Eric Weinstein

And so what they're trying to say is if you want to get jiggy, people always want to talk about faster than light communications by taking an entangled pair and saying that if I do something in one place, I know what happens outside of my light cone.

So we can give meaning to these things, and then you have to say, well, it doesn't allow you to create information transfer faster than the speed of light, and you have to be very careful and precise about it.

But if you just start getting jiggy, then you start thinking.

So the ether, so in part, when I've been here on previous versions of GRE, I talked about vector bundles.

And in a certain sense, how do you have a wave without a medium?

The medium was supposed to be this ether.

But the medium is actually something called a vector bundle.

It's a little bit weird that you're a wave.

You're a wave in a medium and you as a wave don't know that you're a wave and you don't know what medium you live in.

And it's funny that you go through life not understanding what you are.

They had a bad idea of what the ether was going to be and special relativity said.

Yeah, in a certain sense.

And what you are trying to say, the way I interpret it, again, and I don't know if I'm right if we don't do the work, is, hey, the spiritual successor to the idea of the ether exists.

And that thing has properties.

And if you say, if I put a vector bundle on top of a Lorentzian manifold,

then you don't have a contradiction.

And if you call that the ether, that's more or less what we work with.

And then we do this weird thing where we say, well, they used to think the ether existed and it didn't.

Ha, ha, ha.

It's not a vacuum.