Michio Kaku Is Out Of Control. Eric Weinstein on the Joe Rogan Experience

why during the 1950sdid something happen that resulted in a70-yearstagnation in a field called quantumgravity quantum gravity is like astartup that cannot ship a product after70 yearsand it's still taken over in theoreticalphysics as sort of The Prestige Theoryfieldand quantum gravity is is there anapplication for this that they wereattempting to achieve it's not aprecursor to technology so far as weknow but what happened was quantumgravity was a replacement for somethingthat used to be known as the unifiedfield so Einstein wasn't chasing quantumgravity he was chasing unified fieldtheory that fell out of favor unifiedfield Theory becomes sort of like a jokeold-timey expression for the future ofphysics and we substituted quantumgravity for the merger of quantum theoryone field Theory quantum mechanics andgravitational physics under generalrelativity how is it that the fieldbecame convincedthat something which clearly doesn'tseem to work and has had all of theresources all of the best Minds at itsdisposal it sucks up everything and itit just doesn't work to be specific likehow many people are working on thisproblem and how many people have beenworking on this problem for 70 yearswithout progress I would say that theperiod between 1953 and 73 there areparallel things quantum gravity is notthe mainstream at all okay so realphysics is happening between 53 and 73by anybody's understanding of it okayone single individual who is the mostdominant mind on planet Earth at themomenteffectively Voldemort the person whosename we are a little bit afraid toinvoke and and cause Wrathsaid in 1984. now string theory is theway this anomaly cancellation wasunexpected and it clearly points to thefact that we are ladies and gentlemen weare about to quantize who's that personEdward Whittonand in physics circles you're notallowed to bring this guy up oh we talkabout him everybody talks about him butto challenge himthink about agent Smiththink about playing one-on-one withMichael Jordan in his primehe's not good Joe I don't think I'm dumbenough not to be intellectually afraidof anyone else on planet Earth at thispointI am terrified of this person reallyand has never made a contact with thephysical worldso it's like one of the greatestconundrums so so let me get back to howcrazy you mean by never made contact noNobel Prize never predicted somethingthat turned out to be true never pointedus to do an experiment that wasinvalidated so a hundred percent of hisefforts have been not making contactwith physical reality oh this isI'm sorry like you have people likeMichio Kaku who are in the stringtheoretic School Sean Carroll is verysympathetic to it you need to understandthis story 1957 conference at theUniversity of North Carolina Chapel Hillone of the most eminent mathematicianphysicists guy was first Wrangler atCambridge was a guy named Herman Bondian Austrian I think mathematician in hispaper is about negative mass in generalrelativityif you have two masses in general theyalways attract each othergravitationallybut what if somehow you had a differentkind of mass that was negative just likeyou could have negative and positivechargesoddly the negative mass is stillattracted just the same way to thepositive masses if it there was nodifference but the positive mass isalways repelled so you get this weirdsolution where the negative Mass chasesthe positive mass and they go off tolike you know unbounded accelerationso Bondi was thinking about why is itthat we've got these artificialconditions in general relativity whichwe impose by hand they're not the samebeautiful marble that Einstein used forhis field equations but we throw someextra crappy stuff in called positivityconditions to stop general relativityfrom giving us Madnessso Bondi started asking the questionmaybe we shouldn't maybe what you thinkof is madness has meaningand this is whythis this conference which is aConfluence of the two families thewittens and the dewitts with Feynman andWheeler and all of these unbelievablecharacters in attendanceis this pivotal strange experience isthat people are smoking the ganjaon extending general relativity toplaces that it's never been extended andthe highbrow version of this doesn'twork and the lowbrow version of thisdoesn't work so far as we know the lowbrow version is called pseudoscientificanti-gravity gravity shieldingelectrogravidicsgravity Dynamicsthe highbrow version of this is calledquantum gravityand all the most respectable people arein it and it doesn't work and you can'tsay why are we doing this if it doesn'tworkwhy can't I say edwinton's great but hemade a terrible blunder David Grossshould David Gross and Ed Whitton shouldbe in front of the community explainingwhy did you take all the smartest peopleall the resources all the attentionMichio Kaku get Michio kako in here withmeMichio Kaku is out of controlSean Carroll is covering up for this aswellin what waythey are too kind Brian Green like I hadthis interchange with Brian Greene whereI said you knowwerenot being honestabout the failure of string theory andBrian's like oh well maybe we were alittle bit exuberant and I could blurtout Institute for arts and ideas Iblurred outthat's like saying milaimilai was irrational exuberance no youput a lot of people's careers in the inthe shredder in order to have thisquantum gravity experiment which is likeyou know the people bowing and prayingto this thing that doesn't workthe dog doesn't hunt and anybody whoquestions it is a crackpot I'm done withthis Joe like you want to come at me andsay Eric doesn't know what he's talkingabout I'm debating physicists I'lldebate anybody with the possibleconception of Ed Whitton who stillscares me but I'll probably debate himtooin open Forum we have got to purgethe physics community of its quackeryand the quackery is coming from the highPrestige version of this the highPrestige version of anti-gravity iscalled quantum gravity and it justdoesn't workthey've crawled into the map the prisonbuilt by Einstein and they know thatit's not rightbecause there are these twosingularities there's this Singularityat the beginning of time which we callthe big bangassuming the time we're one dimensionaland it's part of something called theFriedman Robertson Walker space-timemodeland there's another one at the bottom ofthe black hole called The schwarzgledSingularity and the fact that space andtime Kink at these two points is anindication that we have something wrongto a mathematician or a physicist itsays your equations work pretty wellright up into the point where there'ssome error that you have that you don'tunderstand and you have like a divisionby zero errorand if you could figure out your erroryou don't know what sin you committedbut the way that you know you committeda sin is that you have a singularity sothey know that there's some successorTheory and they'll give lectures aboutspace-time is doomed and I'm going totalk about non-commutative geometry butthese are all ways of avoiding the factthat you haven't done your homework for50 years okayso like there's some class that you'resupposed to show up to and you haven'tbeen in a long time you don't want toshow up and suddenly say what what'sgoing onumthat's what's happening they are livinginside of Einstein's model So when yousay something they'll say well that'simpossiblebecause you can't go faster than thespeed of light it's like that's aspace-time concept that's an einsteiningconcept you're not thinking posteinsteining you're not thinking aboutrecovering Einstein or Einstein is whatwe would call an effective Theory you'rethinking that you really live inspace-time so you know what you can doand then you fold your arms and say wellthat's impossible[Music]foreign