A Portal Special Presentation- Geometric Unity: A First Look: Difference between revisions

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<p>[00:37:51] <span style="color:#de2898;">'''Eric Weinstein: '''</span>[00:37:51] So it's, well, uh, it's a great pleasure to be here in Oxford, uh, for those of you who are not aware. Mmm. It is possible that no other university in the world has kept so tightly. Uh, and kept the faith for so long with, uh, Einstein's great vision of a final theory for physics as a theory of pure geometry, sort of elegance and simplicity of the highest order.

<p>[00:41:41] So in that spirit, let us begin.

<p>[00:41:47] What is physics to physicists today? How do they see it different from the way in which we might imagine the lay person sees physics? [[Ed Witten]] was asked this question in a talk he gave on physics and geometry many years ago, and he pointed us to three fundamental insights, which were his big three insights in physics.

<p>[00:58:50] This would be a program for some kind of unification of Dirac’s type, but in the force sector. The question is, does this really make any sense? Are there any possibilities to do any such thing?

<p>[00:59:12] So what I'd like to do is I'd like to talk a little bit about what the Geometric Unity proposal is.