Discussing Eric Weinstein's Physics Views: Caveats & Qualifications

[hyksos]

(Some opening caveat emptors and qualifications : This thread should not be interpreted by the moderators as promotion of Eric Weinstein, his views, or his writings. I hope that this thread will therefore not be immediately locked by moderators.)

I made this thread because PBS Spacetime ( a channel I love) has recently given a platform to Weinstein by inviting him on as a guest on a live podcast. He was not the sole guest, however, but brought on with a group of others. (Hossenfelder, Smolin)

I invite anyone to leave their comments, criticisms, or other thoughts about Eric Weinstein and his behavior in regards to physics.

 

[Evo]

If he gets his ideas published in a reputable journal, we can discuss at that time. Right now

In May 2013, Weinstein gave a colloquium talk, Geometric Unity, promoted by Marcus du Sautoy as a potential unified theory of physics, an event covered by The Guardian.[11][12] His unpublished theory includes an "observerse," a 14-dimensional space, and predictions for undiscovered particles which he stated could account for dark matter. Joseph Conlon of the University of Oxford stated that some of these particles, if they existed, would already have been detected in existing accelerators such as the Large Hadron Collider.[13]

Few physicists attended and no preprint, paper, or equations were published.[14] Weinstein's ideas were not widely debated. The few that did engage expressed skepticism.[13][15] Science writer Jennifer Ouellette criticized the promotion of Weinstein's colloquium in an article for Scientific American, arguing that the ideas could not be properly vetted by experts because there was no published paper.[16]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Weinstein#Physics

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