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<span style="color:#de2898;">'''Eric Weinstein: '''</span>[00:37:51] So it's a great pleasure to be here in Oxford. For those of you who are not aware it is possible that no other university in the world has kept the faith for so long with Einstein's great vision of a final theory for physics as a theory of pure geometry, a sort of elegance and simplicity of the highest order. | <span style="color:#de2898;">'''Eric Weinstein: '''</span>[00:37:51] So it's a great pleasure to be here in Oxford. For those of you who are not aware it is possible that no other university in the world has kept the faith for so long with Einstein's great vision of a final theory for physics as a theory of pure geometry, a sort of elegance and simplicity of the highest order. | ||
<p>[00:38:16] And the names that are associated with Oxford that weigh heavy on me are [[Michael Atiyah|[Michael] Atiyah]], [[Sir Roger Penrose|[Roger] Penrose]], [Graeme] [[Segal]], [[Nick Woodhouse|[Nick] | <p>[00:38:16] And the names that are associated with Oxford that weigh heavy on me are [[Michael Atiyah|[Michael] Atiyah]], [[Sir Roger Penrose|[Roger] Penrose]], [Graeme] [[Segal]], [[Nick Woodhouse|[Nick] Woodhouse]], [[Nigel Hitchin|[Nigel] Hitchin]]. It's a very long list of people who even when fashion did not hold those ideas in favor always kept the faith that there was much to be learned from the geometric perspective on physics. | ||
<p>[00:38:38] Of course, unified field theory in some sense, acquired a stigma with Einstein's failure to find it in the sense that even someone like Einstein being tempted by the siren song of geometry might lose their footing and go astray. And in the years since we've had a replacement theory, which is that what is really calling our generations is the quest to quantize general relativity and gravity. | <p>[00:38:38] Of course, unified field theory in some sense, acquired a stigma with Einstein's failure to find it in the sense that even someone like Einstein being tempted by the siren song of geometry might lose their footing and go astray. And in the years since we've had a replacement theory, which is that what is really calling our generations is the quest to quantize general relativity and gravity. | ||