Did Eric Weinstein Just Delete Einstein’s Cosmological Constant - Confirmed by DESI? [Ep. 493]

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/list to win a meteorite 💥 Can geometric unity actually solve the deepest mysteries of our universe, or will it join the many others that have tried unsuccessfully in the past to create a new unified theory? Eric Weinstein is one of the most revered thinkers of our generation. Though not an academic physicist, he proposed a unified theory of physics in 2013, which is supposed to have the potential to explain phenomena that string theory cannot. In a lecture held live at UCSD in April 2025 at the prestigious Astrophysics and Cosmology Seminar, Eric presented an update to his groundbreaking theory. Today, we’re sharing his fascinating lecture with you! Eric is an investor, financial executive, and host of The Portal. He and his brother, Bret Weinstein, coined the term Intellectual Dark Web to refer to an informal group of pundits. Eric is a vocal critic of modern academic hierarchies and advocates for advances in scientific theory over an emphasis on experimental results. He proposed a new unified theory of physics in 2013 and has been an active member of the physics community. — Key Takeaways: 00:00 Intro 01:58 Cosmological sector and geometric unity 03:57 The Poincaré group 08:31 Quantum gravity and the standard model 14:41 Torsion and gauge invariance 28:13 Spinor group and 14-dimensional space 38:24 Grand unification and spinors 42:34 The Higgs is an illusion 50:08 Outro — Additional resources: ➡️ Learn more about Eric: 🎙️ Website: https://ericweinstein.org/ ➡️ Follow me on your fav platforms: ✖️ Twitter:⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🔔 YouTube:⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1⁠⁠⁠⁠ 📝 Join my mailing list:⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://briankeating.com/list⁠⁠⁠⁠ ✍️ Check out my blog:⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://briankeating.com/cosmic-musings/⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🎙️ Follow my podcast:⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://briankeating.com/podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠ — Into the Impossible with Brian Keating is a podcast dedicated to all those who want to explore the universe within and beyond the known. Make sure to follow so you never miss an episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	Quantum gravity is a mental disease, which theoretical physics needs to rid itself of,
0:35.1	and people have to be willing to say that in public.
0:38.6	Eric Weinstein is one of the most revered thinkers of our generation.
0:43.3	The Great Nap is now over. Right now, where we are is four light years from the nearest star.
0:49.8	There is no way to get to the speed of light or even close. The problem is that the culmination
0:54.3	of all human theory about the base reality stagnated abruptly and mysteriously in 1973.
0:59.8	Is the cosmological constant really necessary? So we have a cosmological constant term
1:04.3	without an explanation and an explanation torsion without a term. And a radical new prediction that could explain the recent results from the DESE Project,
1:14.6	a startling claim that Einstein's cosmological constant is not at all what Einstein thought it was.
1:20.6	This is the term which everyone loves.
1:22.6	This is the term which we keep going back and forth.
1:25.6	Is it a blunder? Is it a blunder? Is it a blunder? Is it a genius? Is it a blunder? Is it a genius?
1:28.8	Einstein compared this to a building with fine marble, think leaning tower of Pisa,
1:35.3	his greatest blunder and cheap wood on the other side.
1:38.8	The field is not producing new results.
1:41.3	This is also terrible, but it turns wonderful because if we can find the
1:45.8	problem, we can make progress and reach the stars. In today's talk, you're about to witness an
1:50.4	update to his groundbreaking theory first presented at Oxford in 2013. This lecture was held live
1:57.2	at the UC San Diego Physics Department in the mayor of in April 2025 at UCSD's
2:03.6	prestigious astroparticle cosmology seminar. Here, one of the most brilliant mathematical physicists
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