Eric Weinstein

The gauge potential is really where the electromagnetism is happening.

This thing over here on the right, the Faraday tensor, is a consequence of the real star of the show.

A is the thing that matters.

And we thought that A was a convenience product that constructed the electromagnetic field strength until the late 1950s.

I think one of these guys who developed this, his name is Yakir Aronoff, who's at Chapman University.

I think he's still alive.

So in other words, we fooled ourselves into thinking we understood electromagnetism until the late 1950s, which is one of the reasons that you listen to your heterodox colleagues as opposed to making fun of them mercilessly because you're not nearly as smart as you think you are.

Now, most of the time, what Neil says is, oh yes, one in 10,000 heterodox people have a point.

And Neil bets on the 9,999 who don't.

And so he doesn't listen.

This thing here,

is a proof that you can find elementary omissions very late in the game that change everything.

And everybody who pretends that peer review works and that we've known this since antiquity, all this stuff, they need to understand the exceptions we've already found.

If Terence wants to do good, he would take that A with the new

at the beginning, and he would say, okay, electromagnetism isn't about the electric and magnetic fields.

It's about four of these suckers rather than six of those.

Well, I wouldn't know how to do it simply.

Electricity is really, electromagnetism is really about rock, paper, scissors.

In other words, is rock better than paper?

No, it's worse.