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On 21/09/2024 19:40, Brett wrote:
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>> On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:29:31 -0000 (UTC), Brett wrote:
>>
>>> Quantum mechanics is high IQ bullshit to make professors look important.
>>
>> Quantum mechanics is real. Quantum effects are real. Transistors only work
>> because electrons can “tunnel” through a barrier with higher energy than
>> they have, which should be classically impossible.
> 
> I did not criticize quantum effects, I criticized quantum mechanics which
> is dumbshit SWAG that hides the truth of what is happening behind bullshit.
> With greater understanding we can come up with classical explanations, but
> those truths are too scary and could lead to the destruction of mankind.
> 
> If you want to know what is really going on watch the Eric Weinstein The
> Portal videos.
> 
> https://youtu.be/xBx5Y1YLfZY?si=0sVFmvOh-bot2ok7
> 
> Eric is a scary bright physicist, he does not know the truth, but he knows
> it’s being hidden, and he shows you.
> 
> “You can’t handle the truth.”
> 
> https://youtu.be/9FnO3igOkOk?si=0xmQuxz6yaLnBkCC
> 
> I don’t know the truth either, and if I did I would not speculate on it,
> too dangerous.
> 
> https://www.amazon.com/Experts-Vs-Conspiracy-Theorists-T-Shirt/dp/B0CKLLCN9M/ref=asc_df_B0CKLLCN9M
> 

In case anyone wants a safe link to information about this particular 
muppet, without Google thinking they are interested in loony conspiracy 
theories on the level of "birds don't exist", you can read about him at 
<https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Eric_Weinstein>.

"""
Repressed genius

For years as a mathematician he has said that he has some kind of theory 
of everything that will knock everyone out and overturn the field of 
physics, but he just can't publish it yet because the world isn't ready, 
and the information will only be suppressed.[6]

In 2020, Weinstein published his much-hyped Oxford lecture on his Theory 
of Geometric Unity.[7] It was met with silence and indifference among 
theoretical physicists and the scientific community at large.

On 1st April 2021, Weinstein released a draft of his paper online.[10] 
Given the 1st April release date and the author details on the cover 
page describing Weinstein as an "entertainer" and the paper itself as a 
"work of entertainment", it is unclear at this stage whether Geometrical 
Unity was an elaborate April Fools' Day Wikipedia prank all along.
"""

Rather than publishing his theories in peer-reviewed journals, like real 
scary bright physicists, he promoted his views on Joe Rogan's podcast. 
And he described himself as "not a physicist" (he is a venture 
capitalist, not a scientist) and that the paper was "a work of 
entertainment".  That should give you some idea of how seriously his 
ideas should be taken.



Actual physicists know that quantum mechanics is not complete - it is 
not a "theory of everything", and does not explain everything.  It is, 
like Newtonian gravity and general relativity, a simplification that 
gives an accurate model of reality within certain limitations, and 
hopefully it will one day be superseded by a new theory that models 
reality more accurately and over a wider range of circumstances.  That 
is how science works.

As things stand today, no such better theory has been developed.  There 
are a number of ideas and hypotheses (still far from being classifiable 
as scientific theories) that show promise and have not yet been 
demonstrated to be wrong, but that's as far as we have got.  Weinstein's 
"Geometric Unity" is not such a hypotheses - the little that has been 
published has been shown to be either wrong, or "not even wrong".

It's fine to come up with strange new ideas about how the universe 
works.  You then publish and discuss those ideas, and work with other 
scientists to weed out the clearly incorrect parts, try to expand and 
modify it to fit what we know about reality, and to think about how it 
could make predictions that could be tested.  That's part of the process 
of science.

It's not fine to believe half-baked ramblings from someone who doesn't 
understand what they are working with and won't listen to those who do. 
The alternative to "I don't understand quantum mechanics" is /not/ to 
believe whatever gobbledegook someone spouts on youtube.