{"id":101848,"date":"2020-02-03T21:02:40","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T05:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/garrett-lisi-on-the-portal-ep-015-my-arch-nemesis-myself-with-host-eric-weinstein"},"modified":"2020-02-03T21:02:40","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T05:02:40","slug":"garrett-lisi-on-the-portal-ep-015-my-arch-nemesis-myself-with-host-eric-weinstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/garrett-lisi-on-the-portal-ep-015-my-arch-nemesis-myself-with-host-eric-weinstein","title":{"rendered":"Garrett Lisi on \u201cThe Portal\u201d, Ep. #015 \u2014 My Arch-nemesis, Myself. (with host Eric Weinstein)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8_uiqjO1IEU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Complex cognitive dissonance disorder guaranteed. \ud83d\ude2c.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Garrett Lisi, the so called \u201cSurf Bum with a Theory of Everything (or T.O.E.)\u201d, is a PhD theoretical physicist who has refused to be captured by the theoretical physics community. By making shrewd investments, he has avoided holding meaningful employment for his entire adult life. Instead, he lives in Maui and travels the world chasing the perfect wave.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode Garrett and Eric sit down to discuss the current status of Garrett\u2019s ideas for a final theory based on a mysterious object called E8, perhaps the oddest of mathematical symmetries to be found in the universe. Garrett and Eric have held each other in mutual \u201ccontempt\u201d for over a decade. By vacationing together and staying in each others\u2019 homes, they had hoped to hone and deepen their mutual disgust for each other\u2019s ideas. However, as the theoretical physics community moved away from actually trying to unify our incompatible models of the physical world, it became intellectually unmoored, and drifted toward a culture of performative Cargo Cult Physics. The antagonists were thus forced by necessity to develop a begrudging admiration for each other\u2019s iconoclasm and unwillingness to give up on the original dream of Einstein to unify and understand our world.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion is rough but a fairly accurate depiction of scientific relationships belonging to a type that is generally not shown to the public. This may be uncomfortable for those who have been habituated to NOVA, The Elegant Universe, or other shows produced for mass consumption. We apologize in advance.<\/p>\n<p>Original sponsors of the audio version of the episode:<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/garrett-lisi-on-the-portal-ep-015-my-arch-nemesis-myself-with-host-eric-weinstein\">Continue reading \u201cGarrett Lisi on \u201cThe Portal\u201d, Ep. #015 \u2014 My Arch-nemesis, Myself. (with host Eric Weinstein)\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Complex cognitive dissonance disorder guaranteed. \ud83d\ude2c. Garrett Lisi, the so called \u201cSurf Bum with a Theory of Everything (or T.O.E.)\u201d, is a PhD theoretical physicist who has refused to be captured by the theoretical physics community. By making shrewd investments, he has avoided holding meaningful employment for his entire adult life. Instead, he lives in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1878,2229,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-employment","category-mathematics","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}