Unfortunately, the incentive system within academia is such that we don’t get to ask ourselves, “Does this need to be pubished?” We have to ask ourselves instead, “Could this possibly be published?”. All that is required of a theory is that is describes, explain some aspect of physical realty, and makes testable predictions that are original to it. He's wicked smart. Also not surprising was the second response. Very valid points. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Once the paper is out, which of these two explanations is correct will probably be crystal clear in retrospect. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. If the physicists didn’t know about Thursday’s lecture (for whatever reason), that might explain why we did not see any expert commentary at that point. My initial prior was also, “Almost certainly a load of hooey.” However, a number of people, some of whom I know and whose judgment I trust, have assured me that Eric is really, really smart, and that he’s serious. Update update (5/30): see also the update at the end of section 2, below.]. Exactly. But this is a lousy case study to illustrate this point, at least right now. That seems like a huge theoretical advance. The few that did engage expressed skepticism. So, I stand by the argument that there is nothing wrong with giving a lecture on material before any sort of preprint or outline is available. You offer the excuse that at conferences many folks present work and results that aren’t yet published. Don’t actually write anything that could be shown to be wrong. Subscribers get more award-winning coverage of advances in science & technology. I’m a Bayesian, and my prior is that folks making claims in a field where they haven’t published, haven’t produced a manuscript and have only discussed the ideas with a few others, well my prior is that it is likely a load of hooey. Your BS-detector is probably right (and honestly, it’s probably not sensitive enough), and this isn’t likely to be the next great revolution in our understanding of the Universe. Andrew Pontzen, a cosmologist at Oxford, wrote a piece in the New Scientist titled “Weinstein’s Theory of Everything is Probably Nothing.” Jennifer Ouellette wrote a blog post at Scientific American titled “Dear Guardian: You’ve Been Played.” PZ Myers writes simply that “This is not science.”. Physicists and mathematicians in the area! http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_23430541/stanford-x-ray-reveals-long-lost-notes-historic?nstrack=sid:6565041|met:0000300|cat:0|order:3&/?source=dailyme, All happy averages are alike. New Scientist acknowledges this is not true and regrets any embarrassment caused. Sure. However, in my experience, people being invited to give lectures on the basis of their connections seems to account for about 70% of academic lectures. But this proposal gained particular attention for the fact that Eric Weinstein is not a Physics professor. The remainder of my piece stands."] Every talk doesn’t have to have a draft paper available, but a talk like this one does. Update: See Jennifer Ouellette for a critical take on the Guardian coverage. I'll tell you what happened: the Guardian was seduced by the narrative offered by a man who, in his dual post as Simonyi professor for the public understanding of science, has proved himself to be highly adept at manipulating the media. Along the lines of “Who’s this guy?” there is another story: “The stereotype, outmoded though it is, is that new mathematical discoveries emerge from the minds of dewy young geniuses. He and his brother Bret Weinstein coined the term Intellectual Dark Web to refer to an informal group of pundits. Roll over Einstein: meet Weinstein by Alok Jha. One of the measurable predictions of Hirsch's theory is a change in the coefficient of sliding friction when a material enters it's superconducting state. The other lesson is for me and my colleagues in academia – and I say this as someone who on most days takes an elevator to his office in an Ivory Tower, as it were – we should be more inclusive and more open to ideas which come from outside the standard channels of academia, and we’ll be better off for it.”, Umm, okay. Weinstein's ideas were not widely debated. (Some opening caveat emptors and qualifications : This thread should not be interpreted by the moderators as promotion of Eric Weinstein, his views, or his writings. Who doesn't thrill to the idea of an obscure unknown genius toiling away in the shadows, snubbed by the stuffy, closed-minded academic establishment, who defies the odds and manages to achieve what all those brilliant scholars failed to do, thereby ensuring his or her scientific immortality? It's closer to irritation. In an ideal world, your work should not get treated with kid gloves just because you’re a non-academic, just as you should not get special treatment by virtue of having a prestigious professorship. In it, he waxes enthusiastic at length about the beauty of Weinstein’s theory, how the theory, if correct, is much more elegant than the standard model, with certain constants and masses emerging naturally out of the theory, rather than having to be added on in an ad hoc manner. 6 hours ago — Scott Barry Kaufman | Opinion, 9 hours ago — Stephen J. Ceci and Wendy M. Williams | Opinion, 10 hours ago — Rachel Bluth and Kaiser Health News, 12 hours ago — Smriti Mallapaty and Nature magazine, October 24, 2020 — Carolyn Barber | Opinion. I love a good story! Guess we wont see any hype after tommorow’s lecture either. D. who has been working as an economist in New York. While we know that electrons, the fundamental electric charge carriers exist, evidence seems to indicate that magnetic monopoles, the particles that would carry magnetic 'charge', either don't exist, or, the energies required to create them are so high that they are exceedingly rare. That turns out not to be true: du Sautoy did send an email to the Oxford physics department, which ended up not being widely seen for some reason.
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