Eric Weinstein

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The Joe Rogan Experience · #2503 - Eric Weinstein · 21 May 2026 podcast

Could you briefly just describe what is the problem?

So there's not a problem with string theory?

Or is string theory not complete?

Or has string theory reaped actual results?

Mathematically, it's reaped results.

And string theorists have occasionally done really great work in a subject called quantum field theory.

But quantum field theory isn't about the quantum field theory of the world.

Quantum field theory is like calculus.

It's something that's very useful, and it grew up in physics.

But we've now found out that quantum field theory has to do with pure problems in mathematics that have nothing to do with physics.

And what they haven't done is they haven't dealt with the physical world.

So if you take physics, why do we care about physics so much more than really almost any other aspect of the sciences other than biology?

I had to give a talk at the New York Deep Tech Week.

Shout out to those guys.

And I put it on the slide as three things.

There's boom, vroom, and zoom.

Easy to remember.

Boom is weapons.

Physics will create weapons.

You'll dwarf everything else with the possible exception of biologicals.

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