maya benowitz 🕰️ @cosmicfibretion Twitter profile

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maya benowitz 🕰️

1 year

I will leave this manuscript prepared for PRL here and take an extended Twitter break. There is much work to be done. Welcome to the multiverse 😊

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maya benowitz 🕰️

@cosmicfibretion

1 year

I have a feeling the 28th and 29th will go down in the history books in an unexpectedly wild way for the foundations of physics. Buckle up, we’re going for one helluva ride :)

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@cosmicfibretion

9 months

I've been told that Biden is preparing an "unprecedented address to the nation" sometime next year following the passage of the UAP Disclosure Act in the NDAA.

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@cosmicfibretion

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@martinmbauer

8 months

Which physics books are you reading at the moment?

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@cosmicfibretion

1 year

A galactic scale telescope that can see the ripples of spacetime, and with improvements may be able to peer back to the origins of the universe, will absolutely change the world.

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@cosmicfibretion

1 year

95% of the stuff in the universe is a total mystery, dark matter is as enigmatic as ever, a >5 sigma tension persists for H_0, and hints of more tensions are actively being discovered with JWST. The last time there was new physics was in the '70s. Everything is fine.

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@cosmicfibretion

1 year

how can anyone with a straight face claim there’s *no evidence* that consciousness is a result of brain states when we can turn it off with anesthesia?

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@cosmicfibretion

1 year

So… NASA and AARO have publicly stated there are spheres all over the world with no obvious signs of propulsion that can reach Mach 2?? Balloons don’t accelerate to Mach 2. So what’s the physical mechanism here?

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@cosmicfibretion

1 year

My bet: LK99 isn't quite a room-temp ambient-pressure SC--but it's close enough to spark a revolution in SC research that eventually figures it out. And sooner rather than later. 1/

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maya benowitz 🕰️

@cosmicfibretion

2 years

All of physics is geometry. QM is no exception. It’s simply complex projective geometry with additional rules.

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maya benowitz 🕰️

@cosmicfibretion

2 months

people who take IQ this seriously are some of the most insecure & dumbest motherfuckers alive

Coach Bruce 🐂

@OX_DAO

2 months

None of my intelligent (130+ IQ) friends listen to music regularly. They only listen selectively and rarely e.g. at a business event or a classical piece, but almost never listen spontaneously in their own time. This has been a long term consistent observation, but today

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maya benowitz 🕰️

@cosmicfibretion

1 year

i knew it

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@cosmicfibretion

2 years

I present the most daring and ambitious research program in the history of science: 1/

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maya benowitz 🕰️

@cosmicfibretion

1 year

I’ve been told there are three factions in the @DeptofDefense regarding UAP: one of Christian fundamentalists who are convinced UAP are demons, the other convinced they are time travelers, and the—last most secretive faction—claims to know the origins and is in contact.

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maya benowitz 🕰️

@cosmicfibretion

5 months

I'm thrilled to announce I accepted a Ph.D. position with @StuartHameroff and @Philip_Goff ! I'll work on the quantum underground aromatic pathways theory of consciousness, a new revolutionary panpsychist physics that replaces the incoherent physicalism dogma of scientism!!!!!!!!!

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maya benowitz 🕰️

@cosmicfibretion

8 months

brace yourselves

maya benowitz 🕰️

@cosmicfibretion

2 years

shit is about to get weird beyond belief

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maya benowitz 🕰️

@cosmicfibretion

2 years

shit is about to get weird beyond belief

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maya benowitz 🕰️

@cosmicfibretion

1 year

Quantum mechanics has absolutely nothing to do with the human mind.

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@cosmicfibretion

1 year

@TheCurlylockes

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maya benowitz 🕰️

@cosmicfibretion

2 years

U(1) is a 1-sphere. SU(2) is a 3-sphere. A qubit is an SU(2)-bundle over a 2-sphere with a U(1) fiber. SU(3) is an SU(2)-bundle over a 5-sphere. Entanglement is a 7-sphere over the 4-sphere with an SU(2) fiber. De Sitter space is a Lorentzian 4-sphere. Spheres all the way down.

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@cosmicfibretion

1 year

achievement unlocked

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@cosmicfibretion

1 year

String theorists rejoice: holography finds its day in congress 🤣😂🍿🍿

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maya benowitz 🕰️

@cosmicfibretion

1 year

No, every decision you make does not cause the universe to split into two parallel realities. The universe doesn’t give a shit what you do.

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@cosmicfibretion

1 year

no it's not

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

1 year

@sama Time is a construct of human perception

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maya benowitz 🕰️

@cosmicfibretion

10 months

The reason I love math & physics so much is that they're the pinnacle of the pursuit of Truth.

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maya benowitz 🕰️

@cosmicfibretion

10 months

If you're wondering why physicists don't like talking to philosophers, it’s because conversations like these do nothing to advance the field.

Philip Goff

@Philip_Goff

10 months

Just because you can speak, that doesn't make you a grammarian. Just because you're a scientist, that doesn't make you an expert on the nature of science and the evidential support it provides. The relevant experts here are philosophers of science. @skdh 🧵

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maya benowitz 🕰️

@cosmicfibretion

2 years

Theorists love talking about spacetime and entanglement. But they never talk about the fact that the fiber bundle structure of entanglement is the Hopf fibration, i.e., the mathematical bridge between Minkowski space and spinors. There’s an entire universe of geometry there!

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@cosmicfibretion

6 months

I'm calling it: Constellation is one of the best psychological (hard) sci-fi thrillers of all time.

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@cosmicfibretion

2 years

Calculating something using entirely different techniques from different areas of mathematics and getting the same answer is always lovely.

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@cosmicfibretion

2 years

I’m getting the urge to quit my day job, live off of savings, and just do physics all day. Nima said something cut deep.

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maya benowitz 🕰️

@cosmicfibretion

1 month

This year’s October surprise will be shock & awe on a scale never before seen.

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maya benowitz 🕰️

@cosmicfibretion

1 year

uh oh

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maya benowitz 🕰️

@cosmicfibretion

2 years

If the entire universe obeys the Schrodinger equation, and we put that equation on a quantum computer, is the simulated universe real?

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maya benowitz 🕰️

@cosmicfibretion

11 months

It's becoming increasingly clear some conflicts lack a prosaic solution. The core problem is an old one: there can be no shared objective reality between two groups with competing religious truth claims. Maybe it's time to reject religious truth claims.

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maya benowitz 🕰️

@cosmicfibretion

4 months

Reasons why the Copenhagen interpretation is incoherent: 1) In the very early universe, it implies a classical supernatural observer prepared the initial state of the quantum universe. You're done.

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@cosmicfibretion

1 year

wow do people get upset when you tell them what’s happening between their ears isn’t responsible for creating all of physical reality…

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maya benowitz 🕰️

@cosmicfibretion

1 year

Everyone on the planet should be aware of the marvelous machines humanity has built to understand our origins. We are in a golden age of precision cosmology. We have looked at the stars and wondered for 200,000 years. Every experiment like this one, changes the world.

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@cosmicfibretion

1 year

Just saw Oppenheimer. I have mixed feelings. They should have shown the bombs being dropped and the hideous destruction they cause—I expected Nolan to make it much darker than what was portrayed… I’m disappointed.

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maya benowitz 🕰️

@cosmicfibretion

10 months

Decolonial theory and the decolonization of knowledge is institutionalized crackpottery.

Scientists Who Lift

@ScientistsLift

10 months

What unpopular academia opinion would get you in this situation?

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@cosmicfibretion

1 year

we're likely living in the most consequential period in all of human history

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@cosmicfibretion

1 year

What’s outrageously arrogant is the thought that the universe exists because of human consciousness and not the other way around.

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@ED84VG

1 year

@ArtisanTony @Forreststargaze @cosmicfibretion That’s ironic, since she has absolutely no basis to make such an outrageously arrogant statement

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maya benowitz 🕰️

@cosmicfibretion

1 year

you ever feel like you’ll never fit in anywhere?

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@cosmicfibretion

1 year

No, we don’t.

Joscha Bach

@Plinz

1 year

What makes physics weird is that we treat it as fundamental and associate it with the world we perceive. In actuality, we live in a simulation, a physics engine, a kind of 3d computer game, which (according to our best models) is created by the computations of our brains.

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@cosmicfibretion

2 years

Maybe theorists should stop pulling Lagrangians out of thin air with virtually no motivation?

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maya benowitz 🕰️

@cosmicfibretion

1 year

@_Students_Hero_ @ExoAcademian

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maya benowitz 🕰️

@cosmicfibretion

6 months

so... we all in agreement 3 body problem was objectively awful?

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@cosmicfibretion

1 year

With every passing day the likelihood that LK-99 will change the course of humanity grows.

Andrew Côté

@Andercot

1 year

National Lab (LBNL) results support LK-99 as a room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor. Simulations published 1 hour ago on arxiv support LK-99 as the holy grail of modern material science and applied physics. () Here's the plain-english

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@cosmicfibretion

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using the most well-established, experimentally tested, and succsesful science as your template for how science works makes you stupid about science

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@cosmicfibretion

2 years

The universe, on all scales, is quantum.

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@cosmicfibretion

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physicists will be like: the particle takes an infinite number of possible paths (some more than others) from points A to B, while in the same breath dismiss the 'many words'

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@cosmicfibretion

10 months

What’s happening in Gaza is not a genocide. It’s an ugly war that happens to be asymmetrical. The Truth matters.

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@cosmicfibretion

11 months

tell me you’re clueless about solving hard problems without telling me you’re clueless about solving hard problems

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@cosmicfibretion

1 year

Having a Prof. with 100K followers (who blocked you for saying Sheldon Cooper is funny) unblock you to take your tweet out of context and indirectly call you "incompetent" is so 2023.

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@cosmicfibretion

1 year

@brokensymmtrys something big is about to break

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@cosmicfibretion

10 months

@hasanthehun bro... what do you think China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea would do if America demilitarized? These millionaire streamer takes are peak nativity.

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@cosmicfibretion

2 years

Theorists: "Fundamental Physics is just fine!" Also, theorists: "All symmetries are fake, nothing is conserved, the very early universe is like evolutionary biology, making predictions is too hard, let me just invent this field cause I don't like this small number." Ya'll ok?

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@cosmicfibretion

7 months

If you truly believed your ”theory of everything” was correct you wouldn't be afraid to submit the paper for peer review and would be open to critical feedback.

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@cosmicfibretion

1 year

The problem of time at the intersection of quantum mechanics and general relativity is a profound one.

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@cosmicfibretion

8 months

Imagine the lack of *all* structure. No physical law, space, time, fields, equations of motion, or symmetries. Absolute nothing. Then, all of a sudden, a universe with physical law is born full of field content and symmetries. 1/

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@cosmicfibretion

11 months

Jews have been oppressed for generations. The population has never recovered from the Holocaust. No group has the unilateral right to violate human rights. Not the Jews. Not the Palestinians. No one. If we can not live in a principled society there can be no civilization.

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@cosmicfibretion

2 months

reality is stranger than any science fiction you’ve ever consumed

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@cosmicfibretion

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. @DeptofDefense : no evidence of ET tech. What do you say to that? If they aren’t ET how can we explain it? @LueElizondo : well, we have to look at this from a temporal, from a time perspective. 👀

UAP James

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Lue Elizondo on CBS Mornings “America can handle the truth.” #ufox #ufotwitter #ufo @LueElizondo

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@cosmicfibretion

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imagine being on the technical team that cracks time travel. must be the most thrilling feeling in the universe

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@cosmicfibretion

1 year

Serious physicists don't go beefing on podcasts to stir up attention. They put their head down and work toward deriving precise observable numbers that can prove themselves wrong. Physics isn't a popularity contest.

Dr. Michio Kaku

@michiokaku

1 year

Eric Weinstein appeared on @joerogan and said I was "out of control." Here is my response in this MiniDocumentary From Julian Dorey Podcast 145: My Full 3+ Hour Convo w/ @julianddorey Premieres on YouTube & Spotify Saturday, May 6th @ 9:30AM ET

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@cosmicfibretion

2 years

why is physics so confusing?

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@cosmicfibretion

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I fear the world is slowly spiraling into the next great conflict. This must be avoided at all costs.

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@cosmicfibretion

2 years

The next big wave of innovation isn’t coming from Silicon Valley or any of Musk’s companies. It’ll come from fundamental physics.

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@cosmicfibretion

1 year

If it isn’t clear yet, the Biden admin is positioning itself to use UAP to de-polarize a toxic political atmosphere and restore trust in government through a coordinated disclosure campaign. The only question is disclosure of *what* exactly?

UAP News

@HighPeaks77

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White House National Security Council Coordinator, Admiral John Kirby was asked about Senator Schumer’s UAP legislation. 💥 -White House takes it seriously “Some of these phenomena we know have already had an impact on our training ranges.”

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@cosmicfibretion

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the galaxy brain finally blocked me

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@cosmicfibretion

1 year

With the help of ChatGPT, in a single afternoon, I was able to get my clunky code that took 5hrs and 80GB of memory to run, down to 30 mins and a little over 3GB of ram on a puny Azure ML instance… Game changer.

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@cosmicfibretion

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I didn’t have an unhinged UFO nut and conspiracy theorist contacting my employer and trying to get me fired for making fun of him on my 2023 bingo card LOL

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@cosmicfibretion

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watching so many people on here justify the endless cycle of hatred, death, and destruction is incredibly depressing this is not the way

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@cosmicfibretion

1 year

Did I jump the gun and get overly excited about the possibility of new physics with the @NANOGrav announcement, yes. Will I apologize for it, no.

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@cosmicfibretion

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The most important project in human history is to find a way to solve the nuclear problem. A technology capable of neutralizing every nuclear weapon on earth. Only one option comes to mind.

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@cosmicfibretion

1 year

😳 40 whistleblowers!? Wut?? 😳

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@cosmicfibretion

9 months

Sound a bit far-fetched, but I guess we shall see.

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@cosmicfibretion

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The mystery that is quantum mechanics rages on. Is there a magical scale where objects stop being quantum? Or is the *form* of the laws of physics the same on all scales? Is quantum mechanics truly universal? And if so, what are the consequences of a universal wavefunction?

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@cosmicfibretion

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Why is it that some of the most unhinged batshit stupid takes on this hellsite are from people with PhD after their name?

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@cosmicfibretion

10 months

Math is good for the soul.

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@RamFishman

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The campus debate on the #IsraelHamasWar is also Humanities vs. STEM + Econ. @Columbia faculty issued two open letters, one defending and one condemning students' defense of Hamas. Here are their affiliations.

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@cosmicfibretion

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@scottastevenson How do you know you don’t go to the Supermario universe and fight Bowser when your under anesthesia?

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@cosmicfibretion

1 year

When a tenured Prof. feels the need to call you an “incompetent asshole that knows nothing about science” and that your “telling people how to feel” because of a Tweet that somehow went viral. Pure physics comedy gold. Love it when they punch down 😉

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@cosmicfibretion

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If this is acceptable behavior to you please let me know so I can block you.

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@HenMazzig

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“The Israeli soldiers discovered babies with heads cut off” Hamas beheaded babies.

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@cosmicfibretion

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How to solve any differential equation in physics: build up physical intuition through symmetries/dualities, apply clever approximations and identities, and choose your coordinate system wisely.

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@cosmicfibretion

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Am I the only one uniquely insane enough to believe quantum gravity may actually have engineering applications?

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@cosmicfibretion

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choose two: 1. well paying job in AI/ML 2. social life 3. high-risk high-reward physics research project 4. start a family

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@cosmicfibretion

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@MiddleOfMayhem @planethunter56 @TheUfoJoe Bro. Be real. The man submitted a DoD/IG complaint, testified to congress in a SCIF under oath and then to the American people under oath. A few months later the UAPDA was drafted and Chuck Schumer told us “the USG has collected a great deal of data on UAP” on the Senate floor.

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@cosmicfibretion

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I was wrong! After deep quantum meditation into the powers of quantum panpsychist manifestation, I’ve learned how to conjure money out of nothingness! For the low price of $420.69 I will teach you! DM me for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

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@cosmicfibretion

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Quantum mechanics has absolutely nothing to do with the human mind.

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@brokensymmtrys You’ll see.

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@cosmicfibretion

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the naivety is breathtaking

Lex Fridman

@lexfridman

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I hope to host a debate between @realDonaldTrump and @JoeBiden . I think this can be done well, in a way that explores the ideas and humanity of the candidates with depth, compassion, and humor, in long-form conversation format. Probably many other people can be better

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@cosmicfibretion

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There is no supernatural observer that exists outside of the universe bestowed with the decision to choose its laws or initial conditions.

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@cosmicfibretion

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The hype is very much needed for the field. More bright minds need to think about this problem. The impact on humanity is potentially immeasurable as it unlocks an entirely new tech tree that will lead to far superior technologies. 2/2

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@cosmicfibretion

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The dance between Lie groups, Clifford algebras, spinors, and fiber bundles in physics is the highest form of art.

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@cosmicfibretion

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Yes, there are. I’m so tired of all the hatred. The abject failure to empathize with innocent Palestinians and Israelis is disappointing and anathema to peace.

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@marklevinshow

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There Are No ‘Innocent Palestinians’

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@cosmicfibretion

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please let this be real

𝒿𝑜𝓊𝓁𝑒 ⚡

@gigaj0ule

1 year

Small molecule oral cancer drug kills 100% of solid tumors across 70 evaluated cancer types in vitro and in animal models with a therapeutic index of 6 and no discernible side effects Phase 1 trials now underway

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@cosmicfibretion

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So many people seem incredibly pessimistic about the future of humanity. I couldn’t disagree more. Humanity hasn’t even achieved 1% of its full potential. I believe one day we will master the quantum nature of space and time. And not just in theory, but in practice.

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@cosmicfibretion

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Decolonization is doublespeak for anti-civilization.

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Western medicine is far from perfect, but the last thing it needs is to be "decolonized" and infused with pseudoscientific "other ways of knowing." What medicine needs is to fully commit to evidence-based medicine and have its incentive structures realigned to aid patients.

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@cosmicfibretion

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I haven't been able to focus on any physics since Oct 7th. How does one regain their focus during these troubling times?

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@cosmicfibretion

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Instead of engaging in the petty physics Twitter drama, I will dream of the day humanity knows spacetime with the precision required to build tardises.

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A lot of people don't appreciate the fact that we are currently in a *very* unique place in physics. The stage where old anomalies aren't going away, and new ones are accumulating. 95% of the stuff in the universe is new physics.

Marcel S. Pawlowski

@8minutesold

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To those of you interested in the controversy over the wide binary stars test of MOND, with some papers finding MOND behavior and another excluding MOND at extremely high sigma, let me summarize in a🧵what the discussion among the teams seems to have settled on here at #MONDat40 :

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