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|timestamp=1:51 AM · Jun 12, 2025
|timestamp=1:51 AM · Jun 12, 2025
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|content=We picked up this weird Quantum Fetish in the 1980s.
[[Claims|CLAIM]]: Discoveries in Classical Field theory have been FAR more important historically for our deep understanding of the physical world than Quantum theory. As late as 1986, this wasn’t even that controversial of an observation.
Further, the theory of Geometric Quantization can be interpreted as saying that classical Hamiltonian systems are roughly *Self Quantizing*. Which is huge and rectified a huge oversight.
I am not sure why I am constantly supposed to ooh and aah about all things quantum (“It’s entangled!!!” “The cat is both dead AND alive!” “It goes through both slits!!”) while pretending that our classical field theory is just a low energy effective theory.
This should be reversed in my opinion. Perhaps we aren’t making progress following the Quantum Fetishists with their Quantum Gravity that doesn’t work.
[[Claims|HERETICAL CLAIM]]: Classical Theory is FAR more important than the failed Quantum Gravity crowd understands. We would be much further ahead if we stopped the quantum fetish. The world *IS* quantum. But it is *also+ likely classical in a way that is equally if not more profound. We should split the field into quantum supremacists and mixed Quantum / Classical people and see if the second group doesn’t outpace the fetishists within the first.
|timestamp=7:26 PM · Sep 5, 2025
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|content=@karch_andreas @elonmusk The “promises” were not “just overblown”. Careers of competitors were ended. It was a time of “Join or Die”.
There was a bloody takeover of theoretical physics.
A lot of people had alternatives. Where are they now? They are gone.
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|content=This is how String Theorists lost the plot and everyone outside of physics.
@elonmusk makes a comment about String Theory not making any Predictions. He sees the next move coming and uses the word “testable”.
What could we say to an engineering CEO who *LOVES* physics, needs it to traverse the cosmos, and could save the field single-handedly
if we just wanted to piss him off instead by making it sound like the field is fake?
|timestamp=6:15 PM · Nov 16, 2025
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|content=“I didn’t forget your birthday at all! I just wrote you a birthday card that is 10,000,000,000,000,000x smaller than a quark. You just can’t read it.”
“String Theorists never claimed that Super-Symmetric String Theory would almost certainly mean Superpartners at LHC energies. It only seems that way to stupid people.”
“We didn’t fail to deliver a Unique Theory of Everything in 10 years as we claimed in the 1980s when we murdered the reputations of all our competitors as being stupid people who just didn’t get it.  No no no. Instead you merely got impatient in 2025 after a mere 4 decades of ‘aleged failure’. Because you don’t get science the way we do!!”
|timestamp=6:28 PM · Nov 16, 2025
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|content=I didn’t say that. I think @elonmusk thinks *theory* is dead or all but dead.
And I could not disagree with him more on this. But I *totally* understand why he would think this. Consider this:
“Well, the Challenger Space Shuttle Worked Perfectly,, except for one silly O-Ring. So the mission was actually a success if you think about it from that perspective.”
I would read the room and never say this. It’s important to admit failure.
String Theory failed. It was a hyper aggressive dismissive movement that cut it self off and became a cult and a culture that could not face its own failures. Let’s admit it, take the losses, listen to the OTHER voices who called this fiasco correctly,  and move on before we piss off the last of our friends and supporters.
|timestamp=6:44 PM · Nov 16, 2025
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|content=Andreas, I can defend String Theory and it’s technical accomplishments. And I can do so honestly.
But the “promises” were not “just overblown”:
We are *NOT* trying to measure physics as the “best candidate for unifying gravity and quantum mechanics”. The goal of fundamental physics is to progress our Actions, Equations, or the Lagrangians.
[[Claims|CLAIM]]: String Theory has at no point in its modern history Since 1984, been the unambiguous leading candidate for going beyond the Standard Model and/or General Relativity.
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|content=We picked up this weird Quantum Fetish in the 1980s.
[[Claims|CLAIM]]: Discoveries in Classical Field theory have been FAR more important historically for our deep understanding of the physical world than Quantum theory. As late as 1986, this wasn’t even that controversial of an observation.
Further, the theory of Geometric Quantization can be interpreted as saying that classical Hamiltonian systems are roughly *Self Quantizing*. Which is huge and rectified a huge oversight.
I am not sure why I am constantly supposed to ooh and aah about all things quantum (“It’s entangled!!!” “The cat is both dead AND alive!” “It goes through both slits!!”) while pretending that our classical field theory is just a low energy effective theory.
This should be reversed in my opinion. Perhaps we aren’t making progress following the Quantum Fetishists with their Quantum Gravity that doesn’t work.
[[Claims|HERETICAL CLAIM]]: Classical Theory is FAR more important than the failed Quantum Gravity crowd understands. We would be much further ahead if we stopped the quantum fetish. The world *IS* quantum. But it is *also+ likely classical in a way that is equally if not more profound. We should split the field into quantum supremacists and mixed Quantum / Classical people and see if the second group doesn’t outpace the fetishists within the first.
|timestamp=7:26 PM · Sep 5, 2025
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