Jul 16, 2025 11:39 PM
(This post was last modified: Jul 16, 2025 11:44 PM by C C.)
SABINE HOSSENFELDER
https://youtu.be/KiFYcuoK490
VIDEO EXCERPTS: I watched this recent episode of Eric Weinstein and Sean Carroll on "Piers Morgan", and read the comments from all those who piled on afterwards -- and boy, was this ugly. I can't believe the hypocrisy of these people.
So, that's why I finally want to talk about Eric. I've known Eric for almost 20 years. He's a good guy. If you take away one thing from this video, let it be that Sabine said, "Eric's a good and fairly normal person."
In contrast to a lot of others who think it's okay to pile on people they know nothing about. I've seen an enormous amount of hate thrown at Eric, that he doesn't deserve.
[...] Eric has a theory of everything like all other people I know. ... I've never looked into this in any detail because I'm not interested in unification ideas, and I think it's a waste of time.
[...] I have no idea why so many people are obsessed with this, but I want to try and give you a brief idea what this is all about. [...] It hasn't worked for 40 years, and there's no evidence supporting any of this. Eric sees this differently. He thinks that no one has yet done it the right way, which is possible. And if this is how he wants to spend his life, that's fine with me.
[...] Eric ended up on Pierce Morgan with Sean Carroll. And this happened...
[...] I think one has to give credits to Sean that he agreed to do this because the vast majority of physicists would have chickened out. And honestly, Sean did a pretty good job.
Yes, Eric's work is far from complete [...] he doesn't have tangible predictions.
But then Eric's only one person who wrote up some notes. If he had wasted some millions of tax money on hiring postdoc and writing papers about it, then he could have easily papered over these shortcomings just like everyone else in that area.
And this is why this pisses me off so much. Sean totally knows that most of his colleagues work on similarly flaky stuff. It just has been covered up by more working hours. The literature is full of papers without proper predictions, without Lagrangians, ill-defined operators or problems that will be solved in some future work that never comes.
Sean knows that everyone in the damn field knows that, but normally no one's saying anything about it because they're all tied up in the same scam.
Unless the person who comes up with the idea is Eric Weinstein, in which case, it's suddenly hugely offensive and everyone starts yelling...
[...] Eric's ideas are as remarkable as the ideas of thousands of other people ... I think what's really happening here is that a lot of people who work in the foundations of physics are very afraid that Eric is exposing how rotten their entire field is. This is why they're trying hard to discredit him.
But the truth is that Eric's idea isn't any better or worse than all the other crap they're working on. The only difference is that he hasn't wasted as much of your tax money on it...
Physicists are afraid of Eric Weinstein -- and they should be ... https://youtu.be/KiFYcuoK490
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/KiFYcuoK490
https://youtu.be/KiFYcuoK490
VIDEO EXCERPTS: I watched this recent episode of Eric Weinstein and Sean Carroll on "Piers Morgan", and read the comments from all those who piled on afterwards -- and boy, was this ugly. I can't believe the hypocrisy of these people.
So, that's why I finally want to talk about Eric. I've known Eric for almost 20 years. He's a good guy. If you take away one thing from this video, let it be that Sabine said, "Eric's a good and fairly normal person."
In contrast to a lot of others who think it's okay to pile on people they know nothing about. I've seen an enormous amount of hate thrown at Eric, that he doesn't deserve.
[...] Eric has a theory of everything like all other people I know. ... I've never looked into this in any detail because I'm not interested in unification ideas, and I think it's a waste of time.
[...] I have no idea why so many people are obsessed with this, but I want to try and give you a brief idea what this is all about. [...] It hasn't worked for 40 years, and there's no evidence supporting any of this. Eric sees this differently. He thinks that no one has yet done it the right way, which is possible. And if this is how he wants to spend his life, that's fine with me.
[...] Eric ended up on Pierce Morgan with Sean Carroll. And this happened...
[...] I think one has to give credits to Sean that he agreed to do this because the vast majority of physicists would have chickened out. And honestly, Sean did a pretty good job.
Yes, Eric's work is far from complete [...] he doesn't have tangible predictions.
But then Eric's only one person who wrote up some notes. If he had wasted some millions of tax money on hiring postdoc and writing papers about it, then he could have easily papered over these shortcomings just like everyone else in that area.
And this is why this pisses me off so much. Sean totally knows that most of his colleagues work on similarly flaky stuff. It just has been covered up by more working hours. The literature is full of papers without proper predictions, without Lagrangians, ill-defined operators or problems that will be solved in some future work that never comes.
Sean knows that everyone in the damn field knows that, but normally no one's saying anything about it because they're all tied up in the same scam.
Unless the person who comes up with the idea is Eric Weinstein, in which case, it's suddenly hugely offensive and everyone starts yelling...
[...] Eric's ideas are as remarkable as the ideas of thousands of other people ... I think what's really happening here is that a lot of people who work in the foundations of physics are very afraid that Eric is exposing how rotten their entire field is. This is why they're trying hard to discredit him.
But the truth is that Eric's idea isn't any better or worse than all the other crap they're working on. The only difference is that he hasn't wasted as much of your tax money on it...
Physicists are afraid of Eric Weinstein -- and they should be ... https://youtu.be/KiFYcuoK490
