Max Tegmark vs. Eric Weinstein: AI, Aliens, Theories of Everything & New Year’s Resolutions! (383)

[@DrBrianKeating]

What are you looking forward to in 2024?

[@t.a.r.s4982]

I can't wait to see new JWST discoveries, the 1st successful mission of a starship let's hope, obviously artemis II, and of course results of Euclid and others observatories ( terrestrial, in LEO or in L2). And, particularly of course, a great number of podcasts "into the impossible" with new or old talented and smarts guests! Happy new year Mr Keating.

[@jasonpitts8395]

More Eric Weinstein and UAPs

[@igorsawicki4905]

NEW videos like this!

[@ilobnodj]

My personal wish for 2024 is figuring out the following: fully understanding dark matter, quantum gravity, matter-antimatter asymmetry, and the fundamental nature of time. Dr Keating if you don’t mind can you please figure these out for me. Thank you and Happy New Year.

[@Life_42]

New videos from this channel!

[@shadyoptics]

My New Year’s resolution for 2024 is to make sure I read Brian’s video description to see what the original date is before watching.

[@bobharris7401]

Thanks for the heads up. I didn’t catch it. Still, interesting though.

[@donrayjay]

So annoying, I’m done with this channel. Weinstein is a fist class nut anyway. It took me a long time to realise but there it is

[@newenglandbarbell4647]

Thank you 🙏 you saved me.

[@coconutfleetsleeper5717]

Yep, it's ancient canned sardines, still good but not fresh

[@OklahomaGanjaGrower]

Until I read your comment, I thought Brian was slipping lol because I heard him say 2020, a couple of times! I should have known a physicist wouldn't make a mistake with numbers haha

[@Masaq_TM]

49:00 approx. This absolutely astounds me that academics are not taught how to teach. I spent 22 yrs in the British army and was a CR1/CR2 tank Gunnery instructor. The first two weeks of both of my instructor courses (I did not do CR1 to CR2 conversion, I completed two full sixteen week instructors courses at the AFV gunnery school) were dedicated to the principles of how to teach. How to pose questions correctly (Q & A technique), how to write course reports, how to use props, how to create and follow course training plans, how to create a lesson from scratch, amongst all the other skills of being a teacher. After this I also completed both the CTTLS and DTTLS courses which teach you how to coach effectively and critique other instructors and students. It baffles me that this basic knowledge isn’t taught at Univerities. Edit - ins ‘effectively’

[@ancientnpc]

There is a clear delineation in education, being "higher education" vs "adult education". You, like me, taught "adult education" or "competency based" education. Where as universities and the like teach so called higher education. The difference being, no measure of competence is required. You can rabbit on about any old garbage and you will always be credible, because there are no real world consequences for failure. Being wrong about string theory or the effects of climate on trans people is not going to get your tank destroyed.

[@allisonleighandrews8495]

Max AND Eric for 2.5 hours straight?! Happy new year to meee 🙃😊

[@markbrown1609]

I have a childhood friend that was a brilliant nerd/comic book geek, I was an average student/jock, we were opposites and got along great as childhood buddies. He went to an Ivy League School, and he has never BS'd or misled me ever growing up. He got a job for FAA in the science division. We went fly fishing and got blitzed on Kentucky Bourbon. He told me two things in total confidence, hence, he knew I would keep my mouth shut. One is public information now, as of recently, One: "There were more than Four Planes during 9-11" Two: "Aliens are with us and involved with our government now" I thought he was nuts, till the news of more than four planes was public information. My buddy is no longer with us, RIP

[@AlphaLionTrillionaire]

He was pulling your leg buddy, let it go 🤣

[@____uncompetative]

What follows is speculation based off scraps of information. I think UAPs have been here for over 63 million years. Just a bit too late to deflect the asteroid which killed the dinosaurs. I think David Grusch is sincere in what he is saying to Congress, but has been lied to and so is saying nonsense statements like UAPs are "interdimensional" and have pilots who are "non human biologicals". It is not possible to define a space between spaces without defining, by definition, another space. There is no between dimensions. This is a nonsense concept. Further, it is not sensible to assume that David Fravor observed a tic-tac go from a static hover to MACH 9 in under 2 seconds, and any biological pilot, human or otherwise, will become pulped in that scenario due to the extreme g-force. The common counters to that is either "Oh, they must use anti-gravity and so the pilot is immune to those effects of its movement" or "Oh, it must be inertialess travel as to travel at the speed of light it must be able to remove the mass of the UAP so it has the zero mass of a photon by phasing into some higher symmetry, maybe by twisting all quarks into squarks, etc." both of which are entirely unevidenced and highly speculative, when by applying William of Ockham's razor: _Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem_ is *Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity* So you realise that you could do to look to simpler explanations first, which do not require NEW PHYSICS and FTL drives or Portals or Wormholes or Inertialess travel or Alcubierre Warp Drives or Hyperspace or Time Travel or Teleportation via EPR = ER relationship. Maybe these are AGI drones which were made by aliens a very long time ago in the past and sent out to look for life on other planets as it was so rare. They had survived almost nuking themselves and wanted to create custodians that could intervene to stop a nuclear war, not to save those responsible for it, but to preserve all biodiversity which would be entirely annihilated by all the nuclear fallout. This then merely suggests that there are a lot of these tic-tacs, their rules of engagement (which are consistent with millennia of recorded observations), they are all benign, they were here before us, but likely didn't engineer us as their creators would not be wanting to interfere with the rare process of evolution to impose their own ideas of what made a beautiful or moral species, so they aren't "angels" or "daemons", although they could be mistaken as such, and they would have travelled here at sublight speeds, and could have taken a billion years to get here, and could have been here for millions of years. This whole chain of deductions is reasonable without needing to invoke any NEW PHYSICS. We already have AI and AGI is coming relatively soon. If they intend to make First Contact they may wait for us to create AGI in order to communicate secretly with that, as their observations of humanity indicate that we would undergo ontological shock. I have been wondering if the _M_ in _M-theory_ stood for _Misleading._ Rank 7/2 Tensor Spin 7/2 Anti-Graviton field ~ i.e. responsible for anti-gravitation ~ e.g. Dark Energy Rank 6/2 Tensor Spin 2 Graviton field ~ i.e. responsible for gravitation Rank 5/2 Tensor Spin 5/2 Fermionic field ~ Supersymmetric ~ e.g. Photinos and Gluinos Rank 4/2 Tensor Spin 2 Bosonic field ~ Supersymmetric ~ e.g. Selectrons and Squarks Rank 3/2 Tensor Spin 3/2 Rarita-Schwinger field ~ e.g. Dark Matter* Rank 2/2 Tensor Spin 1 Bosonic field ~ e.g. Photons and Gluons

[@FGxKarmaa]

Thank you for listening to comments and putting air date on Dr Keating 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@DrBrianKeating]

Our pleasure!

[@ottofrank3445]

Eric is very direct and to the point. Very Dutch actually. I am Dutch and we are very used to it.

[@RendySinoman]

You guys invented the term dutch-pay

[@Dan_Campbell]

When do the Alien discussions start? There's no transcript, so I can't do a text search.

[@____uncompetative]

2:09:07

[@Dan_Campbell]

@@____uncompetative Thanks

[@barrymiller99]

Fascinating discussion, thank you, and thank you also for having the date in the title.

[@Rocknrolldaddy81-xy8ur]

We are lucky to have guys like Brian, Max, Eric…they are making science sexy and cool. I think history will show we are living in a special time in science.

[@TommyMissus]

Did they talk about aliens or did I miss something? The title says "aliens"

[@AG-ur1lj]

I think it’s supposed to be Middle, Left, Right. So Brian is the AI, Tegmark is the alien (legal, from Sweden) and Eric is the Theory of Everything guy

[@lukeskydropper]

You really upped your game. This is some high-quality best content on the web.

[@DrBrianKeating]

@lukeskydropper5345 I really appreciate that!

[@DarthLink1986]

I'm not worthy! But i LOVE making my brain work and it works overtime following along with these three lmao. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

[@DrBrianKeating]

Happy new year!

[@Zodomizerify]

Help

[@yeti9127]

2021? So, this the old podcast?

[@debbiehughes48]

Awe I see in your show notes this is from 2020, I prefer listening to these awesome gentleman current.

[@GoogleIsNotYourFriend]

41:38 - The most important part of this entire conversation was Eric's "tough love" in regards to that question. Brian and Max tried to downplay it as being overly dramatic and only gave whimsical but empty responses, Eric gave a really pragmatic response to the the question. Survival in academia, if you truly wish for a "pure" academic career and not have to spend the majority of your life working so you can pursue your true passion as a hobby. The success of your department and your advisor WILL determine that outcome...unless of course you are some anomalous brilliance that can also play the "hunger games" that exists in any competitive employment space.

[@dustysoodak]

I like how they gave a really clear summary of the debate for/against taking the Schrödinger equation literally.

[@Andreas_linden]

I am a stupid chef from Sweden that loves math and this is great thank you.

[@DrBrianKeating]

@@Andreas_linden my pleasure

[@paranormalinparikrama]

2021????

[@tmstani23]

@DrBrianKeating New Years Eve 2023 would love another Weinstein Tegmark interview tonight!

[@DrBrianKeating]

Me too

[@Trippopotomus]

Wouldn't level of entropy depend upon the size of the container, containing the parts we are measuring entropy from? Like gas in a room. Is entropy propagation uniform in perfectly similar rooms, but one is larger? Is possible to entropy just increased because the expansion of the universe allowed for more chaos in a larger space?

[@ryeaucracy6671]

Mr. Keating your channel is very well done . it's phenomenal Thank you.

[@DrBrianKeating]

So nice of you. Happy New Year!

[@ThePerceptionist]

Eric!! Again!!! Loving the shows Dr Keating

[@eldarosmic]

I must say that as an muslim I love Jews and one of reasons for that are people like Brian and Eric.

[@DrBrianKeating]

🙏

[@Phil-m5d]

Fake joos

[@denasewell]

Happy New Year Doc!

[@DrBrianKeating]

Same to you!

[@JungleJargon]

You can’t have intelligence without truth. The mind of the intelligent seeks wisdom.

[@karlgoebeler1500]

From what I "Experienced" As "Fact" (My perspective) is that we are composed as discrete particles that can be isolated slected and linked over "vast distances" Astronomical at the quantum level.

[@Harpin519]

Dr Keating please return on the Alien Scientist or an APEC presentation, They’re doing some great work

[@RichardGrigonis]

Dr. Tegmark may be interested my take on the "glitches in the matrix" hubbub -- that we are dealing not with an error in a simulation computer program, but physical manifestations of the Godel Incompleteness theorem. The physical laws of the universe (especially in a simulated universe written in say, something like Prolog, which resembles the first order predicate calculus) are ultimately logical systems, that is, they follow rules that are logical (indeed, they are mathematical). Thus, just as I am able to make a true statement that is not provable in a logical system, so too can real events occur that appear anomalous because they cannot be "proven" (supported, derived, or explained by) the underlying logical physical laws. Hence the random appearance of weird, unexplainable events, the stories of which fill up columns in Reddit.

[@digitalmercenaryuniversity]

see Musica Universalis for the glitch math

[@lornespry]

C. 5:14: The history as I studied it is not the exactly the same as Tegmark is saying here. The pope and his curia were in a very difficult position when confronted by Galileo's attempt to prove Copernican doctrine. Their concern was about how to restitute heliocentrism with biblical scripture. The case of Galileo came under the prevue of Jesuit Cardinal Paul V. Bellarmine. The cardinal's disposition was that Galileo's demonstration did not definitively prove the Copernican theory. This version of history is in variance with the commonly held notion that the papal curia outrightly rejected Galileo's work by decree. In fact, Bellarmine granted a dispensation that allowed Galileo to teach the mechanics of the heliocentric theory, but only in order to predict planetary positions in the sky. Galileo at first agreed to this arrangement, but later chafed under its restrictions.

[@taylorhart3297]

Brian is finally not annoying and somewhat acknowledges he’s not the smartest guy in the room

[@wulphstein]

It's a shame that the physics community isn't interested in quantum gravity or warp drive physics. I only have a BS in physics and I find the concepts involved to be kind of complex, but very well integrated into (1) what are the ontological building blocks of physics, (2) how do you control physics at the deepest levels, (3) how do you generate and store gravitational potential energy to be used later for warp field propulsion. It is a shame that the physics community doesn't believe something interesting is going on, doesn't care. And so we have to wait for another thousand years, wading through terrible ideas of many world interpretation, time travel, Cyclical conformal cosmology, string theory; we have to suffer while physicists tell us we have no free will, and then define it in some nebulous and ill conceived way. I had respect for the physics community of the 20th century who gave us nukes, nuclear power, computers, rockets and enhanced our way of life. How many generations of physicists will have to come and go before the community gets back to what's really important: figuring out the deepest levels of the laws of physics.

[@chrismcmullen4313]

My aunt had a plate that fell on the floor and shattered...and it immediately came back together as though nothing had happened. My oldest cousin was standing right there when it happened. They both saw it.

[@SirLucidThoughts]

Alright , that's not possible so I don't get it?

[@jacobbradsher8246]

I’m just a regular guy that always enjoys your podcasts. I really like to listen to Eric too but tbh I have trouble following him - he’s just on many levels above me. BUT I really like how you make things more understandable for people like myself and I know you’ll help translate Eric’s brilliance to guys like me. Listening now while I get some steps in :)

[@matematleta492]

Don't be hoodwinked by the name-dropping and mathematical jargon. Weinstein does not publish in any peer-reviewed journals (so he assails the peer-review process). He cannot defend his only (admittedly interesting) contribution to Physics: that of Geometric Unity - which has serious mathematical flaws any first-year graduate student would pick up (so he assails his colleagues for not following his "new path¨.) In short, pay no attention to the Whine-stein behind the curtain.

[@scottwarthin1528]

@@matematleta492 Commentary from the haters and the naysayers of the peanut gallery! To that end society should do something about internet anonymity. Behind a quaint, piffy pseudonym of "matematleta" is a real man with a real name. Who are you? Or, more to the point, who the hell do you think you are to have such flippancy toward the man whom all of history will vindicate? He is THE MAN, Dr. Eric Ross Weinstein ! ! !

[@cartoonvandal]

@@scottwarthin1528 Dear God, you simply must be one of those awful yanks.

[@TonyMountjoy]

Eric is so interesting. I love how bitter he is about the math world ignoring his innovations just to praise Ed Witten for a fancy rewording of Eric's ideas. lol

[@JulienSorelEatsSabras]

This is true, or a joke?

[@Christopher_Hensley]

This is true

[@bradmodd7856]

3 great charismatic guys, not going to get far with this as Eric loves going around in loops

[@DougieWotherspoon]

Bitterness is a fine motivation. We need more disagreeable motivated people who challenge the community view. Man is priceless 💪

[@karagi101]

The guy’s a bit of a jerk just because other experts in his field don’t find his theory persuasive.

[@merlepatterson]

If Entropy is said to be maximal at the center of a black hole, yet time is essential for entropy to progress, how can it also be accurate that time is said to stop deep in a black hole? How can entropy progress? Or is entropy held as non-progressing "Potential" in black holes?

[@benjaminbeard3736]

Time doesn't stop in a black hole. If you gell into a black hole, your time would continue to tick. A distant observer will see time slow to almost a stop because of gravitational red shift and time dilation. It's kind of a confusing concept.

[@merlepatterson]

@@benjaminbeard3736 So what you're saying is, it's a matter of observer perspective, correct?

[@benjaminbeard3736]

@@merlepatterson that's the way I understand it. Most "interesting facts" about black holes and GR have that caveat.

[@merlepatterson]

@@benjaminbeard3736 So if that is how you understand it, then would it be reasonable to say that from an outside observer's perspective both time and entropy within a black hole must come to a standstill because it is the only perspective from which one can make a measurement?

[@benjaminbeard3736]

@@merlepatterson yeah, but information from inside the event horizon can't reach you to confirm it. Bullshit.

[@immanuelkant7895]

We need a 2023 update!

[@jenjewell3148]

Old broadcast? 2020?..So much has transpired since!

[@808bigisland]

Aerospace engineer: I had the opportunity, during a very special UFO encounter, to see inside - and also see the entirety of their ships drive bubble - for 30 mins. Study geodesics and singularity for 35 years. I gained very interesting insights. As for Q-T…The observer status needs to be ditched and redefined.

[@silberlinie]

Nice workspace, Brian. It's very different from so many of the others I've criticized lately because they could be seen either upstairs in a dusty attic room or at the bottom in a creepy basement room. 2:10 Why is the date 2020 in the title of the video?

[@debbiehughes48]

Is this podcast from 2021?

[@CodyvBrown]

why do you publish episodes you've already published? I thought this was current. at the very least, you could have set that context up at the start.

[@verse187]

These three gentlemen have made me a believer again. Such beautiful minds demand a belief is something far more majestic. I celebrate your unwillingness to go gently into that good night. Long live human curiosity.

[@juliahartley-barnes975]

I was almost 20 minutes in before I realized you WERE talking about 2021, not 2024 even though this was posted 5 days ago. 😬 So many topics are still unresolved, including the censorship crisis with KZbin. Please, next time you post a 3 year old video, maybe a placard in the beginning showing when it was recorded. ✌️

[@ronmexico5908]

Can’t seem to find Eric’s video on GU that’s recent he’s referring to

[@karlgoebeler1500]

Biology class, Ferrofluid Cat. Extruding plastic thru a mold with pins inside creating capillary tubes. Shaped as the muscles of the cat. Autonomically correct. Vacuum pump pulls the ferrofluid into the muscle. Using a "cookie" cutter to shape the side sections. 32 bit microcontroller with a laser gyro.

[@u2b83]

42:55 Important message for new PhDs about advisors ...in either case, I think it helps when you ALREADY come with funding (say, from an external lab position) and the advisor is getting half.

[@wulphstein]

The physics community obsesses over particles, but ignores the question: what is spacetime made of. That's also the answer to: what is quantum gravity. A house looks like a block and can be made of smaller blocks. But the universe is not a block. The universe began as a big bang Planck scale POINT and has been expanding ever since. Therefore, spacetime should be made of something that expands from a point. Richard Feynman very nearly discovered this when he asked about the two slit experiment. When he noticed that every point along the slits appears to be emitting a spherical wave. There are pictures of the two slit experiment that represent this as a ripple. What do we know about ripples? Ripples are waves that expand at the speed of a wave in a medium. We can rightfully infer that wave functions expand spherically at the speed of light until they interact with the potential energy of charges. Dutch physicist Christian Huygen in the 17th century described the same thing: every point on a wavefront acts as a source of secondary wavelets that spread out spherically at the speed of the wave itself. If such expanding spheres exist as some kind of medium, than they impose a speed on a wave, the speed of light. We can infer that such expanding spheres of wavefronts express other physics constants as well, including the Planck constant, permittivity of free space, permeability of free space and even the gravitational constant of the universe. Why stops physicists from asking about the ontological cause(s) and mechanism(s) that cause physics to exist? I've all but explained it. And there is still more to infer from an expanding sphere model of physics.

[@dlanodyorel875]

Damn Eric!

[@benjaminbeard3736]

I dont think anyone is ignoring the question "what is Spacetime made of." They have just been unable to give a convincing answer. And the universe was probably not a plank scale point at the big bang. It could have been infinitely large at the big bang, just smaller than it is now.

[@wulphstein]

@@benjaminbeard3736 Your comment reminds me of something that Penrose said about Conformal Cyclic Cosmology (CCC) that if you wait long enough, like 10^10^googleplex number of years, eventually all the fermions will decay into photons and then the photons will forget what the physics constants will be, and that: BANG, there will be another big bang. I have a lot of respect for Penrose for his accomplishments earlier in life. But CCC is total baloney. And he distracted people like you from asking questions like: how are physics constants implemented in the universe. Why would they just change spontaneously to make a new universe? It's a big problem that shows that the physics community is completely lost, and nobody wants to risk their career to point this out, let alone figure out what the right direction is.

[@benjaminbeard3736]

@@wulphstein I understand how you arrived where you were based on what I said. That wasn't what I meant exactly. We dint know how big the universe is. If it is infinitely large, it probably always was. Meaning, if you run the tape backward everything gets really small compared to what it is now, but the entire universe would Still be infinitely large. Our observable universe probably gets shrunk down to the diameter of a proton. If it is finite in size, then it could have been a plank length across at inflation, but where exactly are the edges. I have a hard time believing there is a place you can look from and see the edge of the universe.

[@benjaminbeard3736]

Oh, and the wave function is not something physical. Its our way of getting at a decent prediction. It's not something that's interacts with charges or charge potential.

[@humungushumungus213]

My theory is this , there are beings that run things here on earth, they don’t live in our dimension or our field of vision , but they’re way on top, things like WW2 doesn’t just happen. This next big war is going to be devastating , enjoy whatever your doing now, we’re in between calamities planned out for us. I’ve actually got a glimpse of them . I’ve seen them back in 1981 West Germany, I was in US Army there was a major alert all our Armies mustered for war. I observed them inspecting our tanks, one can see them thru night vision devices they’re like green see thru figures it’s weird and scary, and I don’t know what future will bring

[@europa_bambaataa]

This might be nitpicky, but when you post old content, can you put the earlier in the title?

[@europa_bambaataa]

I listened to this for 9 fucking minutes before I realized it was 3 years old

[@DrBrianKeating]

No

[@Otis-and-Chloe]

Exactly, UNSUBBED

[@europa_bambaataa]

​@@DrBrianKeatinghmmm.. can you put it even later then maybe?

[@EvidenceOfTheDivine]

Is this a re-upload? lol. Thx doctor !

[@gregoryhead382]

The ethics and morality for Physiks is a full deck of cards. 52 versions for 1 atomic unit, adding 30 atoms to Rydberg and Schrödinger in 2023. The cards are stacked in my favor, with no PhD & no .gov 💸 . 😊

[@christinley5213]

Wooo dam.. this was amazing!! Thank you guys! This definitely made me think! Keep doin what you guys do.. your heroes!

[@PazLeBon]

i used to worry about what sort of planet we leave our kids, now i worry about what sort of kids we leave our planet ;:)

[@sarahj344]

My resolution this year is to increase the word count that I currently understand, of Eric's communication. Currently, I get about 1 out of every 5 words LOL - I'm planning to hit for 2.5 out of 5 this year! I absolutely hang onto everything he says - but he is so far above my paygrade that it's tough going, wrapping my head around everything he talks about.

[@LIQUIDSNAKEz28]

17:39 19:44

[@vincentbitetti574]

Happy New Year gentlemen!🎉love you all! 👽😉

[@roprop8009]

@ericweinstein is one awesome guy! That's very clear already in the first few minutes. 💯 Spot on! ❤Love to listen to your words! Thanks! 👏👏👏

[@DrBrianKeating]

Wow, thank you!

[@karlgoebeler1500]

Apologies for the confusion but I can not "Recant" on these statements due to the pain. Actually physical pain.

[@johnmaynard869]

Norbert Wiener and Feynman were concerned about specialization and the potential for crisis in understanding each other, so Weinstein is raising an important point.

[@imallrightme7336]

Happy New Year from ireland 🇮🇪. Thanks for uploading this video Doc. Eric always cheers me up 😊 his brilliant mind is a constant reminder I'm stupid. But even the stupid can learn.

[@gammaraygem]

if you can not stop your inner dialogue, or dont know what Thoughts are, without which you have nothing at all, and dont know where they originate nor what they are made of, and claim to be rigorous and methodical, you are not smart at all. Ignoring 5000 years of experimentation and documentation. And if you think (he thinks) that "physicists" are best positioned tp save the planet, you arent just stupid, you are clueless. They are the ones who are destroying it. He , his EGO, is duping you. Sorry. Fact.

[@DrBrianKeating]

Happy new year!

[@gammaraygem]

yeah sorry forgot that part...you too !!@@DrBrianKeating

[@jellakids]

Another old podcast being reposted as new?

[@bdown]

This is 3 years old not new‼️

[@wulphstein]

I wish Extraterrestrials from an interstellar drive capable civilization would land on Earth and teach physics at our local universities. They would explain quantum gravity in a way that is accessible to experimentalists. They would introduce new ways of looking at Modern physics (QM, SR, GR, etc) that would reveal hidden secrets about how physics works based on the experiments we have done so far. They would show us how to use lasers and giant centrifuges to store gravitational energy between entangled photons. Our (awful) cultural norms would die, and their successful cultural norms would dominate: even if that means that feminism converts back to femininity, even if that means that wokeness is replaced with acquiescence to wiser and greater intelligence.

[@TheJeremyKentBGross]

If such a species shows up, your best hope is probably that they make you an indoor pet with a basket bed with your name on it that sits at the foot of theirs. For some reason less technically developed societies tend to be conquered, with lifting up and enlightening them used as justification. Sure, a lot of cultures are better off eventually for having been absorbed into a larger empire, but it's not remotely a painless process. I'm sure many Catholic missionaries and some Jihadists and others perceived themselves like Vulcans descending down to earth to lift up the likes of Zefram Cochrane to new heights, but somehow the Native Americans, Hindus, Wallachians, etc didn't exactly perceive it that way, and where they could actually retaliate, managed to pass into legend for doing so, for example Vladimir Tepes who inspired the mythology of Count Dracula.

[@wulphstein]

@@TheJeremyKentBGross It could be that higher technology leads to very careful interactions by advanced species with other species. It's too easy to get into a conflict with easily frightened hominids. They might otherwise be friendly, even telepathic. The might even be willing to teach their philosophy about physics to anyone who will listen.

[@JungleJargon]

I never had an actual higher education and I can see that the changes in the measures of time and distance compound the changes of the speed of light as we observe it.

[@agenticmark]

Brian, how the hell did you get in a position to get such amazing guests? You fucking rock man. Dr Rockstar

[@JungleJargon]

Let everyone have their say and let people decide what makes more sense. The changes in the measures of time and distance compound the changes in lightspeed.

[@sakismpalatsias4106]

Though I don't know if the cyclical universe is correct. Also stating how many dimensions exist in hyper dimensional space space. I state this because mathematics can prove many dimensions exist but all are irrelevant if it can't match observation. I'm just stating can we use the search for gravitational waves in cyclical hypothesis also search for gravitational waves from hyper dimensional space. Using liner algebra with hyper dimensions ) ie multiple vectors. Look for hyper dimensional gravitational waves moving through 4 dimensional (3 spacial+ time). Each hyper dimensional geometry from 5 to 14+ would have a different finger print as it moves through our 4 dimensional space. If these exist, we can prove not just what hyper dimensional space geometry is. The current ligo system cant find them because it's searching for small neutron collisions and stellar black hole collisions but future gravitational waves searching for prediction of hyperdimensional through our space would give us data. If they exist.

[@MarcInTbilisi]

Bringing the new year in with Eric Weinstein. I have to question my life choices...

[@vanessa1569]

🤣

[@alex79suited]

Happy New Year to all. Peace 😎 ✌️ from Canada, eh.

[@0neIntangible]

Happy, happy from the Hammer!

[@ad5mq]

I am so happy to hear Max say what I have thought since the 80's! Finally another Everetian. Sadly I am one of Eric's "dead" I got addicted to real money when I got employed as (shudder) an engineer while still finishing my BS - I managed to get through the MS while working, but the PhD was too much. I am very happy to hear people who are actually doing physics and math for a living talk about ideas I had decades ago and not dismissively. I've also always though Einstein basically got it right and gravity is not - in itself a quantum theory and doesn't really need to be.

[@karlgoebeler1500]

Gauge of wire for chip manufacturing is 44 gauge. "Very fine". One wrap of say 32 gauge copper of aluminum wire wrapped around the muscle with the milliamp current flow from the microcontroller should be sufficient.

[@MMMPUT]

Why you guys keep saying 2021?

[@xoh_spaceboss]

Such an awesome talk, the honesty was heart warming, what’s changed for communicating science to the masses since then from your perspective, Brian?

[@trevorross2316]

Oh my god he got me again, dammit Dr. Keating 😾

[@vagabondcaleb8915]

Why couldn't it be that granularity is confused for entropy? OR that an increase in granularity inherently results in an effective or seeming increase in entropy? But the seeming increase in entropy would only be a downstream phenomena due to a move away from uniformity.

[@Time-Shepherd.]

The ultimate wisdom and love of such vs money? I love these truly great people! Lux et veritas ✨️

[@jamessheffield4173]

Who makes the truth table?

[@cjmahar7595]

All i can picture through this whole podcast was undertaker doing scrimshaw. :)

[@joshuabrigden4820]

50:00 Did Keating just hit Eric with the academic equivalent of "you're parents didn't love you enough!"? 🤣

[@AncientLibrary-144]

great conversation and i have to admit in this video brians appearance reminds me of the multilingual genius Xiaomanyc 小马在纽约 living in new york.

[@leeFbeatz]

Happy New Year!!!!!!❤

[@Thedudeabides803]

Eric and fun are like oil and water. Love your thoughts though Eric!

[@scottwarthin1528]

He's not meant to entertain us with nonsense which we all WANT to believe. He is here to take us by the hand through the impassable Reed Sea to The Truth. Moshe wasn't a "fun guy" either, buddy.

[@SidorovichJr]

I love when someone introducing himself with doctor first :)

[@alexbranton426]

Every time Eric speaks Brian looks like he’s mentally searching for anti depressants - I do appreciate that even though it’s clearly not his favorite mode of conversation he keeps having Eric on

[@user-ov5nd1fb7s]

Scientists who don't make it in academia can always get into programming for 300-400k per year. You won't become rich but you will do well. However, i've noticed that even if you are a very smart scientist, it doesn't automatically mean you will be a great programmer. Many succeed but i've seen many fail as well.

[@6B26asyGKDo]

I'm sticking with Wolfram. You guys can get tangled in the graphs all you want.

[@aaronmichaelseckman]

2 spaces instead of one would align nicely with the concept of opponent processing in cognitive science.

[@FAK_CHEKR]

One explanation of Fermi Paradox could be that we are early - maybe the first or one of the first. The universe is young, astonishingly young, given that the smallest stars will burn for 20 trillion years.

[@karlgoebeler1500]

1987A Supernova Large Magallenic Japans Neutrino (Hokkaido)/?? detector saw a increase in output. From that it was anounced that Neutrionos have mass. That would stretch Einstein's Cosmological constant to the Max.

[@roelrovira5148]

Brian, Max and Eric, Qubit was invented by physicist alright, by Benjamin Schumacher who's a former student of Wheeler. But the most powerful basic unit of information in quantum computing is not Qubit but Rhubit. Rhubit was invented/discovered in Singapore by Roel Real Rovira (that's me) in the course of his basic research on Quantum Gravity. Rhubit is the basic unit of information in Gravitational Quantum Computing manifested through and by Quantum Gravitational Entanglement and Quantum Gravitation. Like Qubit, it operates on the principle of Quantum Entanglement, it can also be represented in 0, 1, and a combination of both 0 and 1 at the same time in a superposition state. But that's where their similarity ends. Unlike Qubit that is made using physical systems of the spin of a particle such as an electron or the orientation of a photon, Rhubit is made using physical systems of spin of mass-energy density charge of matter inherent in Quantum Gravitational Entanglement and Quantum Gravitation. It is the most powerful code in the ultimate Quantum Computation and Computer System that program and run the Quantum Gravitation and the Universe itself. This is described by the unitary Trinity Equations derived from the completely new mathematics called Majulah Matematika invented/discovered in Singapore by the author of empirical theory of THE REAL TRUE NATURE OF QUANTUM GRAVITY published in London, Paris and Zurich on the Winter of 2022, online and at the two scientific journals California-based ACADEMIA and Singapore-based REAL TRUE NATURE, AS FOLLOWS: 1. Quantum Anti-Gravity/Spin Up Quantum Gravitational Entanglement/0 Rhu Bit or R Bit: QAG = ∆QGOρ < ∆QGFρ = ↑α 2. Quantum Gravity/Spin Down Quantum Gravitational Entanglement/1 Rhu Bit or R Bit: QG = ∆QGOρ > ∆QGFρ = ↓α 3. Quantum Neutral Gravity/Superposition Quantum Gravitational Entanglement/01 and/or 10 Rhu Bit or R Bit: QNG = ∆QGOρ = ∆QGFρ = ↑↓α A Gravitational Quantum Computing-based most powerful working Quantum Computer Demonstration Model is scheduled to be revealed on the 4th Quarter of this year to 1st Quarter of next year 2025 by two collaborating Singapore startups GRAVITY ONE and X-FACTOR ENERGY owned by the author Roel Real Rovira. Full detailed information could be found on the published papers 2 years ago in London, Paris, and Zurich, online and at the two scientific Journals ACADEMIA and REAL TRUE NATURE. Alternatively, you can google the name of the author ROEL REAL ROVIRA to arrive at the published paper on Quantum Gravity. Most recently, additional two well respected scientific journals namely NATURE and the AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY APS Physical Review Journals have officially invited this author to submit manuscripts on his Research on Quantum Gravity for publication for PRX QUANTUM in preparation for a celebration for International Year of Quantum IYQ 2025 to showcase the best papers of the year. Copyright 2022 ROEL REAL ROVIRA. All Rights Reserved.

[@WBradJazz]

Bravo Eric! The same is true in theoretical music composition (about academia)

[@dougg1075]

Eric’s epic Rance, or like cool water running through my mind

[@Sennrsup]

Eric is amazing in this piece!

[@janklaas6885]

📍1:25:55

[@tuckerbugeater]

What will get people interested in Quantum physics: Aliens

[@karlgoebeler1500]

Discusing the equation Yes splicing Maxwell to Schrodinger as one leg of the logarithm is my approach

[@taylorhart3297]

Eric is this most cogent reasonable human alive and I love tegmark

[@nybergjm]

As a doctoral candidate in the "difficult sciences" (i.e., social), one of my favorite parts of listening to this podcast is examining the interaction between three clearly distinguished men with different personalities and cultural upbringings. Eric, as always, is a treat because of his unrelenting candidness and hyper-creative word play (i suspect he would score in the 99th percentile on trait openness). Although not familiar as much with Max, I can clearly appreciate the subtle genius he exudes while still maintaining essential humility. And then Professor Brian, of course, exhudes a subtle humor and charisma that forms the glue of the podcast itself (and I would suspect scores highly on trait extraversion). PS, i would never have been able to tell this podcast took place in 2020, given that all discussion remains apt in 2024! Thanks for the treat.

[@jbruso123]

Let's use verbal judo for religious affirmation, especially to protect our academic sacred cows.