Eric Weinstein
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5,469 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Jul 2024
last heard 21 May
Eric Weinstein’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That we should all – all the smartest people should pile into one narrow subspecialty and that that was the future.
And because he was so much smarter than all of us, people listened and I didn't.
And Michio Kaku is part of his wave.
Almost all of the people that you've traditionally had on in physics –
have some connection to this.
So you've had on, I don't know, probably Sean Carroll, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brian Greene.
Nobody wanted to say what was happening, which is that we were being unraveled and destroyed.
Our ability to be the world's greatest theoretical physicist was being eroded year by year for 42 years.
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
: And specifically the pursuit of string theory?
It's not string theory itself that's the problem.
String theory is harmless.
It's just a bunch of equations, a bunch of ideas, and it's beautiful mathematics in many places.
So that's not an issue.
The issue is the exclusion of everything else.
And this goes under the name TOGIT, or the only game in town, T-O-G-I-T.
And it's this idea that only we, the enlightened, can do theoretical physics and the rest of you are just doing finger exercises and you're too stupid to know it.
So specifically, what's isolationist about string theory?
What is it about this one particular theory that all this thought has been pushed into that?
The claim is that there's this thing called UV complete physics.
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