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Another reason for not writing more about this is that I don’t know much about what is going on, which seems to be a good time to wait a bit before commenting more. Btw, I was suprised by du Sautoy’s sentence Given how bloated and self-referential modern physics have become without offering many testable predictions (string theory anyone?) ۦ��?0�M=K��%dLQ��Do8�=�1��b�\g4P�Vy Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images . AFAIK they stood up there and said we have this data, we can’t get rid of it, it looks funky, and we ask you help in showing where we went wrong. What does it feel like to read a groundbreaking academic paper? Audio . x��[Ɏ���S��=")�`hoAr������A&��e^?��X$e+�1n[���|�R3����y:��uu>ӆ���}��o���M��g���/���~�4�)���O��~x�����?�|���ϳ���yw���/W#~]/��I���ߧUVe���_���%L�z����?�?7��q���? D. who has been working as an economist here in New York for many years, and someone I’ve often enjoyed talking to over the years.
Beyond that, Eric is the one who needs to get details of this out, not me, since I’m still in the dark…. Pingback: #FísicaCuántica: El “todólogo” Eric R. Weinstein y quien alto sube, duro cae | Francis (th)E mule Science's News, Pingback: A Tale of Two Oxford Talks | Not Even Wrong. Garrett was trying to understand this in terms of E(8) symmetry, and I’m looking forward to seeing what Eric’s ideas about this are. I reckon that we’ll know sooner rather than later whether there is anything to this. %%EOF
That’s why they get the bad rap. Last night (May 23, 2013), Eric Weinstein gave a lecture at Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University, presenting his Theory of Everything.
Why does an economy need derivatives? But this cosmological constant has always seemed very arbitrary and a retrospective fix.” I’m not sure when he’ll have a paper out on the arXiv, or whether some sort of version of his lecture will be available. I know Eric pretty well, and he’s not doing this to get attention, get on TV, get a book deal, etc. WELCOME TO ERIC-WEINSTEIN.NET . Pingback: The Overhyping of Theories and the Search for Scientific Truth | Anacephalaeosis, #FísicaCuántica: El “todólogo” Eric R. Weinstein y quien alto sube, duro cae | Francis (th)E mule Science's News, A Tale of Two Oxford Talks | Not Even Wrong, Around the Web: Cool linky stuff for science undergrads (5) – Confessions of a Science Librarian, Geometric Unity reprise | betaingegneria.it, » Social construction of truth and knowledge (inlustre monumentum est), Courses, Forces, and (w)Einstein | Of Particular Significance, The Overhyping of Theories and the Search for Scientific Truth | Anacephalaeosis. The theory sounds like a large extrapolation on the SM though.
He spoke at the invitation of Marcus du Sautoy, an Oxford mathematician who now inhabits Richard Dawkins' former position as the Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science. For a small amount of info about the talk, see the comment here from “Leaker”. It seems like he is more interesting in getting attention than in contributing to science. Point is, if you’re doing unification, you will end up predicting (or, more likely, assuming) the effect of spin on the geometry. If spin is coupled to geometry through the same G as the stress/energy tensor, we can construct a quantity *G/c^3 with dimensions of inverse length, somehow related to the curvature of spacetime induced by spin, which works out (if I’m not mistaken) to about (10^40 m)^-1. x��Y�n�H}7��GiQ+s�4��@sk��A��{$+E�T�9$��a��
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It’s not about “suppressing data”, it’s about how hard you work looking for what could be the source of the problem when there is something weird in your data. I think Eric’s tweet from May 29 is instructive: “You’ll get an article whenever I’ve time to finish one & only because I really want to give you one. The metric tensor is a symmetric bilinear form, so 10 components in 4 d. So, you could make a bundle over your 4d spacetime, with 10d fibers given by the symmetric bilinear forms on the tangent space. And understand spin and I think we’ll understand entanglement a lot better. 708 0 obj
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Anyway, that story doesn’t really have much to do with this one. As regards the du Sautoy article, I think it’s an editorial.
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Those who missed it the first time need only wait 2 more days — for it seems Weinstein is giving a re-run this Friday at 2pm in the Mathematical Institute in Oxford.
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As best as I can recall, he said it was one of two primary mysteries in a talk at NYU back in the late 1990’s. There’s a bit of an analogy with the Garrett Lisi physics outsider story here, although I think Eric will get less media attention since he doesn’t have the surfing angle going for him. I look forward to following the story as it works it way through the physics community. I stand corrected. <> No paper have been published, not even an abstract, so why all the fuss? Mathematics, Harvard Univ.).
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Another reason for not writing more about this is that I don’t know much about what is going on, which seems to be a good time to wait a bit before commenting more. Btw, I was suprised by du Sautoy’s sentence Given how bloated and self-referential modern physics have become without offering many testable predictions (string theory anyone?) ۦ��?0�M=K��%dLQ��Do8�=�1��b�\g4P�Vy Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images . AFAIK they stood up there and said we have this data, we can’t get rid of it, it looks funky, and we ask you help in showing where we went wrong. What does it feel like to read a groundbreaking academic paper? Audio . x��[Ɏ���S��=")�`hoAr������A&��e^?��X$e+�1n[���|�R3����y:��uu>ӆ���}��o���M��g���/���~�4�)���O��~x�����?�|���ϳ���yw���/W#~]/��I���ߧUVe���_���%L�z����?�?7��q���? D. who has been working as an economist here in New York for many years, and someone I’ve often enjoyed talking to over the years.
Beyond that, Eric is the one who needs to get details of this out, not me, since I’m still in the dark…. Pingback: #FísicaCuántica: El “todólogo” Eric R. Weinstein y quien alto sube, duro cae | Francis (th)E mule Science's News, Pingback: A Tale of Two Oxford Talks | Not Even Wrong. Garrett was trying to understand this in terms of E(8) symmetry, and I’m looking forward to seeing what Eric’s ideas about this are. I reckon that we’ll know sooner rather than later whether there is anything to this. %%EOF
That’s why they get the bad rap. Last night (May 23, 2013), Eric Weinstein gave a lecture at Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University, presenting his Theory of Everything.
Why does an economy need derivatives? But this cosmological constant has always seemed very arbitrary and a retrospective fix.” I’m not sure when he’ll have a paper out on the arXiv, or whether some sort of version of his lecture will be available. I know Eric pretty well, and he’s not doing this to get attention, get on TV, get a book deal, etc. WELCOME TO ERIC-WEINSTEIN.NET . Pingback: The Overhyping of Theories and the Search for Scientific Truth | Anacephalaeosis, #FísicaCuántica: El “todólogo” Eric R. Weinstein y quien alto sube, duro cae | Francis (th)E mule Science's News, A Tale of Two Oxford Talks | Not Even Wrong, Around the Web: Cool linky stuff for science undergrads (5) – Confessions of a Science Librarian, Geometric Unity reprise | betaingegneria.it, » Social construction of truth and knowledge (inlustre monumentum est), Courses, Forces, and (w)Einstein | Of Particular Significance, The Overhyping of Theories and the Search for Scientific Truth | Anacephalaeosis. The theory sounds like a large extrapolation on the SM though.
He spoke at the invitation of Marcus du Sautoy, an Oxford mathematician who now inhabits Richard Dawkins' former position as the Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science. For a small amount of info about the talk, see the comment here from “Leaker”. It seems like he is more interesting in getting attention than in contributing to science. Point is, if you’re doing unification, you will end up predicting (or, more likely, assuming) the effect of spin on the geometry. If spin is coupled to geometry through the same G as the stress/energy tensor, we can construct a quantity *G/c^3 with dimensions of inverse length, somehow related to the curvature of spacetime induced by spin, which works out (if I’m not mistaken) to about (10^40 m)^-1. x��Y�n�H}7��GiQ+s�4��@sk��A��{$+E�T�9$��a��
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It’s not about “suppressing data”, it’s about how hard you work looking for what could be the source of the problem when there is something weird in your data. I think Eric’s tweet from May 29 is instructive: “You’ll get an article whenever I’ve time to finish one & only because I really want to give you one. The metric tensor is a symmetric bilinear form, so 10 components in 4 d. So, you could make a bundle over your 4d spacetime, with 10d fibers given by the symmetric bilinear forms on the tangent space. And understand spin and I think we’ll understand entanglement a lot better. 708 0 obj
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Anyway, that story doesn’t really have much to do with this one. As regards the du Sautoy article, I think it’s an editorial.
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Those who missed it the first time need only wait 2 more days — for it seems Weinstein is giving a re-run this Friday at 2pm in the Mathematical Institute in Oxford.
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You are right that it is small in the specific Einstein-Cartan case …. Yes, he really needs to get a paper written so others can see what he has, but it’s not because he’s trying to get attention that he hasn’t done that yet.
It may be null, but it probably isn’t, and no one discusses it in standard textbooks because, except in the vicinity of Planck energy, it’s so minuscule that it’s not experimentally verifiable.
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Another reason for not writing more about this is that I don’t know much about what is going on, which seems to be a good time to wait a bit before commenting more. Btw, I was suprised by du Sautoy’s sentence Given how bloated and self-referential modern physics have become without offering many testable predictions (string theory anyone?) ۦ��?0�M=K��%dLQ��Do8�=�1��b�\g4P�Vy Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images . AFAIK they stood up there and said we have this data, we can’t get rid of it, it looks funky, and we ask you help in showing where we went wrong. What does it feel like to read a groundbreaking academic paper? Audio . x��[Ɏ���S��=")�`hoAr������A&��e^?��X$e+�1n[���|�R3����y:��uu>ӆ���}��o���M��g���/���~�4�)���O��~x�����?�|���ϳ���yw���/W#~]/��I���ߧUVe���_���%L�z����?�?7��q���? D. who has been working as an economist here in New York for many years, and someone I’ve often enjoyed talking to over the years.
Beyond that, Eric is the one who needs to get details of this out, not me, since I’m still in the dark…. Pingback: #FísicaCuántica: El “todólogo” Eric R. Weinstein y quien alto sube, duro cae | Francis (th)E mule Science's News, Pingback: A Tale of Two Oxford Talks | Not Even Wrong. Garrett was trying to understand this in terms of E(8) symmetry, and I’m looking forward to seeing what Eric’s ideas about this are. I reckon that we’ll know sooner rather than later whether there is anything to this. %%EOF
That’s why they get the bad rap. Last night (May 23, 2013), Eric Weinstein gave a lecture at Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University, presenting his Theory of Everything.
Why does an economy need derivatives? But this cosmological constant has always seemed very arbitrary and a retrospective fix.” I’m not sure when he’ll have a paper out on the arXiv, or whether some sort of version of his lecture will be available. I know Eric pretty well, and he’s not doing this to get attention, get on TV, get a book deal, etc. WELCOME TO ERIC-WEINSTEIN.NET . Pingback: The Overhyping of Theories and the Search for Scientific Truth | Anacephalaeosis, #FísicaCuántica: El “todólogo” Eric R. Weinstein y quien alto sube, duro cae | Francis (th)E mule Science's News, A Tale of Two Oxford Talks | Not Even Wrong, Around the Web: Cool linky stuff for science undergrads (5) – Confessions of a Science Librarian, Geometric Unity reprise | betaingegneria.it, » Social construction of truth and knowledge (inlustre monumentum est), Courses, Forces, and (w)Einstein | Of Particular Significance, The Overhyping of Theories and the Search for Scientific Truth | Anacephalaeosis. The theory sounds like a large extrapolation on the SM though.
He spoke at the invitation of Marcus du Sautoy, an Oxford mathematician who now inhabits Richard Dawkins' former position as the Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science. For a small amount of info about the talk, see the comment here from “Leaker”. It seems like he is more interesting in getting attention than in contributing to science. Point is, if you’re doing unification, you will end up predicting (or, more likely, assuming) the effect of spin on the geometry. If spin is coupled to geometry through the same G as the stress/energy tensor, we can construct a quantity *G/c^3 with dimensions of inverse length, somehow related to the curvature of spacetime induced by spin, which works out (if I’m not mistaken) to about (10^40 m)^-1. x��Y�n�H}7��GiQ+s�4��@sk��A��{$+E�T�9$��a��
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It’s not about “suppressing data”, it’s about how hard you work looking for what could be the source of the problem when there is something weird in your data. I think Eric’s tweet from May 29 is instructive: “You’ll get an article whenever I’ve time to finish one & only because I really want to give you one. The metric tensor is a symmetric bilinear form, so 10 components in 4 d. So, you could make a bundle over your 4d spacetime, with 10d fibers given by the symmetric bilinear forms on the tangent space. And understand spin and I think we’ll understand entanglement a lot better. 708 0 obj
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Anyway, that story doesn’t really have much to do with this one. As regards the du Sautoy article, I think it’s an editorial.
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Those who missed it the first time need only wait 2 more days — for it seems Weinstein is giving a re-run this Friday at 2pm in the Mathematical Institute in Oxford.
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By Eric R Weinstein PhD [Hosted at NBER from 1998-2017 where the author was at one time Co-Director / Co-Founder of the Sloan Foundation funded Program on the Economics of Advanced Training / Science and Engineering Workforce Project (PEAT/SEWP) ] Table of Contents: 1. Outlet Title Air Date The Intellectual Dark Web Podcast : 037 - Sam Harris Live Town Hall with Eric Weinstein (May 2019) 2019-06-04 The James Altucher Podcast: Ep. If I am not mistaken, in an effective field theory approach of SM + Einstein-Hilbert, the cosmological constant appears automatically as a counterterm. Hi Peter, I’m a teeny bit surprised at your reaction – isn’t this exactly the sort of hype you are usually so critical of? ”. OK, “Einstein-Cartan or something like that”. Interesting excerpts: Anti-immigrant motives: In fact, while simple bigotry is common enough throughout the industrialized world, such irrational opposition may have been over-emphasized as an explanation by those impatient to reap the benefits that migrant labour offers. Think of all those published papers that never got a mention, never mind an editorial.
