The Real Physics Questions We're Ignoring - Eric Weinstein 

4:56 - "Completely ignorant of the physical world"? That describes the last two generations of architects (and other domains / professions), hinting this is not confined to physics. // Eric seems confused, though, by a future where having [magnanimous billionaires and benign, handholding AI] is consistent with 'too many people' serving as a plague upon the Earth, when surely all scarcity even in a 2023 (except following natural disasters and in islands in the middle of nowhere) without those things, is contrived. // Eric is also unwilling or unable to recognize that the current U.S. administration is courting WW3 almost avidly---it hardly takes a "despot" as he means it.

Eric is one of those physicists that accuse other physicists of not being in contact with the real world while doing the same as them. The truth is Eric's theories also do not have anything in common with real physics. Every good theory have to be experimentally confirmed and falsifiable. Physicists these days are elitists that invent their own particles, that they never detected, multiple universes that they could never observe and string theories that cannot be proven. Purpose of modern physics is to create a theory that cannot be disproven. The latest example of this bullsh*t science is dark matter stars. In order to explain JWST data physicists think dark matter stars can explain early universe. Since science still don't know what dark matter is, dark matter stars are perfect example how these people try to explain the unexplainable with even more unexplainable dark matter. Physicists remind me on Idiocracy where people claim Brawndo is what plants crave, because Brawndo has electrolytes. Everyone think that Brawndo is what plants crave without any skepticism or common sense, because this is the scientific dogma in Idiocracy.

@@johnstrawb3521 👏

Fermi's Paradox has huge implications that we will not survive the great filter. An ostrich, Eric is not.

Ha! ... I've said it before and I'll say it again ... Eric Weinstein is arguably THE best interview on the planet!

Especially when they are all becoming a charred dust 😅

We'll probably all agree on it when we are cobweb-covered skeletons on a radioactive wasteland.

I have this thought often

Profile picture is Tolkien, comment is a black pilled Douglas Adams quote. Interesting combo.

@@Epiousios18Douglas Adams would be surely very surprised to be labeled a black pill protagonist. Especially when you look at the black pill fenomena via misandric feminist description of it.

You ever read the three body problem?

He’s gonna build the prime radiant

It’s like Eric Weinstein is Hari Seldon and is trying to explain to the empire, or institutional powers that be, that unless they get their act together, and soon, there will be a fall. He’s predicting future harm just like Harris psychohistory

Yep

@@athreadpool One thing might help: high entropy alloys. People are neglecting these new metal alloys and their unique properties. These should be explored much, much more. I even wrote a book about it and how it could help humanity make some alternative Kardashev scale progress, maybe in time even to omega minus level. Cool stuff to think and speculate about.

I beg to differ. Think back in history. When Galileo and others were on a whole other level of thought they were seen as heretics. But they were right. This is the problem with science today. We no longer look for the right answer. We find the answer we want then the math that supports it. Another problem is it’s like we’re building a skyscraper starting on the 12th floor. Quantum mechanics is the foundation.

"they" don't want any change in Physics since the standard "model" of the 1920's.

Asking physicists to fix physics is asking for the problem to be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

Exactly. that dude is wrong about quantum gravity being a problem, it is the frauds who push LCDM that are the problem. Imho "dark matter" is a fancy way of saying "idk".

I see, you didn't understand science as a whole, and its principles or how it works. No jwst has a chance to change that. Having proof of a flat earth too ?

Ha! Thats a intresting way to put it.

You are born, you live, you die, existence is “temporary”, make the most of it, and stop fretting about the inevitable end of the Universe…..we are stardust….our fears are our Achilles Heel…..let them go…..COVID and our reaction too it just proved that we would rather die than live life, and accept that we cannot control life, the universe, and everything….

@@mcihs2 reality is creation in motion. The past is just a record of what was.. Let it go and live again. . There is only now. Create it the best you know how. If you contantly dwell in the past you rob the now. Same is true of the future. Its fine to look at both but dont stay long.

​​@@mcihs2I actually think our response to COVID was pure fear of death and would rather live long and dull than risk death and live fully. Live on your knees than die on your feet kind of idea but with less risk of the latter for the majority of the people. Some people though should have more shielded due to increased risk factors (old, pre existing conditions etc.)

@@mcihs2 well said, most choose the slow death of an isolated, protected bubble-man who never risks or gains anything.

Morality is the line that divides mankind, love is the sacrifice necessary to save it.

i so agree with you

indeed ~

AMEN! Knowledge puffeth up, but LOVE edifies...

I think it will be a prison planet for the populism whilst leaving the earth for the elites. 🤔 A fancy eugenics program.

Scientists found Human Immunodeficiency Virus genetic segments in the Wuhan Virus. So yeah… not a naturally found “bat” virus

It’s under appreciated how much a functional biological system relies on molecular “brakes” eg protein phosphorylation or DNA based methylation.

But how does the supervillain stop the super-microbe from boomeranging against his own people?

As we've seen over the past 4 years.

So is this somehow an anti-education comment? What's the purpose? It doesn't add anything to the conversation in my opinion. Just as freshman- and sophomore-level chemistry students learn the chemical reaction pathways necessary to synthesize amphetamines, I'm sure the same applies to any sensitive knowledge. That's why we have laws/policies against letting in, say, international students from certain countries that the U.S. generally doesn't trust, to higher education programs

It ends at the doorstep of Klaus Schwab.

I don't see it as bravery, you can literally say anything you want, anywhere on the internet. No one is going to bother taking the time out of their day to research what's really being said, especially because the viewers don't even have the SLIGHTEST insight into the field in the first place. Sorry, but you can't debate whether string theory is an accurate model for the universe if you don't understand middle-school level mathematics and even the most basic physical principles

The same thing is true of these anthropologists and paleontologists who made their career saying that the first waves of human immigration into the Americas was only 20 thousand years ago when there's evidence saying that we got here possibly 30 thousand+ years ago. But these scientists who built their careers and staked their life's work into the 20k theory won't let go until they die out

Academia is an industry.

​@@johnnyjericho8472 Well, it was in time when I considered science, especially natural sciences like physics and math as "pure" - that is merit and true-pursuit based, not dumped by personal animosities and ego of few granpas. Naive I was.

So, Tim Pool (unreliable character) once actually talked to, maybe, a student or a full on PHD, who told him what he wanted to hear, and now he's telling you and you're telling us. Excuse me while I LMAO. This internet thingy will turn us all into gibbering idiots.

""Science advances one funeral at a time" - Max Planck

No, he‘s the wrong address if one is actually interested in technical stuff.

Very few people would understand what this guy is talking about....

@@user-yj5os4uw2n That's exactly what Eric is counting on. He's very good at math and rather bad at physics, so he imitate being a physicist with his extra-dimensional bullshit, but it's even worse than string theory.

Lol

Its harder then you think. Ideas alone will never be known by anyone else. You need a platform and proof however weird. And if its strange and new, you wont get the platform and might not even get your doctorate. Easy to say 'go against the grain'. Very easy. But if you actually do it honestly you will be the homeless dude muttering about multidimensional reality under a bridge.

I don't think choosing a life as a hedge fund manager over research constitutes doing the hard thing.

@@palmereldritch_6669 Most of the time people dont really have choices. People have opportunities which they take, or don't, or more usually, are thwarted at. Choice is generally an illusion we ignore in order to feel better about things (the ya, I meant to do that, sort of thing)...

@@Whit-mh9nt Hmm. The Free Will vs Determinism debate. I'd go there, but not in a chat thread on RU-vid

@@palmereldritch_6669Palmer Eldtritch, your middle name begin with K? Have stigmata, numbering 3? It was not exactly going to be the argument you might think it looks like at first glance, but you are right, cant really do it here...Lets just say, free will, yes, but its constrained by finite choices and finite ability to choose. Of all the things the Universe shows you, at any given moment, only one choice is generally possible. You can go with no choice, which is sometimes better, but it can get weird.

we have enough resources for everyone in this world. the problem is the few psychopaths who want everything for themselves. we could easily feed the planet but war is more profitable. the green energies will not safe but destroy the planet. the poor get poorer and the rich get richer. this happened throughout history and it will happen wherever we are.

Agree. We need to grow up, disempower the scavanger elite, and this planet may hold countless secrets yet for us to marvel on and thrive.

Reminds me of Mission Serenity, lol.

The USA are such an expression of problem escapism that was corrupted from the start, because it was the corrupt forces that managed the colonization. Capitalism had started to torment Europe, and as an escapist response the recipient of that pressure moved to America, but the capitalists were the main interest in that expansion. It's the same ancient scheme as setting mice free and then selling mouse traps.

@@benxamin13 Every person is a danger. Not just the elite or rich. When technology becomes more and more powerful and freely available even the average Joe has the chance to screw things up. Everyone could play with crazy stuff in their basement. With 8 billion people on this planet you have 8 billion chances of somebody going big.

This

It's ''this information.'' Most people nowadays have no concept of grammar, semantics, spelling, punctuation, nor pronunciation. Society is in cognitive decline.

What makes him think going to a completely inhospitable wasteland will be better?

@@jamesj9537 my thoughts too. i’m not a scientist, but in my imagination a ruined earth is far better than a colonized mars. I support interplanetary travel development 100%, just not in the doom gloom name of having to “jump ship”

Yeah that part made no sense. He said pop is too big, at a given temporal scale, as evidenced by our ability to edit genes and cause pandemics, and therefore we need to inhabit other planets... wtf?

Yes, but there's lesser likelihood of disastrous events occurring on multiple planets at the same time. Two is better than one.

The Expanse shows that even as a multi-planetary species humans still have the same problems we do now, just at a different scale.

Which scientists are you referring to? It is unclear for me what it means that trying to go in different direction is wrong? I personal believe that going into interplanetary travel is a lost cause. Believing that we will be able to maintain life on Mars (or wherever) better than on Earth seems quite wild to me.

It is not simply a problem with physics. Most fields of science have been overtaken by cliques of narrow interest or of dogmatic certainty. Science is not being practiced.

@@theeddorianI don't believe that physics is overtaken by narrow interests or dogmatic certainty-certainly string theory is neither of these things. I have no idea which fields of science you are referring to. To me science seems to evolve at its usual pace. I don't know what you are talking about. There are some worrying signs from things related to money interests but this is about it.

@@andreimustata5922 Says an apparent dogamtist. Modern academic "science" is largely driven by how well a "scientist" can sell a research program. Because research money is limited, that means that there is a struggle to acquire some share of that money, and the bigger the share, the better. If you follow Retraction Watch as an example, you can see how very frequently, salesmanship triumphs over reseasonable research proposals. As this evolves, you see cliques clustered around very specific theoretic stance acquire control of publication venues. If you dissent from their stance, your chances of publication are greatly reduced.

Could Weinstein admit he is wrong? All he does is claim everyone else is wrong and the whole world is out to get him. The other clip of this conversation that Chris posted today is even worse. The guy is paranoid and has delusions of grandeur. It is quite sad to watch actually.

You discovered what?

@@deandeann1541 That energy, patterns of geometry, shapes, physical laws and properties are actually a symbolic language but on a higher level

He's THE best interview on he planet!

True, because most scientists nowadays want to be wealthy and some went to finance/healthcare, something to make a lot of money . Einstein was not like that.

Exactly! Nothing is foolproof to the sufficiently talented fool.

The Garden of Eden was a world without civilization every great civilization over populated their area and failed, Hunter Gatherers were the only groups that lived within their food supplies and didn’t over populate their resources? But they were branded as Barbarians?

Never underestimate the ability of the intellectual elite to predict another doomsday that never happens.

What a silly comment. We've never succeeded. We're still here.

And now we have anti-gender nutjobs.

So you’re telling me you don’t understand the Hydraclopian synopsis and its effects on the Dongofreudian theory??

Hes like Cantinflas

True. He is obviously very clever but has told me nothing.

names that end with 'stein' tend to have those properties.

Classic narcissist.

​@@SmokeEater509what about steiny? 😂

He’s a grifting conman for sure

He’s so brilliant that he makes you feel dumb. And you can tell he also goes out of his way to try to make you feel dumb on top of it. He’s dripping with arrogance, but brilliant arrogance.

Introducing the problems does not require problem solving. Even thow he does suggest great options. !!

​@ryanthen1047 he's everything I despise about a certain type of academic. An anti-Feynman. I pity his brother having to deal with him.

@@anthonybateman8470 Brett wouldn’t be Brett imo same with Eric .!!

I agree

I think genius is the ability to think independently, even on a low level. Most persons strongest impulse is to conform to other persons agendas and claims, they assume that might makes right, fame makes right, wealth makes right, the majority opinion makes right, all their intelligence goes towards justifying the party line of the mighty, the famous, the wealthy and the majority right or wrong. Some rare people are not influenced by the desire to conform to other persons agendas or claims, they do not believe that might or fame or wealth or the majority makes right. For them CONTENT makes right, even if it is not endorsed by the mighty or the famous or the wealthy or the majority, they judge for THEMSELVES. Even low IQ low level thinking can be ingenious if one is of an independent spirit, but that is very very rare.

Mostly because no one is on the level of education beyond the seventh grade, if that. How do you teach them how the sun works with the earth. 😢

@@deemisquadis9437 Why would you teach them how the sun works with the earth...teach them to love,to care and to respect thats all a human being should be taught.

There’s no panel qualified enough 🤣🤣

Him and Brian Greene had a recent talk lately about somethinglike this lately. Michael Shermer was there listening along with other scientists. It's in RU-vid

@@Bluudclaat Eric only seems smart to you.

He could have his own panel. Plenty of physicists agree with him.

​@@nortonwedgeI'm pretty sure he said it as a sarcasm

He’s definitely worth a listen

he's "out there"

I don’t understand. What do you want him to produce a paper or evidence about? @@jaysyd143

"Unique takes", perspectives, opinions, are a privilege of the very smart people. He's brilliant so that's that! That doesn't mean you take what he says as Gospel. Many of his malthusian opinions are pure nonsense.

I have unique takes and like Weinstein’s they’re also wrong.

Very true. Instead of fighting with each other constantly over the next 10 years, maybe we could unite together to save our world and our species.

Thanks for sharing!

Electric universe could still save us

Wal died!?!?

His body did. Hs spirit is still "out there" @@Sulucnumoh420

you don't feel responsibility after hiroshima nagasaki and Covid?

@@furerorban9324 I doubt anybody here was even born before the bomb, and if they were they are 80+, they were children. Why would they feel responsible?

In this case, it would probably be good to inform you of the existence of the book - "Theory of Everything in Physics and The Universe"

Eric Weinstein is delusional. The earth can't be stabilized, so the priority is to do the plot from the movie Interstellar in real life, and invent some kind of anti-gravity or wormhole tech or something that lets us cross lightyears and maybe find a plot, and THEN we have to erect an entire biosphere and civilization and infrastructure on this new place lightyears away using magic physics that might not even exist. And he thinks Musk has issues? This is the st00pidest take I've seen in a long time. Any civilization that had the technological wealth and resources to reconstruct a new living biosphere lightyears away would have the resources to do it on Mars or the Asteroid belt, or on giant generational ships far cheaper and for more tractable. This guy is fraud, he's not even a Physicist, he's Peter Thiel's fund manager. He's never put in the effort to even finish a detailed scientific paper on Geometry Unity, he's got a half baked vague sketch of an ideal, that fell down as soon as a few people finally reviewed it, and then claimed "I'm not a physicist, I'm an entertainer" Why do people act like this guy is an expert on anything?

As a realist I disagree with Eric

Ask yourself who is misleading us and why?

he is just a fancy speculator with big words charging big $$ to hear himself talk about things HE ONLY understand haha and clowns are falling for this ....

arrogant smug that thinks he is above evryone else.... what an educated tool.

Yep, gotta love infinitely clippable and sensationalized social media content. No one's ever used it for misinformation right? 🤡

You are focused on the science. It's not the science he is talking about it is which science we should be focused on for practical purposes.

Thank you for allowing me to feel like less of a dumbass!

This guy has been locked in a room with a blackboard with crazy people for too long. He's impressed with himself. Zero accomplishments in the real world like most of today's scientists.

Eric is advocating for reduction of physics into more fundamental questions and its general inaccessibility to the public due to esoteric terminology and modeling.

Me too!

You may want to check out his podcast.

Go on.

Scientology lizard ppl?

Facts

100%

He has the biggest ego

Is that what he does? I'm a little skeptical of his whole idea, but since I have no knowledge of physics, I cant really double check anything he's saying and make sense of it. I'm sure what he's saying has some truth to it, but I'm not sure how much he's overblowing it. Every branch of science kind of has that going on, but not necessarily to the point that the whole field is corrupted and wasting its time. Like if you got a string theory guy on here, he'd probably make an argument that sounds equally plausible to the audience that Weinstien is full of it.

I worked on a residential project with two Theoretical Physicists. I have stories to tell--- that reveal truth--' but no one listens to the master on the project. 😊 Influencers ignore my comments--- and cannot fathom an interview with a contientious carpenter.

^This

My fleece blanket is my only solace, some days.

More urgent? How so?

I wonder how the AI singularity fits into all this. Also, if the singularity would artificially close that tech gap required to colonize mars/repair damage on Earth.

You're missing the point

We can do both. We need a backup plan in case things go sideways here.

We don't know how urgent either of them are, and neither do you.

In it for the long haul. Seems to take a subject, any for that matter, and spin it into a gigantic universal epiphany without the epiphany. I find him like a boardroom meeting. Im left in exactly the same place just down on time.

Without technology, we would be completely at the mercy of a brutal, entropic universe. Without technology, we are nothing and have no future.

Although intelligence is necessary it also is not the panacea we believe it to be.

@@IamKlaus007 What makes you think technology is intelligent.

@@sawtoothbygeorge What makes you think I was referring to technology as intelligence?

It's called final exam, he solves cold fusion and tells the authorities they have to kill 5 people he wants or he will blow up a major city. Gets up in front of the class and tells them all how to do it.

We have been lied to about EVERYTHING, just to keep us distracted from our rightful heir to knowledge.

Einstein was book smart only and what you don't hear about Einstein is unlike most all of his colleagues... Einstein had zero patents.

That's probably the dumbest benchmark for intelligence I've heard all year. You obviously have no clue as to what patents are. Pro tip: most patents by far originate in standardisation committee meetings. Let that sink in.

​@majorwedgie8166 And yet, virtually no one knows their names. I think Einstein came out the winner.

"for 90 years we’ve been chasing our tail" You age remarkably well.

@@majorwedgie8166 "Einstein had zero patents." I will try to remember that for my next game of Trivial Pursuit.

Why isn’t he doing something besides going on podcasts? He doesn’t do science anymore?

@@ledaswan5990 I think he's converted his whole career to being a media personality. Doing science is time consuming, he has to pick one and this is probably a better lifestyle for him.

I’m extremely curious do you have any recommendations for solutions on some of Eric’s “BIG questions” 3:15

@mrblank

If this stuff was so important He would be doing it. Instead he got his PhD in Bullshit 😂

He’s a good talker but some say he’s completely full of nonsense

@@ledaswan5990I actually came here for comments on how Full of shit he is 3 hours of him talking would be good sleep asmr

​​​@@ledaswan5990bots will say that for sure, hes pointing out deep corruption in government and sciences, two of the most corrupt and profitable enterprises. Pointing out the fact that the Epstein situation obviously went far deeper with far more players but was immediately dropped with no further investigation. no names released, no financial records, no investigation into the Maxwell family and their missing fortune, Epstein's seemingly magically appearing fortune. Ect. He's pointing out deep corruption, there's a lot of people that don't want you to take this guy seriously, but I guarantee you they won't actually make an argument, they'll make the same 6 comments they always write. "This guy loves to hear himself talk." "Never seen someone so eloquently be wrong." But they'll never dare to engage with what he's actually saying, just general jabs that dont mean anything.

Exactly.....

Because that's not what compulsory education systems are for.

Because the Marxist of the late 60's .....

The fact that you are complain about being "surrounded by morons" shows that you are the same. You have access to unlimited knowledge through RU-vidrs, Physics textbooks and Professor Lewin's lectures and truly endless material to learn for essentially free. Yet you find a way to complain and make excuses? The problem isn't with the world, it is with you. Change your way of thinking and it will set you free.

@@wonderfulworldofmarkets9033 i literally called myself a moron in the sentence but yeah i agree

@@smikuswag The person who commented on you @wonderfulworldofmakets9033 obviously didn't really READ what you wrote. These type of people annoy the hell out of me... starting to believe they are bots and not real people. They type back in agreeance with you, but word it as adversarial way, attempting to make you feel like you are wrong... but they are agreeing with you. Moron power rises even more ... and suggesting RU-vid for any kind of educational purpose on a serious matter is about as good as a coloring book on the same matter ... For whatever reason they JUST HAVE TO RESPOND, it's like they need to see their own words, like other people are in love with their own voice ... Just ignore them...

The general consensus from the very top is that we all have to go. Already in motion.

Birth rates are significantly down in many countries including the U. S. That was the reference alluded to during the interview.

[_] OP doesn't know how science and advancement actually works on a large scale. Genuinely speaking, do you really think that for example microchips came around because someone thought "Ya know what? I wanna invent rocks that do math. Lemme get right on that!"

Science is a Hothouse Flower. It costs serious money to do Experimental Particle Physics. The U.S.A., richest country on the planet, gave up on building the tool necessary to do it way back in 1993. Math is cheap by comparison. It costs just talent and training. That is the root reason modern Physics is so Theoretical and or Simulated computationally. It cost serious money, materials, and effort that has to be arranged at the SOCIETY level, to actually put Physics to a real world test. Blaming Physicists for the lack of progress is like blaming Astronauts for not landing on the Moon in the last 50 years.

@@NullHand Yip. Get's even funnier if you compare the NASA-budget with the US Military budget :D

I think that's mans ego, trying to prove or disprove "religion" as a whole, or give credit to one "religion" as a whole.... Which to me is hilarious.... everyone wants to be the new Einstein, but no one wants to actually put in the work it seems... "So let me do the extra credit problems, who cares about the actual test" mentality is taking place ....

@@zigzagkillah7666 I'm not sure I understand your point correctly, but I'm curious about what you mean. From my point as an unbeliever, to the extend that religious claims _can_ be falsifiable, they have been falsified. The claims about gods existing is generally as unfalsifiable as the claim that there's a teapot in orbit around Mars. We both know that claim is rather ludicrous, but it can't be proven false nonetheless. No "amarsianteapotist" can disprove (aka, falsify) it. Falsifiable claims, like prayer or NDEs have been falsified. Prayer has been proven to have the same rate of success as pure chance, no NDE has ever been able to, for example, have someone be able to read a note placed on their body that's only visible from an out-of-body experience. What skeptics are left with are debunking fallacious arguments. Demonstrating how, for example (just because it's my favorite for how easy it is to debunk), the Kalam Cosmological Argument doesn't work. I think you're drawing a false dichotomy, though. Most people on the opposing side to "trying to prove religion" aren't "trying to disprove it." We're just here, challenging the ones making the claims to demonstrate their validity. Of course I'm aware that there are also those who make the counterclaim that god or gods do, in fact, not exist. But that claim is just as unfalsifiable (and therefore: dumb to make) as that of god or gods existing. So what I'm left wondering is: You say _""So let me do the extra credit problems, who cares about the actual test" mentality is taking place ...."_ What would you consider to be the "actual test" if you believe that what is done is just "doing the extra credit problems"?

Unfortunately no one is listening

He just talks allot. Gets knowwhere

The only problem is that these google images are not present, up to date images, but are delayed by some time period.

Ironically, common sense is a scarcity in the uber educated's collective wisdom.

How about a middle ground!

Middle ground would be totalitarianism. 😮

@cathyallen39 you are way ahead of me by at least 35 years. How did you get there?

​@@kirstinstrand6292 l did a great many things to prepare the ground and open my heart to that experience. In order to get there l had to be willing to step out of my comfort zone and follow my own very personal path and question everything. I can't answer that question in a few words. But dream analysis, discovering during meditation that l had a guardian angel, and connecting through automatic writing with the collective unconscious played a part, as did praying for an experience of cosmic consciousness.

​@@kirstinstrand6292The first three years were the hardest for me because it meant leaving my religious community and facing my past trauma and fears l didn't even know l had of the unknown spiritual realm. Many people have one frightening experience and give up. It takes courage. But if you do you discover there really is nothing to fear. Its all a mind game.

find more. this is simplistic thought dressed up in a funny hair cut

Name checks out. Thank you

Blah blah blah Space is a psyop tard. If it Was real you, & everyone else would be dead. Both Weinsteins are dual cia mossad assets, this is fear porn & propaganda.

Good point. The academic establishment is pathetic, their "facts" are debatable, "Further research is needed . . ."

And then we peered into the chaos (or seemingly chaotic) realm of quanta.

you mean like geometric unity?