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<p>[00:35:09] Be well.

<p>[00:35:09] Be well.

<p>[00:35:23] <span style="color:#fa8a3b;">'''Marcus du Sautoy: '''</span>[00:35:23] Well, welcome to this special [[Simonyi lecture]] and my name Marcus du Sautoy. I'm a professor of mathematics here and the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science. And [[Charles Simonyi]] prepared a manifesto when he endowed this chair to guide the holder of the professorship in their mission.

<p>[00:35:23] <span style="color:#fa8a3b;">'''Marcus du Sautoy: '''</span>[00:35:23] Well, welcome to this special [[Simonyi lecture]] and my name Marcus du Sautoy. I'm a professor of mathematics here and the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science. And [[Charles Simonyi]] prepared a manifesto when he endowed this chair to guide the holder of the professorship in their mission.

<p>[00:37:30] I'm therefore very happy to provide a platform here in Oxford for Eric to share his ideas on a new theory he calls Geometric Unity. The lecture will be approximately 70 minutes after which we will have a period to ask questions. Eric.

<p>[00:37:30] I'm therefore very happy to provide a platform here in Oxford for Eric to share his ideas on a new theory he calls Geometric Unity. The lecture will be approximately 70 minutes after which we will have a period to ask questions. Eric.

<p>[00:37:51] <span style="color:#de2898;">'''Eric Weinstein: '''</span>[00:37:51] So it's, well, uh, it's a great pleasure to be here in Oxford, uh, for those of you who are not aware. Mmm. It is possible that no other university in the world has kept so tightly. Uh, and kept the faith for so long with, uh, Einstein's great vision of a final theory for physics as a theory of pure geometry, sort of elegance and simplicity of the highest order.

<p>[00:37:51] <span style="color:#de2898;">'''Eric Weinstein: '''</span>[00:37:51] So it's, well, uh, it's a great pleasure to be here in Oxford, uh, for those of you who are not aware. Mmm. It is possible that no other university in the world has kept so tightly. Uh, and kept the faith for so long with, uh, Einstein's great vision of a final theory for physics as a theory of pure geometry, sort of elegance and simplicity of the highest order.

<p>[01:40:08] Well, because the curvature.

<p>[01:40:08] Well, because the curvature.

<p>[01:40:28] because the curvature of a connection hit by a gauge transformation is equal on the nose.

<p>[01:40:28] because the curvature of a connection hit by a gauge transformation is equal on the nose.

<p>[02:12:53] There are lots of things to ask about this theory, but I find it remarkable that tying our hands, we find ourselves with new equations unifications and three-generation. In a way that seems surprisingly rich, certainly unexpected. Um, and I think I'll stop there. Thank you very much for your time.

<p>[02:12:53] There are lots of things to ask about this theory, but I find it remarkable that tying our hands, we find ourselves with new equations unifications and three-generation. In a way that seems surprisingly rich, certainly unexpected. Um, and I think I'll stop there. Thank you very much for your time.

<p>[02:13:25] so thanks for watching that video. What I thought I would do since, uh, that was the first time I'd really presented the theory at all in public and had gotten somewhat turned around on my trip to England and trying, uh, probably stupidly to do last minute corrections. Got me a bit confused in a few places, and I wrote some things on the board I probably shouldn't have.

<p>[02:13:25] so thanks for watching that video. What I thought I would do since, uh, that was the first time I'd really presented the theory at all in public and had gotten somewhat turned around on my trip to England and trying, uh, probably stupidly to do last minute corrections. Got me a bit confused in a few places, and I wrote some things on the board I probably shouldn't have.