Eric Weinstein

And then you said something that's very reminiscent of Plato's cave, which is that maybe this is like a shadow

on a flat wall and that those two things are exploitable.

And so the idea that this is occurring in a surface

is first of all suspicious to you because of that curved linear triangle that you see in black.

And so you said, I wonder if, you know, people always say as above, so below, but what if you said as below, so above, and you imagine that there was a three-dimensional structure floating above this that actually projects down to this and distorts down to this.

So that's the first idea.

First idea is it's not this, it's the thing that projected to this.

And that's what you mean when you say opening the flower.

Well, there are no tectonic solids because you're in dimension two, except for what you built, which is the thing above in black.

There's several errors in what you just said.

If I stop there, we'll get off track again.

Yeah, but you should correct those errors while we're there.

Okay.

It is not true that all energy is expressed in motion.

What energy is not expressed in motion?

Potential energy is not expressed in motion.

If I have a weight on a spring, which is sort of the quintessential, people don't know this, but most of physics comes out of the system represented by a weight on a spring.

So the simple harmonic oscillator is the heart of all physics, even the most theoretical physics.

It's a very strange thing.

Hooke's Law.