Eric Weinstein

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Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

And we need our brilliant failed string theorists to admit the disaster within a scientific paradigm. Science is a culture. Perhaps the most fragile one. It won’t survive this suspension of collegiality, decency and self-critical behavior. We need to go back to real physics. 🙏 — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 23, 2022

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But it is also so thoroughly investigated and badly behaved relative to scientific norms that it deserved to be shrunk. And that happened to a large extent already. The most important thing to realize is that physics is still about the physical world. Not Calabi Yau. Not AdS/CFT. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 23, 2022

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@martinmbauer String theory was a giant percentage of a tiny priesthood. That was the same tiny priesthood that brought us Thermo Nuclear devices. And if you want to pay for me to research the numbers I’m willing to hire somebody to put together the data after 1984. It’s not usually contested. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 23, 2022