Jesse Michels

Was physics, was public physics sent into a cul-de-sac and sent down the wrong path, either intentionally or emergently or unintentionally?

I'm definitely not smart enough on the physics to say that, like...

we were given a 2d container padded walls version of physics that or if that's even possible can you like psyop the physics community in such a coordinated way like that might be beyond belief for me so i don't know how this happened something that we could continue to make progress in that wouldn't bear fruits potentially yes yeah did that happen intentionally or was it unintentional

I don't know.

There's a guy named Eric Weinstein who talks about it a little more as if it happened intentionally and was seeded.

And he can speak in these more high level theoretical physics terms.

And, you know, I'm friends with him and I love him, but like, I don't want to make that claim.

I do want to make the, I think, still pretty bold claim that like private vital physics went behind the iron curtain of secrecy and classification.

And

It's kind of crazy to say that it didn't.

Like, of course, in a world of, you know, the atomic era, Cold War era stuff, where you have Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, you know, getting tried for stealing, you know, a secret.

You have the Red Scare, you know, stealing atomic secrets.

You have Klaus Fuchs.

The whole reason the Soviets had their atomic program is because for nine years he was giving them nuclear trade secrets.

You have all these, you know, kangaroo courts around.

Oppenheimer was stripped of his queue clearance because of this stuff.

Of course, you're going to get secret science and you're going to get public science, especially in the world of, you know, where science is getting more and more dangerous as an art form.

You know, like, if you split an atom, like, you get into pretty destructive territory.

You get into weird modalities.

And you get into, I mean, you can get into other, the whole other conversation is how