers to Einstein Field Equation for the gravitational force. (only implicitly).</br>
ii) refers to the Yang-Mills-Maxwell Equation for the other forces (only implicitly).</br>
iii) refers to the Dirac Equation for matter (yet again, only implicitly).
|timestamp=5:40 PM ¡ Nov 8, 2017
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|content=2/ The Quantum (e.g. quantum mechanics, [[Quantum Field Theory|quantum field theory]], quantum measurement, etc...) is relegated to a *secondary* status below the key geometric insights. This was likely done very subtly when the paper was given in the 1980s, as it was, and remains, a revolutionary idea.
|timestamp=5:43 PM ¡ Nov 8, 2017
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|timestamp=5:49 PM ¡ Nov 8, 2017
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=== 2019 ===
=== 2019 ===
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|content=More recently we talked about dark matter and black holes (2 yrs ago now) he was very excited about astro... b4 when i was a student he was just very encouraging and warm
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|content=One of the world’s greatest men has died. Most of you will have no idea who this is. I just don’t know how to bridge that gap yet to tell you what he did.
I was very close with his top collaborator. They were the [[Jim Watson|Watson]] and [[Francis Crick|Crick]] of mathematics to me. They rewrote my whole life.
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|content=[[Michael Atiyah|Michael Atiyah OM FRS]], President of the Royal Society 1990 -1995, died today. He was "a wonderful person who was a true internationalist and a fervent supporter for investing in talent – themes which resonate very clearly today." Read the full tribute https://royalsociety.org/news/2019/01/tribute-to-former-president-of-the-royal-society-sir-michael-atiyah/
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|timestamp=3:48 PM ¡ Jan 12, 2019
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|timestamp=3:48 PM ¡ Jan 12, 2019
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|content=There is a little known stone wall on Long Island. While flawed, it is a gift to all mankind that should be a pilgrimage site, as an understanding of the contents is nesessary to understand our world. Think of it as transcendent graffiti. Atiyah‘s spray-paint is everywhere here.
|timestamp=4:36 PM ¡ Jan 12, 2019
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|content=Imagine watery planets with holes and twists. Knotted donut planets  called base spaces. Crazy oceans called “Vector bundles” and “Principal bundles”.
He told us about how the twists and holes determine what waves must live on them and which cannot.
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|timestamp=4:59 PM ¡ Jan 12, 2019
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|content=He helped direct [[Ed Witten]] and Graeme Segal to truly tell us what [[Quantum Field Theory]] really was beyond being a physical theory. These men took a grab bag of techniques developed for calculation and showed us that they were a mellifluous whole of geometry, topology and physics.
|timestamp=5:03 PM ¡ Jan 12, 2019
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|content=If you want to know why I am so passionate about resisting the reign of terror against true scholarship it is this. Universities housed REAL scholarship beyond your wildest dreams. This kind of scholarship is not socially constructed. Almost no one can even do this level of work.
|timestamp=5:07 PM ¡ Jan 12, 2019
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|content=Very sad news indeed - I knew Michael from when I was at @TrinCollCam he was brilliant, warm & amazing. Was at a conference where he was supposed to speak on thursday #higgscentre - he cancelled at the last minute....
|timestamp=5:47 PM ¡ Jan 12, 2019
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|content=Wow. Did you guys ever talk shop? I have to admit I didn’t always get the most out of him 1 on 1. [[Isadore Singer|Singer]] and [[Raoul Bott|Bott]] were much clearer. [[Michael Atiyah|Atiyah]] and [[Ed Witten|Witten]] tended to tell you something related to whatever you asked but often not in a dialogue. More like a juke box of answers.
|timestamp=5:53 PM ¡ Jan 12, 2019
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|timestamp=5:56 PM ¡ Jan 12, 2019
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|content=@Turin_Luca Wow. Is this complexity persisting through to the research layer partially behind your disputes with chemists/biologists over olfaction?
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|content=Over time I’ve noted a fair number of scientifically oriented people who found Chemistry inscrutable. Math, biology &amp; physics show up as strengths, but they report Chemistry as the subject they couldn’t learn.
Does anyone else have this experience and, if so, can you explain it?
|timestamp=2:59 PM ¡ Feb 7, 2019
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|content=@Turin_Luca Luca, you are my go to guy here.
Let me imagine you had a high school that couldn’t possibly exist in reality because it taught quantum field theory by 9th grade and fairly advanced biology in 10th *before* chemistry in 11th grade. Would that make chemistry seem far less random?
|timestamp=3:32 PM ¡ Feb 7, 2019
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|timestamp=3:53 PM ¡ Feb 7, 2019
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|content=Attention: I found out from Wikipedia that as of the 17th, I'm NOT a mathematician anymore despite a PhD, but an economist. I now state that I've never taken a class in economics. In physics I have a semester of mechanics. No E&amp;M/[[Quantum Field Theory|QFT]].
I'm the Impostor your mama warned you about.
|timestamp=7:35 PM ¡ Mar 21, 2019
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