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|content=Wouldn't a scientist ask the question:
|content=But heretics need to know basics of [[General Relativity|GR]] and the [[Standard Model|standard model]]. No loopy astrology, finger painting or spirituality.
 
"What if it is the leadership?"
 
Wouldn't that be a logical scientific question? Wouldn't that be a testable hypothesis? Why can't we ask that question as scientists? Why is that hypothesis excluded after *50* yrs?
 
[End Of Heresy]
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|content=Discussion of the future of theoretical physics seems like a game of [[Intellectual Keep-Away|"Intellectual Keepaway."]]
|content=Discussion of the future of theoretical physics seems like a game of "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, 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
|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
|timestamp=11:03 PM · Jan 24, 2023
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Here goes. What if the problem is our leadership. What if we asked  
Here goes. What if the problem is our leadership. What if we asked  


"Who believe [[String Theory]] wouldn't work?"
"Who believe String Theory wouldn't work?"</br>
"Who never claimed LHC SUSY was imminent?"
"Who never claimed LHC SUSY was imminent?"</br>
"Who never said Proton Decay was going to be found?"
"Who never said Proton Decay was going to be found?"


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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]] &amp; [[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.
|content=Said differently, what if our leadership is brilliant but SPECIFICALLY untrustworthy in identifying the path forward. What if 1000 David Gross &amp; Ed Wit1ten Keynotes setting the agenda are the problem? What if Lenny Susskind is not correct sbout non-string people wasting our time.
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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 [[String Theory|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 Strings. Not Loops. Not Asymptotic Safety. Not Simple Compact GUTs. Not Quantum Computing. Not Black Hole Information. Not Technicolor. Not Amplitudes."
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|content=Look, we could just hold a conference: [[Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game|"Fundamental Physics: Can't *Anybody* Here Play This Game?"]]
|content=Look, we could just hold a conference: "Fundamental Physics: Can't *Anybody* Here Play This Game?"


[[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.
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.
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|content=Wouldn't a scientist ask the question:
"What if it is the leadership?"
Wouldn't that be a logical scientific question? Wouldn't that be a testable hypothesis? Why can't we ask that question as scientists? Why is that hypothesis excluded after *50* yrs?
[End Of Heresy]
|timestamp=8:40 PM · Jan 25, 2023
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|content=You should come up@with a business plan that includes numbers on how to fix physics.</br>
Not a plan for profits, but a plan for whatever milestones you lay out.</br>
You talk about how people don’t give money towards this, but they need to see a biz plan first.
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|content=Start with a conference: 25 (leading heretic) speakers and an equal number of mandarins. 4 days.
Videography. Mandarins write up their critiques. Publish proceedings.
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|content=@DrBrianKeating Let’s find out. You’re an experimentalist after all. Why not hold an inverted conference as an experiment. If we CANT hold it, that’s our proof right there. If we can, we can see if everyone claiming to have a different path collapses. Then we could prove that there are no ideas!
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