Uncompetative hates 'A Response to Geometric Unity' by Timothy Nguyen
0A reaction to 'The Eric Weinstein/Timothy Nguyen Affair' by Brandon Van Dyck.
primary Brandon Van Dyck video source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88E2pp7xafo
Eric Weinstein's April 2020 upload of his 2013 Oxford University lecture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7rd04KzLcg&t=4001s
At no point does Eric Weinstein call Geometric Unity a "Theory of Everything".
Lex Fridman podcast - episode 88 - Lex calls Geometric Unity a "Theory of Everything":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIAZJNe7YtE&t=2659s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIAZJNe7YtE&t=5612s
Timothy Nguyen's blog calls Geometric Unity a "Theory of Everything":
https://timothynguyen.org/geometric-unity/
Sabine Hossenfelder's blog, Tim's guest article falsely claims that Geometric Unity claims to be a "Theory of Everything":
http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2021/03/guest-post-problems-with-eric.html
The Joe Rogan Experience - episode 1453:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf0_nMaQ6tA&lc=UgzrDu6CKdL7FC822D94AaABAg
No mention of Geometric Unity being a "Theory of Everything".
'Theories of Everything: Cosmic Controversies with Eric Weinstein, Sabine Hossenfelder, & Lee Smolin' - Dr Brian Keating's Into The Impossible podcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_aN8NnoeO0&t=3391s
Eric talks about Garrett Lisi and Stephen Wolfram.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_aN8NnoeO0&t=3502s
"Maybe because I am not a physicist I can fool myself into thinking I have one." Which isn't to say that he has explicitly asserted to have one in his draft paper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_aN8NnoeO0&t=3992s
Eric talks about Geometric Unity and says how you should form "the inhomogeneous extension of the gauge group, which is an infinite dimensional gadget [and therefore not bound to finite spacetime] and do supersymmetry on that..." which is an idea he seems to have given up on according to the footnote on page 60 of Geometric Unity: Author's Working Draft, v 1.0
SUMMARY
Timothy Nguyen's February 2021 "response" mischaracterises Geometric Unity as a "Theory of Everything" given that it claims to have been based solely off Eric Weinstein's 2020 upload of a 2013 lecture where at no point did he claim Geometric Unity to be a "Theory of Everything" or even a mere Unified Field Theory. It would be silly to, either as his speculative work in progress is both provisional and incomplete and requires a formal definition for the "Ship In A Bottle" (SHIAB) operator, or it requires some alternative workaround, and it needs several spelling mistakes to be fixed, and it needs to be quantised, which is something he lacks the expertise to do as he is not a Quantum Field Theorist, his contribution has been to propose a way to unify geometries normally thought to be incompatible using something called the Chimeric Fiber Bundle:
https://timothynguyen.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/geometric_unity.pdf
Eric Weinstein's April 2021 draft paper:
https://geometricunity.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/Geometric_Unity-Draft-April-1st-2021.pdf
At no point does Eric Weinstein call Geometric Unity a "Theory of Everything".
Robert Wright's 'Nonzero' podcast interviews Timothy Nguyen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j86WIfRfPDk&t=2868s
The Joe Rogan Experience - episode 1628 at 1:10:29:
"...This is the hardest thing for me to say as I have to not hedge it. I think this is the Theory of Everything....can we generate the world from 4 parameters."
This isn't sufficiently fundamental in my opinion as it doesn't establish where 4 comes from. More is alluded to in the 2020 Supplemental Explainer and page 22 of the Author's Working Draft, v 1.0 however there is insufficient effort being put into making Geometric Unity a Theory of Everything as of 2021 and it is better to classify it as a speculative work in progress that aspires to be a Unified Field Theory.
This could eventually be generalised to become a Theory of Everything, but it needs to focus on becoming a Unified Field Theory first, even if everyone else is hyping up their work as being a potential Theory of Everything and you feel a pressure to similarly hype yours or be ignored by the marketplace of ideas, that favour The Multiverse and Theories of Everything, over a Unified Field Theory that proposes a replacement to Quantum Field Theory and General Relativity ~ which ought to be regarded as something really significant in its own right.
Geometric Unity explained in under 2 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVlDoR_EMPg