Eric Weinstein Biography
Eric Weinstein is a podcast host who served as joint managing director of Thiel Capital (an American hedge fund) from 2013 until 2022. He earned a PhD in mathematical physics from Harvard.
How old is Eric Weinstein? – Age
He is 58 years old as of 26 October 2023. He was born in 1965 in Los Angeles, California, United States. His real name is Eric Ross Weinstein.
Eric Weinstein Education
He has a brother Bret Weinstein. Weinstein earned his PhD in mathematical physics from Harvard University in 1992, under the guidance of Raoul Bott. Weinstein demonstrated in his dissertation “Extension of Self-Dual Yang-Mills Equations Across the Eighth Dimension” that the self-dual Yang-Mills equations were not unique to dimension four and could be generalized to higher dimensions.
Eric Weinstein Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $15 million.
Eric Weinstein Intellectual dark web
Weinstein developed the term “intellectual dark web” and designated himself and his brother as members after his brother, Bret Weinstein, resigned from Evergreen State College in 2017 due to a school issue. The term refers to a variety of academics and podcast broadcasters.
Eric Weinstein Podcast – Career
Weinstein left academics after attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy invited Weinstein to a colloquium held at Oxford University’s Clarendon Laboratory in May 2013. He offered his thoughts on a theory of everything known as ‘Geometric Unity’. Physicists were skeptical of the theory. According to Joseph Conlon of Oxford, some of the expected particles have already been identified in current accelerators such as the Large Hadron Collider. Jennifer Ouellette, a science writer for Scientific American, condemned the colloquium in a blog post, claiming that experts could not adequately evaluate Weinstein’s views because no publication had been published.
Weinstein made a guest appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast on April 1, 2021, and presented a draft paper on Geometric Unity. Weinstein stated in his paper that he “is not a physicist,” but rather a “entertainer” and podcast host. Some members of the scientific community sharply criticized it. Timothy Nguyen, whose PhD thesis intersects with Weinstein’s work, stated that what Weinstein has presented thus far has “no visible impact” and “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 member of Avi Loeb’s study team for The Galileo Project.
