A Portal Special Presentation- Geometric Unity: A First Look: Difference between revisions

'''Eric Weinstein:''' So, it's a great pleasure to be here in Oxford. For those of you who are not aware, it is possible that no other university in the world has kept the faith for so long with Einstein's great vision of a final theory for physics as a theory of pure geometry, a sort of elegance and simplicity of the highest order. And the names that are associated with Oxford that weigh heavy on me are [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Atiyah [Michael] Atiyah], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Penrose [Roger] Penrose], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graeme_Segal [Graeme] Segal], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Woodhouse [Nick] Woodhouse], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Hitchin [Nigel] Hitchin]—it's a very long list of people who, even when fashion did not hold those ideas in favor, always kept the faith that there was much to be learned from the geometric perspective on physics.