Is Edward Witton the tour de force he's made out to be? He's been describes him as the intellectual version of Voldemort, Agent Smith, and Michael Jordan (if only Jordan could play better basketball). A man whose intellect is so staggering that mere "geniuses" should cower in fear in his presence and dare not mention his name or look him in the eye. The second smartest man in history would have his mind explode like a microwaved egg if he tried to comprehend what Witton was preaching.I'm not a blasphemer, but it seems kind of odd that a veritable God amongst men failed to come up with a single idea that had real world consequences and lead to some tangible advancement in technology.Obviously I'm not smart enough to "get it", but I considered myself a Science believer. I'm concerned about my lack of faith.>timestamped vid of Eric Weinstein spreading the gospelhttps://youtu.be/h7CJoGKvx3U?si=WI8oiWCyZTT7MwbV&t=2869
>>16826574His actual contributions that aren’t mumbo jumbo speculations are all mathematics. Mostly differential geometry, but also some group theory and algebraic geometry here and there. He is neither a top physicist (because his work isn’t even physics aside from (classical) GR stuff he did in the late 90s) nor a top differential geometer (eg Atiyah contributed more).
>>16826578Did he come up with any fundamental mathematical theorems that have applications beyond playing string theory?
>>16826588No
>>16826591Layman here, what did this guy actually do? It sounds like he just talked a bunch of incomprehensible highfalutin nonsense, and everyone went along with it cause they didn't want to look stupid.
>>16826588Coming up with theorems is easy, proving them is what's actually hard. And yes, he jointly proved the positive energy theorem for which he got the Fields medal. >Richard Schoen and Shing-Tung Yau, in 1979 and 1981, were the first to give proofs of the positive mass theorem. Edward Witten, in 1982, gave the outlines of an alternative proof, which were later filled in rigorously by mathematicians. Witten and Yau were awarded the Fields medal in mathematics in part for their work on this topic.Notice how he didn't even bother writing up an actual proof, but got the award nonetheless. Him being Jewish and having an MIT daddy professor have nothing to do with this of course. But to play devil's advocate, his proof is conceptually simpler.Anyways, he also worked on knot invariants and I remember stumbling upon some weird paper of his where some geometric construction ends up having the Monster group as its symmetry group. But yeah, he's neither a rigorous mathematician nor an actual physicist.
>>16826596>he also worked on knot invariantsngl, it reminds me of the scene from Alien where the Bonus Situation guys are coming up with excuses to drag their feet so they can keep fucking the dog on the clock, or Star Trek engineering bay gibberish to string the audience along>we need to tesselate the dilithium plasma variance through the quantum manifold duct>it'll just take another $50 billion dollars and 70 years
>>16826602>I am ignorant of this topic, guys, hahaha isn't that funnyundeniably American post
just track his most cited papershttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Z-EXYCkAAAAJ&hl=en
>>16826610Citations are good, if it's not just a circle jerk. How many patents/technologies/inventions have come about from the work of the intellectual GOAT and his acolytes? 1/∞?
>>16826617let me clarify. his most cited paper is just piggybacking off maldacena.
>>16826618this niggas the biggest fraud in the history of physics
>>16826574https://discord.gg/WVSrCXUF
>>16826574>[YouTube] Joe Rogan Experience #1945 - Eric Weinstein>Jew spends an hour glazing his tribal elder without explaining anything other than how insanely smart they Academia in a nutshell.
>>16826574Despite how much of an autist and grifter he is, it's really enjoyable to hear Eric Weinstein talk about other mathematicians and physicists. It's something you very rarely hear unless you're talking one-on-one with other professors.
