Welcome to TOE’s Rethinking the Foundations of the Academy: How to Improve Scientific Inquiry with Gregory Chaitin
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Would someone like Einstein flourish in academia’s “Publish or Perish”?
Gregory Chaitin is a pioneering mathematician and computer scientist, renowned for founding algorithmic information theory. Gregory published his first groundbreaking paper at the age of 15 and has been a key figure at the Institute for Advanced Studies, contributing extensively to the fields of metabiology and complexity theory.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 – Intro
01:20 – Lack of Scientific Progress
06:22 – The Academic System
12:03 – Crisis in ‘Fundamental’ Physics
18:18 – Ancient Societies (Greece, Egypt, Alexandria)
23:05 – European Bureaucracy
27:08 – Albert Einstein
29:14 – Heterodox Experiments (Cold Fusion)
34:34 – Outro / Support TOE
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 – Intro
01:20 – Lack of Scientific Progress
06:22 – The Academic System
12:03 – Crisis in ‘Fundamental’ Physics
18:18 – Ancient Societies (Greece, Egypt, Alexandria)
23:05 – European Bureaucracy
27:08 – Albert Einstein
29:14 – Heterodox Experiments (Cold Fusion)
34:34 – Outro / Support TOE
We made more progress than you think, it was hidden from us. check this out: Ecosystemic Futures podcast 69. Beyond Conventional Physics: Extended Electrodynamics, Lattice Confinement Fusion, Zero-Point Energy & Advanced Propulsion
Oh! Bixia! Oh! First Emperor of China! please give me funding! I beg you! I can deliver for you, Elixir
of Immortality! Mercury! Bixia! Mercury is the key element to unlock the secret to immortality!
Oh! Your Excellency President Xi! please give me funding! I can deliver for you, the world's first working
quantum computer that can replaces the classical computer. Just nurture my research and academic career until
I can retire comfortably as an emeritus professor at age 80, this is a very very very difficult research project,
it needs a lots of time, manpower, resources and paper publications.
Sounds convincing enough?
Your University president/chancellor and your PhD supervisor are walking back to their offices, laughing. "True, true, as
long as the head of a nation or a government cannot answer the question "From where does the industry comes from?" completely
and verbally on the spot under 10 seconds, then he is a fool and a fool and his money soon part way!, So let us continue milk the
government funding into the university coffer (allocations for kickback money to government officials and journal subscriptions)".
A beggar, a scammer, a bullshitter and a thief = A Scientist-Professor.
"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
From The Third Man
While watching a thunderstorm, my mother, brother and I watched 3 balls of lightning appear from behind the hill across from our house. They traveled in an arcing motion, and then disappeared behind the hill again, one following after the other.. They looked like small suns that we estimated to be around 15 feet in diameter, although it was difficult to say for sure. They were only in our view for less than 5 seconds each before disappearing behind the hill. It was the most amazing thing we've ever seen.
Theoretical physics based on Einstein is a fraud. They are lying to all of you.
The Aether exists. In the center of our world lies Hyperborea.
Well, even on the technology side, if academia and the grant agencies don't care about what you are doing, then you will get zero support and eventually you will become a part time adjunct, bouncing from school to school hoping things will improve, although they never do…
Remember kids, it's a simple mindset that will work for your entire lives. Every scientist, teacher, government, official, mathematician, professor, director, bureaucrat, administrator and every single figure that you haven't seen perform a feat worthy of respect personally is a worthless sack of waste until proven otherwise. They are not owed respect, admiration or your self-debasing yourself to cater to their opinion, authority and what not. Knowing how to talk and convince people they are intelligent or knowledgeable will always be easier than achieving any real knowledge or intelligence, both of which are trained qualities even if they are in part innate. Even a genius must learn to read. So automatically assume the whole of academia is populated by scams and sycophants, then find the diamonds among the coal by their deeds, results and actual verifiable knowledge. Then you might find newfound respect for the sciences and everything else, long after you realize the rarity and preciousness of what pushes the world forward.
Nice picture
Probabilistic density and redistribution is the root from which everything else emerges. Its like DNA but for the cosmos. Seeing things as a whole system is what is next. and NEXT is now
We are here in waiting for the eyes and minds to catch up. The next big leaps are here already, but outside of the graveyard of novelty that academia has become.
#Systemschangeparty ya its tough to sell systems change to the happy members of current system. #Directdemocracy is the way towards change. #Instantradicalchange is possible with strategic policy. #Distributepower is democratic mana philosophy. #CompetitiveEnlightenment asks our religious community to get out of the politics business and loose wealth.
Einstein did all of his groundbreaking work on his own time and his own dime. Any new Einstein being suppressed by the system is free to follow in Einstein's footsteps.
And about cold fusion. I was around for the original announcement, and working in a defense lab. The announcement was not suppressed. In fact, anybody who could scrounge up some heavy water and some palladium wire was having a go at it. And guess what? NOBODY could get consistent results. Nobody pays attention to cold fusion because in 50 years nobody has been able to demonstrate reliable results. Every once and a while somebody gets a weird result. The next time they run the experiment, or anybody else runs the experiment, it doesn't work. It's almost enough to make you think about psi abilities, which behave exactly the same way. When somebody can come up with an experiment which produces clear results three times running, people will pay attention, but not until then. Too many researchers have been burned, and the institutional memory lingers.
Money money money! It ruined the world in every way
So what…this has always been this way lol….you think smart people get ahead? lol…you think you can apply for a patent? Hahahah think you can change things? Hahahaa with proof? Hahahaha
I think the USA is like Ancient Egypt, good for technology and bad for theories. That's the problem.
Yeah, bullshit.
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