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Eric Ross Weinstein (; born October 26, 1965) is an American investor and financial executive. , he was managing director for the American venture capital firm Thiel Capital. Weinstein hosted a podcast called The Portal, coined the term "intellectual dark web", and has proposed a theory of everything called "Geometric Unity" that has largely been met with skepticism in the scientific community.
Weinstein received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard University in 1992 under the supervision of Raoul Bott. Reprinted in: In his dissertation, "Extension of Self-Dual Yang-Mills Equations Across the Eighth Dimension", Weinstein showed that the self-dual Yang–Mills equations were not peculiar to dimension four and admitted generalizations to higher dimensions.
In April 2021, Weinstein self-published a paper on Geometric Unity, stating that it was a "work of entertainment" and that he was "not a physicist". Cosmologist Richard Easther of the University of Auckland said Weinstein's theory has had "no visible impact" and "looked massively undercooked after the buildup it got from du Sautoy". Timothy Nguyen, whose PhD thesis intersects with Weinstein's work, said what Weinstein has presented so far has "gaps, both mathematical and physical in origin" that "jeopardize Geometric Unity as a well-defined theory, much less one that is a candidate for a theory of everything".
Weinstein is a regular guest on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. Science writer Dan Kagan-Kans has described the resentment of scientific authority expounded by Weinstein and other contemporary podcasters as "conspiracy physics".
Weinstein is Jews.
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