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Most "Theory of Everything" talk is wishful thinking in a lab coat.
I joined @missmayim to make the case: a Grand Unified Theory has to come first — and nature only rewards theories we can actually test. Elegance isn't evidence.
Full conversation: youtube.com/watch?v=IwFTWTbC…
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Michio Kaku just told 4 million people that dark matter is "the next octave" of 11-dimensional string theory.
Evidence for that claim: none.
Evidence for string theory's 11 dimensions? Also none.
He's the best communicator alive.
That's exactly why accuracy matters.
🪒New Keating's Razor: youtu.be/DN6z0dRd9qo
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The best evidence for string theory reality is that it produced a lot of string theorists.
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A Ball Fills 75% of a Square. In 1,000 Dimensions, It Fills 0.0001% | Terence Tao
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A Ball Fills 75% of a Square. In 1,000 Dimensions, It Fills 0.0001% | Terence Tao
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Jun 12
How much bigger is a trillion than a billion?
A million seconds ago: 12 days.
⇨ Your last paycheck
A billion seconds ago: 1994.
⇨ Average Birth Year of X User
A trillion seconds ago: 32,000 years ago
⇨ Before the last Ice Age.
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I disagree, but according to @neiltyson, @elonmusk’s business plans to go to Mars are “without precedent in the history of civilization” What do you think?
youtu.be/k2UtRlpWSEk
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Prof. Brian Keating retweeted
Most "Theory of Everything" talk is wishful thinking in a lab coat.
I joined @missmayim to make the case: a Grand Unified Theory has to come first — and nature only rewards theories we can actually test. Elegance isn't evidence.
Full conversation: youtube.com/watch?v=IwFTWTbC…
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I’ll never forget the day @elonmusk and I teamed up to become worth $500B on average!
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Jun 12
98% of Scientists Believe in Aliens — But Have Zero Evidence
Hugh Ross (@RTB_HRoss)
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Eisenhower’s warning about the “military-industrial complex” is famous, but his warning about scientific and technical elite was more prophetic.
He feared a world in which universities and researchers would become structurally dependent on government money, such that contracts and funding priorities would begin to substitute for intellectual curiosity. He also warned of the mirror-image danger: that public policy itself could become captive to a scientific-technological elite.
In plain English, he worried both that politics would distort science, and that science, or at least credentialed technocracy, would distort politics. That feels more relevant than ever to me.
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Jun 11
Without looking it up, what’s the longest American English word with only one vowel?
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Jun 11
Curiosity, and the lack thereof, killed Schrödinger's cat.
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I need help from you, my genius audience!
To celebrate hitting a huge milestone, I’m taking questions from you, my beloved friends.
Click here to submit them. Ask me anything!
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Taken from my Monday M.A.G.I.C. Message ⇨ Subscribe here: substack.com/@drbriankeating
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The internet so badly wants this to be alien technology. But in some ways, it's better than that. It's an alien chemistry stockroom, delivered free to our doorstep by 3I/ATLAS.
A methane-rich post-perihelion outburst tells you about formation temperature and burial depth in a protoplanetary disk we'll never visit.
That's the real story, but since it requires zero dead scientists, government coverups, or conspiracy, it'll probably be ignored.
🪨 Source: science.nasa.gov/blogs/3iatl…
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