Eric Weinstein

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Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

From the birth of Dirac's Quantum Electrodynamics in 1928, the subject couldn't compute results because infinities infested the calculations. This went on for nearly 20 years as the aging leaders of the field proposed crazy fixes that didn't work. Enter Duncan McInnes. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 26, 2023

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Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

Snark is so much more fun when academics forget their own subjects and need to be reminded of their own history by...checks notes...a podcast host who's not a physicist. I'm guessing you have no idea of how the stagnation in Quantum Field Theory of 1928-47 was broken. — PolitiTweet.org

"Fundamental physics is deeply broken, and it will cost a few hundred thousand dollars to fix it" is quite the take. https://t.co/6tC0EwwKmC

Posted Jan. 26, 2023

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On January 21 1946, McInnes suggested to Frank Jewett a radical conference based around the UNTESTED young people rather than the failed leaders. As head of the National Academy of Sciences, Jewett allocated a grand total of...wait for it...$1500 for a conference in Long Island. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 26, 2023