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American podcaster (born 1965)
Eric Ross Weinstein (; born October 26, 1965)
[2] is an American
podcast host.
[a] He was a managing director for
Thiel Capital (an American
hedge fund ) from 2013 until 2022. He has a PhD in
mathematical physics from
Harvard .
[3]
[1]
[4]
[5]
Education
Weinstein received his PhD in
mathematical physics from
Harvard University in 1992 under the supervision of
Raoul Bott .
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9]
[10]
[11] In his dissertation, "Extension of Self-Dual Yang-Mills Equations Across the Eighth Dimension", Weinstein showed that the
self-dual Yang–Mills equations were not peculiar to dimension four and admitted generalizations to higher dimensions.
[12]
Career
Physics
Weinstein was invited to a colloquium by mathematician
Marcus du Sautoy at
Oxford University 's
Clarendon Laboratory in May 2013.
[13] There he presented his ideas on a
theory of everything called 'Geometric Unity'. Physicists expressed skepticism about the theory.
[13]
[14] Joseph Conlon of Oxford stated that some of the predicted particles would already have been detected in existing accelerators such as the
Large Hadron Collider .
[13] Science writer
Jennifer Ouellette criticized the colloquium in a blog for
Scientific American , arguing that experts could not properly evaluate Weinstein's ideas because there was no published paper.
[15]
On April 1, 2021, Weinstein released a draft paper on Geometric Unity in a guest appearance on the podcast
The Joe Rogan Experience . Weinstein qualified in his paper that he "is not a physicist," but an "entertainer" and podcast host. It received strong criticism from some in the scientific community. Timothy Nguyen, whose PhD thesis intersects with Weinstein's work,
[b] said what Weinstein has presented so far has "gaps, both mathematical and physical in origin" that "jeopardize Geometric Unity as a well-defined theory, much less one that is a candidate for a theory of everything."
[17]
Weinstein is a member of the research team on
The Galileo Project headed by
Avi Loeb .
[18]
Intellectual dark web
Weinstein coined the term "
intellectual dark web " and named himself and his brother as members after his brother
Bret Weinstein resigned from
Evergreen State College , in response to a 2017 campus controversy.
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Notes
^ Weinstein has not posted any podcast episodes since November 2020
^ Nguyen, who is a machine learning researcher at Google AI, co-authored a detailed paper with Theo Polya as a response
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References
^
a
b McClurg, Lesley (May 7, 2015).
"Let's Talk About Death Over Dinner" .
NPR . Retrieved February 1, 2019 .
^ Weinstein, Eric [@EricRWeinstein] (October 26, 2020).
"Midway through my 55th birthday. Still no sign of a personal "I can't turn 55." message from @sammyhagar ...despite obvious hinting earlier in the day. Still, any day that starts with wine tasting can't be all bad..." (
Tweet ). Retrieved October 26, 2020 – via
Twitter .
^
"Eric Weinstein Says He Solved the Universe's Mysteries. Scientists Disagree" . www.vice.com .
^ Illing, Sean (August 20, 2017).
"Why capitalism can't survive without socialism" .
Vox . Retrieved July 2, 2018 .
^
Eric Weinstein on
LinkedIn
^
Eric Weinstein at the
Mathematics Genealogy Project
^ Tu, Loring W., ed. (2018).
"Raoul Bott: Collected Papers, Volume 5" .
Notices of the American Mathematical Society . Contemporary Mathematicians.
Birkhäuser : 47.
ISBN
978-3-319-51781-0 . Retrieved April 14, 2020 .
^
"PhD Dissertations Archival Listing" . Harvard Mathematics Department . Retrieved April 14, 2020 .
^ Weinstein, Eric [@EricRWeinstein] (February 19, 2021).
"So, in part, I'm their collaboration. Raoul was not my advisor. He had no real idea what I was doing. But he was far more than that. Is was my shtarker. My ace in the hole. They worked as a team to help me; their failure to talk directly was the main clue I had of anything amiss" (
Tweet ). Retrieved March 10, 2023 – via
Twitter .
^
"Eric Weinstein's Harvard Story - The System Breaks Down in Novel Situations" . AI Podcast Clips . Retrieved March 10, 2023 .
^
"#1945 - Eric Weinstein" .
The Joe Rogan Experience . February 22, 2023. Retrieved March 10, 2023 .
^ Beaulieu, Laurent; Kanno, Hiroaki; Singer, I. M. (1998). "Special Quantum Field Theories in Eight And Other Dimensions". Communications in Mathematical Physics . 194 (1): 149–175.
arXiv :
hep-th/9704167 .
Bibcode :
1998CMaPh.194..149B .
doi :
10.1007/s002200050353 .
ISSN
0010-3616 .
S2CID
3238703 .
^
a
b
c Pontzen, Andrew (May 24, 2013).
"Weinstein's theory of everything is probably nothing" .
New Scientist . Retrieved June 2, 2013 .
^ Aron, Jacob (June 2013). "How to test Weinstein's provocative theory of everything". New Scientist . 218 (2920): 10.
doi :
10.1016/s0262-4079(13)61403-7 .
ISSN
0262-4079 .
^ Ouellette, Jennifer.
"Dear Guardian: You've Been Played" . Scientific American Blog Network . Archived from
the original on February 10, 2021. Retrieved January 11, 2020 .
^
"Geometric Unity" . Timothy Nguyen . August 4, 2021. Retrieved February 23, 2023 .
^ Ongweso Jr, Edward (April 12, 2021).
"Eric Weinstein Says He Solved the Universe's Mysteries. Scientists Disagree" . Vice .
^
"Eric Weinstein" . projects.iq.harvard.edu . Retrieved January 28, 2024 .
^
Phillips, Melanie (May 23, 2018).
" 'Intellectual Dark Web' leads fightback against academic orthodoxy" .
The Australian . Archived from
the original on June 17, 2018. Retrieved June 16, 2018 .
^ Svrluga, Susan; Heim, Joe (June 1, 2017).
"Threat shuts down college embroiled in racial dispute" .
The Washington Post . Retrieved July 1, 2018 .
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