Eric Weinstein
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Assume you can go at under the speed of light, just under.
You can use time dilation and relativistic effects to your benefit.
But it's going to cost you eight years to go and come back.
I don't want to do that.
If I'm going to explore the cosmos, I don't want to use... I don't want to live in space.
So what are the alternatives?
The successor to spacetime, I'm happy to predict this on your show, will be named the observer's, which is a combination of not just using a four-dimensional spacetime manifold, but a 14 and a four-dimensional space simultaneously.
This was what I was talking about at the university yesterday.
And how would that, like when you say the difference between science and technology, how would that science be applied?
If we look at the surface of this table, I can't do this to it.
Can't spread it apart, move it, right.
It's called pinch to zoom.
It's a multi-touch gesture invented around 2003 or something, debuted at TED.
But if I come to this device, I can do that.