The Real Physics Questions We're Ignoring - Eric Weinstein

Chris and Eric Weinstein explore the ramifications of sidelining physics. Why does Eric Weinstein believe it's crucial to prioritize physics? How does Eric Weinstein attribute physics decline to events in the '80s? What are Eric Weinstein's suggestions for restoring interplanetary physics to prominence?

#physics #space #mars

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[LordEriolTolkien]

“Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.”
― Douglas Adams

[tjcj]

Eric always makes me feel incredibly optimistic and pessimistic at the same time.

[stealthhumor]

I experienced a double benefit because at the halfway mark I realized that I understood absolutely nothing of what was going on and stopped trying.

[heatvisuals]

Eric knows what’s interesting about the most technical stuff a lot of us haven’t heard about before. He needs to continue doing that.

[Hermes.Trismegistus.]

String theory is a bottomless pit of despair. It almost feels like we've been intentionally held back. Setup a thinktank Eric, build the damn tesseract

[manusarma]

I’m amazed to see how people think differently and engage the listeners to really listen to what he is saying yet most people, including myself don’t understand most of what he just said. Fascinating!

[boonewtune]

This is awesome stuff. I agree with Weinstein that interplanetary ideas/investment/interest needs to be developed. However, I see one major "ghost" of a problem that follows us everywhere, despite our cleverness. And that is that we will tow our moral flaws, selfishness, greed, etc with us. So tech, education, and knowledge will ultimately do us no good until we can solve our degraded morality, and gain as much wisdom as we have knowledge. Thus far, we have used knowledge for our own lesser purposes.

[greenleaf]

I agree with Eric that humanity has many problems that are perhaps unsolvable. But most of the problems of humanity are a result of the nature of human psychology, not from some outside threat. We live on a habitable world that we are rendering uninhabitable. So i don't see the point in trying to escape to another world that is probably more hostile. If we can't make it on Earth, can we really do better somewhere else? Does he think only the "enlightened" will be let on the spaceship? We will only be bringing our internal problems with us. It's like trying to escape from yourself.

[carlloeber]

I know he's got something to say but I can't figure out what it is..

[ethanwilliam]

the point he makes about physics is spot on and it's such a shame that so many scientists have such a problem admitting that they were wrong. When the right person comes up with the wrong idea we all suffer until death forces them to concede and those that remain pull back the sheet that has blanketed the truth.

[zabumbaman]

I heard something similar (well, actually similar) on one of Tim Pool's podcasts:
He said that he once talked to a doctor of physics or a PhD student and asked him if it was true, if reality was really an entangled bubble of quantum strings, and if this theory contributed anything useful.
The physicist in question sighed heavily and said that this model has a LOT of problems, but NOBODY will propose anything new or challenge mainstream science until the people who have been working on it since the 1970s have made careers out of it and are now chancellors at universities, sit on all these science committees or work as government science advisors, all die out.

It hit me hard then.

[rogerdavis]

I got a chemistry set for Xmas when I was a kid. The first thing I made was gun powder. Got the formula from the school library.

[sladeoriginal]

the best guy at never answering questions but with the coolest non-answers

[mfiocca]

During the explanation on why we need to inhabit mars, weinstein goes into the “why” by describing general issues and behaviors that humans exhibit, but, wouldn’t those same character flaws still exist if we moved to mars?

[MagiRaz]

I'll never forget the moment in a genetics class when I really grasped the enormity of what I was learning. The ability to write in the language of life itself. The challenge in genetics isn't getting things to do what you want them to do. The challenge is reigning them in, limiting their effectiveness, making sure they only target the cells or systems you want them to target. Sometimes I feel like the field of genetics is a day-care where all the toddlers have butcher knives. The question isn't 'Can we cut something?' it's 'How do we prevent everyone from bleeding to death?'. Knowing that I had been given all the tools and knowledge I needed to be an absolute cartoon villain level of evil if I wanted with the only thing stopping me being my own morals and fear was humbling. Knowing that that same level of knowledge is available to just about anyone with no vetting process was horrifying. If I want to learn to build a bomb that can level a city, there are all kinds of hurdles I have to clear to get that sort of education, never mind getting my hands on the tools and materials to actually make it. But if I want to create an aggressively contagious form of airborne virus that massively increases the rate of cancer in somatic cell lines? All I need a moderately stocked school lab and a couple masters degree level classes. No one stops to ask if you should be taught how to do that.

[jarislamecc]

Damn this was awesome. “Einstein would’ve not put up with this”. Blessed to have these physicists because I’m just here worried about what I’m eating for breakfast

[presstodelete]

I have long felt genious is not just being able to think at the highest level but the ability to comunicate those thoughts well, an almost beyond rare combination.

[toddhammer]

@14:04 = MIND BLOWN! He's right. We are still using 2D maps when we need to be using iPads

[coldpotatoes]

Watched the whole 3 hour talk. Eric has a unique take on so many subjects.👌

[SchuylerSiemens]

Would love to see Eric and a panel of physicists talk about this.