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I first met Eric Weinstein when we were both post-docs at the Hebrew University just over 20 years ago, and I had the feeling then that he was working on something big, but it wasn't until two years ago that Eric met me at a bar in New York. | I first met Eric Weinstein when we were both post-docs at the Hebrew University just over 20 years ago, and I had the feeling then that he was working on something big, but it wasn't until two years ago that Eric met me at a bar in New York. | ||
<p>[00:36:24] And we began, he began to explain the mathematics | <p>[00:36:24] And we began, he began to explain the mathematics he had been working on in private for the last 20 years. As he took me through the equations he had been formulating, I began to see emerging before my eyes potential answers to many of the major problems in physics. It was an extremely exciting, daring proposal, and also mathematically so natural that it started to work it's magic on me. Over the last two years, I have had the privilege of being taken through the twists and turns of Eric's ideas. After our postdocs in Israel when I went the academic route getting my professorship here in Oxford, Eric went a more independent route working in economics, government, and finance. | ||
<p>[00:37:05] So he comes here today as something of an insider and an outsider, a difficult place from which to propose bold ideas. But having spent time seeing how powerful these ideas appear to be, I felt it that it was time that Eric shared his ideas more widely as I believe his perspective could give the scientific community a new story to explain to some of the big questions on the scientific books. | <p>[00:37:05] So he comes here today as something of an insider and an outsider, a difficult place from which to propose bold ideas. But having spent time seeing how powerful these ideas appear to be, I felt it that it was time that Eric shared his ideas more widely as I believe his perspective could give the scientific community a new story to explain to some of the big questions on the scientific books. | ||