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 if you just swap out mass and replace it with energy in what Weinstein is saying here, you have an exact description of Townsend Brown's work.
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Weinstein then goes on to say something that I find just as fascinating.
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