Eric Weinstein

Eric Ross Weinstein (born October 26, 1965) is an American podcast host and a managing director of Thiel Capital.

Education

Weinstein received his PhD in mathematical physics from Harvard University in 1992 under the supervision of Raoul Bott. In his dissertation, ''Extension of Self-Dual Yang-Mills Equations Across the Eighth Dimension'', Weinstein showed that the self-dual Yang–Mills equations were not peculiar to dimension four and admitted generalizations to higher dimensions.

Career

Physics

Weinstein left academia after stints at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Weinstein was invited to a colloquium by mathematician Marcus du Sautoy at Oxford University's Clarendon Laboratory in May 2013. There he presented his ideas on a theory of everything called ''Geometric Unity''. Physicists expressed skepticism about the theory. Joseph Conlon of Oxford stated that some of the predicted particles would already have been detected in existing accelerators such as the Large Hadron Collider. Science writer Jennifer Ouellette criticized the colloquium in a blog for ''Scientific American'', arguing that experts could not properly evaluate Weinstein's ideas because there was no published paper.

On April 1, 2021, Weinstein released a draft paper on ''Geometric Unity'' in a guest appearance on the podcast ''The Joe Rogan Experience''. Weinstein qualified in his paper that he "is not a physicist," but an "entertainer" and podcast host. It received strong criticism from the scientific community and was said to have "no visible impact" and "gaps, both mathematical and physical in origin, that jeopardize Geometric Unity as a well-defined theory, much less one that is a candidate for a theory of everything."

Economics

On November 10, 2021, Weinstein presented at the University of Chicago a proposal for how gauge theory could be used to calculate economic inflation indices based on prior work with his wife Pia Malaney. A month later, a rebuttal was published by Timothy Nguyen (a frequent Weinstein critic) on the arXiv.

Intellectual dark web

Weinstein said he coined the term "intellectual dark web" and named himself and his brother as members after his brother Bret Weinstein resigned from Evergreen State College, in response to a 2017 campus controversy. The term is used to describe a number of academics and podcast hosts.

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External links

* https://ericweinstein.org/

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1965 births
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
20th-century American Jews
American podcasters
American venture capitalists
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
University of Pennsylvania alumni
21st-century American Jews