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|content=Many of you will be shocked by my IV. Which is perhaps why I asked for three

IV) I would choose String Theory or the Amplitudes / Double Copy approach.
At least the String people are energized by the fact that the math is real even when the physics is fake. And at least the double copy people have a mystery connecting GR to the SM.
B) As to who I find interesting. Anyone going it alone to follow a hunch, but who knows what GR and the SM are. Mavericks, not cranks.
Woit, Lisi, Deutsche, Wolfram, myself and Barbour are all outside of purely traditional structures. Oppenheim and others are in such structures but still mavericks. I wish Sabine had a theory that I knew of. But I am not aware of one.
The observation I would make is that being a professor is a double edged sword. Outside the Professorate it is almost impossible to function from isolation and deprivation. Inside, you get captured by a constant set of pressures to conform to things you know are sapping your vitality. And you go into angry denial “I do whatever I want as a professor! I just happen to believe in this large program which is known not to work but gives me grants and summer stipend.”
Right now, I would bring those mavericks together with the most open of the professorate and steelman/catalog where those individual programs are in their trajectories. Duh.
There are really fewer than 10 of them. This is absolutely obvious. It is cheap and would take almost no resources. It does not happen simply for reasons of political economy. There is no other reason not to do it.
As for who excites me most (myself excluded):
Nima Arkani Hamed</br>
Frank Wilczek</br>
Peter Woit</br>
John Baez</br>
Ed Witten</br>
Luis Alvarez Gaume</br>
Dan Freed</br>
Jose Figueroa O’Farril
And two others I will leave nameless for a top 10.
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So that is my take. It wasn’t a gotcha.
If all we can do is bemoan the state of physics, we need to change our focus.
Yes I expect to be savaged. For some reason, saying anything positive creates anger. Bring it.
Thanks for your time. As always.
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|content=After seeing my friend @skdh say what is wrong with theoretical physics, I asked her what would theoretical physics done right look like. Specifically, which general approaches and which theorists she was most excited about.
Her answer is in the quote tweet.
The question was not a gotcha question so I will try to answer it myself below.
I will say that I find her answer at turns both expected and shocking. There is very little going on, but there is not nothing. And if she is not excited by anything, that’s an amazing state of affairs.
Here is my response to the same question below. Which many may not expect or accept.
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|content=A) The three most promising lines of attack in fundamental physics. This is likely to confuse people who think in terms of “the strong community”, “the amplitudes program”, “the LQG community”. These are the “Team Sports” branches of attack. And team players really only recognize other teams which is a MASSIVE bias. That is why String Theorists view Loop Quantum Gravity as their hand chosen rigal. It is a team that they believe doesn’t challenge them; a partner to dunk on if you will.
For my money, the true rivals are not teams. They are NOT communities.
I). Spinorial/Clifford/Exceptional physics. This is almost never broken out.
The idea here is that many of us believe that there is way more information in Spinorial physics of the particle spectrum of the Standard Model than has been used. In particular the D5 Dynkin diagram GUT is the missed off-ramp.
In this generalized setting, Peter Woit of @notevenwrong, Roger Penrose, Myself, Garrett Lisi, and the exceptional algebra researchers focused on extending the octonionic tradition of the Turkish school are all clustered. In this school, almost everyone will be largely *wrong* in my opinion. But the right answer is most likely to come from this branch IMO.
II) Classical Differential Geometric Field Theory. It is amazing to me how over-focused we seem on the quantum. The star of the show is not now, and never was the quantum.
Let me put it in provocative terms: Classical Physics is where the real action has always been. Pun intended.
The quantum is real. It’s mysterious. It’s mind blowing. And as a result it provides jobs and something to talk about when the classical theory is stagnant. But the dream of quantum theories that are born quantum never materialized. We still quantize classical theories, for all our posturing about needing to take classical limits of quantum theories.
Witten in particular popularized the notion that the incompatiblity between General Relativity and the Standard Model is a Classical vs Quantum problem. He’s wrong.
The Classical GR theory is already incompatible with the Classical Standard Model. The incompatibility is already classical: NOT Quantum.
The G_{mu, nu} operator concept of Einstein (and Grossman) is NOT gauge compatible. But the Standard Model IS a gauge theory. We have wasted 40 years in my opinion pretending that the GR vs SM split is a call to quantize gravity. We got there by pretended that GR is a kind of gauge theory which it obviously isn’t. And we pretend that you don’t quantize classical theories but take classical limits of quantum theories. Who this is supposed to fool is beyond me. The weak? The insecure? The egoic?
Once you have the classical arena (the manifolds) the field content (the bundles, groups and representations) and the action, the game is largely already determined theoretically when you are quantizing a classical theory. The quantum theory is used to figure out what its real world consequences are. The world is quantum after all.
So why does the Classical theory get sent to a diminished role? This is going to be brutal: it’s the political economy of Physics. It’s because the number of people who have contributed to the Lagrangians is tiny. Einstein/Grossman, Maxwell/Yang and Dirac tower over our theories. That’s spin 2, spin 1 and spin 1/2 right there. The Higgs sector pulls in Glashow, Englert, Weinberg, etc. But I believe this is temporary and will be absorbed back into the other sectors before too long. It is the ungainly sector after all that still feels contrived. Real, but contrived.
And I believe that a lot of the toy work in low dimensions will turn out to be closer to GR than people imagine. Right now it looks closer to the Standard Model due to history.
III) Non spacetime SUSY.
I believe the reason we can neither find Supersymmetry nor get rid of it is that we misinstantiated it. There are no Squarks or Gluinos. Right idea, wrong off-ramp. This goes back to Salam and Strathdee.
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|content=@Cernovich Really? Do you want me to turn that around so we can go after each other? Why? Drama?
Decline. We have mutual friends who were more careful people. They linked their names to Trump’s. I got to watch. Yikes.
You are a different beast. Go do you.
Be well.
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|content=I am failing this election. I tried. But, I simply failed.
I cannot work within these concepts.
My world, my country, my America is not on the ballot.
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|content=Here is what I will say:
I will work with anyone to restore my country. I have been an expert on what is wrong with our CPI inflation gauge. I was an expert in immigration in the 1990s and early 2000s. I wrote one of the earliest (peer reviewed..ha) academic papers on the danger of Mortgage Backed Securities back in 2001.
And I know how and why the science system and the physics with a prayer to get us out of the solar system is being dismantled by our government. I co-ran the Sloan Science and Engineering Workforce project at Harvard and the NBER.
I refuse to take all that hard work and just flush it down the toilet on these campaigners. These campaigns are horrific. They destroy the ethos of our nation.
I don't want lawfare. I don't want insecure elections. Or insecure borders. I don't want bullying. I don't want Government departments named to promote financial instruments. I don't want reproductive mutilation of our children. I don't want free speech to allow anonymous accounts to stalk and ruin actual people. I don't want censorship. I don't want tech companies to be front ends of the security state. Etc.
I don' t want a naive American foreign policy in a dangerous dangerous world. We need to be muscular.
And I don't want to go around the world screwing over or killing good people because they happen to live on top of mineral resources.
I don't want endless wars. I don't want isolationism. Etc.
I want common sense, and some concept of civility, charity of spirit and decency. I want a world free from endless utopian, reactionary, progressive or revolutionary nonsense.
I am not giving you my recommendation. The risks are profound and very very very different on both sides. I have a guess where the bigger risks lie...but that is only a guess.
I am rolling up my sleeves. If any of you want my help, I am here for either team should you win.
I do not believe that ANYONE on the Blue team will EVER do anything to contact me other than get hit pieces written against me. Even though I am a registered democrat, you have become a cult that brooks no dissent. So be it. That said, I would love to be proven wrong. Try me. There aren't that many technical US born Harvard Stem PhDs / MIT post-docs with a huge audience. If you can't work with me, that's on you.
As for the Red team, three of the big six of you know me. I am here to help get things done on:
Science Policy and Higher Ed
Physics beyond Relativity and the Standard model.
Inflation / CPI / GDP / Index construction
Immigration / Migration
National Reconciliation
AI and Labor Markets
Coasian Solutions to AI and Migration problems
Those are my core competencies where I have something unique to offer you. If loyalty to campaigns matters to you, I am sorry. I am loyal to the country as I understand it, and the campaigns weren't in my idiom at all. They felt almost totally wrong to me. No hard feelings.
Let's get things fixed. Or not. Up to you. I'd opt for the former. Let's unf*ck ourselves as soon as this is over.
🙏
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|content=@jrg0569 I’m not MAGA. But I’ll shake your hand and work with you. Good to meet you.
|timestamp=8:59 PM · Oct 29, 2024
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|content=@Jacobionite Exactly.
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|content=@Cernovich Or the tooth fairy. That was the point.
20 years ago there was someone to hear it. Now its addressed to the dead letter office. My how time flies. See you in AC.
“Maybe everything that dies, someday comes back
” đŸŽ¶
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|content=@Mkschizo2 Trump then?
|timestamp=10:28 PM · Oct 29, 2024
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|content=@more_amalek Trump?
|timestamp=10:28 PM · Oct 29, 2024
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|content=@AJB7081 MAGA?
|timestamp=10:29 PM · Oct 29, 2024
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|content=@EartherGraduate @Cernovich A quote from an old song. Atlantic City.
This may be my favorite version.
https://t.co/s7ZEAGJnHR
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|content=@f_ckthelibtards @jrg0569 Trump?
|timestamp=10:33 PM · Oct 29, 2024
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|content=@i_d_smith What a great way to courageously make my point “Actual Truth Respecter”.
Drive your potential allies away. Brilliant.
|timestamp=10:35 PM · Oct 29, 2024
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|content=@NathanLC78 Brought to you by the MAGA welcome wagon. Genius.
|timestamp=10:37 PM · Oct 29, 2024
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|content=Many elite PhDs are produced only to be slaughtered. They are given a brutal choice: join the consensus or perish.
Publish or Perish is downstream of the real problem:
Self-Censor to Join or Die.
The top priority of fixing our elite universities is this: ending consensus, peer review and affirmative action for elite researchers who were nevertheless too weak to stand against their fields and the artificial consensus that hangs like a miasma over academe since the late 1960s-early 1970s.
We need iconoclasts like  @DrJBhattacharya, @MartinKulldorff, @matloff, @BretWeinstein, @skdh, @notevenwrong (Peter Woit), etc and many others you have never heard of who have been fringified in chaired secure positions as academics as they stood up.
I know that is brutal. I’m sorry. But we stopped housing our best people in favor of those weak enough to waste their lives on incremental or imaginary science.
THE problem devitalizing STEM is consensus. Make the elite dissenters financially, legally, reputationaly and physically secure, and you will never have another COVID, great Financial Crisis or other policy mediated mass delusion again with academic groupthink as its midwife.
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|content=So many important points here, yet the main problem in American top 10 research universities is not mentioned.
It’s time to talk about it:
A) Artificial &amp; Coerced Elite STEM Consenus
B) Fringification of elite STEM critics &amp; dissenters by consenus actors
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|content=As difficult as this is to swallow, the truth is this: the main Bunko artists are often the “Debunkers”. Those Prebunked are often the intellectual leaders of the field.
This is what brought you COVID origin coverups.
This is why your CPI inflation gauge doesn’t reflect your family’s pain
and why your weather map is a rich field but your inflation is somehow a floating point number shared with people who don’t remotely face your situation.
This is why you couldn’t question vaccine safety without becoming a pariah or mention that public health is not science.
This is why your food is making you sick but you had a food pyramid for years.
This is why String Theory has castrated theoretical physics and the Lagrangian of the universe is stuck in 1973 with Tony Orlando and Dawn.
This is why climate science is dominated by consensus participation rather than cloud modeling confidence discussions.
This is why Peer Review and is a third rail that can’t be questioned or our culpability in Aaron Swartz’s prosecution and suicide.
This is why merely asking about confidence bars  in Building 7 collapse analysis is cause for professional destruction.
This is why Economists destroy those who question Ricardian equivalence, Compartive advantage the Boskin commission malpractice,  the doctrine of given unchanging wants, cardinal utility implication for social welfare, NAFTA impact, etc.
This is why you couldn’t question biological gametes no longer being the dominant feature of gender under woke stewardship of Nature.
This is why sociobiology applied to humans was destroyed by Marxists.
This is why we can’t discuss heritability of intelligence as almost certainly a direct consequence of selection.
This is why journalists are taught not to report the news under “Strategic Silence” and style guides.
This is why our top STEM geniuses couldn’t enter our Top Universities and admissions tests were made optional while plagiarists became presidents who sat on their hands as Jewish students were physically driven from free movement on campuses accused of being genocidal by terrorist supporters.
The problem is Consensus of the weak.
The debunkers are often the bunkos.
The fringifiers are the intellectual fringe.
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