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|content=Discussion of the future of theoretical physics seems like a game of "Intellectual Keepaway." | |content=Discussion of the future of theoretical physics seems like a game of [[Intellectual Keep-Away|"Intellectual Keepaway."]] | ||
Its the same group of mandarins who predicted LHC SuperSymmetry, Mini-Black holes, SU(5) Grand Unification, [[String Theory]], [[Quantum Gravity|Q-Gravity]] would work. | Its the same group of mandarins who predicted LHC SuperSymmetry, Mini-Black holes, SU(5) Grand Unification, [[String Theory]], [[Quantum Gravity|Q-Gravity]] would work. | ||
What do our *heretics* say instead? | What do our *heretics* say instead? | ||
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|content=Past ACP President Michael Turner and Maria Spiropulu in conversation with @overbye of @nytimes discuss the future of Physics! #physics #particlephysics #spacetime #stringtheory #physicists | |||
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|timestamp=8:36 PM · Jan 25, 2023 | |timestamp=8:36 PM · Jan 25, 2023 | ||
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|content=Said differently, what if our leadership is brilliant but SPECIFICALLY untrustworthy in identifying the path forward. What if 1000 David Gross & Ed Wit1ten Keynotes setting the agenda are the problem? What if Lenny Susskind is not correct sbout non-string people wasting our time. | |content=Said differently, what if our leadership is brilliant but SPECIFICALLY untrustworthy in identifying the path forward. What if 1000 [[David Gross]] & [[Ed Witten|Ed Wit1ten]] Keynotes setting the agenda are the problem? What if [[Lenny Susskind]] is not correct sbout non-string people wasting our time. | ||
|timestamp=8:36 PM · Jan 25, 2023 | |timestamp=8:36 PM · Jan 25, 2023 | ||
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|content=What if we *excluded* people who are consistently wrong about the path forward and asked: | |content=What if we *excluded* people who are consistently wrong about the path forward and asked: | ||
"Are there any OTHER ideas? Not Strings. Not Loops. Not Asymptotic Safety. Not Simple Compact GUTs. Not Quantum Computing. Not Black Hole Information. Not Technicolor. Not Amplitudes." | "Are there any OTHER ideas? Not [[String Theory|Strings]]. Not Loops. Not Asymptotic Safety. Not Simple Compact GUTs. Not Quantum Computing. Not Black Hole Information. Not Technicolor. Not Amplitudes." | ||
|timestamp=8:36 PM · Jan 25, 2023 | |timestamp=8:36 PM · Jan 25, 2023 | ||
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|content=Look, we could just hold a conference: "Fundamental Physics: Can't *Anybody* Here Play This Game?" | |content=Look, we could just hold a conference: [[Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game|"Fundamental Physics: Can't *Anybody* Here Play This Game?"]] | ||
David, Ed, Maria, Cumrun, Nati, Lenny, Juan, Lee etc. could be respondents giving constructive feedback. We would then at least learn why we are where we are. But this is nuts. | [[David Gross|David]], [[Ed Witten|Ed]], Maria, [[Cumrun Vafa|Cumrun]], [[Nathan “Nati” Seiberg|Nati]], [[Lenny Susskind|Lenny]], Juan, [[Lee Smolin|Lee]] etc. could be respondents giving constructive feedback. We would then at least learn why we are where we are. But this is nuts. | ||
|timestamp=8:36 PM · Jan 25, 2023 | |timestamp=8:36 PM · Jan 25, 2023 | ||
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