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He published a GU paper a few months ago: https://geometricunity.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/Geometric_Unity-Draft-April-1st-2021.pdf https://geometricunity.nyc

He published a GU paper a few months ago: https://geometricunity.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/Geometric_Unity-Draft-April-1st-2021.pdf https://geometricunity.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/Geometric... (I haven’t read it, I’m not even remotely qualified.)

selectodude 5y ago
"*The Author is not a physicist and is no longer an active academician, but is an Entertainer and host of The Portal podcast. This work of entertainment is a draft of work in progress which is the property of the author and thus may not be built upon, renamed, or profited from without express permission of the author." Well, okay.
- okamiueru 5y ago
  The tell tale signs of a quack theory is hiding behind "it's for entertainment" legalese while portraying it as anything but. If only we could collectively agree to not make such an effort at giving these people megaphones.
  - weimerica 5y ago
    > The tell tale signs of a quack theory is hiding behind "it's for entertainment" More interesting and perfectly valid are his critiques of broken incentives in the Academic realm. Taking away his "megaphone" because of a flawed mathematical paper is something of an overcorrection.
  - lukifer 5y ago
    It's less "legalese" than Eric's open contempt for academic insiders, and tongue-in-cheek rebel spirit (he literally released it on April Fool's Day, on the premise of repurposing the holiday for outsider/heterodox proposals [0]). [0] https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/979379894978150400 https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/979379894978150400
agonz253 5y ago
Two mathematical physicists took the time to go through his talk on it and pointed out serious flaws with it, which the author didn't address in his paper and has gone on to ignore. [1] https://timothynguyen.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/geometric_unity.pdf https://timothynguyen.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/geometric_... [2] https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/special-episode-interview-with-tim-nguyen-on-geometric-unity https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/special-epis...

selectodude 5y ago

"*The Author is not a physicist and is no longer an active academician, but is an Entertainer and host of The Portal podcast. This work of entertainment is a draft of work in progress which is the property of the author and thus may not be built upon, renamed, or profited from without express permission of the author." Well, okay.

okamiueru 5y ago
The tell tale signs of a quack theory is hiding behind "it's for entertainment" legalese while portraying it as anything but. If only we could collectively agree to not make such an effort at giving these people megaphones.
- weimerica 5y ago
  > The tell tale signs of a quack theory is hiding behind "it's for entertainment" More interesting and perfectly valid are his critiques of broken incentives in the Academic realm. Taking away his "megaphone" because of a flawed mathematical paper is something of an overcorrection.
- lukifer 5y ago
  It's less "legalese" than Eric's open contempt for academic insiders, and tongue-in-cheek rebel spirit (he literally released it on April Fool's Day, on the premise of repurposing the holiday for outsider/heterodox proposals [0]). [0] https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/979379894978150400 https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/979379894978150400

agonz253 5y ago

Two mathematical physicists took the time to go through his talk on it and pointed out serious flaws with it, which the author didn't address in his paper and has gone on to ignore. [1] https://timothynguyen.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/geometric_unity.pdf https://timothynguyen.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/geometric_... [2] https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/special-episode-interview-with-tim-nguyen-on-geometric-unity https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/special-epis...