Eric Weinstein
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Podcast Appearances
It's not supposed to be unto itself.
And if there is no vacuum, then there is nothing at rest because the vacuum is going to be in constant quantum tumult.
And then you get to the point which is something that is rest therefore is unphysical, therefore it is unnatural.
It took me a long time to figure out what the hell.
So what you're trying to say is that if the universe at its deepest level is a quantum mechanical system in which there is no ability to create vacuum in a naive sense, the vacuum that we talk about is not the vacuum that people naively think.
Therefore, any mathematics that references anything that is zero or still or whatever is invalid.
I don't know what to tell you about this because it's like if I say something about a sphere, you might say, hey, Eric, what is the thickness of your sphere?
All the points unit distance away from the origin.
And I'd say, it has no thickness.
And you'd say, show me one thing in the universe that doesn't have thickness.
And then I'd say, well, wait a second.
I'm talking to you about a mathematical structure that exists as math.
You're like, I don't want to hear about math that isn't immediately referenced to physics.
First of all, that's not how this game goes.
The beginning of imagination.
I mean, if I have a picture from AI of a woman that doesn't exist...
But you can't tell the fact that that was generated by an AI.
Are you going to say that that graphics file doesn't exist?
No, the graphics file exists.
Mathematics has a physically independent structure.