UAPs, Physics, and AI: A Connected Puzzle With Missing Pieces?

Who are the gatekeepers, and what are they trying to hide?

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I watched one of the most fascinating podcast discussions over the weekend that I’ve ever seen. Incredibly nerdy. But also incredibly important.

It’s an episode of the Jesse Michels/American Alchemy podcast entitled, Eric Weinstein Demands UFO Secrets From Pentagon Scientist. If you don’t know the deeper lore here, I’ll steal directly from the description:

Eric Davis is one of the most credentialed investigator of the UFO crash retrieval program alive with an eidetic memory. Astrophysics PhD from the University of Arizona, 30 years in the field, security clearances through AAWSAP, formally deputized by the DIA under program manager James Lacatski (who himself claims he has stepped inside a UFO and breached the hull). Eric Weinstein is one of the most technically gifted minds outside the classified world, someone Davis himself identified as one of only three people technical and heterodox enough to engage with this material. I put them in a room and let them go at it. This conversation was nothing short of historic.

It’s a four hour podcast, and arguably the most scientifically serious discussion of the UFO/UAP issue I’ve ever seen. I’ll leave the video here for those so inclined, but I’m going drop a much shorter clip below and focus on that for the rest of this post.

Here’s the clip I want to talk about today:

“Very often what happens is that the architects die, and they leave a zombie. We seem to be in a zombie era.”

The whole time I was watching the full conversation between Michels, Weinstein, and Davis, I felt like there was some darker thing lurking beneath the surface that connects the seemingly intentional stagnation of physics as a scientific discipline, the extreme secrecy surrounding the alleged UAP crash retrieval/reverse engineering program and the lack of any theoretical physicists working the problem, and the government’s stated intention to control (per Mark Andreessen) the future of AI -- a future where there’s no point investing in AI startups because the government is going to control who gets to develop it:

Take a minute and think about this revelation, because it’s actually chilling. A clear precedent has been cited here — one none of us knew about before Andreessen brought it to our attention — and it raises two big questions:

1) Why?
2) HOW?

Weinstein returns multiple times in this episode to the diminishingly small number of people who have the capacity to operate at the highest levels of physics and math. And whenever you have a small number of people who act as the natural gating function for something incredibly powerful, it’s not a leap to imagine an additional layer of control being placed on them by pressure from outside. Whether that’s through legal threats like “born secret,” NDAs, direct threats of physical harm, money, regulation, etc., there are ways to lock down the gatekeepers so that they never do the thing — at least not in public — that the most powerful people in the world don’t want them to do.

Weinstein kept saying, about both the seemingly intentional stagnation of physics and the lack of physicists working the UAP problem, “this makes no sense.”

But it does make sense if you shift the frame to, “they don’t want us to find the answers and are actively trying to stop us.”

The feeling I kept getting as I watched this fascinating discussion was that the legacy crash retrieval program used to have a lot more direct oversight and funding decades ago, but that the compartmentalization and secrecy around it turned it into more and more of an oxbow lake, and that as it got cut off from the conventional scientific community and defense establishment, it became more secretive, less well-funded, and less coordinated.

So it kind of became its own siloed-off thing that fewer and fewer people knew about, but the people who did still know protected the territory fiercely. And then came the era of AAWSAP and AATIP and UAPTF, and without the deep, secret, institutional knowledge held by members of the legacy program, they tried to piece together what had happened in the past while not being able to penetrate the sort of firewall that existed partially because of controlled secrecy, and partially because of the firewalling effect of time. They were doing a lot of cold case file work, while running into the deepest of deep state secrecy efforts.

That secrecy, at least based on my reading of the situation, was instituted decades ago, when the atomic-era scientific community (mostly the same group of geniuses that were at the top of the Manhattan Project) got together and -- probably at the behest of of the US government -- decided physics was becoming too dangerous if it continued down the path that it was on.

So, as my spitball theory goes, they intentionally beached the entire enterprise on the shoals of string theory and quantized gravity and all the stuff Weinstein talks about everywhere he goes -- the “dogs that won’t hunt” that are also “the only game in town.” The very theories that have, in the real world, run physics aground.

So let’s come back to Andreessen’s point here: they classified entire branches of physics and took them out of the research community, while real physics went off on a wild goose chase that has yielded precious few demonstrable results in the past half century or so.

The effect is that the physics community has been off the scent for so long that anyone old enough to have held the knowledge that was shoved back into Pandora’s proverbial box through extreme secrecy measures is now dead. And their taking of that knowledge to the grave may well be a critical part of the secrecy effort. Dead physicists tell no tales.

I have this eerie sense that we scared ourselves shitless with certain discoveries (likely knowledge that followed from nuclear physics, which is itself still highly protected and curtailed) and decided that the only way to stop our headlong rush into world-ending catastrophe was to literally bury the knowledge and wait until everyone who had it died off.

The government looks, at least to me, to have cauterized a destructive branch in the scientific timeline like they were the Time Variance Authority from Marvel comics.

80 years of claimed zero-progress in reverse-engineering alleged crashed or recovered UAPs. 40+ years of dead-ended physics. Only two or three major AI companies, one of which is now in a fight to the death with the Department of War. And the rumors that AI has “plateaued” or even “dead-ended” in its progress that keep springing up has potential echoes in the AI world of physics being diverted into String Theory. The discussion of whether foundational AI models can also be “born secret” under the Atomic Energy Act is already openly being discussed.

I’m not a mathematician or a physicist. I can’t examine all the deeper particulars because I have neither the knowledge or the training. I only have surface level pattern recognition, and that tells me it all feels connected.

The problem for the gatekeepers is that you can’t bury knowledge that has been discovered once indefinitely. It’s certain that all of this will be figured out again. And as Weinstein pointed out about a couple of non-physicists who figured out how to piece together nuclear weapons based on declassified information and publicly available knowledge, it IS happening. But it seems that at least on the individual basis, those green shoots are being pruned.

Weinstein asks why none of the people who funded his education are “interested” in his Grand Unifying Theory. Weinstein is too well-known and too well-respected to just be taken out of play. They can’t buy him off. They can’t make him disappear without drawing more attention. So maybe they just hope that Geometric Unity will die on its own. Maybe they are behind the attacks on GU as something totally unserious. Maybe they have found a way to make other members of the physics community willing to look away.

So, my question about this larger hypothetical operation to stop dangerous science and math is this: was it really just a massive kicking of the can down the road. Did they hoped it would buy us time? And if so, to what end? What are they waiting for? Can this game really be played forever?

Maybe they think it can. Maybe they have an ongoing directive to keep suppressing this knowledge for as long as possible, and perhaps there’s some secret core group whose job is to be the perpetual gatekeepers of potentially civilization-ending secrets. Maybe the Epstein connection to all of this was precisely because he was part of the operation to discover who was doing forbidden work and assess their progress. Maybe that’s why, when he met Weinstein, he knew so much about GU.

It’s impossible to say with any certainty, but as a theory, it does have some real explanatory power.

I find myself thinking of the fictional Brotherhood of the Cruciform Sword in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade — a small, ancient, secret society whose job it was to keep tabs on people looking for the Holy Grail and stop them, so it doesn’t fall into the wrong hands.

Are we following the same track here? Could this, as crazy as it sounds, be the missing connective tissue in this mystery?

If it is, will we ever know?

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