Do we need to abandon Einstein? | Eric Weinstein and George Ellis go head to head on wormholes
Publicado 2023-10-14
This was taken from the debate 'Down the wormhole,' which was filmed at the HowTheLightGetsIn festival in Hay-on-Wye, Wales in May of 2023.
Watch the full debate at iai.tv/video/down-the-wormhole?utm_source=YouTube&…
At the highest speeds of current rockets, it would take more than 100,000 years to reach the nearest star. For Hollywood and the many who want to believe in the possibility of space travel across the galaxy, the solution is wormholes, swirly tubes that allow us to cross vast tracts of the universe and time in a magical jump. Compatible with Einstein's theories, scientists have been reported to have even created them. But critics claim this is false, arguing that we have no evidence for such a thing. The experiment was a simulation of a wormhole and was not real. And even if holes in space time existed travel along them would be impossible.
Should we accept that wormholes are an invention we want to believe but for which there is no evidence? Should we reluctantly conclude that space travel to habitable planets is never going to take place and we will always be alone in the universe? Or is it just possible that our sci-fi imaginings will successfully drive invention?
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Eric Weinstein is a mathematical physicist and the host of the podcast The Portal. He is the former Managing Director of Thiel Capital in San Francisco and was formerly a Co-Founder and Principal of the Natron Group in Manhattan as well as a Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford University in the Mathematical Institute.
George Ellis is a distinguished professor at University of Cape Town in South Africa. He co-authored 'The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time' with physicist Stephen Hawking, and is considered one of the world's leading theorists in cosmology.
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Do you think we should abandon Einstein? Let us know in the comments below! To watch the full debate, visit iai.tv/video/down-the-wormhole?utm_source=YouTube&…
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Eric's point is that if you want the NEXT Einstein, you gotta break free! Imagine if Albert had only held to Newton?
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Einsteins work is valuable as is Newtons. We do need to break out of Einsteins paradigm, and be serious about it. I imagine Einstein would be the first to agree.
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Unwritten rule of journalism: If the headline is a question, the answer is no.
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After all, it was Einstein who said "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
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Eric is at the height of his game here.
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Love George Ellis 🇿🇦
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The diagrams I have seen of a worm hole display a 2 d grid...and it would seem reasonable however how can you get a worm hole using a 3 d grid?
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I think Eric is in the right century, in 3D mapping a new way was found 4 months ago called Gaussian Scatter using A.I a week ago it’s up to Gaussian Scatter 2.0. The adaptive value of breaking current understandings in order to pursue new ones is obvious.
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too bad we couldn't watch the whole thing here.
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0:15 355/113 is very noteworthy fraction that gets REALLY WEIRDLY close to pi
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I've always imagined wormholes and quantum entanglement behaving similarly to magnetic flux but in reality they're most likely entirely different physical phenomena
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Very droll. Like the entertaining aspect of the argument, specifically the way it is edited. Good thing too that is was short ; )
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The question is valid: proof Einstein wrong. He would be very proud.
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Well since we're talking about this, how about we look at the flawed determinant of the metric tensor in GR. The determinant of a square matrix can be described in terms of its trace powers alone. Trace powers are found be taking the kth power of a matrix and finding its trace. In differential geometry, the concepts of both finding the kth power of a tensor and finding its trace only make sense for rank-2 mixed index tensors. The metric tensor is covariant though, and finding its determinant is a nonsense operation in GR which is fundamentally inconsistent with the rest of the theory. Either it must have no impact, or GR has a serious flaw. Maybe this is where we should look for the flaw in this potentially effective theory.
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@1:12 the guy sitting second counted from right actually has his own youtube channel, forgot the name though... PBS something.
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wow i enjoyed waiting a full day to watch the premier of a six minute clip. at least give us a full 10. you think you'll lose money of you do? you will not lol
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Sooo excited!!
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The general theory of relativity is a great mathematical model that describes the mechanics of the universe up to a certain degree I think it is pretty close to perfect but in the very long interstellar distances it is not enough to describe gravity
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This is exactly how I feel about modern music
