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Eric Weinstein & Dan Green: Can New Physics Be Tested? (#299)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

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How to Learn to Speak the Way We Do

I think there are plenty of people who throw away literally all the physics and they go, I don't want to be constrained by the structures of physics. And it really hurts their careers because they don't even understand basic physics which stops them from being able to make meaningful progress. If you can't explain what we already understand, you can't extend the structure in new and interesting ways. It's often the case that people make huge breakthroughs because they don’t understand the errors of a previous generation. So like most mutations in biology lead to things getting far worse rather than better. Watson fact has weight as was shown by Paul Minairev.

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