Eric Weinstein: Theories of Everything, Geometric Unity & Science’s Paths. Into the Impossible (#048)
Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
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The Importance of Imagination
Einstein famously said imagination is more important than knowledge. But of course there's the you know greater possible abstract space of possibly true theories or possibly true laws of nature than actually true. The key point was why did Einstein know what he was doing when Einstein and Grossman appeared I think in 1913, which is vaguely said the answer is something like a linear expression in the Riemann curvature tensor equal to the stress then he gets it wrong. He kept correcting it. And this is physics bowing down to history and sociology of science.
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