"This Might Be The End Of Humanity" - Eric Weinstein
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Chris and Eric Weinstein explore the ramifications of sidelining physics. Why does Eric Weinstein believe it's crucial to prioritize physics? How does Eric Weinstein attribute physics decline to events in the '80s? What are Eric Weinstein's suggestions for restoring interplanetary physics to prominence?
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Hello you legends. Watch the full episode with Eric here - kzhead.info/sun/f66xctKLsHpmh2w/bejne.htmlsi=oi7YcM0WcUBPODRW
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!
“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
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.
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
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.
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?
It ends at the doorstep of Klaus Schwab.
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.
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 ?
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.
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.
Eric always makes me feel incredibly optimistic and pessimistic at the same time.
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.
I like the fact that guys like this have formats to deliver their messages.
arrogant smug that thinks he is above evryone else.... what an educated tool.
Excellent discussion! Thank you =)
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 KZhead
@@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.
Amazing interview thank you for the eye opener!!!!!
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.
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.
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.
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.
This dude could have made up every word he said in this video and I would not have known the difference.
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. ❤
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?
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.
the best guy at never answering questions but with the coolest non-answers
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? 😂
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.
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.
The last minute really put everything together on that paper map/ipad analogy.
Eric definitely does NOT try to clear things up.
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 .!!
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
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.
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?
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.
The "experts" in any field are gatekeepers; "peer review" is a sick joke. The medical community is a major example. Most so-called doctors are not physicians; they are technicians: They say and do what the AMA, FDA, CDC - and most of all, Big Pharma - tell them to do.
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.
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.
Never underestimate humanity's ability to doom themselves. We try mightily at every stage of civilization to do just that, and we always succeed.
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.
Eric Weinstein is a gift to current times and to bring these information and knowledge out.
This
It's ''this information.'' Most people nowadays have no concept of grammar, semantics, spelling, punctuation, nor pronunciation. Society is in cognitive decline.
Had a strong Raymond F. Jones "Noise Level" vibes listening to that for some reason.
As a physicist, I agree with Eric.
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
Would love to see Eric and a panel of physicists talk about this.
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 KZhead
@@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
I like your thinking... thanks mate!
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.
It’s easier to get money for grants if your project is removed from reality. Just like any other government project.
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
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...
Watched the whole 3 hour talk. Eric has a unique take on so many subjects.👌
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? @@jim4437
"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.
"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
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!
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.
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 . . ."
As a retired military physicists, Great-Stuff; & compassionate pragmatism/empiricism physics rules
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.
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 ....
RIP Wal Thornhill. That guy was super open minded in physics and spent decades calling for reform within the community.
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?
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...).
Please have this gentleman on again. He is quality.
"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?"
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.
As a physicist, I have to agree with Weinstein
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 😂
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….
I know he's got something to say but I can't figure out what it is..
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 🛍️
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.
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.
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.
The only problem is that these google images are not present, up to date images, but are delayed by some time period.
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.
Nice clip - going to watch the full interview. Cheers Chris, you're killing it!!! 👍
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.
[_] 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"?
the dramatic lighting says "dramatic bullshit." you nailed it.
Was Chris even there for the interview? I almost didn't notice.
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
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.
Great video. Eric is right on so many dimensions.
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
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
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.
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 experienced a double benefit because at the halfway mark I realized that I understood absolutely nothing of what was going on and stopped trying.
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.
Technology is not the panacea to life we think it is!
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?
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.
Go on.
Scientology lizard ppl?
Facts
His description of the mentality manifest in physics now permeates our entire civilization.
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.
I agree
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)
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.....
Ok. But just keep in mind, wherever you go, you brought your problems with you.
reminds me of the old saying "wherever you go, there you are"
Pardon my simple statement, but what a great down to Earth conversation!
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!
The general consensus from the very top is that we all have to go. Already in motion.
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
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!
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
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.
It's possible that there is just a fundamental duality to the macro and micro, in the sense that there is no definable quanta of gravity from the micro-world, and that fundamental reality 'tree' branches out into all possible states that we consider as nature/physics? Edit: yes this was a stoned thought.
I'm on a mission to hear everything this man has ever said on the internet.
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.
Best host questions I've ever seen asked of Weinstein. This is perfect! Great job, Chris!
In a world full of so much willful stupidity, I'm comforted that powerful minds like his are also out there
Unfortunately no one is listening
He just talks allot. Gets knowwhere
I just Love Eric ❤ He makes me feel SO Stupid 😂
As a Nuclear Physicist, and fellow Harvard Grad, I would recommend listening to Eric.
Eric always tries to be provocative on every single topic!
I don't know that I agree with Eric's premise of protractors to iPads analogy for where we are in physics and where we need to be. We have a few unexplained phenomena in physics, sure. We also have the present knowledge to use chemical reactions to reach Mars. We understand shielding, and present research is into alternative forms of energy utilization (i.e. a generator running on radio waves). While I get that he wants to explore more, why aren't we mastering what we have? I feel his analogy fails in the direction he was trying to take it (and was quite long-winded about), and I still don't fully feel like I understand what he was trying to say. A VERY rough reverse comparison would be when Bill Nye was interviewed by Tucker Carlson and Bill could not understand what Tucker was asking, because he was talking a completely different methodology for the same question (longer winded than needed).
I like your analogy. The big 11 digit question is whether there's any dimension which would allow the game characters to gain access to the keyboard controls.1-D creature would be intellectually incapable of successfully competing in a 2-D world. Similarly, 2-D creatures would have their minds blown up in a 3-D world. I am afraid It might be the same, or worse, going up the scale. We may be missing some crucial physical attributes too, not only mental capacity. A similar question tempts me: if AI ever acquired self-awareness, how many-dimensional would it be based on its experience?
“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.
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.
Exactly! Cant follow his thought process from the question asked
THIS is the most coherent you've seen him!
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.
New to your channel Chris Williamson but love the content and especially interviews with Eric Weisten. What an increadible brain he has. That would be a study in itself and I do mean respectully. Absolutely brilliant. As for Mars I think we on earth cannot get along so what makes anyone think that a society living on Mars would not implode in short order with a minor problem or failure. It not like you have all the solutions at hand or that you could call someone in to fix it. Again we can´t do it on Earth why would Mars be different. We should focus on Earth and putting the U (As in each individual) back into Humanity as that is what is truly going to be our demise! Like the experiment with the results that change when the observers are changed and the condition remains the same is the example of the powers of our perceptions and that is something we all really need to work on. That is the real solution in my eyes.
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.
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 KZheadrs, 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 KZhead 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...
He’s letting his fear cloud his perspective. Surviving ourselves isn’t the obstacle, it’s the point.
Interesting. Nice way to frame it
I think it's both at the same time.
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.
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.
My fleece blanket is my only solace, some days.
He is fantastic!! Thank you for sharing.
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.
Ironically, common sense is a scarcity in the uber educated's collective wisdom.
How about a middle ground!
Middle ground would be totalitarianism. 😮
Wow. I'm wondering if there is any connection between this mental contagion in the physicists world and in the mental contagion in the general pop - all consuming obsession with things that don't matter but have something to do with vanity and laziness - it's a powerful connection between the two.
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.
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.
"we must first quantify the standard world." There is no WE. Only the person that wishes to understand the quantum world need do this. If you are a wheat farmer, you probably do not need to know quantum physics.
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.
Excellent work Professor 👏 🎉
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
Eric Weinstein impresses me as man of integrity, a truly good man. He is clearly a genius. His knowledge of physics and a great many other things is truly mind boggling, and his command of the english language is delightful. I could listen to him for hours. But I came to the conclusion four decades ago that humans were never going to create a paradise here, let alone off-planet, so I began seeking contact with a higher power, and that has been more fruitful. I know from personal experience that when we die those of us who have joined in union with the consciousness of the cosmos that created this universe can join other beings of light who have ascended to a higher dimension. I intend to never come back here again. Best of luck to the rest of you. It's been a blast.
@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.