For about 85% of this, I have no idea what he's talking about...but I want to...

[PaceAdvantage]

All those people out there smarter than me...a little help?

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[tucker6]

What I gathered from the first 10 minutes was that he is kooky, conspiracy minded, and uses too many metaphors. In my opinion, he connects dots to fit his world view rather than see all possibilities. For example, he says UFO sightings increased dramatically following the atom bombs, as if they may have attracted aliens. A simpler explanation is that the sightings increased due to the proliferation of tv and radio after the war which allowed for copycats and marketeers. A lot of new technology came about after WWII so it isn’t obvious where it started but I expect human nature to be at the bottom of it. Now as to flying around near the speed of light or exceeding it, while it is theoretically possible, it is practically impossible. To reach the speed of light would require an energy need beyond our global scale, and to bend space would require much more than that.

Just a guy using big ideas and words to hide how thin and tenuous his arguments are.

[Inner Dirt]

Originally Posted by tucker6

What I gathered from the first 10 minutes was that he is kooky, conspiracy minded, and uses too many metaphors. In my opinion, he connects dots to fit his world view rather than see all possibilities. For example, he says UFO sightings increased dramatically following the atom bombs, as if they may have attracted aliens. A simpler explanation is that the sightings increased due to the proliferation of tv and radio after the war which allowed for copycats and marketeers. A lot of new technology came about after WWII so it isn’t obvious where it started but I expect human nature to be at the bottom of it. Now as to flying around near the speed of light or exceeding it, while it is theoretically possible, it is practically impossible. To reach the speed of light would require an energy need beyond our global scale, and to bend space would require much more than that.

Just a guy using big ideas and words to hide how thin and tenuous his arguments are.

I 100% agree with all of the above. Not much to add other than a lot of physics is people arguing theories that cannot be proven or
disproven, it becomes like arguing religious beliefs. It always baffled me how many people raved over Stephen Hawking, I think it was the fact he was a big climate alarmists so he was endeared to the left.

[dnlgfnk]

The stuff about UFO's is a distraction, I think, from his goal of discovering a "Theory of Everything" (Geometric Unity). Curiously, according to my favorite physicist (despite her scientific reductionism which rejects free will, e.g.), he doesn't include our current fundamental theory of matter, Quantum Theory.

Here she enlists a major critic of Weinstein, Timothy Nguyen...

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/202...with-eric.html

...There is doubt within much of the scientific community of the existence of a "theory of everything". Won't keep him from trying.

[JustRalph]

Finally found time to watch it.

I’m really scared now because I understood about 90% of what he was saying……..

[PaceAdvantage]

Interesting commentary about SUNY Stony Brook....apparently, it has the greatest physics department ever made...not Harvard...not Yale....SUNY...LOL

Something is afoot...

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