Eric Weinstein
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And you say that is not logical and it's irrational.
And I don't know what you mean.
Yeah, I did that with the 12th root of three, and I have a transform just like you.
Oh, is your point that there's something special about the square root of 2?
Why are you offended by one times one equaling one?
Okay, objects in motion tend to remain in motion, right?
But what do objects at rest do?
So this is like there's no straight lines in nature.
So the idea is you're saying at some level
that you don't believe.
At a subatomic level.
If I understand what you're doing, and I try to steel man it, you're trying to say, look, first of all, the vacuum isn't a vacuum.
It's roiling with activity.
The void isn't a void.
Stuff is happening.
Virtual particles are coming in and out of existence.
There is no vacuum.
You're very much in tune with modern physics on that.
You really are.
Then you have this idea of math is supposed to be about the physical world.