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SEPT 2023 UPDATE: Special thank you to Eric Weinstein as without his research, most of us wouldn’t know about this topic. Thank you, Eric. I apologize for not putting your name in the video. Thanks man.
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THANK YOU:
Thank you to David Kaiser, Eric Weinstein, Jeremy Rys, David Chester, and Jesse Michels for helping bring this to my attention.
LINKS MENTIONED:
– The Price of Gravity (Kaiser, Rickles): https://web.mit.edu/dikaiser/www/HSNS4803_03_Kaiser.pdf
– Chapel Hill Conference’s Report (The Role of Gravitation in Physics): https://edition-open-sources.org/media/sources/5/Sources5.pdf
– Behind the scenes of the 1957 Chapel Hill Conference: https://royalsoc.org.au/images/pdf/journal/154-2-Rickles.pdf
– Gell-Mann’s Shelter Island Notes: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/files/Gell-Mann_ShelterIslandII_1983.pdf
– Louis Witten’s Recollections (video): https://youtu.be/iH8btReqv4c?t=6448
– Louis Witten speaks to Rickles: https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/36985
– Physical Interpretation of Antigravity by Bars: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.05128.pdf
– Garry Nolan’s podcast on TOE: https://youtu.be/g3bk1UXjKLI
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 – Roger Babson & Agnew Banhson
00:07:09 – Gravity Research Foundation’s “Essay Contest”
00:12:22 – Anti-gravity and Amendments to General Relativity
00:16:43 – Operation Moonwatch and UFOs
00:18:36 – Ed Witten’s father (Louis) and Burkhard Heim
00:25:43 – Summary
00:26:32 – Chapel Hill Conference
00:27:58 – Revival of General Relativity (Hawking & Penrose)
00:30:44 – String Theory and the Legacy of Babson & Banhson
00:33:01 – Dean Rickles, David Kaiser, and Other Documentaries
CLARIFICATIONS:
– Technically it was George S. Trimble who started the RIAS. Witten’s supervisor was someone named Welcome Bender. I had this in the original script but it was becoming extortionately bloated with various names, and since Trimble was the CEO of Glenn Martin, I decided to phrase it the way I did in the script.