Eric Weinstein – Ask Me Anything Live (#102)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Physics, Natural Sciences, Science

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🗓️ 22 December 2020

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Eric Weinstein is the managing director of Thiel Capital, Peter Thiel‘s investment firm, a position he has held since 2015. Though not an academic physicist, he proposed a unified theory of physics in 2013. He and his brother Bret Weinstein coined the term Intellectual Dark Web to refer to an informal group of pundits. Weinstein received his Ph.D. in mathematical physics from the Mathematics Department at Harvard University in 1992 under the supervision of Raoul Bott Find Eric’s Portal Podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR85PW_B_7_Aisx5vNS7Gjw Host Brian Keating: ‍♂️ Twitter at https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating Instagram at https://instagram.com/DrBrianKeating Buy my book LOSING THE NOBEL PRIZE: http://amzn.to/2sa5UpA Subscribe for more great content https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 ✍️Detailed Blog posts here: https://briankeating.com/blog.php Join my mailing list: http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.phpJoin my Facebook Group: https://facebook.com/losingthenobelprize ️Please subscribe, rate, and review the INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast on iTunes A production of http://imagination.ucsd.edu/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
0:07.0	Hello everybody, welcome to this fourth edition of the week of the Into the Impossible Podcast.
0:17.0	Join live and in person and direct with your friend and mine,
0:21.0	Dr. Eric Weinstein.
0:22.0	Hello Eric, how are you, sir?
0:24.3	All the way back there.
0:25.1	I agree to be here at the University of California
0:26.9	at San Diego.
0:27.8	We've been working all day on new theories and new experimental techniques, and I thought it only fair to let in some of my audience to get
0:36.7	to know you better in the world of physics and math that makes you tick.
0:41.1	Now I'm going to see if people can hear Eric.
0:42.6	So Eric, they're saying they can't hear you so well.
0:44.7	Can you scooch on over, sconch on over,
0:47.6	still in the frame?
0:48.6	Is that better?
0:49.6	Let's see.
0:50.6	Give us a thumbs up if you can hear Eric.
0:51.6	Is that better?
0:53.2	All right, this is great.
0:54.7	All right, that's it.
0:55.7	That was all we wanted to do.
0:57.2	Good night, Chabot Shalom, no, we are going to go
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