Eric Weinstein

Physics is interesting.

Yeah, a lot of the time it's dull.

You know, physics is international.

Oh, really?

Why do you think the American taxpayer is funding this international effort just to educate Chinese?

For all I know, we're trying to sterilize the Chinese and the Indians with string theory.

So because nobody's talked to me about this, I can speak freely.

But if you ask me, the Indians are some of the most aggressive string theorists on earth.

And my question is, do we import them in such large numbers so that they'll go home and be ineffectual?

That's crazy.

So that's a real possibility?

Yeah.

That string theory exists as a distraction.

Joe, what do you think the odds are that a scientist can say, my failed theory is the only game in town and not get laughed out of town?

Not so good.

Yeah.

I would imagine in a free-thinking world, not so good.

In a free-thinking world, I would say, Ed Witten, you're full of shit.

Who talks like that?

You're the smartest person I've ever met and you have not earned the right to say that your failed theory, your disaster of a catastrophe of a theory is the most failed theory in history in physics.