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Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Eric Weinstein's Theory of Everything Confirmed?

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 145 minutes

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Summary

How are recent DESI experimental results challenging the traditional view of dark energy as a fixed cosmological constant? Are foundational assumptions in Einstein’s general relativity limiting progress in theoretical physics? And how do tensions in cosmological measurements, like the Hubble constant discrepancy, reflect deeper issues in physics? In this episode, we’ll explore these fundamental questions with none other than Eric Weinstein! Eric 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’ll discuss his fascinating theory, the future of physics and academia, and much more.  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 since then.  — Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/list to win a meteorite 💥 — Key Takeaways:  00:00:00 Intro  00:00:29 DESI results and the cosmological constant  00:08:33 Why general relativity is fundamentally limited 00:16:11 Elon Musk’s obsession with Mars 00:26:01 Sharing ideas with broader audiences  00:30:56 Dark energy’s evolving nature 00:34:16 Discrepancies in cosmological measurements 00:43:02 Freeing dark energy from constancy  00:50:16 Einstein’s happiest thought, LLMs and physics  00:59:09 Eric’s thoughts on Lenny Susskind, Joe Rogan, and Terrence Howard 01:04:44 Pseudoscience and the debunking community  01:23:55 The future of academia and academic freedom  01:48:45 Political polarization in the United States 01:56:43 October 7th  02:00:50 Remembering Jim Simons and Chern-Simons theory  02:21:10 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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0:00.0

What Sean said is I, Sean Carroll, am not that interested in labeling things as pseudoscience.

0:06.1

No, Sean. How dare you cast shade and aspersions of the kind that I wouldn't seek to cast on you, but I will now.

0:11.8

After the noise died down, I sat down with Eric for a conversation about all of this, his theory of geometric unity.

0:18.1

What does it all mean? And why do so many people misunderstand or

0:21.7

misrepresent what it's all about? How can we test it in the lab and in space? And will geometric

0:26.9

unity kill off string theory once and for all? Eric Weinstein, welcome back today into the

0:31.6

Impossible podcast, live and in person. Well, not live, but we're in person. Good to see you.

0:36.2

Oh, we're live. We are alive. It's been about two years since you're in that very seat. Podcast seating has

0:43.3

changed a little bit. A little bit. Coming off a one hour plus seminar with you speaking about

0:49.2

geometric unity to a rapt audience of string theorists, cosmologists, particle physicist, and

0:56.7

fresh men and women.

0:57.9

What did you think of it?

0:58.8

I like you, CSD, excuse me, crowd.

1:02.2

When you heard about the DESE results, the Cognizente called it DESE, we never read out

1:07.7

the acronym.

1:08.3

We always say the acronym as if it's a beautiful.

1:09.8

Well, I have to a beautiful because I'm

1:11.1

married to an Indian woman and the word for country in Hindi is Dish. And so they refer to themselves

1:19.4

as Barat. When you heard about this news, I mean, obviously this is not something you post-dicted,

1:25.2

returidicted and put in just before our talk, right?

1:28.0

So this must have been something that's from the 1980s.

1:30.4

Right. So this must have been something that you've been thinking about for quite some time.

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