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Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Eric Weinstein: Theories of Everything, Geometric Unity & Science’s Paths. Into the Impossible (#048)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2020

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

Part 1 of Brian Keating’s fascinating interview with mathematician & economist Eric Weinstein on the INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast. Topics include Eric’s provocative new ideas on physics and science culture. Weinstein is a vocal critic of modern academic hierarchies and advocates for advances in scientific theory over an emphasis on experimental results. Keating’s own issues with what he calls the “academic Hunger Games” leads to a lively debate about funding, academic freedom, and theoretical vs experimental physics. Find show notes and resources are available here: https://briankeating.com/blog.php 00:11:09 Is there middle ground between cranks and peer review? 00:20:23 The value of Weinstein’s approach to communicating science. 00:30:50 The ethics of attribution. 00:41:26 Surviving the academic Hunger Games. 00:54:24 Theoretical physicists can save human life by getting us off Earth. 01:11:52 “Great science is whatever people have done to make major advances.” 01:22:00 Experiments are only the last step, theory is the bulk of science. 01:29:15 The logic behind questioning accepted theories on April Fool’s Day. Eric Weinstein has a Ph.D. from Harvard in mathematical physics. He is the managing director of Thiel Capital. Weinstein hosts the podcast The Portal Find Eric Weinstein on the web: https://ericweinstein.org and Twitter: https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein Watch Weinstein’s “April Fool’s” episode of The Portal, where he explains his theory of Geometric Unity Watch Weinstein’s latest interview on The Joe Rogan Experience ️Please subscribe, rate, and review the INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast on iTunes ‍♂️ Find Brian Keating on Twitter at https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 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

A friend, a sort of superhero in some sense,

0:14.6

although I'm gonna try to challenge you

0:16.9

on a couple of things in your theories

0:18.7

and in your politics and so forth today.

0:20.6

I hope we'll have a wide-ranging conversation, but Eric Weinstein,

0:24.0

pleasure to welcome you on to the Into the Impossible Podcast.

0:27.2

Brian, it's a total pleasure to be here and I appreciate your strategy and build

0:31.9

them up first for an initial dopamine hit and then tear them down later during the remainder of the podcast.

0:37.3

That's right. Well, I always say, you know, I got that from your mother and if you want, I can get it from your mother-in-law how to introduce you.

0:43.2

But either way, I think you're in good shape.

0:47.0

So I had on my podcast a couple of weeks ago now, a certain mathematician, and that mathematician generated some

0:56.6

controversy, as they would say, in his homeland. And I want to just say that the

1:00.4

mathematician's last name begins with a W.

1:03.8

I won't say who it is, but I want you to sort of opine on this

1:07.8

and let me know your feelings how you would react to it

1:11.0

if the W stood for, let's just say Weinstein.

1:14.9

So it said mathematician W, it has been said about his theory, is that it's not clear what his

1:20.4

goals are.

1:21.4

He says he wants the intention and feedback of the physics

1:24.2

community, but his unconventional approach soliciting public comments on exceedingly

1:28.9

long results from perhaps long ago almost endures and shall it remain obscure.

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