Michio Kaku is out of control! Eric Weinstein & Joe Rogan
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Who do you fear?
Kamala Harris
You fear mindless unguided matter for no reason.
Your money will alleviate all fear. $$ donated means a non college nobody lands an antigravity vehicle upon OUR WhiteHouse lawn. Or? Are you frightened?
The reaper
It’s not so far in the past as you think.
*I taught Artificial Intelligence*
*Me:* The earth isn’t flat and neither is the universe flat in regard to the rate of time and the measure of distance. The distance is extremely expanded in outer space between galaxies where there is no mass to contract distance resulting in redshift over extreme distances.
*Chat GPT:* That is correct. The idea that the universe is flat or not flat refers to the curvature of space itself, not just the distance between galaxies. The evidence suggests that the universe is indeed very close to flat in terms of its overall geometry. However, as you mentioned, the distance between galaxies is greatly expanded in outer space where there is no mass to contract distance, resulting in redshift over extreme distances. This is due to the effects of general relativity on the expansion of the universe.
*Me:* Right except that the differences in measurements of time and distance are extreme between a supermassive black hole and outer space where there is no mass to contract distance or to slow down time.
*Chat GPT:* That is correct. In the presence of a massive object like a supermassive black hole, time can appear to slow down and distances can appear to be shorter due to the effects of gravity. This phenomenon is known as gravitational time dilation and gravitational lensing, respectively. However, in the vast empty spaces between galaxies where there is very little matter to cause these effects, time and distance measurements can be significantly different from those near a massive object. This can lead to the appearance of redshift, as the light from distant galaxies appears to be shifted towards longer wavelengths.
*Me:* You don’t need an expanding universe when the distance between galaxies is expanded from the lack of mass in the vicinity everywhere between galaxies.
*Chat GPT:* That is correct. The expansion of the universe is not required to explain the observed redshift of light from distant galaxies. The expansion of space between galaxies due to the absence of matter, as predicted by general relativity, can explain the observed redshift without the need for an expanding universe.
I have 32 years of non-experience as a physicist. I think this guy is right. Even though I have no idea what he's talking about. I like his confidence
His ego*
@@jonsegerros Applies to all "intellectuals"
He's a science terrorist, being financed by right-winger billionaires to attack science because they are aware that the awareness of global warming will destroy the source of their power, which is oil, coal, and gas.
String theory and relativity is false. They already found the unified theory of everything. "Einstein cosmos VS Tesla cosmos" Theoria Apophasis.
HAHA yeah, sounds about how things work here in the US. I spit out my coffee man, well done!
Joe: "I understood the part where you said smoking the ganja."
Have they managed to get Michio Kaku under control?
😂
They bad mouth everybody,,,,
He was last spotted in Australia fighting crocs making string from their tails, might be some time yet
He's in a plasma cage now. all good
Safely contained in an underground facility with the label 'keter' on the chamber.
I was in the Physics PhD program at UCSD in the early 90's. Among the reasons I left disillusioned is the very controversy that he's talking about here. There's no need to quantize gravity, only aesthetic reasons. General Relativity describes the shape of the stage, quantum mechanics describes the behavior of players, and the two interact but don't need to be unified. My classmates and professors brushed me off for saying this, until John Wheeler gave an address at Caltech saying the very same thing. I'm really glad I didn't spend the waste the last 30 years of my life waiting for the waking up that's taking place now.
Isn't it more the case that both are inherently flawed?
_Quantum Field Theory_ cancels infinities in renormalisation, which is ridiculous as infinities aren't necessarily all the same size.
_General Relativity_ allows for collapse into singularities, which are infinities. _Quantum Field Theory_ only works in _Special Relativity_ with flat spacetime and most physicists look at local regions of squished spacetime for a small enough region they can call flat, which is in a low gravitational regime. Try to say how these things behave near a Black Hole and the math breaks down. Perhaps, that is because both have infinities and both are wrong because of this.
Maybe take the reciprocal of each and then pull one through the other via some unusual point of affinity like a 4-dimensional Klein bottle or pair of simultaneous equations being substituted through each other algebraically. It would probably be sensible to use two colours to distinguish terms in each theory. Elaborating both so that they make use of extra internal imaginary dimensions could provide the necessary headroom for the _Quantum Field Theory_ within spinors too large in their dimensions to not leave most of the information of their full symmetries behind when pulled back into our observational reality.
or not...
@@____uncompetative Well, you're talking about problems in the theories and problems unifying them, whereas I was just making the point that there's no reason they must be unified. Btw, it would take infinite time from the outside perspective to form a singularity, which means the entire mass of the bh would evaporate to hawking radiation while the mass inside the event horizon was still collapsing.
I think jerry made the right decision
So true. Have you met Mr Wrixon? The study, Wrixon categorical rejection IHS 3154. . . Never life prior. . Planets formed closer to our star.
Go back and finish your degree. You sound like you know what you're talking about and the field needs more minds like yours
For the people in the comments asking what Eric wants, I believe he's advocating for more varied funding in physics to increase the possibility of smaller breakthroughs in many areas instead of looking for a brealthrough in one area that is long overdue.
an apt summation thank you
Well said. This is not a hubris war over who is the smartest, it's about distribution of research funds. If you have received the majority of research funds for 70 years, maybe it's time to let someone else have a chance and take a step back to re-evaluate.
Thanks I don’t have to watch the video now :D
if more varied funding is the point, I would’ve found it more persuasive to see a list proposals. All I got out of the video what’s the dramatic statementLet’s go to gravity it has not been worked out which I already knew.
@@steveparsons9986 I fail to see why listing alternative research proposals is relevant whatsoever, there are many that compete for limited research dollars. You're making excuses to continue granting major funding to a 70 year failure.
I like the way he says Michio is out of control. Like Michio is a mad scientist trying to blow up the moon with a laser
🤣🤣🤣
th-cam.com/video/-7O7sBg-iJc/w-d-xo.html
"IM PISSING ON THE MOON, HOW DO YA LIKE THAT OBAMA, I PISSED ON THE MOON YOU IDIOT!!!"
He hasn't said that he isn't trying to do that...
or casually walking about with a cigar hanging out his mouth and wielding a flamethrower burning down physics departments.
Simplified explanation. No one can pursue science outside the established norm without losing professional reputation, funding, and jobs.
And current science is highly politicized. Want funding? Play the game. Want more? Skew results to bias you are looking for.
Translation: post WW2 we are in the dark age of “science” where profit and greed are the reigning “scientific method”.
Sounds like science isn't science anymore.
Sounds like the only kind of real science is made with the tools you have with the total freedom to choose what you pursue.
So there truly is nothing new under the sun, eh? Old gods get replaced by new gods etc etc
That last part is most important. It’s like watching all these TH-cam videos where they start off with a question you think will be answered but spend an hour watching it and there’s still no answer. There needs to be a radically new way of seeing things.
That's called click baiting.
You are describing Professor David Kippings of Columbia's Video from CoolWorlds Lab.
It's a 8 minute video, maybe it's a you problem
Cause nobody knows shit that’s why
The guys jive a$$
Got home from work .. - I found Michio Kaku eating my left over lasagna and watching Rocky IV on my couch... Guy is out of control!!!
Rocky 4, love it!
somebody call the pasta police
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🤘🤪🤓
Got home from work… I found Michio Kaku in bed with my wife… guy is out of control!!!
When Joe came back to the studio the following morning, Eric was still talking.
Ignorant
some people say he's still talking to this day, still not having made a single, coherent point.
@@delta-9969 Ouch!
😂
This guy is willing to do or say anything to be seated at the cool table, we should all be wary of people like this
I agree. I'm not a physicist, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express.
Good for u
I ate god particles before my oral exams for army recruits in January. Biden today said he talked to Mitterrand of France. Problem is he died in 1996.
Some of these comments are incredibly funny. 🤣
And was the service faster than light? If not, you should sue them.
Major kudos to Eric. The plasma physicists were calling BS on this 50 years ago and their theories were proven through observation.
plasma physicists have their own analogous issue, fusion power.
They are not physicists, they are clueless electrical engineers having fun in they retirement.
@@WALLACE9009 Engrish?
@@WALLACE9009 I've never met a clueless electrical engineer. Where can they be found?
@@wmason1961 clueless about theoretical, physics, cosmology and astronomy.
I remember as a "lowly" mechanical engineering student walking through the physics building at my college and seeing a sign on a professor's door; "Theoretical physicist make theories, String physicist make excuses", or something like that.
😂😂😂😂😂
Lmfaoooooooo
We need applied physics. Enough of theoretical garbage that has gotten us no where. We have real problems right now.
@@BenMJay applied physics is basically engineering
@@BenMJay Theoretical physics has gotten us quantum mechanics. You don’t know what you’re talking about. Applied physics is basically engineering.
Michio Kaku can explain his positions without talking in circles.
Weinstein is a libertarian hack/grifter. He's with that dark intellectual group. They are in it for the attention not the actual science. I appreciate them giving "counter" arguments to make others think, but they are contrarian just to be contrarian.
It's like the ppl that are opposed to vaccines and think the govt is trying to microchip you. Is there a reality where that is possible of course. Is that this one? Probably most def not. Do we need these lemmings to kill themselves by not getting the vaccines to make sure that legislation doesn't take away rights, in some ways yes.
Are you kidding? No he cannot, and this guy didn't talk in circles. God damn, why do so many people who do not speak proper english show up in comments. Apparently you do not know the english language, because what you said is literally batshit insane. Just because you didn't get your one sentence answer, you think it is talking in circles. God I would hate to know you in real life, creep.
And be more excited about what he is talking about lol
Michio can explain what Eric is trying to say better than Eric can say it
Yeah, but with all due respect to Kaku, he's explanations are like the high brown version of "God did it".
They can't admit that they were wrong, it would be the end of their careers. They made a mistake, or maybe their ego led them down the wrong path many years ago, and for them to say "Ooops, sorry about all the billions wasted" is not an option for their careers, egos, or wallets. Which is why they are so aggressive in defending that decision.
Maybe they just think they're right, without going thru all the ridiculous horseshit YOU just mentioned...
@@Telephonebill51 Nothing of anything this guy said is definitive, Richard has a great point and your too dumb to see that. Open up your narrow mind you need it
@@Telephonebill51narcissists always think they're right, even when they're wrong. They'd rather gaslight and scapegoat than admit they're wrong.
@@Telephonebill51”Maybe they think they’re right…?” How profound.
Cost sunk fallacy , the more time spended on one thing , the more you can't abandon it
Yesssss, Joe, get Michio Kaku and Eric Weinstein on a debate platform on your show. Sounds amazing
Not to be confused with Machu Picchu.
I would love this
Kaku can't even stand truth about the fraudulently manufactured climate change data.
Ye literally just pushes propagandist BS.
He's a typical paid shill.
None of us would understand what they're on about
@@joeliza4047Eric Weinstein VS Michio Kaku, Macho Picchu, and Picachu in a Faraday cage match! I’d go to that!
I found Michio Kaku on my couch in the morning and I didn't invite him.. Guy is outta control!
I saw him pour milk first, then the cereal.... he's a freakin madman!
That sounds like a bunch of Kaku!
You a theoretical physicist?
@@JusticeAlways that's the thing. I work construction. He just showed up one morning wearing speedos and a party favor hat and it's been 4 weeks yet he won't leave.
He demands Mexican food and a calculator.
We had to celebrate my niece's quinceanera around him. He kept pointing out how he already had the party hat then offered up a toast with his beer.
I was like, bro, it's noon and the kids are fifteen so they don't drink.
Then he yelled "sweet. More for me."
I even saw Michio Kaku in a flat earth video, I kid you not!
We now know there are nerds so nerdy that they are considered meganerds, and other nerds are so in awe of them, that they fear them, and don’t even utter their names within nerdling circles. This man’s voice actually trembled when he verbalized the name of the master nerd. It’s quite fascinating.
WAY OVER MY HEAD FROM THE FIRST WORD UNTIL THE END HOLLY FUCK IM DUMB LOL
@@domainmojo2162 nobody refuting that.
Nice summary
Gotta love the infighting amongst “nerds”. I love nerds but maybe not mega nerds. Never heard that term but it sounds like they might have an ego problem.. humble nerds are cool!
OP does not know how hierarchy's work....in any form or context....
String cheese theory states that the thinner you string it, the better it tastes. The problem with that theory is that if you are so hungry you can't string the cheese, you have to take big bites instead.
🤯
Einstein's relativity theory also doesn't in any way "ban" motion faster than speed of light. Scientists just arbitrally decided that it can't be possible, because of strange results that come out when you put over speed of light motions in general relativity equations. Funny thing: these strange results are basically the same what we observe in quantum world. Quantum scientist Andrzej Dragan from Warsaw University talks about that.
His theory isn't fully finished and not everyone agrees with it.
There is an article on Wired about that. Google the phrase: "A rebel physicist has an elegant solution to a quantum mystery"
Yes but I think this is generalized in this way because according to Einstein's theory of relativity, it is impossible for anything with mass going under the speed of light to accelerate to the speed of light. Tachyons are purely hypothetical and therefore faster than speed of light motion is purely hypothetical
Um what? I'm pretty sure the reason most physicists think FTL travel is impossible is bcoz the equation says that an object moving at or greater than light speed would require infinite acceleration and energy.
@@pythondrink Not exactly. Einstein's relativistic equation for energy is E = MC^2 * ( 1/ √ (1- (v/c)^2 )). As you see, the closer your v gets to the speed of light, the closer the entire factor goes to 1/0 aka infinity. Meaning any object going under the speed of light needs infinite energy to be accelerated up to the speed of light. This doesn't ban faster than light speed travel but rather bans an object with mass to be accelerated up to the speed of light.
@@Ibbysz interesting. Tnx for the info.
I like to think Joe is like me, focusing with a serious face, nodding along, and thinking "I have no idea what any of this means."
And maybe it’s not as serious and dramatic as Eric thinks it is?
Thinking, "I should have taken some ayahuasca before this one and then I'd know what this means."
@@BrettOhh18 It's really, really not lol
That’s okay, if you listen to his peers, neither does Eric.
❤️😂
I love how a bewildered Joe is just trying to find the right questions to ask while floating in the isolation tank that is this conversation.
🤣😂
3 out of 7
Well put 😅
😂😂😂
maybe this experience can lead him to take science more seriously than he has
I managed to pass basic physics classes twice in college. Watching this and reading the comments has made me realize that the writers for The Big Bang Theory, TV show, had some pretty good advisors for their episodes, at least sometimes. When Sheldon tried to give up his decades long, research in String Theory. Another when Leonard announced, on a radio interview, that nothing new had been discovered in Physics in several decades. Leonard was forced to lie, declaring he mispoke, because his honesty was vastly impacting the donations for research, that goes nowhere. There are constant barbs, on that show, about everyone's theorys having been disproven, and spending grant $ on hookers.
thats what I liked about BBT. The disgruntled Physicists jokes that came through.
Not a big fan of Eric, however, I respect the fact that he's continually challenging Scientists & Science. Although he's a mathematician, he's intellectually solid enough to challenge Physicsts in their own field.
all physicists wished they were matematicians, all matematicians wished they were philosophers, an all philosophers wished they had a job
this the truth@@Jussishi
Mathematics is the grammar of Physics.
Thanks Brainulon for your incredible contributions to the conversation.
@@Jussishibecause they would be the managers in a heartbeat and we can’t have that can we
Would love to see him debate Michio Kaku on Joe's podcast
@@donnerpartysupplies5187 Kaku would slap him into nonexistence.
There's literally no point in debating string theory because it can't be proven.
It would not be insightful.
Just look at the debate between Sabine Hossenfelder, Roger Penrose and Michio Kaku. They were way out of his league and he basically just said his TV show talking points without intellectually engaging with the others at all.
He doesn't wanna debate Michio. It be slaughter
waste of time
I love the phrase, "Michio Kaku is out of control."
Someone put that on a t shirt
eric weinstein is the biggest scumbag Phd of all time. we are always in awe of folks who go on and get a Phd. but believe you Phds are assholes too! take eric weinstein for example, challenging Dr. Kaku but have no actual contribution to the academia in either Physics or combinatorial physics or in applied or theoretical mathematics to speak of and he sits in a program with an idiot challenging the leading contributor on Quantum Physics today! just highest levels of bullshit one could ever see. Its like I go on tomorrow on this idiotic podcast and claim einstein was out to lunch without actual contributions to the scientific community - just bonkers!
I donno, Eric W. seems pretty up in arms about something most in the scientific community are already on the same page about. There’s really no scandal here, he’s just so outside of the circles that it puts him behind the curve.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 literally no one has ever said that before in this dude's 76 years on earth ahahha
Theyre all out of their minds.
Joe reminds me of a dash-mount bobblehead doll that looks just like Michio.
Can’t go faster than speed of light - in this simulation.
They asked me how well I understood theoretical physics. I said I had a theoretical degree in physics. They said "welcome aboard".
Nice job there Dr. Fantastic
[Success] Welcome aboard!
Fallout reference for the ages
@pappy374 Ah, I see what you did there. You played around with words. Instaeyof saying "a degree in theoretical physics" you said "a theoretical degree in physics".
Fallout New Vegas in the house.
When he said Michio Kaku is out of control, it sounds like he's out there somewhere, twacked out on meth, wearing a suicide vest under a Hawaiian shirt, with a bottle of vodka in one hand and a samurai sword in the other, terrorizing a Denny's in Vegas, screaming about invisible reptilians in the quantum field.
That's only on Tuesdays.
What an image. Its gotta be a Denny's at 2 am, too.
And that’s what the YT video title wants you to think 🙄
Lol. But he does have a point. Idk if it’s right to call out Kaku though.
I would so want to be there!!! Sounds like the best party EVAH!!!!! I live in Vegas and have seen this (without the science or intelligence Quotient ) I also see that being the last page of chapter One...the last sentence would be Michio stealing a tesla from the showroom floor and screaming
" ROAD TRIP TO BURNING MAN!!!!!!!!!" ( this party would trump my entire Bucket List and I would die a happy man)
This guy's a great watch. I'm surely going to listen some more because I only understand the "smoking the ganja " part😅😅
Ty for the upload friend
I saw Michio in an interview on RT and he kicked ass.
I was a graduate student in 1987, working for my Ph.D in physics. My supervisor suggested I look into string theory, and after one long year, I returned and said this was nonsense, and I wanted to choose another topic. Even then the fudges of anomaly cancelation and extra-dimensions were completely ridiculous. The landscape was absurd. I then worked on Quantum Field Theory in Curved Space-Time, and was awarded my Ph.D in 1994.
Then I went to work for the National Weather service.
Do you have any insights to share?
I’m fascinated by gamma ray bursts personally, but I have unusual theories about such things.
In terms of curved space time, I find it interesting that we need complex numbers to solve equations on the overall path of a photon, almost as if the equations don’t work unless we take into account all of the co-ordinates of the whole journey of the photon simultaneously for any of the numbers to work, meaning that the complex numbers that represent an entire quantum event might be present even at the observed ‘origin’ of the photon.
Then expand this to intergalactic gamma ray bursts and realise how far ahead/behind quantum physics might actually affect causality.
Of course I’m a layman and probably have no idea about why I’m wrong in 100s of ways, but I’m not sure I’m totally off
Yup the weather service needs phyiscists
@@Joely7-vr7oh I also have degrees in physics, but I hesitate to admit to where my personal speculations go. Nonetheless, I'll do it anyway. I am a former atheist. Not anymore. I am gaining a suspicion that God, given the dire times we live, is allowing us to gradually peel back the layers of separation between the natural and the supernatural. Why I believe this is for another forum.
@@Joely7-vr7oh Curved space-time does not need complex numbers, just a geometry. Complex numbers are part of quantum mechanics, allowing all the weird wave-like behaviour.
Eric once again proving he can't answer a single question Joe asks without going on a quantum tangent.
Go listen to NDT talk about the big bang theory for the thousandth time.
It's a podcast genius. What interesting things do you think Joe would say if he had the chance? Not much.
Badum tsk
@@18skeltor fully agree, I was super happy that he stays silent.
Oh I see, you would rather have fake answers, than have him "not answer" questions. You sound like a person with a severely dysfunctional frontal lobe
3:19 this level of eye control is goals
I love Eric’s pauses and mouth noises before continuing his sentence
Kaku is a genius at getting government grants to do nothing.
Has Michio Kaku been right about anything?
@@robjohnston1433 no but he's asian and as we all know, race is all that matters these days...
Michio and Neil deGrasse Tyson are like two peas in a pod when it comes to useless grants
@@entreguesaosbichos Kaku sure likes to attend the worst TV shows in America like "ancient aliens" where any pebble they pick up from the garden is "a disguised alien spacecraft." Weinstein has just discovered the first letter of the theological-new age-rubbish takeover of physics. Read Beyond the hoax for example, by prof Alan Sokal. This problem started already in the early 1930s when Einstein was forced to make a compromise with the theosophers. And one got GR and the Copenhagen interpretation. This was the end of physics as a science, and the start of physics as strictly theoretical gobble of the worst esoteric neoreligious kind. Hawking is no better. How does something grow out of a nothing? And how is not the "cosmic inflation" type of "universe" model pure nonsense? (Why a uni-verse, and not a multi?) Physics have to go back to its old position as laboratory science. That means start over from 1920s. And remember that no evidence prove an unphysical Cosmos. All proof shows only an empty space with particle mechanics, thus charge is the only fundamental force. How do you build a wave without a spinning particle? All spinning matter on all scales of size draw a wave in the length direction... Einstein's most important work was the photoelectric effect. That is pure science.
He likes to show off ice skating & applying it to science
And joe goes " Do you really know how strong a grizzly bear is? A mountain gorilla has no chance of winning. and that's a fact!"
“Jaime, pull up that video of the gorilla fighting the alligator. Wow. Look at the size of that fuckin thing, that thing can fuck you up!”
all i see when im in my icebath while on dmt is joe
"What kind of bear is best?" Lol.
@@Kaiko408 The black bear.
"What if the gorilla has gators tied to his fists? And, they're fighting in a sharknado?"
I always get my physics from a hedge fund director, When I want financial advice I ask my gardener.
Quite right: gardeners know a lot about hedges ... and growth.
just described how your gov. works.
Just something about this guy and Neil D. That i don't believe them anymore and it only seems to get worse the more i listen to either
Michio Kaku has been giving the same exact speech down to the inflections of the individual words for like 20 years.
you aren't very familiar with his work.
isnt it good, to get paid for 20 yrs spounting the same sht..
@@Upsideround
The new things he may come with though are fantasy land sensationalism. And he says it like it’s proven facts
@@Upsideround I don't understand how much of an idiot you have to be to make an objective statement about someone you never met online but damn you set the bar extremely low.😂
@@rogerwelsh2335 If you have a better theory of quantum entanglement or how the observation of an object changes it's position or orientation.. prove it. Until then quantum theory is the only best explanation. It's far from fantasy land. It just means you don't understand it.
This is like the field of Psychology. If you oppose popular theory it doesn’t matter if your point is valid. Then 20 years later after being academically condemned it becomes the new popular theory. Any field of science is like this. My favorite teacher once said everything I teach you today can completely change in your life time and it is your responsibility to see that the new ideas get vetted. They shouldn’t be terminated, because they could be a piece that fits somewhere in the puzzle that we don’t know exists yet.
When science changes its opinion, it didn't lie to you. It learned more
@@krag3r sounds like gaslighting
"Science" isn't one entity btw
@@krag3r "It" didn't lie, but the people who we were supposed to respect DID lie by ruining other scientists' reputations to keep the popular theory going. And, in truth, as science is a field created by humans, what is considered 'science' does lie.
@@Baccanaso It's more referring to the method. Thought that was obvious.
I thought this exact same thing. I thought about the similarities with Graham Hancocks theories compared to mainstream archaeology.
Thank you for all the translations in the comments section. When Yoel Romero was on Joe Rogan, he had Joey Diaz as translator. Who would make a good translator for Eric Weinstein?
Mike tyson or Aaron Rodgers , either one on hyayuasca
Eric could use someone to help him communicate with concise and precise language.
yes, this
I can remember Richard Feynman pounding the table during one of Gell-Mann's Supergravity seminars and saying "but there is nothing to measure." That is the real problem with string theory.
I wish this pounding would be a mandatory part of every physics curriculum... 🤣
@@klgamit He even advocated that women like it. He'd start experiments at a bar.
Murry Gellman was a bitter man (or at least as it seems), but he produced some of the best minds who later contributed to fundamental physics greatly. I happened to take two courses with a professor who was Murry's student, but never heard of that story. Any link to share?
Feynman also famously said to his assistant, after attending a gravity conference, something like, "Remind me not to go to any more gravity conferences."
@@mxbishop I believe he said that to his wife after the Jablonna Conference in Poland in 1962. He thereby missed the (first) golden age of observational general relativity, which effectively started (by most accounts) with the 1963 Texas Symposium.
As a physics major, I read everything I could on string theory, which is what he refers to here as quantum gravity. All the elementary particles that make up matter are made of tiny vibrating strings that exist only in 10 dimensions.
To anyone who gets a basic mathematical understanding, the first phase of the theory (mid eighties) seems very convincing and just pure magic. But by the mid 90's more objects were added to the scheme: D-branes, extended microscopic surfaces where the strings can end, and black P-branes, the string theory version of black holes in many dimensions.
It turns out D-branes, with their strings attached, are like the building blocks of P-branes.
Now, there are two types of strings, open and closed. The closed strings, when they vibrate at a certain frequency, become gravitons, the particles that carry the gravitational force in quantum string theory. Now the open strings, as was said before, can have their ends attached to the D-branes, which are surfaces. Open strings do not reproduce gravity.
Consider a D2-brane which is just like a sheet of paper, a plane with 2 dimensions. Since an open string is like a line, when one extreme meets the surface the intersection with it is just a point. If the string moves around, from the point of view of someone living on the sheet it is just like a point particle, a charged one like the electron, for instance, doing it's thing.
Why is this a unifying squeme? Well, now imagine the two ends of an open string attached to the plane, the D2-brane. Make these extremes meet: it becomes a closed string that leaves the plane into the surrounding ambient space of higher dimension, in which the D2-brane is inmersed. This is called "the bulk". You can generalize this to D3-branes, etc. Thus gravity particles, gravitons, can exist only in a higher dimension, the rest, like matter (fermions) and the other particles that carry the other three forces (bosons) live on the D-branes, with one dimension less. Hence gravity and other forces are at last unified under one scheme: superstrings in 10 dimensions. Super because there is a symmetry called supersymetry that interchanges particles that carry forces with those that do not.
Just as there is no proof of superstrings there is no proof of supersymmetry either.
How the extra dimensions are dealt with is another matter. But of the 10, 6 must be compactified into small spaces, invisible to our eyes and machines because we don't have enough energy to probe them. But it must be so because we live in a universe with only 4 dimensions: one time, the other 3, space. For consistensy, string theory needs, in reality 11, if M theory enters the picture. But that is another story.
Einstein's theory of gravity says that the distribution of matter and energy bends our 4 dimensional spacetime, causing gravity. You can stack the D-branes in string theory. Thus they can become "heavy" and bend spacetime too, because they carry particles with mass (remember the ends of the open strings). Hence, if you stack enough of them you can create the string theory version of black holes mentioned above: Alas!, you have a black hole in a higher dimension: a black P-brane
Once they went off in those directions it became clear to me they had lost their bearings. Do they really believe these things exist?
The theory, although it has a rich mathematical structure that is here to stay, has, nevertheless, become just one pile of imaginary inventions on top of another, where none has any connection with reality. You must have a lot of faith, almost of the religious kind, to keep on going with this stuff.
I stopped reading technical papers on the subject because I got convinced that I was wasting my time. I left physics altogether. String theory is still, almost 15 years later, where I left it: chasing its own tail.
There is just something about the whole ordeal that feels like they no longer have the real universe in sight, but some kind of world of ideas, of the platonic type. It's not fundamental physics anymore. This is really worrisome.
I still feel a certain curiosity for the subject, though, along the lines of its destiny. But I think this man has nailed it: just be honest and tell the world "lets get off this road cause we are lost."
By the way, some smart dude once said that quantum gravity is the answer to a problem that does not exist. More or less. 8:34
Thank you for sharing your experience.
Yes
Great understanding of what’s been happening for over the last 30 years
Wow... great insight! Thx for sharing
Alas, perfect timing. AI to the rescue!
I may not know much, but i notice over and over that the ones on top are withholding a Ton of information. In every field theres this status quo and people wont risk their reputation.
Kaku feeds at the trough, and drinks the Kool-aid.
Eric Weinstein is like that girl who starts ranting about Part 4 of her on going drama, and you never heard parts 1-3.
And Rogan is the uncle who actually takes down the names of all the people she rants about like he's going to school the next day to look for them. The whole time, the Dad is just shaking his head "Don't listen to her"
your small point view can't understand that this is only a short clip of an hours long episode of the podcast?
Do you not realize this a clip? Quit being a moron...you're embarrassing the human race.
ignorant and unintelligent happy slaves like you are in the way of human progress ...
@@jurassicthunder Lol you really think Weinstein has any coherent thought? He is all over the place and continually speaks on tangents.
"Michio Kaku is out of control" is the greatest sentence ever spoken.
I don't know, man. I believe "Neil deGrasse Tyson is out of control" would give it a run for its money.
lol
Said Good Ole JR
It would’ve been cooler if he were to have said “Michio Kaku is out of his element.”
@@zeus136988 Michio looks like he's been on a continuous psychedelic trip since 1974.
Thank you for shedding a light on an otherwise closed group of individuals. The "scientific community" as they like to call themselves prides itself on openness, high intelligence, progress, ingenuity and new discoveries. Yet, the single and most fundamental flaw of this scientific community is their tendency to group think, which prohibits the open exchange of new ideas based on having a different and sometimes contradictory views from their colleagues. New ideas that challenge and disprove a colleague's theory is met with opposition and are suppressed, resulting in a silent and understood collective mob mentality, couched under the misguided concept of "peer review". Scientists protect other scientists. Anyone who has a contrary way of thinking is ostracized from this "scientific community". For a group of highly intelligent people, they have not evolved much from the high school days of keeping the weird kid away from sitting at the cool kids' table.
I assume he’s talking about the My Lai Massacre @ 6:04 when discussing “irrational exuberance”.
I’ve been saying Michio Kaku is out of control for years now. It’s about time we are discussing this.
ok fake news. settle down.
HHAHAHA 😂
He is getting old
Michio kaku is on a war path. I’ve noticed too. It’s time somebody ends this reign of terror.
He speaks as authoritatively outside his field as does Neil deGrasse Tyson (and I love Tyson when he's in his lane). When the Tsunami caused Fukushima to blow up, Kaku was on CNN with an alarmist message that clouds of radioactive gas were going to ruin everything (that never happened). He wasn't a nuclear physicist, so CNN never should have had him on, but Kaku too should have told them to find someone in that field. I think he might have been hawking a book, though.
And then a few months ago he was once again on opining about something else science related, oh it was the core of the earth spinning at a slightly different speed, I think. Kaku didn't even read the basics of the original research, and he misunderstood that the core actually slowed down and reversed! He said that! Any amateur geologist knew the headline had to be wrong. It turns out that the core sometimes spins slightly faster and sometimes slightly slower. It's less than 1% difference, IIRC. But Kaku, again, he was eager to speak outside his field ... and hawk another book.
None of this means he is wrong in his field, but Michio Kaku has absolutely ruined his credibility. Neil deGrasse Tyson hasn't gone that far, and I do hope he learns the lesson of humility and how to shut his mouth when there are other people around who also want to contribute to a discussion.
I laughed when he said "Michio Kaku is out of control" with a straight face. I'm not making fun of his argument but it was just a funny thing to say.
Yeah that made me laugh too! Like I’m imagining him running rampant downtown aggressively declaring everything to be string theory.
I visualized Michio on a drunken bender 😆
Like he's out there somewhere, twacked out on meth, wearing a suicide vest under a Hawaiian shirt, with a bottle of vodka in one hand and a samurai sword in the other, terrorizing a Denny's in Vegas, screaming about invisible reptilians in the quantum field.
That's the only face Eric has, you know 😂 ... the guy is very bright, but also very particular indeed
I imagined him very angry, wildly furious yelling at everyone to agree with him or else!
To quote Owen Wilson "Wow".
The kink in the math at the two singularities is God.
I will say, it’s beautiful how Eric, despite his disagreements with Ed Whitten - still gives him his dues as one of the most brilliant minds of the unknown physics world.
That was smooth
so there is something to it, i guess, hmm
Eric Weinstein is a fucking economist.
@@cartoonhanks1708 Baa baa
@@cartoonhanks1708 And? I have several degrees in engineering, but when I was an associate professor I taught several pure math and pure sciences. Just because you have a degree or work in one area doesn't make you ill equipped in other areas. What you are doing is a well known logical fallacy called appeal to authority, just because someone has a degree in x doesn't make them experts in that field, nor does not having a degree in x make a person unknowledgeable in that field either.
Listening to Eric Weinstein talk is an ocean of words and no land of precise points in sight.
Yeah sometimes lol.
Crazy how many people get by doing that. You notice it after listening to them in one than one interview. They’re just a show.
Eric has had good and rational conversations. Yet in the latest conversations he seems catching the same fame fever as Jordan Peterson. They both overcomplicate their message by focusing on looks of it in regards to how words they say will elevate their image
Do you not understand the conversation at hand....? Lmfao.
maybe you're just too simple minded to grasp what he's speaking on
String Theory has never made intuitive sense to me - I mean, membranes 'branes' coming into contact with each other, creating new Universes just never felt like it could be real - but then again, what the hell do I know? I'm a high school dropout.
Ive always had a named for Str. Th - Science Fiction. Lot of Physicists love sci-fi. Lot of them get science & sci-fi confused. This is a result.
there are some old idea that won't work with material at the time. there are many examples, like child protection, the first introduction of jet engine, etc etc. maybe string theory is one of those idea that require something we did not have at the moment. there are a lot of thing that don't make sense in turn of our everyday live observation. example, electricity, electron, proton. we can be like i can't see it moving it don't feel real. we can't see it but it's there to light up the light. i think what you say is an example of philosophical thinking like if a tree fall in the forest and no one is there. Do it make a sound?
I don't know if my brain got wrinklier or smoother, but I felt it trying to change form...
I am 64 and still have a recurring dream in which I have lost my class schedule and can't remember what days, times, and rooms my classes are in, and so I wander the halls. I am certain I will fail most if not all of them. I have graduated from college already.
55 and have that same recurring dream. Graduated in 1994 and still have that dream.
I’m 26, graduated a few years ago and had a nightmare recently that I was placed back in the 2nd grade lol
I’m 56 and I have the same dream over and over too
@@rogerwelsh2335 That's interesting. I wonder if it is a common dream.
@@tmoua90s At least you can be the top of your class.
When Michio Kaku is asked a question he gives you a straight answer and doesn't go round the moons of Jupiter to give you one.
That's entirely Eric's shpiel. He won't debate anyone who's views he opposes. A charlatan.
He goes on and on with condescending analogies that explain nothing. He's not a good teacher and has no business being a "science educator."
Yea they are called sound bytes. Not frequently associated with intelligence or capability.
That's because Kaku believes and acts though he knows, Eric say's he doesn't know & and posit's his answers as questions because he's willing to ask the hard questions as to why there's no progress & why those other guy's won't admit they're wrong & they also don't know. Brilliant Guy's like Eric & Nima Arkani-Hamed are willing to say, Einstein wasn't 100% right & that they also don't pretend to know exactly why. 2 Things will be proven. speed of light is NOT constant & space-time is not intertwined as Einstein theorized. Einstein's theories work up to a certain point but fail at the quantum level, therefore something along the mathematical chain is wrong & if you stake everything on a faulty foundation the whole house falls apart at some point.
No...he takes you back to his childhood when he was building a particle accelerator in his garage and consequently caused a city wide power outage... If you've seen one of his lectures you've seen most. I'm sure one day there will be a breakthrough... Til then...
I’ve never appreciated string theory. It always has seemed they make up dimensions to correct their limitations. It is like “magic hare” now plod along with your inaccurate damaged model.
I haven't heard an explanation of how Einsteinian curvature of space-time is thought to be quantized. Is there one?
If a thing cannot be done after dozens of brilliant minds attempting to do it then the question must be asked 'Is it necessary?' If a thing is deemed necessary we will presume it is until one who stands apart convinces us after a long while that it isn't. Ive been asking why this is important for many years & the most honest answer I got from a Physicist was 'For the pure Satisfaction.' I thought to myself 'Honest answer but not a good one.'
As a former reader of Kaku I often look back at his work and thank him for at least bridging the gap for someone who had very little knowledge of physics to having a way to cross over into that fascinating world. A lot of the stuff he wrote about was very far flung and deeply Sci-fi inspired but he always found a way to tie it to some phenomena that’s studied in physics. He at least tries to do what Carl Sagan did for astronomy but for concepts within theoretical physics
No one can take that away from him, I as well came to understand more about physics through him. Eric does not dislike the guy. He is just being honest about Kaki towing the string theory line, which I think is completely fair criticism. Arguments are fair game for critique with no need for any personal animosity.
@@wokeuptomorrow4533 totally! I understood his point but just wanted to inject my experience with Kaku and the positives I’ve drawn from his work even though once I started to learn more I became highly skeptical. In a way it’s very poetic.
But Sagan spoke of actual astrophysics and astronomy.
@@JasonGabler I never said he succeeded, just saying he attempted to be a figure like that. He clearly doesn’t have the impact that Sagan did and I don’t think anyone ever will.
He’s really a futurist. Love his vision
"Michio Kaku is out of control" 😂💀 I'm weak
goofiest shi ever😭😭
Spacetime is bunk. Time is not a thing. Its only a metric. We seem to be trapped by this, and everytime I start of a rant in this direction I am told I am lost in the woods, maybe I will run into Dr. Woo in there...
I will always remember him as daniel son's sensai in the karate kid.
Joe being a complete professional at pretending he knows what's happening in the conversation
No, I think Joe is being honest. Look at his face, :)
To be fair, very few people could truly follow Eric throughout this 4 hour podcast. If Joe was to question him every time he didn’t understand - the episode would have gotten stuck in mud
One of the few commentators out their secure enough to get people on his podcasts far beyond his own abilities and allows them their forum. Given his background, he’s an anomaly in how capable he is, however, in keeping the conversations riveting and moving forward. Don’t sell him short. We could use a lot more like him.
Joe has had many of the guys that Eric Weinstein is criticizing on the show, so I would say Joe has some idea what he's talking about.
😂 so true
It's like my music theory professor always said, "Ahh... The ridiculous things people say once they are given university positions."
Poeple that got in power trough any means or system.
Will use that power to keep the system and the means in place.
Even if said means and system are wrong / detrimental to society.
Cus its what gives them power
"if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.".....your move, shovel man.
First time I’ve heard you, sir I’ve subscribed
Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder wrote an accessible book calling out string theorists recently: Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray (Basic Books 2018). Great read. She got away with calling out the physics community because because she freelances as a TH-cam physicist. The introduction to her book was fascinating, especially when she talks about how her friends were telling her not to publish, as it would "ruin" her career. The book opened my eyes not only to physics, but also to how academia isn't as pure as it seems.
Your post is an example of why I'm discouraged about reading those books, because there is no way to know whether their interpretations are valid or exaggerated. As a scientist, you generally never take any theory as being proven from a single peer reviewed article / experiment that was conducted in the field. So how can you draw broad, generalized conclusions about an entire field in physics from a single book?
There should ideally be a poll of physicists on this topic, randomly selected, but having expertise in the field of quantum gravity or a related field to discuss the issue. What DOES someone like Edward Witten think about this? Have you asked him? What do quantum gravity experts think? Have you asked any of them? Or are you taking at face value the word of Sabine and Eric just because they are accessible via youtube? We should obviously have higher standards here. There needs to be fairness, and a real debate, not just one-sided books or monologues on Joe Rogan's podcast. You can not honestly say this "opens your eyes" until you've heard both sides. That's like saying you heard Joe Rogan's emergency podcast on why Ivermectin secretly cures covid, and it opened your eyes to the corruption in the pharmaceutical industry. In reality, Joe Rogan just fell for medical quackery as he often does. Please, don't take him or his guests that seriously :P. Eric is obviously a smart guy but he goes pretty deep into conspiracy land when it comes to people rejecting his ideas or his brother's crazy nonsense on Ivermectin.
Science, much like history, advances from funeral to funeral.
Shes a great communicator too, and always with that straight face, i always enjoy learning stuff over on your YT.
@@radscorpion8 Yep Rogan sold a lot of Ivermectin though for that pharma company :) I like Joe though he does get led easily by quackery and conspiracy.
Academia is a sausage factory. You seriously don't want to know what goes on inside, and you are always a bit suspect of what you are eating regardless of the label.
I am still skeptical about Eric's tendency to make glib-sounding metaphors and oblique, esoteric references where concrete examples would be better suited. But physics drama is interesting! It's like if the Kardashians was filmed at the IAS in Princeton or something.
I've heard Sean Carroll say the same things but in a lot plainer english. Where he just considers it the failure of the scientific community that they can't agree on how to move forward and all the best Minds come up with different ideas and no one's working together to move the quantum idea forward or to get rid of it.
Would that explain a T shaped metal object spending in space flip ends. The shaft is attracted to the momentum developing in the tee?
Trying to balance energy’s?
when he said "Michio Kaku is out of control" I felt it, Joe Rogan felt it, the whole studio felt it...
Felt what?
I can't wait for Eric to finally be brave enough to release all his secret knowledge so we can all transcend to the 7th dimension with his superior guidance and sheer brilliance.............and then we all woke up.
Yea Eric is Full of it, but so are all Theories of Everything.
Sorry dude, you made me unable to resist this opportunity to expose my ego and share with you a couple of truths I think I know:
-Our economical system is a fraud, it's unsustainable and basically full of bullshit. Fair competition is a concept that exists only in books and since the Nixon shock and the gold window closing we live paying everything with fiat money that is basically worthless, I'm not even messing around with income inequality.
-Education system sucks around the world and we're terrible at helping children to flourish to their whole potential, humanity is afraid of its own power, as paradoxical as it seems.
-Our democracy is a farce and common citizens don't have a say in anything.
-Goddamn, we can't even trust doctors nor the medical services anymore. Today's fashion is to say that obesity is caused only by genetic factors (what about diet?) and these people can even cover up long term effects of exposure to chemicals in service of their corporate masters. We can see this happening real time in Ohio. And well, we've all been conned to some degree with COVID vaccines.
-By the way, why don't we talk about privacy anymore? We've normalized how much knowledge tech companies have about ourselves and give them our data like stupid sheep.
And well, those are my two cents...
Spoiler: All of their ideas are parodies of kabbalah
You think he's bring *you* along? LOL. 🤣
Haha, Eric Weinstein is a real life movie character. Incredible.
So many parts of academia have become corrupted into their own self serving silos where they pursue bad ideas because of ideology, careerism, ego and money...and the rest of us are not supposed to call them out on it, because we are not so called experts in that field. The unaccountability issue is very bad and needs to be addressed.
Or in 10 years they will have the break through. Its not easy to determine how this goes. pretending otherwise is absurd. We know for a fact parts of quantum gravity work and we dont know why. It makes it hard to totally walk away from when the logical assumption is its mostly right but we are missing variables to explain the x factors. Its possible someone will come up with a new grand theory we have seen this multiple times with string theory. But thus far I have not heard of any strong alternatives.
Humans are forbidden to find the deep secrets of Nature . Meanwhile, some can win big money, fame and perverse pleasures by pretending to know what they don't .
Yep there's a student who built a spinning demon and got asked to leave Harvard. Now he is working on quantum physics and is a major player in the many words theory
Just like all work fields.
@@Dominique_Taylor To be more precise, unchallenged power allows for corruption to happen.
Which is the reason why any movement/organization/idea that doesn't allow itself to be challenged should be stopped by definition, since even if they do mean well, it is only a matter of time before corruption happens and everything goes to shit.
that was a real ball slapper
Has any scientist sat down & tested to see if Gravity could be replaced 1:1 with the buoyancy of an object in reference to air (78% Nitrogen, 20% Oxygen, 1% Argon, 0.04% Carbon) ?
Seeing how Gravity as a force has yet to be proven or explained, the calculations we have explain how objects essentially act, could those same calculations be applied / are similar the ones used to explain buoyant objects in water?
How fast an apple falls from a tree is dependent on how buoyant it is in relation to air?
Eric can tell a story, but not answer a question.
Hes a CIA agent, what do you expect.
If he answers, he'd be crucified in media
@bronto Sorce?
@bronto4443 When gov furthers private interests and not public interests it's not the government... come on!
@@Bobany invasion of Iraq, found oil not nukes; now was that public or private interest?
This really touches on the big issue: People running shit and setting agendas have never DONE anything.
There's some truth to this. So much real progress is made by outsiders or little teams of outsiders. When you get the Foremost Authorities together you often get a boodoogle. Gravity and relativity were discovered by guys working mostly by themselves; the airplane and the computer and the light bulb were invented by teams of independents. When the Establishment works on something, we end up with "successes" like Covid vaccines and nuclear weapons, or failures like Vietnam and Alzheimer's-Research-to-Nowhere.
Too right - the Republicans and the Tories for starters.
Any kind of statist.
What about Michio Kaku's book Hyperspace? I read it in the 90s and he said that the unified field theory worked if you assume 10 dimensions when making the formulas. Granted, I haven't kept up with much of this stuff but, still, I'd be curious to know what happened.
Well, it's up to 36 dimensions now and none of it is testable in any way with our current tech. It may never be able to be tested or proven, they thought that some evidence may show up in the LHC but the LHC got the Higgs at it's predicted values and nothing else. Kaku is basically a Deepak Chopra who can use math to backup his woo and nothing more.
'Assume' is never a good fit any model.
@@count69 Let me rephrase it to "it works when the variable representing the number of dimensions is set to 10".
@@MarvinThomas-nw3yi How does it work beyond numbers on a blackboard? It can't be applied or demonstrated anywhere except in theory.
@@count69 That it works on paper, related to the discussion, is ALL that I was saying. Make of it what you will.
Best Jr clip on u tube since Spotify
I really like the imagery of Michio being out of control in a very vivid and absurdist sense. One scenario that pops into my mind’s eye is him decked out in a sparkly unitard, ice skating on a frozen Norwegian lake while screaming incoherently about “One string to rule them all”, laughing maniacally, then pausing to catch his breath while taking obscenely big bites from a cheeseburger he had tucked into the chest area of his sparkly unitard. Perhaps in one of the bubble universes, this reality exists.
Gold sequins…. That’s what I’m picturing. 😂
Wow! Good drugs??😅😅😅😅
i sure hope is this one
Ok. Too much Rick and Morty?
skiing on blades of light , and as he skates, the trails draw a symbol in the ice messaging Pleiades to come beam him back up.
Joe Rogan is like a modern Dick Cavett. He's literally the only person in the media who can have Metallica on one day and a scientist on the next. And people still listen in very high numbers. It just goes to show that Americans still do have a thirst for knowledge if presented in the right way.
Dick Cavett? You old titty shuttup about your old shit
If you get your knowledge from Joe Rogan you are in deep trouble.
@@rahrahrobbbieee relax bud
@@gatchrocks Serious question. Who else has the depth and breadth of guests as Rogan?
@@rahrahrobbbieee 'thirst for knowledge' just means curious.
All good points. I've always wondered why physicists are so attached to theory if theory doesn't explain everything, it sounds like a limitation to me.
Drank half of the bottle and still can't catch it 😭 love it noatherless
😂
I had some negative mass chasing me some years back, I thought I might not escape, but by some unseen force the closer she got the faster I was able to run. Its always been a mystery to me until now.
😂
Shat yup
clever
lol
my attorney helped me figure it out.......
Joe should get Ed Witten on his podcast.
Lex Friedman seems to have a lot of clips about him
Witten is so overrated.
Him and Terrence tao don't have time to do podcasts lol
I will try to answer his questions -
Question 1 why are they pursuing quantum gravity?
Because, as you can probably easily figure out, both quantum physics and classical physics work at their respective scales. So naturally, as an inquisitive mind, you'd look for where the two dynamics meet and where the switch over occurs. And in addition intuition suggests that if you can find the place where the mutual approaches to physics breakdown, you'd discover something fundamental about both approaches and find a basic rule of the universe that gives both. But what would also be fascinating is of the universe didn't have an underlying law which both ideas about physics sat in.
"... intuition suggests ..." That's the problem right there. If you have physicists letting their "intuition" suggest things, chances are they're on the wrong track.
I don’t know what this guy is talking about, but the Voldemort description of is Arch Enemy got me! 😂🤣😂🤣
World's least commonly spoken phrase: "Michio Kaku Is Out Of Control."
If he graduated from Berkley he's out of control
Amen!
I came to read this because he seems to reject the idea of civilian nuclear. I've not found anything to convince me of the need for "string theory".
Most sheep do as they are told.
Its a hilarious qoute 🤣😆
A man so brilliant he has done nothing: just what the world needs right now!
I'll gladly step up and rise to the occasion. I fit the bill perfectly, except the brilliant part.
Well if it helps most mainstream renowned scientists and etc, are graveling to/ cowardly tolerating/ and even advocating for the both objectively anti truth/anti morality/ and actually anti biological reality that is anything Transgender and even trans kids related,......so thats pretty col and stuff lol......its really really not sorry......
... And the String theorists have accomplished what now? After how many decades? It's like the financial sector bleeding the software development talent pool to shave a millisecond off of their flash trading algorithm and network stack; I don't know about you, but it hasn't enriched my life in any way. People are free to do as they wish, but resources are limited and opportunity costs are a resource.
At one time this field produced ppl like Oppenheimer who made the nuclear bomb. Weinstein is pointing out that all the resources & attention in this field now are more about public relations & witty sounding stories & videos that don’t help us make products & advance.
@@ScottLovenberg Thank you. You get it too. For a while it seems like some of these guys are competing for public attention and becoming wealthy celebrities, making nonsensical videos but not making products nor advancing humanity. I feel that once produced Oppenheimer and a nuclear bomb now produces people who pretend to understand it because it makes them appear smart like the person talking about the theory. It’s like no one is willing to say the emperor wears no clothes.
Im just here for Michio kaku is out of control
This guy too smart for me ... when he talks I enter another dimension ✨️✨️
But he thinks covid Vax has robots in it
Hello darkness my old friend…
He isn't smart. He just shits on other people to try and make himself look good... he is an bully and has a huge ego. Go watch him debate actual scientists... he shuts down because his bullshit tricks don't work when the scientists are right in front of him.
It's all a performance with these so-called scientists, don't fall for it.
There’s zero chance Joe knows what Eric is talking about
To be fair, there aren't too many people who could understand the depth of what Eric is saying.
well it doesnt matter he wasnt talking really with joe in front of him was a printed poster that say gone to the bathroom over and empty chair
I don't know, Joe's pretty bright across a broad range of topics, and Eric never went into any crazy scientific detail. I think most people who speak English could follow along with a story that centers on drama and some group's adamant inability to let go of near-religious conviction in a bad path. The few scientific details were fairly basic and came with simple explanations, like "negative mass would be similar to how you have negative/positive charges".
I have no idea what he's talking about because he doesn't seem to be saying anything of substance, but maybe that's because there is missing context.
@@josephmango4628 anyone who's been paying attention tot he bleeding edge would agree with me that Nassim Haramein and Eric need to have a conversation
Joe Rogan has some of the best content regardless of platform today. He doesn't know a lot of it and he doesn't have to. He knows how to book guests and to keep quiet with just the slightest of prodding to keep the flow going.
It's a beautiful thing he facilitates
True data!
I'm careful with Joe cause his guests are able to slip bullshit past him undetected. Fridman has the intellect to go with the caliber of guests..
"He doesn't know a lot of it" which basically means plenty of bullshit makes it past him unchallenged. Not a good thing. Not great content.
@@dougdaniels7848 the whole point of the podcast is to have conversations. For the amount of guests he has it’s not possible for him to be knowledgeable in every subject presented. The audience doesn’t need a babysitter. People are more than welcome to dig more if they desire.
I think gravity and time are like the movable black plastic core parts of the rubix cube, and the other fundamental forces are like the colored stickers on the surface.