Eric Weinstein

But at its deepest level, that's really what we are.

We're in a geometry in which those flat planes say derivative equals zero.

And you're trying to take the derivative of an electron based on this stuff.

And geometrically, this only got worked out in Stony Brook, Massachusetts in the mid-1970s, except for a guy named Robert Herman, who nobody listened to in Boston, who was off self-publishing.

The problem that you're in right now is...

Everything that you touch in this space, made of spheres and platonic solids and whatever, you could spend your entire life, and I've seen people do it, staring into this and just finding cool thing after cool thing, thinking that you're seeing Jesus.

I promise you, okay?

I want you to hold this in your hand.

This is made by a woman named Beth Sheba Grossman.

Pleasure to shout her out.

She is a mathematical artist par excellence.

That is an eight-dimensional...

lattice called E8 projected into three dimensions, which is one of the craziest sort of sphere packing gadgets.

This is ultimately maybe the weirdest object in the universe.

It comes from a 248 dimensional group.

You're going to Bob and Riff and all this stuff.

Hold on, let him keep going.

And what I'm trying to get at is,

Look, I want you to think about this legitimately as a drug.

Okay?