michiganmade on Nostr: Naval Ravikant once pushed me to do a Twitter thread called “The Invisible World is ...

Naval Ravikant once pushed me to do a Twitter thread called “The Invisible World is First Discovered in the Visible World’s Failure to Close”. The idea is we find out that there's a neutrino because a neutron has a certain amount of energy, and a proton and an electron into which it decays doesn't have the same amount of energy. So something was lost. There was a hypothesis due to both Pauli and Fermi that there must be some particle that is diabolically neutral, undetectable by almost any means possible, that is carrying away this extra energy. And so the idea is the visible world, that is, the charged particles, or the neutron, which you could detect, that world didn't close. Therefore there had to be something else. Well you know, when Kamala goes from being incredibly unpopular to the loved candidate with no primary, the visible world just failed to close. The idea that nobody ever convenes a bunch of geriatric neurologists to analyze Joe Biden is the visible world failing to close. This is the origin of “anti-interesting”. These are all anti-interesting events, and you can measure the control of journalism by its desire to report on what everybody wants reported, and is absolutely, pathologically uninteresting—not to the journalists, but to the editors who tell the journalists what can and cannot be featured in print.

- Eric Weinstein