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00:30:30</br> | |||
'''Eric Weinstein'''</br> | |||
''We used to have a game called Tag War in my neighborhood. A new kid would come. We'd say, let's play tag war, and they would try to figure out the rules of tag. And more or less, it was hazing and abuse. And after about two and a half, three weeks, where we changed the rules over and over again so the person is, "I don't understand the rules. It feels like there are no rules." That's when they became part of the neighborhood, because it stood for the game without any rules. | |||
''That was what tag war meant. And my feeling about this is, we have a Tag War problem coming out of Quantum Gravity that is stalling the core field that has to get addressed in the lifetime of the people who are still there, who created the problem, because good science requires that they go back to the statements where there are a lot of people who are no longer here, people who began their careers in the 1980s.... | |||
''The fact of the matter is, it was an absolutely brutal thing. And, you know, Brian Greene and I have been having a back and forth about this. He got asked on Curt Jaimungal's program about "what are these issues that people keep talking about?" | |||
''He said, "Oh, well, you know, we were very enthusiastic" and I heard you say this thing about, you know, "particle theorists are like bosons, they all line up and they sort of find the same things interesting". No. North Koreans line up and find the same things interesting. Iraqis under Saddam Hussein all voted the same way. You have a problem, which is, why they're behaving like bosons rather than fermions, and why the fermions are being—you know, evolutionary theory has a concept called [https://thebasics.guide/interference-competition/ Interference Competition], where if you have one animal that tries to keep another animal from being able to get to the salt lick, or the water, or the food, and then other animal that's being kept from that dies off. And that's how we've lost these people. There are so many theories and interesting people who are no longer with us because of this mad grab for resources, quoting something like "White Man's Burden", you know, "Manifest Destiny". It is our manifest destiny to change the problem. We used to have a concept called Unified Field Theory, or unification, that went away and it got supplanted by something called quantum gravity. | |||
''And that became the thing that got rolled out through Dennis Overby in the New York Times, repeated in Science magazine, ad nauseum, until everyone was brainwashed, thinking, you know, "the problem of our time is Quantum Gravity", and it's not! | |||
''...It's not a question of "punish". Maybe Edward Witten has something to say about this behavior. And I would love to hear Cumrun, and Brian Greene, and Lenny Susskind, as well as, you know, Natty Seiberg and Eva Silverstein. It would be great to have these people in a dialog. You know, Natty Seiberg said something. He said, "String theorists are very arrogant. If somebody comes up with something that makes progress, that isn't string, we'll just say it's string theory." I'm like, "No, '''there's a concept called ''mustn't''. You don't get to do that stuff. You're in the wrong field if that's how you feel.''' And I know Natty, we have a cordial relationship. | |||
''You don't get to play that way, and you don't get to call people stupid unless you're going to back it up, or it can it can come back at you. I mean, I would be happy to talk to Lenny Susskind and talk to him about all the people he's insulted over the years because he's a very open about he's not hiding it. You just say, you're an old man, you're at the end of your career. How'd it go? What happened? Did did did you make the progress that your friend Feynman made or Murray Gell-Mann or any of the people that you knew from a previous—? And my feeling about this—pardon me? | |||
00:35:01</br> | |||
'''Brian Keating'''</br> | |||
That's a very high standard. | |||
00:35:02</br> | |||
'''Eric Weinstein'''</br> | |||
''Let's talk about, you know, the A-Team. The Institute for Advanced Study at some point recently had Robert de Graaf of String Theorist as its director, Natty Seiberg, a string theorist, Edward Witten, Juan Maldecena, and then Nima was the sort of off a little bit in not necessarily quantum gravity. That's an enormous investment in quantum gravity. And the problem that I'm having with this is, you know, Dan Friedman, a prominent Quantum Gravity researcher, talked about this openly. He said, "science only works when we actually go back and look at how we've behaved and confront our own failures". This is the same thing with the bootstrap method, I feel like what we're doing is we're living the Jeffrey Chu nightmare all over again.'' | |||
- '''Eric Weinstein''' and '''Brian Keating''' on [[Eric Weinstein and Dan Green - What is Wrong with Physics (YouTube Content)]] | |||
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