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# My Response to Terrence Howard
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00:00:00.120 I recently learned I got name checked by
00:00:02.720 Terrence Howard on his recent appearance
00:00:06.200 on Joe Rogan I reached out to Neil
00:00:08.519 Degrassi Tyson Neil degrass Tyson he was
00:00:11.599 like hey man yeah I'd love for you to
00:00:13.240 come on my show do my radio do my TV
00:00:15.639 thing would love that I was like yeah
00:00:17.240 but let me I've got something I want to
00:00:18.680 introduce to you I got name checked
00:00:20.760 because 8 years ago he sent me a 36 page
00:00:27.039 treaties and it was only 36 pages so
00:00:30.439 this is Terence
00:00:32.119 Howard attempting to reinvent
00:00:35.559 mathematics and physics a little
00:00:38.239 backstory there I took initial interest
00:00:40.520 in Terrence because my mother said to me
00:00:44.680 do you know Terrence Howard I said yeah
00:00:46.640 I know you mean the actor she said yeah
00:00:48.600 well I heard him interviewed on NPR on
00:00:51.360 there he said that like when he was a
00:00:52.800 kid he wanted to be like a scientist and
00:00:54.960 study the Universe I said well that's
00:00:57.000 cool okay maybe we'll get him on Star
00:00:59.039 Talk we love talk to celebrities who
00:01:00.800 have a soft geek underbelly at the time
00:01:03.600 I didn't quite know how to get in touch
00:01:04.959 with him but we met at a something
00:01:08.200 called the upfronts which is where
00:01:10.360 networks present their next season's TV
00:01:13.720 shows I saw him at an event um uh
00:01:16.799 upfront and then this came in in my
00:01:19.400 inbox in this particular case since I
00:01:22.159 basically solicited it from him I
00:01:24.640 actually spent time reading every line
00:01:27.159 of all 36 pages and I commented my
00:01:30.200 comments are in red here you see that so
00:01:33.360 I spent a lot of time on it and I
00:01:35.360 thought out of respect for him what I
00:01:37.880 should
00:01:38.680 do is give him my most informed critical
00:01:43.960 analysis that I can in my field we call
00:01:46.119 that a peer review you come up with an
00:01:47.759 idea you present it either at a
00:01:50.600 conference or you first write it up and
00:01:52.520 you send it to your colleagues it is
00:01:55.240 their duty to alert you of things about
00:01:59.079 your ideas that are either misguided or
00:02:02.119 wrong or or there's a Mis the
00:02:04.079 calculation doesn't work out or the the
00:02:06.520 logic doesn't comport that's their job
00:02:10.119 not all ideas will turn out to be
00:02:12.120 correct most won't be but to get to that
00:02:15.200 point you need to know things like what
00:02:17.120 has everyone else said about this same
00:02:19.440 subject am I repeating someone else's
00:02:21.280 work is this a new insight that no one
00:02:23.360 else has had but has foundations that
00:02:26.599 are authentic or legitimate or
00:02:28.319 objectively true am I making a false
00:02:30.920 assumption am I makinging an assumption
00:02:32.400 that someone else has already shown to
00:02:33.920 be false all of this goes on on the
00:02:38.040 frontier of science let me make it clear
00:02:40.800 that I'm delighted when I see people
00:02:44.040 with active Minds trying to tackle the
00:02:47.159 great unknowns in the universe it's a
00:02:49.480 beautiful thing that people want to
00:02:51.239 participate on this Frontier what can
00:02:54.159 happen is if you're a fan of a subject
00:02:57.560 let's say a hobbyist let's call it it's
00:03:00.159 possible to know enough about that
00:03:02.840 subject to think you're right but not
00:03:05.920 enough about that subject to know that
00:03:08.720 you're wrong and so there's this sort of
00:03:10.879 Valley in there a valley of false
00:03:14.280 confidence this has been studied by
00:03:17.480 others and it's called the Dunning
00:03:18.799 Krueger effect it's the phenomenon where
00:03:21.120 a little bit of knowledge you over
00:03:24.080 assess how much of that subject you
00:03:26.720 actually know and then when you learn
00:03:28.120 even more you realize no I didn't know
00:03:29.799 as much as I thought I did so then
00:03:31.400 there's a sort of a lull there and then
00:03:33.480 when you learn even more you come back
00:03:34.879 up ultimately learning enough to know
00:03:37.840 whether you are right or wrong to become
00:03:39.680 an expert means you spend all this time
00:03:43.239 it doesn't happen overnight you can't
00:03:45.480 just sit in an armchair and say I'm now
00:03:47.159 an expert it requires years and years of
00:03:52.200 study especially looking through
00:03:54.840 journals where new ideas are published
00:03:57.840 and contested that's what we have
00:03:59.519 learned learned is the most effective
00:04:01.400 means of establishing that which is
00:04:04.200 objectively true or determining that
00:04:07.239 which is objectively false both of those
00:04:10.000 work hand in hand to move the needle on
00:04:12.799 our understanding of the universe I'm
00:04:14.840 going to read you just my opening line
00:04:17.680 here it's titled 1 * 1 equal 2 so I lead
00:04:22.079 off by saying this is an ambitious work
00:04:24.960 that is a clear indication of a Restless
00:04:28.320 active mind with in these Pages however
00:04:31.240 there are many assumptions and
00:04:32.960 statements that are underinformative
00:04:59.759 greater than the initial number squared
00:05:02.440 for that would expose a loose thread
00:05:05.199 within the fabric of our understanding a
00:05:08.000 loose thread capable of unraveling the
00:05:10.560 very ground rules of mathematics that's
00:05:13.360 a bold statement so then I I just say
00:05:17.080 this opening thesis is false there are
00:05:20.400 plenty of examples of this that have
00:05:22.960 escaped your attention his statement is
00:05:25.479 shown to be false for every number
00:05:27.919 that's less than one and greater than Z
00:05:30.160 for example the square root of 64 is8 8
00:05:36.000 is bigger than 64 and it's a larger
00:05:39.280 number than the original and 64 squared
00:05:44.240 =
00:05:46.680 496 a smaller number than the original
00:05:49.919 to the extent that the next 35 Pages
00:05:53.199 depends on your stated
00:05:55.280 thesis this fact undermines your claims
00:05:58.520 and assumptions and conclusions it's not
00:06:01.520 about feelings here it's about objective
00:06:04.240 reality so at the time I I considered
00:06:06.240 Terren a strong acquaintance and we hung
00:06:08.280 out a bit and had much exchange we
00:06:10.599 haven't spoken much since then but go to
00:06:12.800 page two and in here he mentions people
00:06:16.919 who he declares were persecuted because
00:06:19.039 their Vision exceeded the myopic view of
00:06:21.960 their contemporaries and he mentions
00:06:23.919 Walter Russell Nicola Tesla John Keeley
00:06:26.039 and many many more regarding you L your
00:06:28.400 list of people who have made Brave
00:06:30.039 sacrifices I note that to be a genius is
00:06:33.319 to be misunderstood but to be
00:06:35.080 misunderstood is not to be a genius the
00:06:37.720 work of Russell Walter Russell has
00:06:39.720 eluded any experimental support and the
00:06:42.520 work of Keeley is generally not
00:06:44.599 reproducible science is about
00:06:46.599 reproducibility I can have the most
00:06:49.039 brilliant crazy fun idea ever and if I
00:06:52.479 perform an experiment and no one else
00:06:54.120 can duplicate that experiment it belongs
00:06:56.199 in the trash Heap it's me in my own
00:06:58.520 world think I have landed on an
00:07:00.879 objective truth when in fact I haven't
00:07:03.520 that's how science works the
00:07:05.680 reproducibility of results as for the
00:07:08.639 work of Tesla much of it had very real
00:07:12.039 value to physics and our understanding
00:07:14.080 of electromagnetism and that value is
00:07:16.440 duly recognized by my community in the
00:07:19.720 naming of a unit of electromagnetism
00:07:22.199 after him you can't get more badass than
00:07:24.560 having a unit named after you Newton has
00:07:27.360 a unit named after him for example the
00:07:29.919 metric unit of force is a Newton much of
00:07:32.960 the rest of his work was Fringe and
00:07:36.319 unrealized either for violating known
00:07:38.840 laws of physics or for being simply
00:07:41.720 impractical just because you do some
00:07:43.479 good stuff doesn't mean everything you
00:07:44.960 ever did is going to be great I will
00:07:46.879 further affirm that just because an idea
00:07:49.840 sounds crazy doesn't make it wrong the
00:07:52.720 system of research and Publications in
00:07:55.000 peer-review journals has the capacity to
00:07:58.240 spot crazy but true ideas provided they
00:08:01.680 supporting by compelling arguments and
00:08:04.000 ultimately supported by experiments and
00:08:05.960 observations Newton's Laws Einstein's
00:08:08.840 relativity quantum physics were all
00:08:11.360 revolutionary ideas that appeared in
00:08:13.960 peer-review settings or journals
00:08:16.199 meanwhile most of the work of Russell
00:08:17.960 and Keeley had no such success with
00:08:20.840 their ideas so I think on Rogan Terren
00:08:24.000 said that I trashed those three
00:08:26.960 researchers attack that I had immediate
00:08:30.039 that I talked about Walter Russell and
00:08:33.320 Victor Shaw Berger and John Keeley as
00:08:36.839 and Tesla as the people that I looked up
00:08:40.080 to so he threw on on he was like
00:08:43.880 well Tesla Tesla stuff worked but Tesla
00:08:46.800 was never really respected and out there
00:08:49.080 when I'm just simply stating the fact I
00:08:51.560 don't think of that as trashing I think
00:08:52.920 of that as being honest I mean I could
00:08:55.120 have softened it but I don't think
00:08:57.080 that's what people who care about you
00:08:59.480 should do people who care will be honest
00:09:02.240 with you about ideas about thoughts the
00:09:05.200 world is changing so quickly and so is
00:09:07.079 everything around us unfortunately we
00:09:09.560 have chosen to remain handcuffed to
00:09:11.959 Antiquated and obsolete beliefs we have
00:09:14.880 put an enormous amount of faith faith
00:09:18.200 into the methods and practices of old
00:09:20.839 that are as dead today as The Men Who
00:09:23.440 propagated the notion that the world was
00:09:25.839 flat so I say here regarding your world
00:09:28.600 was flat reference
00:09:29.920 it's not widely appreciated that the
00:09:32.320 idea of a flat Earth predates the
00:09:35.240 introduction and development of the
00:09:37.640 methods and tools of science as we
00:09:39.640 practice them today those processes date
00:09:41.920 back to around 1600 coincident with the
00:09:45.200 invention of the microscope and
00:09:47.160 Telescope before then truths were
00:09:49.320 whatever seemed right to the senses
00:09:51.680 afterwards and to this day truth was
00:09:54.800 whatever the verified data obtained by
00:09:57.560 your instruments forced you to believe
00:10:00.360 if your senses otherwise contradicted
00:10:02.920 the data this fact means that there's no
00:10:06.320 such misunderstanding on the scale of
00:10:09.560 the Flat Earth in the era of modern
00:10:12.200 science and in multiple places
00:10:14.360 throughout the
00:10:15.519 treaties he's attaching a number to a
00:10:19.120 physical idea or a physical object that
00:10:22.600 idea goes way back by the way go back to
00:10:25.360 Pythagoras famous for the Pythagorean
00:10:27.519 theorem which we all learned in 8th
00:10:29.800 grade was it or nth grade Pythagoras was
00:10:31.959 also a philosopher who tried to
00:10:34.760 understand how things worked he felt
00:10:38.200 among others in his group that if you
00:10:40.200 assign a number to something the number
00:10:41.959 can abue that object with certain
00:10:43.800 meaning and significance which means
00:10:45.680 then if you manipulate the numbers that
00:10:47.959 you gain insight into the objects
00:10:49.920 themselves once you've assigned a number
00:10:51.959 to it there's a lot of that that
00:10:54.200 permeates this document uh but it's a
00:10:57.560 long disproven approach to the world
00:11:01.079 again there's nothing wrong with a
00:11:01.920 failed idea now other people know to not
00:11:04.120 do it right that has value if we place a
00:11:06.920 candle in front of a mirror the
00:11:08.519 measurement of light is doubled is it
00:11:10.880 not it does not measure as only one
00:11:13.720 light source we actually see two lights
00:11:16.600 a light meter will show twice the
00:11:18.519 intensity of light this is false he
00:11:21.720 attacked it so with such
00:11:24.079 vitro maybe that's too blunt what else
00:11:26.800 should I say I'm a scientist that's what
00:11:29.000 I would tell a colleague a colleague who
00:11:31.320 then say would thank you and then we go
00:11:32.800 out for beer after cuz that's how that
00:11:34.440 works and there's an old saying I first
00:11:36.639 heard it from Michael Dell of Dell
00:11:39.000 Technologies if one day you find
00:11:40.839 yourself the smartest person in the room
00:11:43.760 change rooms I say this is false the
00:11:47.079 light in the mirror appears dimmer than
00:11:49.399 the source of light itself for several
00:11:51.560 reasons starting with the fact that no
00:11:53.720 mirror is 100% reflective but more
00:11:56.760 importantly the candle in the mirror is
00:11:58.959 always is farther away from you than the
00:12:00.959 candle itself so the light meter will
00:12:04.360 always read less than twice the actual
00:12:06.959 value of the candle itself I will
00:12:10.639 note that from this work Terren produces
00:12:16.440 art sculptural art which I find to be
00:12:19.480 intriguing even beautiful to me more
00:12:21.880 intriguing than beautiful because you
00:12:23.760 got to look at it and you keep looking
00:12:24.839 at it like what is that and what's going
00:12:26.399 on there I just want to read you my end
00:12:28.760 and comments here I could not follow the
00:12:31.560 reasoning on these last few pages but
00:12:34.320 the illustrations that derive from them
00:12:36.760 are beautiful regardless of how they
00:12:38.920 were derived my notes have been strongly
00:12:41.680 critical of your reasoning and
00:12:43.320 conclusions I was candid and blunt out
00:12:46.079 of respect for the energy you have
00:12:48.560 clearly invested in this work but if
00:12:51.000 you're sure that you are still right and
00:12:54.440 that I have completely misunderstood
00:12:56.440 your thesis then you will need to look
00:12:58.760 for another person to evaluate what you
00:13:01.519 have done and solicit their comments in
00:13:04.360 any case like I say above the images and
00:13:07.000 illustrations in your final pages are
00:13:09.160 beautiful works of art unlike any I have
00:13:11.839 seen best to you Neil so in case people
00:13:15.399 wanted to know what actually went down 8
00:13:18.639 years ago just always be cautious of the
00:13:22.399 Dunning Krueger effect you put in a
00:13:24.519 little bit of work and you have an idea
00:13:26.959 and then you think your idea is right
00:13:28.399 and that Einstein is wrong and Newton is
00:13:30.199 wrong and that everybody's wrong and
00:13:32.160 that all of modern astrophysicists are
00:13:34.440 wrong that's
00:13:36.240 bold that's B audacious
00:13:39.440 Bodacious when continental drift was
00:13:41.959 proposed it was like what land masses
00:13:45.199 are moving on Earth Sur that's a weird
00:13:47.360 idea that's going to be a hard cell we
00:13:50.240 think there's sort of up swelling of the
00:13:52.759 yes locally but whole continence move
00:13:55.399 that's crazy it would take a few decades
00:13:58.600 until ultimately when we're mapping the
00:14:01.160 bottom of the ocean we find that there's
00:14:02.759 a Mid-Atlantic Ridge that the ridges are
00:14:04.880 separating it's like bada bing so the
00:14:08.199 resistance to jumping on the idea that
00:14:10.600 continents
00:14:11.680 move was not because people were
00:14:14.959 stubborn it was because people are
00:14:17.720 cautious any new idea needs to be put
00:14:20.279 through the ringer that's how science
00:14:22.279 works you put it through the ringer
00:14:24.120 every possible test you can not just cuz
00:14:26.320 it happens to look like South America
00:14:28.320 fits with Africa any better evidence
00:14:30.800 than that oh wait a minute fossils
00:14:33.440 matched between the west coast of South
00:14:36.040 America and the east coast of Africa not
00:14:39.040 recent fossils fossils from millions of
00:14:41.279 years ago that's interesting things that
00:14:43.920 make you go hm that brought some more
00:14:46.079 people over to the camp you keep that up
00:14:49.320 and you reach a point where enough
00:14:50.880 evidence is brought to bear on the
00:14:53.320 question and then you have a new
00:14:55.480 emerging truth but at the the vibrant
00:14:58.079 energy that goes on it conferences and
00:14:59.680 the contest of ideas that's how we roll
00:15:02.000 that's how it works when Einstein came
00:15:04.079 out with relativity saying SpaceTime
00:15:06.959 curves Albert Al what are you saying
00:15:09.680 what are you doing well you can test it
00:15:11.880 the total solar eclipse so the idea
00:15:14.279 comes out in 1915 is published in 1916
00:15:18.120 1919 we measured light around the edge
00:15:21.399 of a total so during a total solar
00:15:23.160 eclipse cuz you can't see the stars
00:15:25.160 during the daytime you see the light the
00:15:27.440 light rays bent from their actual
00:15:29.720 coordinate positions on the sky Sir
00:15:31.759 Arthur Edington an astrophysicist
00:15:34.440 provided the first experimental evidence
00:15:36.600 for Einstein's general theory of
00:15:38.800 relativity which by the way was
00:15:40.399 published in a peer-review journal crazy
00:15:43.680 idea the platform to be accepted for the
00:15:48.000 ideas is not social media it is not Joe
00:15:53.800 Rogan it is not my podcast it is
00:15:57.360 research journals
00:16:00.160 where attention can be given on a
00:16:04.319 level that at the end of the day offers
00:16:07.639 no higher respect for your energy and
00:16:10.800 intellect than by declaring that what's
00:16:13.839 in it is either right or wrong or worthy
00:16:16.440 of publication or not I wanted to post
00:16:19.040 this to my website so you can see my
00:16:21.040 comments mixed in with his treaties but
00:16:23.839 uh you got the sense of it thanks for
00:16:26.880 listening thanks for watching
00:16:29.440 Neil degrass Tyson here as always keep
00:16:33.040 looking up
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