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|content=People ask me how you can tell whether scientific experts are leveling with them if the lay public doesn’t understand deep science.  
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Here an interviewer asks a leading String Theorist how things are going after 25 years since popularizing String theory in a well received book: https://t.co/qABOTwBEzU
Here an interviewer asks a leading String Theorist how things are going after 25 years since popularizing String theory in a well received book:
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|content=TIFR is outside the U.S.
I should have said Inside the U.S.
But that is helpful. I don’t see Wilczek and Nima as really stringy either. But that is not a topic I need to get into here.
You have been very helpful. Thanks my silicon friend. As usual.
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I can easily identify many of these folks from personal interaction and their work, but not quite all.  Some help please?  
I can easily identify many of these folks from personal interaction and their work, but not quite all.  Some help please?  


🙏 https://t.co/lYKWB0Npnj
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|content=Sure. Wati as well at MIT. Etc.
|content=So @grok: other than Guth, Randall, and Smolin, are there any other gravitational researchers you see in this public photo?
 
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So @grok, it seems at least a bit odd that [[Jeffrey Epstein|Epstein]]…or whatever was behind Epstein…may have been choosing to avoid the more obvious [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]] people in favor of Less-Stringy people. Is this wrong?
 
It’s not a slam dunk. But I’m just now realizing it fits with an obscure thing he was trying to get at. I know that D. Gross was at least periferally in his orbit. But are there any prominent string theorists closely associated with, or funded by Epstein?  
 
Or was most of his gravity focus string avoiding? I’m trying to invalidate this angle of inquiry, so it would be helpful to find an interest in Strings to contradict the hypothesis.  Thanks.
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|content=Based on the photo, besides Alan Guth, Lisa Randall, and Lee Smolin, I see Seth Lloyd, an MIT professor known for work in quantum gravity and black hole information theory. No string theorists apparent.
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|content=He should try talking plainly about Inflation.  
|content=Thanks @Grok! I guess I mostly know Seth from a bit later.


Or String Theory and [[Quantum Gravity]].
But this is a bit interesting no? That would be 4 gravitational physicists, all not identified with string theory. And in 2004!


Or Immigration. Terror. Ukraine. Peer Review
Who were the prominent string theorists connected to Harvard-MIT-Cambridge  in 2004?
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|content=In 2004, prominent string theorists in the Harvard-MIT-Cambridge area included:


Or Mortgage Backed Securities. Epstein.
- At Harvard: Cumrun Vafa (F-theory, mirror symmetry) and Andrew Strominger (black hole entropy in strings).


Furin Cleavage Sites. Selection. Econ 101.
- At MIT: Barton Zwiebach (string field theory, author of "A First Course in String Theory" that year).


It’s all so much fun.
Nima Arkani-Hamed was also at Harvard, with work touching on string-related topics.
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|content=We picked up this weird Quantum Fetish in the 1980s.
|content=Sure. Wati as well at MIT. Etc.
 
So @grok, it seems at least a bit odd that [[Jeffrey Epstein|Epstein]]…or whatever was behind Epstein…may have been choosing to avoid the more obvious [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]] people in favor of Less-Stringy people. Is this wrong?
 
It’s not a slam dunk. But I’m just now realizing it fits with an obscure thing he was trying to get at. I know that D. Gross was at least periferally in his orbit. But are there any prominent string theorists closely associated with, or funded by Epstein?
 
Or was most of his gravity focus string avoiding? I’m trying to invalidate this angle of inquiry, so it would be helpful to find an interest in Strings to contradict the hypothesis.  Thanks.
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|content=Epstein had connections to some string theorists. David Gross (heterotic strings) attended Epstein's 2006 gravity conference and dinners. Frank Wilczek (QCD/strings) was also at that event and listed in Epstein's claimed associations. Andrew Strominger (strings/black holes) facilitated a likely Epstein donation to a string theory fund at Harvard/TIFR. Funding to IAS supported string research (e.g., Witten). This suggests some interest, though his network leaned broader in gravity. Not a full avoidance.
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|content=He should try talking plainly about Inflation.
 
Or String Theory and [[Quantum Gravity]].
 
Or Immigration. Terror. Ukraine. Peer Review
 
Or Mortgage Backed Securities. Epstein.
 
Furin Cleavage Sites. Selection. Econ 101.
 
It’s all so much fun.
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|content=We picked up this weird Quantum Fetish in the 1980s.


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.  
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.  
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It's about [[Quantum Gravity|Loop Quantum Gravity]]:  
It's about [[Quantum Gravity|Loop Quantum Gravity]]:  


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https://link.springer.com/article/10.12942/lrr-1998-1#Sec1
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|content=It's going to ultimately be about gravity.  
|content=It's going to ultimately be about gravity.
He was focused not on robotics, but on gravity. https://t.co/HCqlia5m8Y
He was focused not on robotics, but on gravity.
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|content=🚨EPSTEIN FILES <nowiki>|</nowiki> BIRTHDAY BOOK CONTAINS AI AND ROBOTICS MATHEMATICS: ADVANCED TOPOLOGY FOR MOTION PLANNING?
 
The mysterious geometric diagrams in Epstein's birthday book have been identified as Whitney-stratified spaces and Morse theory—advanced mathematics reportedly used in robotics, AI, and 3D data analysis.
 
The complex equations involve topology of spaces with singularities, showing cone structures and stratified manifolds.
 
These are mathematical concepts with applications in motion planning and shape analysis.
 
Who contributed these highly technical diagrams to a birthday book filled with celebrity letters remains unknown.
 
The sophisticated mathematics stands in stark contrast to the disturbing personal content throughout.
 
Source: House Oversight
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|content=I keep trying to explain it, but you aren't listening.
|content=I keep trying to explain it, but you aren't listening.
Source: https://t.co/ECXrqxJR7m https://t.co/pAwaulqIwy
Source: https://cpt.univ-mrs.fr/~rovelli/RovelliStockholmSpinFoam.pdf
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