Eric Weinstein

People who see many connections are often bad at cleaning up their own stuff.

And people who don't see connections are often very rigorous and they don't do shit for their entire life, right?

What you see, that F super mu nu.

is an anti-symmetric four-by-four matrix.

That is, there are only six independent components, because if you flip that matrix from the northwest to the southeast as the line of which you flip over with the zeros,

The things above the zeros determine the things below.

So there's six independent entries in the top triangle.

Now, the top three are the electric components in a Cartesian coordinate system of the tensor, and the B fields are the magnetic, okay?

Terence could say something closer to what we understand reality to be.

He could, for example, hold up a cube and say, you know, the six faces of the cube are

remind me of the six independent entries in the electromagnetic field strength.

And then the idea is there's a duality and the duality relates the electric field to the magnetic field.

And then you might invent something called all of Montaigne and electromagnetic duality, right?

So in other words, if I took the top three, if I hold the cube up like this and I put the electric above and magnetic below, and then I did a transformation that took top faces to bottom faces,

he would be doing something that might bring him to recent research on electromagnetic duality.

But instead what's happening is that the spheres are reminding him of waves, like wave fronts that are expanding spherically.

And he's got super cool geometry.

The reason that this is so cool is that we haven't seen much of it.

It's not saying that it doesn't exist.

I'm not saying he's the inventor.