Eric Weinstein: "I am TERRIFIED of this Man!”

why during the 1950s did something happen that resulted in a 70-year stagnation in a field called quantum gravity quantum gravity is like a startup that cannot ship a product after 70 years and it's still taken over in theoretical physics as sort of The Prestige Theory field and quantum gravity is is there an application for this that they were attempting to achieve it's not a precursor to technology so far as we know but what happened was quantum gravity was a replacement for something that used to be known as the unified field so Einstein wasn't chasing quantum gravity he was chasing unified field theory that fell out of favor unified field Theory becomes sort of like a joke old-timey expression for the future of physics and we substituted quantum gravity for the merger of quantum theory one field Theory quantum mechanics and gravitational physics under general relativity how is it that the field became convinced that something which clearly doesn't seem to work and has had all of the resources all of the best Minds at its disposal it sucks up everything and it it just doesn't work to be specific like how many people are working on this problem and how many people have been working on this problem for 70 years without progress I would say that the period between 1953 and 73 there are parallel things quantum gravity is not the mainstream at all okay so real physics is happening between 53 and 73 by anybody's understanding of it okay one single individual who is the most dominant mind on planet Earth at the moment effectively Voldemort the person whose name we are a little bit afraid to invoke and and cause Wrath said in 1984. now string theory is the way this anomaly cancellation was unexpected and it clearly points to the fact that we are ladies and gentlemen we are about to quantize who's that person Edward Whitton and in physics circles you're not allowed to bring this guy up oh we talk about him everybody talks about him but to challenge him think about agent Smith think about playing one-on-one with Michael Jordan in his prime he's not good Joe I don't think I'm dumb enough not to be intellectually afraid of anyone else on planet Earth at this point I am terrified of this person really and has never made a contact with the physical world so it's like one of the greatest conundrums so so let me get back to how what do you mean by never made contact no Nobel Prize never predicted something that turned out to be true never pointed us to do an experiment that was unvalidated so a hundred percent of his efforts have been not making contact with physical reality oh this is I'm sorry like you have people like Michio Kaku who are in the string theoretic School Sean Carroll is very sympathetic to it you need to understand this story 1957 conference at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill one of the most eminent mathematician physicists guy who was first Wrangler at Cambridge was a guy named Herman Bondi an Austrian I think mathematician in his paper is about negative mass in general relativity if you have two masses in general they always attract each other gravitationally but what if somehow you had a different kind of mass that was negative just like you could have negative and positive charges so oddly the negative mass is still attracted just the same way to the positive masses if it there was no difference but the positive mass is always repelled so you get this weird solution where the negative Mass chases the positive mass and they go off to like you know unbounded acceleration so Bondi was thinking about why is it that we've got these artificial conditions in general relativity which we impose by hand they're not the same beautiful marble that Einstein used for his field equations but we throw some extra crappy stuff in called positivity conditions to stop general relativity from giving us Madness so Bondi started asking the question maybe we shouldn't maybe what you think of is madness has meaning and this is why this this conference which is a Confluence of the two families the wittens and the dewitts with Feynman and Wheeler and all of these unbelievable characters in attendance is this pivotal strange experience is that people are smoking the ganja on extending general relativity to places that it's never been extended and the highbrow version of this doesn't work and the lowbrow version of this doesn't work so far as we know the low brow version is called pseudoscientific anti-gravity gravity shielding electrogravidics gravity Dynamics the highbrow version of this is called quantum gravity and all the most respectable people are in it and it doesn't work and you can't say why are we doing this if it doesn't work why can't I say edwinton's great but he made a terrible blunder David Gross should David Gross and Edwinton should be in front of the community explaining why did you take all the smartest people all the resources all the attention Michio Kaku get Michio kako in here with me Michio Kaku is out of control Sean Carroll is covering up for this as well in what way they are too kind Brian Green like I had this interchange with Brian Greene where I said you know were not being honest about the failure of string theory and Brian's like oh well maybe we were a little bit exuberant and I could blurt out Institute for arts and ideas I blurred out that's like saying milai milai was irrational exuberance no you put a lot of people's careers in the in the shredder in order to have this quantum gravity experiment which is like you know the people bowing and praying to this thing that doesn't work the dog doesn't hunt and anybody who questions it is a crackpot I'm done with this Joe like you want to come at me and say Eric doesn't know what he's talking about I'm debating physicists I'll debate anybody with the possible conception of Ed Whitton who still scares me but I'll probably debate him too in open Forum we have got to purge the physics community of its quackery and the quackery is coming from the high Prestige version of this the high Prestige version of anti-gravity is called quantum gravity and it just doesn't work they've crawled into the map the prison built by Einstein and they know that it's not right because there are these two singularities there's this Singularity at the beginning of time which we call the big bang assuming the time we're one dimensional and it's part of something called the Friedman Robertson Walker space-time model and there's another one at the bottom of the black hole called The schwarzgled Singularity and the fact that space and time Kink at these two points is an indication that we have something wrong to a mathematician or a physicist it says your equations work pretty well right up into the point where there's some error that you have that you don't understand and you have like a division by zero error and if you could figure out your error you don't know what sin you committed but the way that you know you committed a sin is that you have a singularity so they know that there's some successor Theory and they'll give lectures about space-time is doomed and I'm going to talk about non-commutative geometry but these are all ways of avoiding the fact that you haven't done your homework for 50 years okay so like there's some class that you're supposed to show up to and you haven't been in a long time you don't want to show up and suddenly say what what's going on um that's what's happening they are living inside of Einstein's model So when you say something they'll say well that's impossible because you can't go faster than the speed of light it's like that's a space-time concept that's an einsteining concept you're not thinking post einsteining you're not thinking about recovering Einstein or Einstein is what we would call an effective Theory you're thinking that you really live in space-time so you know what you can do and then you fold your arms and say well that's impossible [Music] 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Length: 8min 38sec (518 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 18 2023