Eric Weinstein

Then you do it around that thing.

The failure of these things to knit together.

If I had, Terrence, give me your hands.

I want to put my hand over yours.

That thing.

Who's on top?

All of us.

Okay, the electromagnetic field strength.

So now make your hand into like a plane.

measures the degree of the Escher staircase, the Escherness in that Penrose staircase is measured by that E and B stuff, okay?

That A basically measure is the collection of hands that we had, the planes.

So the key point is the Penrose staircase is not just an optical illusion.

It's actually an effect called holonomy.

And those things are called horizontal subspaces.

And the electromagnetic potential, which gives rise to the photon, actually is a series of stairs that appears to be in some kind of a contradiction.

The curvature that he keeps talking about is the thing that actually resolves that contradiction.

And in a weird way, the photon is a function.

Sorry, the photon is a derivative and the electron is its function.

And you use that derivative to differentiate the function.

That's a crazy way of saying it.