Poppa Stoic
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Poppa Stoic
@PoppaMas
$WMTx node operator. partner of @dead_stoics, USN veteran, Dyslexic/dysgraphic - sorry in advance for typos







@EricRWeinstein Eric these 2 insights complete GU • Explicit G₂ symmetry (the 14-dimensional exceptional Lie group) + octonions and triality. • Dynamic torsion sourced algebraically by energy density (φ = ρ / M_Pl²).



Many people don't understand just how brutal diminishing returns in theoretical physics were. Physics barely existed before 1820. After 1970, there was essentially nothing left to discover. In 1819 there were probably less than 100 full-time paid physicists in the whole world. By 2026 there are probably about a million physicists across academia and industry, and that number was already huge in the 1970s when physics sort of "ended" with QCD and electroweak unification. A small, brave band of gentlemen-scholars and amateurs worked out the most important parts of physical law in the 1800s. People doing it as a hobby! Today, vast armies of professionals equipped with supercomputers toil away in the quantum gravity dungeon, unable to make progress. Diminishing returns are brutal.
























