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Eric Weinstein addresses a recent controversy involving David Grush, clarifying that his comments about interdimensional space beings were misinterpreted and unfair to the physicist. While some observers claimed Grush endorsed the idea of holographic extraterrestrials based on discussions regarding physics beyond Einsteinian relativity, Weinstein insists this is absurdity rather than fact. He explains that Grush was attempting to illustrate concepts like manifolds and determinant line bundles using analogies such as holography, but these technical terms were taken out of context by lawmakers who failed to ask precise questions about the nature of a "Romanian manifold" or other advanced physics concepts. Consequently, when representatives later claimed confirmation from entities emerging in skiffs that aligned with Grush's vague statements, Weinstein argues this only proves that secrets are kept effectively within organizations too obscure for public search engines, rather than validating claims of alien visitation. The core argument shifts to the existence of a massive, long-running government program dedicated to maintaining secrecy around UFOs and related technologies. Weinstein posits two primary possibilities: either there is no credible proof of aliens or craft because they are using non-standard physics that defies current understanding, or these phenomena serve as an "extraterrestrial scapegoat" for various black budget special access programs (SAP). He suggests the latter scenario involves a one-size-fits-all cover story used to explain everything from retrieving enemy aircraft behind lines and testing new aerospace equipment to misleading rivals into misallocating resources on strategic countermeasures. This narrative allows governments to attribute unexplained phenomena to aliens, thereby protecting sensitive technologies or operations that might otherwise be scrutinized by the public or international adversaries like Russia, China, and Iran. Weinstein challenges the prevailing scientific consensus regarding how humanity could traverse the cosmos using standard physics, noting that current theories involving time dilation, wormholes, or generation ships seem impractical when observing the night sky without a viable method of travel. He highlights a 1971 declassified Australian intelligence document as significant evidence supporting his view, citing names like Freeman Dyson, John Archibald Wheeler, and Pascual Jordan working on anti-gravity in the 1950s and 60s under the assumption that physics had moved beyond Einsteinian relativity. This suggests a leap forward in technology potentially achieved through reverse-engineering advanced machinery from an unknown source rather than incremental self-created progress throughout the mid-20th century, though he admits this remains speculative due to the lack of direct proof regarding non-human intelligence involvement. Ultimately, Weinstein concludes that the field has become stagnant because humanity is trapped in a "straight jacket" formed by the Standard Model and General Relativity, which are so robust they leave no room for alternative theories or creative thinking about interdimensional travel. He emphasizes that if the universe allows for traversability through non-standard physics, it would not be surprising to find visitors here; however, since we cannot currently explain how anyone gets here using known science, the situation remains a profound mystery with huge consequences for human survival. The inability of scientists and theorists like Julian Barbour or Steven Wolfram to collaborate effectively on new theories further complicates the picture, leaving Weinstein as one of few individuals focused on whether these constraints can be broken before humanity faces an existential threat from whatever forces are operating beyond our current understanding.
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unless we can somehow channnel the
technology of interdimensional space
beings please never say those words hey
look the interdimensional space
interdimensional space beings David GES
didn't say extraterrestrial you said
interdimensional Yes But Eric Eric and
David talk and this is not fair to David
grush David grush knows that he's a
physics ba he knows he's not a PhD he's
repeating things that have been said to
him he had the presence of mind to try
to give an example of what
interdimensional might mean and he used
holography and so as a result everyone's
making oh David G says holographic
interdimensional
beings this is absurd and it's not fair
to David
grush I'm telling you I mean we can call
David up right now and I promise you
he's not going to back this madness and
stupidity so what's going on with this
most recent update about aliens which
one well I saw this frustration that
lawmakers had because they were getting
compartmentalized if you don't ask
precisely the right person precisely the
right question in precisely the right
right way you're not allowed to get an
answer you don't get an answer but you
couldn't even look if you don't know
what a Romanian manifold is if you don't
know what a determinant line bundle is
there's no way you can ask intelligent
questions about alien
visitation
how did they get
here there are no
scientists there are no relevant
scientists in this story does anybody
find that at all odd even this the
situation with David grush is fantastic
um he goes into a a hearing he says a
bunch of completely badshit crazy stuff
right can we agree on that all
right and then Weeks Later some
Representatives go into a skiff and they
say Well it certainly uh seems like it
confirms some of what grush has been
telling us and you're thinking okay so
you you've separated the
confirmation which you did abstractly
because it was inside of a skiff but you
you can only talk to people who've
emerged from the skiff who are willing
to say vague things and the crazy claims
now what is this really all about we
nobody knows now what I've been saying
for about four years is there's way more
to this story than I had understood I
thought UFOs were total nonsense I
thought this was a waste of
time and I was wrong I was just wrong
why what do you mean in what ways were
you wrong why are you now convinced in a
way that you weren't
previously well I didn't
know yeah I'm not convinced that UFOs
like shiny metal craft are real at all
what I didn't know is that there almost
certainly are large programs inside the
Federal federal government that are
denied that are labeled UFO sh don't
tell anyone now whether those programs
contain anything about non-human
intelligence or aliens or spacecraft or
anything like that is anyone's guess
because I haven't seen
anything however the programs almost
certainly
exist what gives you that impression
talking to four million people who tell
stunningly similar
stories in other words there is a
weirdness and the weirdness is
tremendous circumstantial evidence that
these programs exist have existed for a
long time and have involved
extraordinary uh in particular
physicists way back in the
day and on the other hand that there's
no credible proof that there are craft
or aliens or anything like that how do
you square that Circle how would you
look the coordination problem of all of
these people is
immense there's that but Secrets have
been kept more much more effectively
Than People
imagine say more I don't want
to no but I mean that there are
organizations that you cannot
Google there are organizations that have
clubhous and members that you cannot
Google
um so I know that secrets are
durable uh what we don't know is what
these secrets are
about
see let's create a decision tree which
is there are little green men shiny
spacecrafts and all this kind of cool
stuff and there aren't
okay if there aren't
what's the best explanation for why
there's so much energy and activity and
so many claims around this and I would
guess and again this is a this is a
guess and not a particularly good one
that there was a Clearing House program
for everything under the sun if we
needed to retrieve somebody else's plane
Behind Enemy
Lines we had a UFO cover story if we
were trying out new Aerospace equipment
we had a UFO cover story uh if we were
trying to get our Rivals to misspend
their uh precious treasure on weaponry
and strategic counter measures we had a
UFO cover
story um if we were up to no good we had
a UF cover story whatever all these
things are imagine there was a kitchen
SN approach and that's what UFOs are all
about it's about a black sap special
access program as waved and bigoted as
it could possibly be that
um basically was a one-size fits all uh
story for all it's an in
extraterrestrial scapegoat yeah an
extraterrestrial scapegoat program okay
now whatever that
is if you imagine that that leg of the
decision tree is real it's it's all very
funny because now you're like all these
people have taken it seriously but it
was the Russians and the Chinese and the
Iranians were're supposed to take it Ser
like iay on the UFO F you know it's like
people are going to blow this beautiful
cover story that we've created for
everything so that's one
possibility another possibility is that
we're on the other leg of the decision
tree and that we have no programming for
it and so everything about it seems
impossible what's what you said about
physics physics is science fiction the
physics that you just learned is almost
always about science
fiction what if you have um multiple
time dimensions and people can circle
around in time and if you find out about
them they can Circle back to the point
where you didn't know you have a
neuralizer built into the successor the
SpaceTime Is that real I don't know all
I know is that physics will always blow
your mind it will always do something
that seems impossible and that's one
that's why it's the coolest subject
around
now I don't know what's going on but I
can tell you that the circumstantial
evidence that there's been a program
that has been
um long running and involved very high
level
people it's almost impossible to imagine
that this is fake there's a 1971
Australian document from the uh
Australian intelligence service that has
been Declassified made public which
clears up all sorts of uh mysteries
about what was going on with physics in
the 1950s and 60s and it names names it
says that Freeman Dyson John archbald
Wheeler Pascal Jordan the
Nazi
um all of these
people were working on
anti-gravity and the only reason to be
working on anti-gravity was is that
there was reason to think that something
had gone beyond uh einsteinian
relativity in other words mostly we we
learn about physics from colliding you
know it's like breaking rocks together
you're going to smash two rocks and then
maybe you'll see a little spark and
you'll study that except we do it with
protons this would be like some
different thing where there was a more
advanced species and
you're looking at its Machinery to try
to figure out well what science does it
know that you don't how much truth do
you think is in that I've seen rumors on
the internet of leaps forward in
technology throughout the mid
1900s that people suggested was due to
reverse engineering of something that
had been discovered do you think that
the technology movements that we made
through the 1900s were self-created I'm
not clever enough to solve the UFO
puzzle there's almost no topic where I
can't generate multiple explanations
this is the only topic I've ever met
where I can't generate a single
explanation for what the hell's going
on nothing I can think up makes
sense look I'm very focused on this
because if if there are aliens here I I
might be the only guy who knows how
they're
here how
so I don't think it's practical to
Traverse the cosmos using general
relativity in the standard
model you can use time dilation you can
hope for wormholes you can imagine
generation ships there's a whole bunch
of stupid stuff that people talk about
when they talk about interdimensional
interdimensional travel and all this
kind of
nonsense why because they can see the
night sky and they can't get
there so you think okay in terms of the
science that I've seen Carl Sean
discussing or on Cosmos with Neil
degrass Tyson how would I get to a
distant
planet using the science I
know and then you have to sort of do it
with masking tape
and you know chicken wire whatever uh
whatever that
is um doesn't
really appeal to me they're not here if
they're here using standard physics now
I've tried to make a list of everyone on
Earth who has a distinct theory of
physics right so you have you know um
Julian Barbour has a theory or Steven
Wolfram has a theory or Peter white has
a theory so I go through all of these
other theories and to the best of my
knowledge nobody else does
that like we've stopped talking to each
other we stopped thinking about this so
in the world of theories about how
something might be here there are very
few theories of the
universe and why is that it's because
the constraints are so profound there's
no room to move to imagine to
let you know human creativity take over
we're in a straight jacket that is so
tight nobody can
think and we're there because our
theories are so
good the standard model and general
relativity are astounding theories but
they're also a straight
jacket so I'm very interested
in you know if you're Obama you just
Reach Out grab it and kill it yeah
exactly
um yeah I'm very interested in this
topic specifically because the universe
is either traversable or it isn't and if
it is it's not surprising that anyone's
here and if it isn't we die here in
short
order so it's a hugely consequential
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