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|content=So you have my list. It is incomplete and idiosyncratic. I’d love to have your corrections and additions.
So….Where is yours? Thanks again.
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|content=It is an interesting question as to who inspires us in physics. Here is a list of 20th century giants whose work inspired me that might work as protagonists with interesting stories that deserve to be considered along with the best known Einstein/Hawking/Oppenheimer/Etc.:
[[CN Yang]] (with Lee and Simons)</br>
[[Paul Dirac]]</br>
Ernst Stueckelberg</br>
[[Madame Wu]]</br>
David Bohm</br>
Abdus Salam</br>
[[Ken Wilson]]</br>
[[Emmy Noether]]</br>
Ettore Majorana</br>
Carlo Rubio</br>
Shin'ichirō Tomonaga</br>
[[Lev Landau]]</br>
Simon Van der Meer</br>
Freeman Dyson</br>
Julian Schwinger</br>
Paul Ehrenfest</br>
John VonNeumann</br>
Feza Gursey</br>
Wolfgang Pauli</br>
Louis and [[Ed Witten|Edward Witten]]</br>
Hans Bethe</br>
George Sudarshan</br>
Vera Rubin</br>
Gerard 't Hooft
Not all of those stories are…uh…simple.
Would be curious to hear names from others.
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|content=i was hoping that the oppenheimer movie would inspire a generation of kids to be physicists but it really missed the mark on that.
let's get that movie made!
(i think the social network managed to do this for startup founders.)
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|timestamp=4:54 AM ¡ Jul 23, 2023
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|content=But let’s face facts: inspiration is not the issue. Fundamental Physics needs to be a good life. What is holding us back is:
A) Terrible Pay.
B) Worse Odds of Survival
C) Decoupling of Success at Physics from Success in Physics
D) The Matthew Effect.
E) Math and Physics Pricks
F) Tyranny of large programs over individuals.
G) Multi Decade Stagnation
H) Un Scientific And even Anti-scientific behavior.
I) The Matilde Effect
J) The Sudarshan Effect
K) Ethics Collapse
L) Needlessly long pedagogical sequence (e.g. intro physics -> Classical Mechanics -> Grad Classical Mechanics -> Symplectic Geometry)  driven by history.
M) Socializing physics into a team sport in areas dominated by individuals and iconoclasts.
N) Tolerance for Program level failure (e.g. *obsessive* use of toy model physics to evade a reckoning).
O) Intolerance for individual error and failure by those in programs.
P) Failure to reward early contributions (e.g. *Abelian* Chern Simons [[Quantum Field Theory|QFT]]).
Q) Atrocious MSM journalism distorting the public understanding.
R) Relentless discussion of woo physics in public and 3-5 real topics (e.g. somebodies cat).
S) Learned Helplessness coming from over-learning [[Ken Wilson]].
T) Inability to support motherhood of female physicists.
U) Inability to keep physics marriages easily together with jobs.
V) DEI loyalty oaths and loss of autonomy.
W) Flooding of markets with disposable labor and abuse apprenticeship as labor.
X) Kicking up on attribution.
Y) Overpaying for cherry topping.
Z) Fetishizing the quantum when innovation in classical field theory remains the heart of [[Quantum Field Theory|QFT]].
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|content=But lastly, if outsiders want to fund and fix movies, you will find that going to the “Leading physicists” won’t work. [[Peer Review|Peer review]] can’t work when the leadership *is* the problem. You get more failure.
You need to hold meetings where you get disagreement. So choose the leaders and iconoclasts with great care. Patrick Collison isn’t terrible at this. B+. Best I have ever seen. Start there. Good luck. 🙏
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=== 2025 ===
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|content=Thanks. Where do we disagree scientifically? I imagine on [[Quantum Gravity|QG]] and whether the (real) advances in the structure of [[Quantum Field Theory|QFT]] like dualities are signs of real progress in the understanding of this particular physical world.
Know that I have read many of your papers. I’m not hostile to real work. If it were up to me I would increase funding to your group but also fund groups that radically disagree with 40 years of [[Quantum Gravity|QG]]/[[String Theory|string/m-theory]] dominance.
Thanks for the kind words above.
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|content=I would point you to my favorite documents. Gell-Mann’s 1983 Keynote from Shelter Island II is the best of all because it is RIGHT before the GS anomaly cancellation. [[Quantum Gravity|QG]] is not one of the leading 4 problems at the time. Clearly.
You see [[String Theory]] in the address but it is subordinate to N=8 Sugra. As the leading TOE.
I would also point you to [[Ed Witten|Witten’s]] 1986 “Physics and Geometry” address to the ICM. It is clear that the quantum is not even in the top 3 insights of fundamental physics as he sees it. It’s all classical field theory. And that is [[Ed Witten|Ed]].
This QG focus titrated by energy level is a very late focus. It’s a very [[Ken Wilson]]/[[Quantum Field Theory|QFT]] centric view of the [[Standard Model|SM]]. And it seems like you are unaware that this looked very different before the [[Quantum Gravity|QG]] mania that cost us so many decades. And continues.
Martin: it just hasn’t worked out. It’s okay to admit that it was a mistake to make this into [[Quantum Gravity|QG]] tunnel vision. It’s been 40+ years and it’s embarrassing.
|timestamp=9:26 PM ¡ Nov 2, 2025
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|content=@_mistaacrowley @martinmbauer Exactly. That is a fine strategy. ‘Look at the boundaries between regimes’ is something I support.
But we can also guess it more or less from here I believe. That apostrophe and L aren’t seen by most for the clues they are.
Most [[Quantum Field Theory|QFT]] people took the wrong lesson from [[Ken Wilson|Wilson]].
|timestamp=6:25 PM ¡ Nov 7, 2025
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