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As Eric Weinstein and others have noted, the Chapel Hill Conference ends up sending academic theoretical physics into a complete dead-end cul-de-sac by establishing quantum gravity, which leads to string theory,
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But perhaps the most fascinating clue to where the real vital off the books physics went is dropped by Eric Weinstein in a conversation he has with Joe Rogan about the Chapel Hill Conference.
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And remember, Townsend Brown was working with Bonson while the Chapel Hill Conference was being held.
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In 1956, this Institute of Field Physics at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill holds what's known as the Chapel Hill Conference, convening all of the world's top theoretical physicists to discuss gravity.
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