Eric Weinstein
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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I invited him to the talk as I did you yesterday.
The goal is to get out of the solar system and we're so far away from everything good that there's no way of doing it under relativity.
So why are we not researching the only thing that can save us, which is diversification?
We need to spread out to the largest number of habitable worlds possible.
So this implies some sort of a new propulsion system.
This implies new science.
Stop thinking technology.
There's no way that you can't engineer your way out of a science problem.
You have to science your way out.
What would be that science?
Post Einstein, post relativity.
And how would that apply to us leaving the solar system?
We don't live in space time.
Space time has a speed limit.
If you can only go the speed of light at your best and you can't even get anywhere close to that, how are you going to get to something four light years away?
By the time you go and come back, even assuming all... No, no, no.