Eric Weinstein
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
This object encodes the curvature, encodes electromagnetism as the components of curvature.
To your point about nothing is a straight line.
No, that's wrong.
Really?
Yeah, because what you have, and by the way, this is a super subtle thing.
We've only really known this for 50 years, thereabouts.
There is a weird, mysterious circle that none of us can see at every point in space and time that we can't derive from space.
You can have space-time and something else put a circle at every point that is obscured from us.
And that thing has a curvature, even if space and time is flat.
So we call the idealization of flat space-time Minkowski space.
You can slap a curvature...
tensor of a circle on top of it, generate this.
And it wasn't until, and this is mind blowing.
Can we get the Aronoff-Bohm effect up here?
I want you to think about, you ever play blackjack?
Okay.
I always overbet.
You're sitting there on 19 and you say, hit me.
Now, this thing here is a proof.
This is a gift for you.