TIMESTAMPS:
– 00:00:00 Introduction
– 00:00:00 String theory’s fundamental issues | Mathematicians’ challenges
– 00:02:20 Spacetime and twistor theory insights
– 00:20:00 Bundles & diffeomorphism groups
– 00:38:34 Spinors as a spacetime point
– 00:46:57 Dominance of string theory & Ed Witten’s influence
– 00:54:17 Quest for quantum gravity
– 01:03:22 String theory’s lack of predictive power
– 01:09:33 Machine learning meets theoretical physics
– 01:18:56 Personal attacks vs. intellectual debate
– 01:24:49 Mathematicians vs. Physicists | Academic silos
– 01:37:15 Developing a contrarian view & the origin of ‘Not Even Wrong’
– 01:40:54 Langlands & representation theory
– 01:48:51 Spacetime is NOT doomed
– 01:58:47 Sean Carroll’s crisis in physics (odd responses to criticism)
– 02:13:21 Differentiable structures by dimension
– 02:26:10 Gravi-weak unification & chirality
– 02:32:57 Chern-Simons theory
– 02:42:20 Gravity as torsion or curvature
– 02:50:07 Category theory in physics
– 02:56:43 Defining a fulfilling life
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LINKS MENTIONED:
– Not Even Wrong (Peter Woit’s Blog): https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress
– Not Even Wrong (Peter Woit’s Book): https://amzn.to/40NFeaK
– Spacetime is Right-Handed (Peter Woit’s Article): https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/righthanded.pdf | https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress
– Podcast w/ Edward Frankel: https://youtu.be/n_oPMcvHbAc
– The Elegant Universe (Brian Greene): https://amzn.to/3sNmk7x
– The Trouble With Physics (Lee Smolin): https://amzn.to/47lCCUj
– Podcast w/ Sabina Hossenfelder on TOE: https://youtu.be/walaNM7KiYA
– Podcast w/ Stephon Alexander Part 1: https://youtu.be/VETxb96a3qk
– Podcast w/ Stephon Alexander Λ Sal Pais: https://youtu.be/PE4C7OI7Frg
– Podcast w/ Eric Weinstein: https://youtu.be/KElq_MLO1kw
– Podcast w/ Stephen Wolfram Part 1: https://youtu.be/1sXrRc3Bhrs
– Podcast w/ Stephen Wolfram Part 2: https://youtu.be/xHPQ_oSsJgg
– Podcast w/ Jonathan Oppenheim: https://youtu.be/NKOd8imBa2s