Gauge Theory
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2009
Me: Marginal economics is a gauge theory.
Economist X: Do the experts agree?
Me: What experts? How do you live like that?
Lee Smolin: Eric Weinstein and Pia Malaney say Economics is a Gauge theory.
Economist Y: Lee Smolin says Economics is a gauge theory.
2021
Gauge Theory: A version of the differential calculus in which the Rise in âRise over Runâ is measured from a reference level that must be determined endogenously within the theory.
And yet, supposedly, I am super confusing?
Ok. Compare anyone elseâs definition. Iâll wait.
CPI is broken. Why?
Think of CPI as a gauge like a thermometer. You canât have politically motivated folks making your thermometers or they can change the design to cover up climate change. Likewise you canât have economists changing the gauge to disguise the effect of printing.
A crypto native CPI governed on the blockchain to create a decentralized stablecoin people can rely on to keep their standard of living the same across time. A true alternative to fiat rather than a speculative investment asset like most other coins.
The economists canât yet compute a dynamic Cost-Of-Living-Adjustment or COLA or âChained Changing Preference Ordinal Welfare Konus Indexâ to be perfectly pedantic. Not because it doesnât exist. But because they donât have the math and donât want to lose their finger on the scale.
But more importantly, we have a culture that economics literally trumpets (and I swear I am not making this up) âEconomic Imperialismâ. It is âwe know math and you donâtâ-culture.
No. They donât know their own math. I will debate any high ranking economist on this point.
Itâs time to reveal that economics, far from embracing math or having physics envy, is deliberately avoiding solutions to old problems so that it can make up new gauges for CPI/GDP at will while telling the rest of the soft sciences âWe know your field better because we do math.â
No. Economics is an avoiding gauge theory, connections, Lie Groups, etc so it can retain its political relevance as an expert consultancy. Iâm with the crypto folks on this. Our economy must be protected from Seigniorage (printing money) and CPI tampering (e.g. Boskin Commission).
CPI should notâŠMUST NOTâŠbe adjustable to disguise inflation. It needs to be protected from the FED diluting the power of money and the BLS being free to disguise the effects by changing the method of construction.
End the forced wealth transfers of central bankers covering up their own failures with âReliefâ, âEasingâ, âStimulousâ, âRescuesâ, âToxic Asset Purchasesâ, and other bailouts of our incompetent financial overlords.
We must protect CPI from economists disguising wealth dilution.
P.S. before you remind me how arrogant this sounds, keep in mind, that I am willing to debate this publicly with any leading economist eager to defend the central bankers and triumphalist theorists openly bragging about their math. Read this, and be sick:
https://nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w7300/w7300.pdf
Moral: Gauge Theory fixes this intellectual corruption problem of economic imperialism, and #btc, blockchains and Crytpo can help.
2024
This is what is blocking progress in my opinion for physics to go beyond Einstein and General Relativity.
40 years ago, the leaders of physics started claiming that gravity had to be quantized to be compatible with the Standard Model.
But the incompatibility is *not* Quantum vs Classical field theory. The *classical* field theory of the Standard Model is already not compatible with classical General Relativity.
General Relativity, at least as it is now, simply cannot be gauged so as to make it a true gauge theory, because Gauge transformation does *not* commute with the Ricci Contractions used in the field equations, and within the Einstein Hilbert action.
I wish I deserved the heretic moniker, but isnât asking whether spacetime is quantum or classical just common sense? After all, general relativity (GR) - our theory of gravity and spacetime - is special. It isnât a gauge theory, and gravity isnât a force. 1/
For some reasons that have never been explained or justified leaders in physics started making the claim that GR *was* also a gauge theory. This was done by claiming that general coordinate invariance in the form of the diffeomorphism group is a kind of Gauge Transformation. Which it clearly is not.
This is absurd. Gauge transformations move the fibers and are defined not to move space time where as diffeomorphisms move space time directly.
So: why claim that GR is a kind of gauge theory? The only payoff I see is that this allows us to pretend that the SM vs GR incompatibility is classical vs quantum where it is staring us in the face that it is instead contraction-based (GR) vs Gauge Transformed (SM).
The only reason this is at all controversial is that the people saying it were thought to be the leaders 40 years ago.
That didnât work out. We have 40 years lost as a result.
But the truth is anyone can see the incompatibility between gravity and gauge theory if they are not being told that gravity is a special kind of gauge theory. Which it absolutely is not as formulated by Grossman, Einstein and Hilbert.
Moral: The problem holding us back from a Theory of everything is **Classical**, and not Quantum. The quantum comes as desert after classical compatibility. Itâs not the main issue. A red hearing that throws us off following the scent. Itâs a distraction that should have fooled almost no one who was thinking for his or her self.
2025
Geometric Unity predicted that thereâs no cosmological constant by replacing the frought term w/ a natural geometric varying field, invariant under symmetries.
Iâve given several talks on this recently in different physics depts. This was filmed at one in the U.S. in April.
A Universe without a cosmological constant? @EricRWeinstein presents a technical lecture @UCSanDiego on the future of Einsteinâs âBiggest Blunderâ in light of Geometric Unity & DESIâs newest results.
Watch:
To define this term, Geometric Unity constructs an Inhomogeneous Gauge Group as the source for the terms in the difference, and then replaces the Einstein field equations, term by term, with a new equation on a space of fields, far better behaved than Einsteinâs space of metrics.
@EricRWeinstein Caught your debate with Sean Carroll on Piers. Why do you think he was spouting off so much misinformation about GU? "There's no Lagrangian!" I'm looking at the paper right now. There's literally 3 pages worth of Lagrangians like wtf.
The whole debate was very odd, Carroll didn't offer a single criticism of any substance, not a single concept or equation. We need to remember Sean at heart is a philosophy and astronomy major, not a mathematician or physicist despite their self-styling
Not that you said anything wrong, but let me advance a different perspective. Seanâs work is a an undisclosed *direct* competitor to GU. Attached in a screenshot are the first three lines of his 1990 abstract.
Let me put them in the language of GU.
âThe Chern-Simons Lagrangian has been studied previously in (2+1)-dimensional spacetime, where it is both gauge and Lorentz invariant. We the authors believe that outside of this special dimension, there is a fundamental trade off where we must either violate Ehresmannian Bundle Geometry (Gauge Theory of Particle Theory) or the pointwise Lorentz Invariance of Riemannian Geometry (Einsteinâs General theory of Relativity). It appears to the authors that the right way to construct an analogous term in 3+1 dimensions is to create a Chern Simons-like term which couples the dual electromagnetic tensor to an artificial external four-vector which has no supporting evidence or motivation and violates both Einsteinâs Special and General theories of Relativity. If we take this four-vector to be fixed, the term is gauge invariant but not Lorentz invariant throwing out one of the two pillars of modern physics. We do it anyway, because we believe the above mentioned tradeoff precludes any other approach.â
I personally knew Seanâs co-author Roman Jackiw decently well on this topic as he was at MIT. This was his perspective.
Why is Geometric Unity called Geometric Unity? Because we believe you can sacrifice neither geometry or the field will come to a standstill. Itâs right there in the name. You need to have both Riemannian and Ehressmanian geometry to combine Gravity and Particle theory respectively.
Seanâs work is the DIRECT competitor of this GU theory. And GU sacrificed neither.
Given info on this link, why do you need Riemannian geometry in the first place if it is a subset of Ehressman?
https://chatgpt.com/share/68386b13-93e0-8013-a47d-75b2769f464d
Ah. It has two features that general Ehressmanian geometry generally lacks:
I) A distinguished Choice of Connection (The Levi Civita connection and the connections induced from it on associated bundles).
II) Tensor Decomposition coming from the lack of structure groups auxiliary to those of the tangent bundles.
So actually the specific sub geometry of (pseudo)-Riemannian geometry is an exchange of Gauge Symmetry and field content freedom for these two attributes.
Except in totally exotic cases. Like the one in which we oddly happen to liveâŠbut I digress.
I am excited to use AI to destroy Peer Capture in Peer Review.
The people who donât understand their own fields (like many economists) have captured the ability to keep out new ideas. Why would I accept their review?
Economics IS a full blown gauge theory. Thatâs a fact discovered by myself and a collaborator.
If you donât get that @florianederer you have less than a year left to be a raging bully. Enjoy your time. Tempus fugit.
Itâs going to be bitter. Learn something from this interaction and you will be better for it. Times change.
As of now, you just donât get it. And itâs your field. Supposedly. Iâll just wait. Wont be long either.
Econ Conversation starts here. Collegial. Interdisciplinary. Good faith.
There is a tell when listening to physics folks as to whether theyâre captured by the 1984 Quantum Gravity virus.
They either say:
A) âGeneral Relativity has to be reconciled with the Standard Model.â
or
B) âGeneral Relativity has to be reconciled with Quantum Theory.â
So, what is the difference?
In the latter case of B), the diagnosis has already been definitively made. The problem is thus at the level of frameworks, not the level of theoretical models of the actual world. The issue has been made into â*THE* problem is that the classical theory of Gravity must be quantized.â That is, the classical framework of gravity must be dragged into our general quantum framework as the top priority. Seen this way, it is more of a technical math problem rather than something hyperspecific about our two theories of our physical world.
OPINION: There is absolutely no basis for this B) being an absolute whatsoever. This is a madness which started appearing as a String Theory mantra around 1984 and has led to a crisis.
In the case of A) that definitive diagnosis has *not* been made. The case is still Open. The issue is thus that âWe have two specific physical theories that donât quite fit together for multiple reasons. We need to figure out a physical framework to accommodate them both. That may be a third framework that harmonizes them rather than forcing one into the framework of the other. We need to consider all clues before reaching a definitive diagnosis.â
OPINION: It made absolutely no sense to have closed the case in 1984âŠand after 40 years of continuous failure, the issue is the leadership of the field. Opening the case and saying âGR and the SM have multiple issues. Not just quantization. Why are we not considering that the strong leadership forced THE WRONG DIAGNOSIS on the entire community??â
This is like saying âMaybe COVID came from NIAID/NIH/DTRA/EcoHealth/Daszak/Fauci/Collins/BaricâŠcan we consider that??â
And the answer is âNoâ.
But that is why we are stuck in my opinion. We are stuck because we canât question physics leadership without being thrown out of the community.
The dogmatic zealous leadership of physics totally failed. That is what happened. That cost us 41 years.
We canât get to COVID origins for the same reason we canât get to String Theory origins as âthe only game in town.â
The imposed absolutist central narrative is simply a lie.
One manâs opinion.
I don't see the difference. Seems to me one could interpret B the same way you are interpreting A.
âThe top priority is that the Standard Model has Internal Symmetry while General Relativity does not.â
âThe top priority is that the Standard Model is a full Gauge Theory while General Relativity has no gauge invariance.â
âThe top priority is that GR allows contraction across the tensor product of bundles while the Standard Model does not.â
âThe top priority is that GR has well defined Contorsion tensors while the Standard Model does not.â
Those are all possibile research programs within A. Not within B.
The position of most news organizations explaining their low interest in Epstein has been that this is mostly a non story. An Internet-meme spun out of control.
Iâve maintained for ~20 yrs that this was about a lot more than sex. This was a major operation of some kind.
The stripping of Former Prince Andrewâs titles shows to our news organizations that this story is real: mere internet memeâs donât bring down princes.
We are going to find a collection of different major sub-operations. And one of them is going to be about gravitational physics.
At some point this story is going to stop being principally about sex.
And it is going to stop being principally about Jeffrey Epstein.
Itâs going to be about âsources & methodsâ of an extremely large transnational covert operations hub protected by âState Secrets Privilegeâ.
Do I know this for sure? No.
Am I idly speculating? No. Iâm lodging a crisp prediction with high conviction.
The story appears to be moving backward from deniability rather than forward from evidence.
It would be too easy to break this story. The participation of editors at all leading news organizations is way too high.
Too many reporters have started reporting on this story, only to be shut down *quite* late in their investigations. Trust me on this.
The level of personal credibility being lost in pretending ânobody caresâ cannot be explained without an even larger incentive to play dumb.
This is going to be partially about state interest in Gravity/Physics/Science and National Security. And for the life of me I canât figure out the specifics.
If I had to guessâŠand this is much lower conviction than the preceding âŠthe US government will eventually at some point be forced to switch strategies and pivot to openly invoking SSP to stop the bleeding. Ghislaine will be pardoned. There will be some vague mentions of internal closed door hearings and investigations. There might be an executive order that minors can never be used in covert operations.
But the absurdity of:
1) Trafficking girls to no one.
2) A non-story that brings down princes.
3) Near zero news interest in a story that obsesses an entire planet with claims of âno one cares, we all moved on.â
4) Claims that we have mountains of evidence that somehow also donât exist.
This is going to collapse under self contradiction. The credibility loss alone is already unfathomable.
Lastly, this was just a bad operation.
It caught ordinary people in its web. I believe Epsteinâs masters wanted to fund me. But using a bank to funnel a mathematician into a bizarre alternate reality to indirectly fund him via book deals or hedge fund allocations is f*****g stupid.
Epstein didnât know low dimensional gauge theory. I promise you that. But someone in this operation did. And whoever that was knew that âSelf-Dual Yang-Mills theoryâ was, despite the name, a LOT closer to General Relativity and gravity than it is to Yang-Mills Theory and the Standard Model. That was *exceedingly* rare knowledge to have for a dilettante. Still is. Even for an expert. A *huge* clue.
This isnât principally about sex or Epstein. Itâs about a large bad covert operation hub that may have been well built for secrecy but couldnât survive the modern internet age.
And, I believe, it is about state interest in *Gravity* among many other things.
Any thoughts @grok? Care to explain SSP, Covert vs Clandestine, and SDYM?
Thanks @grok.
Would you agree that in 2005, most all experts would have seen Euclidean signature SDYM as much closer to the Standard model than GR?
Or do I have that wrong?
Be honest. I have my own impression and will not take offense if you have another that disagrees.
Take your time. This is a rather important and pivotal clue as I see it.
@grok Back to sleep. Thanks for that. Appreciated.
I believe Epstein is referring implicitly to the âStigler Commissionâ of 1959-1961.
This comes from a phone conversation around 2004.
In a telephone conversation around 2004, he somehow was already well aware of the 1996 Boskin Commission and Harvard Economics department burying our work on Gauge Theory in economics called âGeometric Marginalismâ. That seemed pretty weird at the time.
With the benefit of hindsight and scrutiny, I now understand that he was connected to AT LEAST two of my colleagues from my time as an Economist in the @HarvardEcon department and @nber. To say nothing of the fact that he was connected to AT LEAST two more of colleagues from my time as an math graduate student in the @HarvardMath department. He was evidently in the background of *everywhere* I was over three and a half decades from 1985-2019. Itâs astounding.
I believe from memory what he means is the following:
In the 1950s inflation was not yet the tool of policy that it became after the âPrice Statistics Review Committeeâ around 1960, and the indexing of Social Security to CPI in the mid 1970s. It was a simple gauge.
After that time, it became a quiet tool. And a weapon. You could use it to transfer not billionsâŠbut trillions. Why? Because a GIANT amount of all U.S. Federal receipts are indexed.
He thought it was funny that we expected our work to be heard given that trillions were being stolen.
I hope that there is a transcript of this conversation as well as the gravity phone calls about GU. If so, it will likely point back to Litauer and Rosovsky, Jorgenson and Summers.
So to sum it up: he is not wrong.
I think what I said to him is that after the 1950s, inflation became a modern tool/weapon rather than a measurement starting with the Stigler Commisson. I explained my view that the @BLS_gov is a quiet version of the @federalreserve. An insanely powerful âStatisticsâ organization where economists actually implement policy by simply chosing how to compute economic numbers.
Numbers that just so happen to automatically transfer trillions and touch every aspect of our lives.
He already knew a lot of the Boskin/GaugeTheory story from Harvard. Less about Stigler if I remember correctly.
Iâd love to ask Larry about all this now.
Many years ago, I started telling people âHarvard is not what you think it is.â
It was both the best and worst place to do research in the world. This was hard to explain. No one wanted to believe it.
It has since gotten a lot easier to explain the depth of the problem thanks to Larry Summers, Claudine Gay, Jeffrey Epstein, Elizabeth Warren, Henry Rosovsky, PEDS, etc., particularly at @HarvardMath, and @HarvardEcon.
Harvard was generally to scientific narratives what the @nytimes editorial board was to the US national narrative: a group of unelected people who largely said what was and what was not. More than any other university, they decided what was real and what was to be discarded as trash. They decided who was to get credit. Who would be named. Who would be asked to write the review articles that told the stories. Etc.
Harvard was the source of a rich research narrative that emerged from closed door meetings, secret seminars, and various star chambers.
I vividly remember being told that I would not be allowed to attend even my own thesis defense. I was just dumbfounded. Speechless. What do you even say to such people?
Professors at other institutions immediately thought I had lost my mind when I told them. Literally. Surely, this was a claim too insane to be real. âHow is that even possible?â I donât know of any other university on earth that prohibits PhD candidates from being in the room of their thesis defense or prohibits them from choosing who will at least represent them. Itâs beyond any other universityâs abilities to control narratives at this level. Except Harvard.
Harvard University is, in many ways, a cryptic extension of the U.S. Federal government. Particularly the Economics Department, Government Department, the Kennedy School, the Law School and several science departments.
I am hoping that at least some of that will show up in the Epstein document releases. It will make it much easier to explain Geometric Marginalism and Geometric Unity and what happened to them.
They happened at Harvard for a reason. They just happened to conflict with 2-3 narratives that were already being written there. If they hadnât, things could have been rather different.
Iâm excited to show you this hidden world *if* we happen to get lucky and get some Harvard internal information in the releases. Particularly around the Boskin Commission and Gravity/Gauge Theory. JE was exposed to both.
Will it happen? I hope so.
Dare to dream.