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|content=Here’s a little secret. Some (e.g. @elonmusk) search for good human beings who are also great interviewers when their reach is still *small*. | |content=Here’s a little secret. Some (e.g. @elonmusk) search for good human beings who are also great interviewers when their reach is still *small*. | ||
I encourage such hosts not to ask the same questions everyone else does. I then try to help them get bigger by giving them new material. | I encourage such hosts not to ask the same questions everyone else does. I then try to help them get bigger by giving them new material. | ||
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|content=And thanks for *always* being a great and generous friend. Generosity beats Clout every time because it is so rare in social and new media where mean is everywhere. | |content=And thanks for *always* being a great and generous friend. Generosity beats Clout every time because it is so rare in social and new media where mean is everywhere. | ||
Remember: the beginning is the romantic phase. The best part. Can’t wait to see what you do. Good luck Nicole!🙏 | Remember: the beginning is the romantic phase. The best part. Can’t wait to see what you do. Good luck Nicole!🙏 | ||
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|timestamp=3:50 PM · Jan 25, 2023 | |timestamp=3:50 PM · Jan 25, 2023 | ||
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|content=@witchcliff @DrDrhello10 @PiaMalaney @noatishby @LeahLamarr @Nature Let me ChatGPT that for you: | |content=@witchcliff @DrDrhello10 @PiaMalaney @noatishby @LeahLamarr @Nature Let me ChatGPT that for you: | ||
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Today Feb 1 marks the appearance of Kobayashi & Maskawa's englargment of the Cabibo Angle to the three generation 3x3 CKM matrix. | Today Feb 1 marks the appearance of Kobayashi & Maskawa's englargment of the Cabibo Angle to the three generation 3x3 CKM matrix. | ||
That should be cause for celebration. So let us celebrate! | That should be cause for celebration. So let us celebrate! | ||
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|timestamp=7:53 AM · Feb 02, 2023 | |timestamp=7:53 AM · Feb 02, 2023 | ||
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|content=Unfortunately, it also marks the end of what we can be certain actually is physics. | |content=Unfortunately, it also marks the end of what we can be certain actually is physics. | ||
Imagine if Elton John's "Crocodile Rock" was still the #1 song on Billboard's Hot 100 & Tony Orlando and Dawn were singing "Tie a Yellow Ribbon". That, in a nutshell, is fundamental phsyics. | Imagine if Elton John's "Crocodile Rock" was still the #1 song on Billboard's Hot 100 & Tony Orlando and Dawn were singing "Tie a Yellow Ribbon". That, in a nutshell, is fundamental phsyics. | ||
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|timestamp=7:53 AM · Feb 02, 2023 | |timestamp=7:53 AM · Feb 02, 2023 | ||
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|content=To be clear, It is not as if there are no Nobel Laureates recognized for fundamental discoveries in particle theory left. I believe we are down to the last 8. Half of them are in their 70s. One in his 80s. Three are nongenarians. Yes. It's that bad. And we're not honest about it. | |content=To be clear, It is not as if there are no Nobel Laureates recognized for fundamental discoveries in particle theory left. I believe we are down to the last 8. Half of them are in their 70s. One in his 80s. Three are nongenarians. Yes. It's that bad. And we're not honest about it. | ||
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|timestamp=7:53 AM · Feb 02, 2023 | |timestamp=7:53 AM · Feb 02, 2023 | ||
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|content=So I am celebrating today by pointing out the obvious: maybe it isn't a good idea to have people who haven't made contact with actual fundamental physics telling everyone else what they must and must not do to be members of a club that no longer works according to normal science. | |content=So I am celebrating today by pointing out the obvious: maybe it isn't a good idea to have people who haven't made contact with actual fundamental physics telling everyone else what they must and must not do to be members of a club that no longer works according to normal science. | ||
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|timestamp=7:53 AM · Feb 02, 2023 | |timestamp=7:53 AM · Feb 02, 2023 | ||
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|content=When you hear about "Peer Review" in this field, you have to understand that the field stopped working. Without nature telling us, we don't actually know who the physicists are any more. We have no idea who is a fundamental physicist. All we know is that what we do doesn't work. | |content=When you hear about "Peer Review" in this field, you have to understand that the field stopped working. Without nature telling us, we don't actually know who the physicists are any more. We have no idea who is a fundamental physicist. All we know is that what we do doesn't work. | ||
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|timestamp=7:53 AM · Feb 02, 2023 | |timestamp=7:53 AM · Feb 02, 2023 | ||
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|content=What fundamental physics really is, is (approximately) captured by the table below. In short, if someone is below the age of 70, they may have proven their brilliance and mathematical ability, but they have not proven any ability to make contact with reality as theorists. | |content=What fundamental physics really is, is (approximately) captured by the table below. In short, if someone is below the age of 70, they may have proven their brilliance and mathematical ability, but they have not proven any ability to make contact with reality as theorists. | ||
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|timestamp=7:53 AM · Feb 02, 2023 | |timestamp=7:53 AM · Feb 02, 2023 | ||
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|content=So what went wrong? I will be talking about my understanding of the stagnation this year at a different level. But the single greatest threat to fundamental physics in my estimation is something called "Quantum Gravity" which was really born 70 years ago around 1953. | |content=So what went wrong? I will be talking about my understanding of the stagnation this year at a different level. But the single greatest threat to fundamental physics in my estimation is something called "Quantum Gravity" which was really born 70 years ago around 1953. | ||
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|timestamp=7:53 AM · Feb 02, 2023 | |timestamp=7:53 AM · Feb 02, 2023 | ||
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|content=I will point out that our experimentalists are in FAR better shape. The massive nature of neutrinos, discovery of gravitational waves, the Higgs field, Intermediate Vector Bosons, Accelerating Expansion of the Universe/Dark Energy are all major successes over the last 50 years. | |content=I will point out that our experimentalists are in FAR better shape. The massive nature of neutrinos, discovery of gravitational waves, the Higgs field, Intermediate Vector Bosons, Accelerating Expansion of the Universe/Dark Energy are all major successes over the last 50 years. | ||
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|timestamp=7:53 AM · Feb 02, 2023 | |timestamp=7:53 AM · Feb 02, 2023 | ||
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|content=To put it bluntly, it is not just that Quantum Gravity doesn't work. It's that you can't comfortably question Quatnum Gravity because the failed investment is on a scale that I think is difficult for us to contemplate. It includes StringTheory, Loop Quantum Gravity, AdS/CFT etc. | |content=To put it bluntly, it is not just that Quantum Gravity doesn't work. It's that you can't comfortably question Quatnum Gravity because the failed investment is on a scale that I think is difficult for us to contemplate. It includes StringTheory, Loop Quantum Gravity, AdS/CFT etc. | ||
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|timestamp=7:53 AM · Feb 02, 2023 | |timestamp=7:53 AM · Feb 02, 2023 | ||
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|content=Next Year, will be 40 years of failure for modern StringTheory to ship a product. To be clear and STEELMAN the argument for strings, it *is* a remarkable framework. It is REAL math. It teaches us things no other framework has. | |content=Next Year, will be 40 years of failure for modern StringTheory to ship a product. To be clear and STEELMAN the argument for strings, it *is* a remarkable framework. It is REAL math. It teaches us things no other framework has. | ||
But, it *destroyed* the culture of honest physics. | But, it *destroyed* the culture of honest physics. | ||
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|timestamp=7:53 AM · Feb 02, 2023 | |timestamp=7:53 AM · Feb 02, 2023 | ||
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Uh. Bullshit. That is an excuse. It's not clear that it's physics at all. | Uh. Bullshit. That is an excuse. It's not clear that it's physics at all. | ||
It's a "Failed piece of 20th Century Physics still hanging around in the 21stC". | It's a "Failed piece of 20th Century Physics still hanging around in the 21stC". | ||
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|timestamp=7:53 AM · Feb 02, 2023 | |timestamp=7:53 AM · Feb 02, 2023 | ||
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|content=If we're going to truly wrestle w/ dark matter, or dark energy, or UAP that supposedly violate our laws of physics (e.g. General Relativity) we can't afford a leaders projecting their fears that THEY have wasted their lives, credibility and students careers on "Quantum Gravity". | |content=If we're going to truly wrestle w/ dark matter, or dark energy, or UAP that supposedly violate our laws of physics (e.g. General Relativity) we can't afford a leaders projecting their fears that THEY have wasted their lives, credibility and students careers on "[[Quantum Gravity]]". | ||
|timestamp=7:53 AM · Feb 02, 2023 | |timestamp=7:53 AM · Feb 02, 2023 | ||
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|content="If you haven't succeeded in 50-70 years, what other theories would be viable if we relaxed the standards you have imposed on your competitors given that your theories do not seem to work? What if your Quantum Gravity were subjected to such standards? Would QG be quackery?"🙏 | |content="If you haven't succeeded in 50-70 years, what other theories would be viable if we relaxed the standards you have imposed on your competitors given that your theories do not seem to work? What if your [[Quantum Gravity]] were subjected to such standards? Would QG be quackery?"🙏 | ||
|timestamp=7:53 AM · Feb 02, 2023 | |timestamp=7:53 AM · Feb 02, 2023 | ||
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|content="I remember when rock was young...🎶" | |content="I remember when rock was young...🎶" | ||
Let's get that energy back, by any means necessary. | Let's get that energy back, by any means necessary. | ||
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|timestamp=8:09 AM · Feb 02, 2023 | |timestamp=8:09 AM · Feb 02, 2023 | ||
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|content=@Pennywi25761697 For Classical Mechanics, from a math perspective I liked Arnold’s book. | |content=@Pennywi25761697 For Classical Mechanics, from a math perspective I liked Arnold’s book. | ||
Physicists all seem to use Jackson for E&M. But I would learn the bundle theoretic version where Maxwell becomes a single equation. GR I found Shlomo Sternberg’s papers and Books very helpful. Or Wald. | Physicists all seem to use Jackson for E&M. But I would learn the bundle theoretic version where Maxwell becomes a single equation. GR I found Shlomo Sternberg’s papers and Books very helpful. Or Wald. | ||
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|timestamp=4:40 PM · Feb 04, 2023 | |timestamp=4:40 PM · Feb 04, 2023 | ||
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|content=@Pennywi25761697 Also, I have been wanting to check out @seanmcarroll’s books and lectures on introductory topics. He is usually very clear and extremely good at explaining things. I might even start there, but I personally haven’t gotten there as of yet so I can’t say for sure. | |content=@Pennywi25761697 Also, I have been wanting to check out @seanmcarroll’s books and lectures on introductory topics. He is usually very clear and extremely good at explaining things. I might even start there, but I personally haven’t gotten there as of yet so I can’t say for sure. | ||
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|timestamp=4:44 PM · Feb 04, 2023 | |timestamp=4:44 PM · Feb 04, 2023 | ||
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Q: Given full knowledge of physical law, the Cosmos well beyond the reach of [[Chemical Rockets|rockets]] is likely: | Q: Given full knowledge of physical law, the Cosmos well beyond the reach of [[Chemical Rockets|rockets]] is likely: | ||
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|timestamp=4:16 PM · Jun 15, 2023 | |timestamp=4:16 PM · Jun 15, 2023 | ||
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