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This is however not my major | This is however not my major focus. My major focus of the Distributed Idea Suppression Complex or DISC has to do with what happened inside of our universities. | ||
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I'm in a somewhat unusual position in that both myself and my wife have PhDs, as well as my brother and his wife, and we've all appeared in interviews within the last five years. So maybe you've seen all of us on camera or have some idea of how Bret Weinstein Heather | I'm in a somewhat unusual position in that both myself and my wife have PhDs, as well as my brother and his wife, and we've all appeared in interviews within the last five years. So maybe you've seen all of us on camera or have some idea of how Bret Weinstein Heather Heying, Pia Melaney and I sound. | ||
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What some of you don't know is that I believe that inside of that group of four one of us wrote a book immediately after getting a Ph.D. Which is Heather heying book antipode about her solo travels to the jungles of Madagascar. So if you have a young woman in your life was looking for pretty impressive female role model | What some of you don't know is that I believe that inside of that group of four one of us wrote a book immediately after getting a Ph.D. Which is Heather heying book antipode about her solo travels to the jungles of Madagascar. So if you have a young woman in your life was looking for a pretty impressive female role model, I would say Heather's that toughness and intelligence and grit mix were pretty terrific reading. I'd recommend buying the book Antipode for that young lady. | ||
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In the case of the remaining three, none of us wrote a book immediately afterwards. | In the case of the remaining three, none of us wrote a book immediately afterwards. However, I think that the quality of the discoveries that were being explored was incredibly high and in each case, what I thought happened to those was most unexpected. Now, what are these ideas that are clam claiming were suppressed? So I would say that in one case we were talking about the reasons why we die. One of these theses contained what I think is one of the best models for the reasons that we have these finite life-span and of course, we're all subject to what might be called environmental insult. If a piano falls on your head while you're walking down the street that's usually going to be your exit but why we age why we get cancer and why we die, I think has not been very well understood at the molecular level and I think perhaps one of the first mature attempts to do this took place in my brother's thesis at the University of Michigan. | ||
However, I think that the quality of the discoveries that were being explored was incredibly high and in each case, what I thought happened to those was most unexpected. Now, what are these ideas that are clam claiming were suppressed | |||
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If biology is one of the greatest ideas man is ever had in the form of natural and sexual selection in the work of Darwin and Wallace | If biology is one of the greatest ideas man is ever had in the form of natural and sexual selection in the work of Darwin and Wallace, I would say that the other complex of great ideas truly top ideas would be what I would call Geometric Dynamics. Those are the ideas that take place underneath theoretical physics. Whether we're talking about the Standard Model or General Relativity that we now believe the all fundamental physical phenomena can be divided between these two great theories in one case that have Einstein's General Relativity. It's been known for about a hundred years that the substrate of the theory is Reimann's theory of differential geometry, that is, Reimanian geometry. | ||
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What is much more recent perhaps slightly less than 50 years old thanks to Jim Simons and | What is much more recent perhaps slightly less than 50 years old thanks to Jim Simons and C. N. Yang is the knowledge that the classical theory underneath Quantum Field Theory is in fact a different form of geometry known as Erismanian geometry, fiber bundle geometry, Gauge Theory, or Steinrod geometry, whatever you want to call it. So the idea that geometry is the birthplace of fundamental physics, I think is now generally understood by all practicing theoretical physicists functioning at the top level. | ||
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Inside of that complex | Inside of that complex, we've been stuck for approximately, I don't know, 47 years, where theory used to lead experiment, and we used to make predictions and the predictions would usually be confirmed in real relatively short order. We have not had a period of stagnation inside of theoretical physics that mirrors this, with the closest comprable period perhaps being the period from the late 1920s, with the advent of quantum electrodynamics, to the late 1940s with the beginning of renormalization theory being ushered in at the Shelter Island Pocono an Old Stone conferences. | ||
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So that 20-year | So that 20-year period is now more than doubled, and we haven't been making progress. And I've been very uncomfortable with the idea of coming forward with ideas. Why well to be honest, it's very rare for anyone outside of theoretical physics to have reasonable ideas in physics. I could explain why, but the physicists are fantastic. They've got all sorts of no-go theorems, and all sorts of considerations that have to be kept in mind, and effectively what they've got is a world that is so tightly constrained when it comes to understanding where we are that almost every new idea is instantly dead on arrival, and this is been incredibly demotivating to people in the field. And it does feel, from many different perspectives, like we're almost at the end if not of all of physics, at least of this chapter of physics. | ||
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I don't know whether I'm nuts, but I do know that it previous points. I've suggested things into the both the mathematical and physics communities that have later been shown by other people to be correct. And while I was waiting for a some kind of confirmation. I was being told Eric you're completely off base. You're not getting it one of these situations involve something called the | I don't know whether I'm nuts, but I do know that it previous points. I've suggested things into the both the mathematical and physics communities that have later been shown by other people to be correct. And while I was waiting for a some kind of confirmation. I was being told Eric you're completely off base. You're not getting it one of these situations involve something called the Seiberg-Witten equation, which I put forward in the 1980s and probably 87 and I was told that these couldn't possibly be right there. They weren't sufficiently nonlinear. I'll tell the whole story about how if Spinners were involved in obviously Nigel Hitchin would have told us so blah blah blah. None of this was true in the 1994 Natty Cyborg and Edward Witten made a huge Splash with these equations. I remember being in the room and seeing the equations written at MIT on the board, I was thinking oh, wait a minute. Those are the equations that I put forward if those equations are being put forward by Witten. Why is it that the community isn't telling him that they're wrong for the same reason that they told me that they were wrong. | ||
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