Eric Weinstein
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But you can find out that there's prior art later.
Look, everybody's been hurt.
So far as I know, you're the first person to do this.
Now, with that said, you're taking something where he's saying real stuff.
about geometrical understanding based on a spiritual undertaking.
And it used to be that spirituality and science were hand in hand.
That's what I was trying to say about the Carolus school that figured out almost got calculus coming out of religious verse, like stuff that rhymed.
It's crazy.
Terrence is coming from an older perspective where he's drawing tons of inspiration from all these different sources.
I can track it, but good luck finding people who can track this because the number of people who can do this is very, very small.
Now, then every time he steps on a landmine, my colleagues just start laughing.
And that makes me crazy because they could help him.
figure out what actually he is trying to say.
That thing, we did not understand until the mid-1970s.
Remember I tried to tell you to get Jim Simons on this podcast and then he just died?
Jim Simons and C.N.
Yang figured out, and this is going to figure into what Terrence is saying, that everything, all forces are curvature.
It's not just gravity, which we've known has been curvature since 1915, actually 1913 for Einstein Grossman.
It's actually the case that electromagnetism
the weak force and the strong force, are a different form of curvature, which might be called Erismanian curvature or fiber bundle curvature, which is not necessarily Riemannian intrinsic curvature.