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“Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.” ― Douglas Adams

String theory is a bottomless pit of despair. It almost feels like we've been intentionally held back. Setup a thinktank Eric, build the damn tesseract

There will be a miniscule proportion of the human population that can actually follow the broad history / arguments regarding the path of discovery in physics with the mathematics and conceptual frameworks required and the apparent blind alleys we seem to be getting stuck in. Huge credit to this channel for being brave enough to air such views to a general audience. One of my major concerns is the state of Universities, which are now essentially cash-flow generating factories handing out gold stars for very mediocre achievements, which naturally stifles any form of excellence or radical thinking, so nobody feels that they have been left behind, despite their academic horsepower or lack thereof. The STEM stream has evaporated to STEAM - Where does this decline end?

Totally agree on the physics issue. It has been obvious for decades or half a century to us on the outside of academic theorizing. Dark energy? Dark matter? Tripple Bang? It has taken very little new data from Webb and other instruments to throw everything into turmoil.

Eric knows what’s interesting about the most technical stuff a lot of us haven’t heard about before. He needs to continue doing that.

Eric always makes me feel incredibly optimistic and pessimistic at the same time.

I like the fact that guys like this have formats to deliver their messages.

I wish that every scientist and young person could see this video and know just how true and important it is. If you want to make a change in this world, do the hard thing, go against the grain.

This is awesome stuff. I agree with Weinstein that interplanetary ideas/investment/interest needs to be developed. However, I see one major "ghost" of a problem that follows us everywhere, despite our cleverness. And that is that we will tow our moral flaws, selfishness, greed, etc with us. So tech, education, and knowledge will ultimately do us no good until we can solve our degraded morality, and gain as much wisdom as we have knowledge. Thus far, we have used knowledge for our own lesser purposes.

I heard something similar (well, actually similar) on one of Tim Pool's podcasts: He said that he once talked to a doctor of physics or a PhD student and asked him if it was true, if reality was really an entangled bubble of quantum strings, and if this theory contributed anything useful. The physicist in question sighed heavily and said that this model has a LOT of problems, but NOBODY will propose anything new or challenge mainstream science until the people who have been working on it since the 1970s have made careers out of it and are now chancellors at universities, sit on all these science committees or work as government science advisors, all die out. It hit me hard then.

Downside ripple effects of our abandonment of the Transcendent doesn’t only impact our scientific progress. In what area of human endeavors can it be positively stated that we are clearly solving the problems of our existence and advancing the human project?

I'll never forget the moment in a genetics class when I really grasped the enormity of what I was learning. The ability to write in the language of life itself. The challenge in genetics isn't getting things to do what you want them to do. The challenge is reigning them in, limiting their effectiveness, making sure they only target the cells or systems you want them to target. Sometimes I feel like the field of genetics is a day-care where all the toddlers have butcher knives. The question isn't 'Can we cut something?' it's 'How do we prevent everyone from bleeding to death?'. Knowing that I had been given all the tools and knowledge I needed to be an absolute cartoon villain level of evil if I wanted with the only thing stopping me being my own morals and fear was humbling. Knowing that that same level of knowledge is available to just about anyone with no vetting process was horrifying. If I want to learn to build a bomb that can level a city, there are all kinds of hurdles I have to clear to get that sort of education, never mind getting my hands on the tools and materials to actually make it. But if I want to create an aggressively contagious form of airborne virus that massively increases the rate of cancer in somatic cell lines? All I need a moderately stocked school lab and a couple masters degree level classes. No one stops to ask if you should be taught how to do that.

I agree with Eric that humanity has many problems that are perhaps unsolvable. But most of the problems of humanity are a result of the nature of human psychology, not from some outside threat. We live on a habitable world that we are rendering uninhabitable. So i don't see the point in trying to escape to another world that is probably more hostile. If we can't make it on Earth, can we really do better somewhere else? Does he think only the "enlightened" will be let on the spaceship? We will only be bringing our internal problems with us. It's like trying to escape from yourself.

the best guy at never answering questions but with the coolest non-answers

Excellent discussion! Thank you =)

He speaks truth about needing new perspectives. I’m here and I left graduate school 20 years ago to write a book instead of a dissertation because there was no place for me to go and no one understood what a real revolutionary idea would be. I’m still here trying. You cannot even begin to imagine what technology this can spawn. Literally the most important thing ever discovered in history. Way way more world-changing than evolutionary theory. Im still here. ❤

the point he makes about physics is spot on and it's such a shame that so many scientists have such a problem admitting that they were wrong. When the right person comes up with the wrong idea we all suffer until death forces them to concede and those that remain pull back the sheet that has blanketed the truth.

It’s easier to get money for grants if your project is removed from reality. Just like any other government project.

Eric Weinstein is a gift to current times and to bring these information and knowledge out.

He’s definitely correct about one thing. Science today demands scientists stick to an accepted theory. Any deviation results in cancelling, firing, censuring, deplatforming and destroying the reputation of that scientist. As long as far fetched ideas are not only discouraged but downright prohibited we can not solve the problems facing us.

During the explanation on why we need to inhabit mars, weinstein goes into the “why” by describing general issues and behaviors that humans exhibit, but, wouldn’t those same character flaws still exist if we moved to mars?

Eric definitely does NOT try to clear things up.

As a retired military physicists, Great-Stuff; & compassionate pragmatism/empiricism physics rules

Amazing interview thank you for the eye opener!!!!!

Never underestimate humanity's ability to doom themselves. We try mightily at every stage of civilization to do just that, and we always succeed.

Damn this was awesome. “Einstein would’ve not put up with this”. Blessed to have these physicists because I’m just here worried about what I’m eating for breakfast

The last minute really put everything together on that paper map/ipad analogy.

I experienced a double benefit because at the halfway mark I realized that I understood absolutely nothing of what was going on and stopped trying.

I have long felt genious is not just being able to think at the highest level but the ability to comunicate those thoughts well, an almost beyond rare combination.

As a physicist, I agree with Eric.

This dude could have made up every word he said in this video and I would not have known the difference.

His description of the mentality manifest in physics now permeates our entire civilization.

As a physicist, I have to agree with Weinstein

My issue with what Eric describes in his theories, is that it's like explaining the powers that the user of the PC has to characters within the game world. You can completely understand it, model it within the game even, but as a character within the game, you'll just never have practical access to the dimension that the user exists in. He never can describe a practical use for what harnessing these extra dimensions would look like in our world.

He’s exactly right about us needing to change what we can....we are our own worst enemies. I also agree 100% that we should be more interested in space travel. Though I think we need to study magnetism and possibly gyroscopics...

Please have this gentleman on again. He is quality.

"You have come to a point where the future and fate of humanity will be decided in the years to come, and it will be determined by how humanity responds to the great change that is coming to the world and to competition from the universe around you over who will have the commanding influence over the future and the fate of the human family. People do not realize they are living at such a monumental turning point, such a pivotal time in humanity’s long history. It is not in people’s thoughts; it is not in people’s conversations. But it is at a deeper level in people’s experience." The Future of Humanity, The New Message from God

RIP Wal Thornhill. That guy was super open minded in physics and spent decades calling for reform within the community.

The problem is most people don’t see how it could be possible to even contribute because we’ve basically been told all the things we can’t do. I think we are really going through a shift and it’s happening right now!! Like in the last week my mind has been blown. Pieces are just coming out now about how screwed we are. And I’d say that we need every kind of thinking person on these issues to move past them. I think a lot of people are interested in physics that don’t know the science but have beeen interested in it enough to maybe make that extra shift. Even if it’s getting new people into physics that have the brain for it. That’s really a major part of

Im not a physicist, but i fully understand his concept. Why are we not going back and starting again, is deliberate i believe. I hope Eric lives long enough to be that man. To crack enough of the code that changes everything. Such a good teacher.

"Why isn't someone trying to figure out what I'm not trying to figure out while I'm running a hedge fund and bad mouthing others?"

Would love to see Eric and a panel of physicists talk about this.

For those who are confused, the pinch to zoom, the vague language about interplanetary physics.. The elephant in the room is "electrogravitics" (for lack of a better word) and what we're witnessing here is a call to action by those "in the know" and to those young scientists who haven't yet had their ability to ask questions squandered by the academic establishment.

The host doesn't completely get his lunch to zoom analogy,thank you Mr wienstien for being smart enough to realize we need a slice of each kind of person just not duplicate after duplicate lol

Watched the whole 3 hour talk. Eric has a unique take on so many subjects.👌

Can't remember the specific Outer Limits episode, but it involved some school/college kid inventing a device that could obliterate a large population center. The thing about it was that his idea could be fashioned using readily available technology. The story revolves around the authorities trying to stop the idea from getting out there and ultimately they kill him. The issue is, as the character posits, the idea is so 'obvious' that once the precursors are there, if it wasn't him it would be someone else and the world is doomed. The story ends with other people around the world having what we presume is the same 'ah-ha' moment. We are approaching the time when people with the right knowledge can destroy major parts of the world without significant resources.

The fact that he says “we” may have doomed humanity says it all. Our ego is so huge that we have to take credit for our own demise.

My dad was the Pilot. He was the captain. At the age of 13, I took full manual control of a Boeing 737 -400 at top of decent from 33,000' to 10,000' on approach to Adelaide airport. Hehe, can't do that shit anymore.

I'm an aerospace engineer with about a decade in the most advanced r&d field, I loved physics in college, I maintain a keen interest in most scientific articles... I haven't the foggiest idea what Eric is talking about and I suspect 99.42069% of this audience is with me lol

Eric’s analogy was very helpful in understanding the problem we face. The scientific community has been wasting their time with non scientifically provable or meaningful work. For instance, on the biological side of the fence, brilliant Origin of life researchers have been spending their time trying to simulate how life could have possibly begun on the earth. We are soooo far away from answering this question and even if we did figure it out, what does that give us. Science is intended to answer questions related to cause and effect and the search for the best explanation for natural phenomena. If they focused on figuring out how things work versus pie in the sky questions around origins, their brilliant minds could have spent time on practical uses. I think what Eric is alluding to is a similar situation in physics, where they have been spinning their wheels trying to propose a theory of everything, when they should be going back to see if any of their presumptions are wrong and get back to doing real physics as Eric said.

the dramatic lighting says "dramatic bullshit." you nailed it.

hot take edit: Ignore the title: its interesting what he states about the state of modern physics. I have never been much of a theory guy, but since Hossenfelder and thinking about String theory and the toughness of proving the theory experimentally, i have been skeptical. The point being: Before indulging into theoretical puzzle solving and constructing theories it might be useful to first start thinking about it. Today Philosophy and first and foremost the philosophy of Science and the philosophy of physics might be more relevant than ever. To have people that ask what are really the relevant questions before thinking about a theoretical concept. Not that theoretical physics in general is in trouble though. Theory and experiment in many areas can work hand in hand very productively

The reason we are kept in the classical physics and GR model is because a breakaway civilization with very high tech exists that they naturally will never allow to be exposed publicly.

I know only a little about physics but Mr. Weinstein never fails to engage my curiosity and inspire me to learn more. I would love an opportunity to pick his brain for awhile.

Ha, black powder! I remember my Father told me he did it with his friends in the late '30s. I got curious, I got the ingredients from an encyclopedia (I bought the potassium in a pharmacy, convincing the pharmacist my Mother needed it), and I mixed everything myself, at the age of 9. Unfortunately I could not make it explode, but it made a nice flame (I did not compress it...).

Had a strong Raymond F. Jones "Noise Level" vibes listening to that for some reason.

Nice clip - going to watch the full interview. Cheers Chris, you're killing it!!! 👍

Love this! Eric has smashed it! The route of which physicists should have taken has been deliberately misleading, string theory etc I belive is a way on confusing us from asking different questions!

I like your thinking... thanks mate!

I would love to hear Eric talk about why we never built the space stations on the moon they told us kids about who grew up in the 60's & 70's ?. Love your questions by the by.

The technology required to terraform and move humankind to Mars is a lot more advanced and complicated than the technology required to fix earth.. and the second one is a lot more urgent

“The couldn’t find the men’s or women’s room at CERN…”. Uncomfortable silence 😂. Beautiful. I love anyone that speaks truth and doesn’t pull punches. Our social structures and institutions have become a jails for moving forward. A money reaping system for elites.

Pardon my simple statement, but what a great down to Earth conversation!

Fascinating. Though I would have attributed the obvious dimensional properties differently. Time, to my data set, seems to naturally resolve in three dimensions itself. Space, three dimensions for obvious reasons, though scale could be inferred. Properly speaking, angle in three dimensions. Magnitude of an energy field, minimum one dimension. There are other, harder to define dimensional sets implied, though more through thought experiments and trying to wrap your head around things than in any concrete mathematical way. But I had never considered a 'zoom' function as such, only scalar dimensions, which might explain one of the observed phenomenon subsets more adequately than the way I was describing it. Zoom, more as a super-positional value of dimensionality. A manner of focus to energy, coupled with the cardinal dimensions and angular dimensions, perhaps. Genuinely fascinating. The premise of my admittedly amateur work being on the concept of localized spacetime as opposed to universal spacetime. My data set never supported a homogeneous composition of the universe. I was always struggling to find a way to apply conventional thinking on the matter to the glaringly obvious results of observation and experiments. Thanks for the novel thought.

Great video. Eric is right on so many dimensions.

Ok. But just keep in mind, wherever you go, you brought your problems with you.

Anyone thinking that there are too many folks on Earth is a danger. Most of the time, they carry this belief and act in alignment with it without understanding why they think this!

One of the biggest issues is that there are a number of regulatory bodies making it illegal to perform the high - energy experiments that Tesla did. In order to overcome those laws, you need millions of dollars (at least) to comply with and successfully obtain the necessary permits, if they're available at all. I'd love to see what happens when i sandwich a dielectric between two conductors and pulse the low amperage, high - voltage electricity

Best host questions I've ever seen asked of Weinstein. This is perfect! Great job, Chris!

I laughed when the host interrupted this deep existential conversation to tell us how important soft sheets are 😂 . If we can’t save humanity at least we can feel something soft on our skin.

Very interesting talk, for interplanetary physics Eric Weinstein should look at the work of Jean-Pierre Petit and his negative mass hypothesis in his Janus cosmological model….

Physics is racist/sexist/misoginyst Focus on the real important questions Like, when does the new Taylor Swift album comes out Or the new Prada bag 🛍️

In a world full of so much willful stupidity, I'm comforted that powerful minds like his are also out there

Not publicly looking for “pinch to zoom” …privately, i think some have been staring at it for decades or more… [12:30] that’s the most frustrating part about existing in this dimension right now…I feel I’ve been lied to for a while, and someone or several someone’s know what’s up, what’s really going on. Until then, I will seek to love and pursue understanding with as many as I exist with.

I'm on a mission to hear everything this man has ever said on the internet.

He’s letting his fear cloud his perspective. Surviving ourselves isn’t the obstacle, it’s the point.

Absolutely spot on for 90 years we’ve been chasing our tail with evermore absurdity ever since Einstein pointed out the consequences of the speed of light being a constant

"multi-touch gestures" as a way to explain this is such a good idea

The legend has it that Erik is still trying to find his house on paper map since the podcast

Eric always tries to be provocative on every single topic!

Eric has one core issue, he can't maintain a single train of thought in a manner that satisfies the layman. This is literally the most coherent i've seen him in years, he has far too many ideas floating around his head and he needs to be more clear about how he makes the connections from A to B to Z.

There was a moment when the way Chris said something ,as though it was an obvious truth, irritated me. You see, I arrived at the conclusion that we will learn say E=MC2, everybody accepts it and it gives answers and we therefore dont question it. And thats what irks me. During a lecture as a student, I would find my mind spinning off with possibilities from something said and then refocus minutes later not knowing what was being talked about and too embarrassed to ask. And the lecture would end leaving me feeling I had only read the last chapter in a book and did not know what was going on. I would then spend hours struggling to learn from a variety of textbooks in the library. What I then found during my career, was that I couldn't just know something, I had to understand all aspects such that if A gives B, then this also meant X Y Z would happen. I came across many cases of very clever people Profs/ consultants who knew A gives B , but I found the answer in understanding what it meant, the X Y Z bit. So being irritable, I would have said to you, an accepted fact? How can you be so sure. The best example of my thinking is from when I did electronics and had to use 'i' the sq root of minus 1. I mean, it cannot exist, so to me, it indicates that the other variables in an equation are in the wrong power (should be squared) and the reason is because (best try at explanation) 'were looking through the wrong end of the telescope'. Question everything, especially rules!

Such is the world of popularism. " Oh, let's do String Theory because everyone else is doing it." I feel your pain Eric.

This was the coolest podcast ive ever seen .literally forced my life into perspective and im so grateful for it. I never realized physics could be so interesting..school really killed it for me...whats wrong with education in this country why am i (a moron) completely surrounded by morons? I constantly feel like a crab in a barrel but every once in a while i can see light and become inspired.

I can listen to 3 hours of Eric going deep into the meaning of all the questions he is bringing up here (and I have no back round in these topics)

Was Chris even there for the interview? I almost didn't notice.

5:48 . Sir you are so right. There is a very big obstacle in entering the academia to push new ideas that just to get heard, you have to go through so much pain, much less have a work on it. Nobody takes you seriously and if you want them to take you seriously you will have to join them and you will be pushed into the same thought cycle and idea cycle that is already present. It is like a paradox, actually.

From what I have learned, I am only a futurism enthusiast, a mechanic by trade, we have 2 options for the future of humanity, low tech colonies, or high tech totalitarianism. People like me would not let the latter happen, or at least try to stop it. Either we back away from the most impactful innovations or we control every aspect of humanity in a hive mind like system. Either way, eventually "the worst" will happen.

A broken clock is right twice a day. When someone says something true in the midst of a fog of vague analogies, and palpable smoke and mirrors, step back and look carefully at what's going on.

As a Nuclear Physicist, and fellow Harvard Grad, I would recommend listening to Eric.

There is a huge difference between theoretical and practical advances. The thing with going to Mars is soulely to catch up with theories and perfect the practical side and technologies which are the most important. We do not need to choose between the two and say we forget one side and focus on another. I work in defense aerospace company in EU, working in practical applications. Believe it or not, but practical and technological advances make sometimes a much bigger positive impact on theoretical physics, than just solely focusing on it.

To get closer to understanding the quantum world, we must first quantify the standard world. The more we learn about the space in front of us is the more we increase that space, and the further we get towards reaching and exceeding the boundaries that stand before us.

I am a physicist and I have never met anyone how actually works on quantum gravity or anyone who knows someone who does.

I know he's got something to say but I can't figure out what it is..

13:06 I do this with google earth all of the time to check out what my daughters doing, who lives down in Texas, from my home in WA state. The other day I saw that she had built a firepit in her backyard since the last time I checked her out. Works awesome for traveling the world from your own couch also. Pinch to zoom.

Technology is not the panacea to life we think it is!

People like him should be in charge of where we put our focus on in science .

15:00 Pinch to Zoom as 2 additional axes. Anticipating this in physics for inter-planetary travel. Does anybody dare to disagree? I actually had a vision about this - and if you think about it - it COULD be the proper version of tele-transportation. Tron would disagree, Star Trek would disagree, IBM would disagree. I personally agree. But only because I had a full damn vision of it in 1974. Which in many other aspects was prophetic. I like it Eric - Containment expands, disappears, sneezes (to move it on the map) and recondences and reappears - right inside the secret warehouse. Okay, what's wrong with this picture? It makes better sense than disassembly / reassembly - which would be fraught with "Fly" events. But - one fly in the mix: it assumes teleportation is possible. I could give you a "better" third option which is the zero-inertia version, where it isn't necessary. It's all by quantum entanglement and you are merely duplicated (and 1/2 of you is kept isolated.) Something like that? As a matter of fact this exactly mirrors the experience of OOB travel and NDE. I've had this experience many times and verified at least once. It's not even "special" (it was special to me!) Amplified, literally, this signal should be able to traverse great distances - unless - and I don't think it is - light based. As a matter of fact the stipulation is that the delay in signal is a fixed sum - non-variable for distance. Now that's crazy but that's what this is. Basically energy in at one end / energy out at the other. But obviously there should be, seems like, other limits. Yet because it's a property only of condensed matter - distance and time are a constant - that's the strangeness. Maybe the condensate state is the limiting factor - and without train tracks (figuratively or wires or something) - well - this is what we should be looking at. However, this does not meet the stipulation of an escape from Earth as the life forms would still be here, enjoying (presumably) an extra terrestrial romp and nothing more. So - we'll see. And Eric - I'm not so sure that pinch to zoom of physical (i.e. heavy) matter is ever going to happen. I'm going to say - not. What about my vision of it? Prophecy, which is the highest order of such a dream as this was, is subject to nuance. I'll think about it some more. Believe it - it's gonna be worth it. And FYI, I think the experience (therein) of boarding that containment room is lining up. Ah! But suppose the life forms are suspended in transit and are just enjoying dinner at home? Or are on the asteroid mining colony earning hazard pay, double time, and bonus money - and can knock off and join the family after quitting time? Sounds better than a stint in the Russian Army.

Pinch to zoom analogy made me think of the gulf War, US was using gps satellites to win tank battles and Iraq had no idea what gps was