Eric give his thoughts on the 2024 presidential election, whether we are being gaslit on a global scale by the media. Eric has many interesting ideas but this means people will not agree with all or possibly most of the ideas. However, there is value in considering well considered positions.

He explains why science and physics can finally be free of string theory.

Eric proposes that there needs to be a way for Physicists and Mathematicians to capture some of the value from true advances that they make. It is not good for society to have huge benefits from some physicists, scientists and mathematicians but for those enabling progress in basic science to almost completely fail to be rewarded.

String theory has not yet made any experimentally verified predictions about our physical world that go beyond the Standard Model of particle physics and general relativity.

Speculative scientific ideas fail not just when they make incorrect predictions, but also when they turn out to be vacuous and incapable of predicting anything.

There are applicable areas of physics. Fields like condensed matter physics, quantum computing, or applied optics have more direct technological applications.