PowerfulJRE - "Eric Weinstein 'We May Be Faking a UFO Situation...'" (February 22, 2023)

• Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMJ4cbO88F4
• Channel: PowerfulJRE
• Published: 2023-02-22
• Duration: 14:31
• Extraction: complete English auto-generated YouTube captions retrieved with youtube_transcript.py --timestamps, 2026-08-28
• Scope: official excerpt from The Joe Rogan Experience #1945, not the complete episode.
• Fidelity note: automated captions preserve source timing but may contain recognition and speaker-attribution errors.
• Analytical page: ../../sources/eric-weinstein-uap-claims

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[00:00:00.380] The Joe Rogan Experience I get
[00:00:03.360] occasionally called by somebody from
[00:00:05.040] inside
[00:00:06.060] and
[00:00:07.740] what I think they're doing
[00:00:09.720] first of all one we may be faking a UFO
[00:00:12.620] situation for reasons that I don't
[00:00:14.700] understand if we are faking a UFO
[00:00:16.980] situation do you think that there's
[00:00:18.840] technology that's available to people in
[00:00:20.880] the United States that is beyond our
[00:00:24.600] current understanding of what's possible
[00:00:27.960] ninety percent no ninety percent now
[00:00:31.560] because it's very hard it's very hard to
[00:00:35.100] imagine physicists continuing to work on
[00:00:37.980] nothing
[00:00:39.000] for their entire careers the number of
[00:00:40.739] people who are going to be retiring
[00:00:42.059] shortly having never actually done
[00:00:44.399] physics as a physicist
[00:00:47.160] we're talking about wasted lives people
[00:00:49.020] are going to be very weird when they
[00:00:51.539] realize that they blew their entire
[00:00:53.039] career
[00:00:55.379] and I believe I can say what many of
[00:00:57.480] these problems are if you want to
[00:00:58.739] humiliate me at a leading University
[00:01:00.059] just ask me to talk you can put it on
[00:01:01.920] video
[00:01:03.059] you don't realize how many things the
[00:01:06.299] standard model has subtly wrong when we
[00:01:08.640] explain it to people it's not that the
[00:01:10.320] lagrangian is wrong not that the rules
[00:01:12.360] are wrong but we say wrong stuff we say
[00:01:15.180] like there are three generations that
[00:01:16.439] are only of matter that are only
[00:01:18.000] distinguished by mass in other words
[00:01:19.500] there's three copies of the stuff here
[00:01:22.439] this is like the wood version and then
[00:01:24.240] there's the plastic version and then
[00:01:25.799] there's the metal version
[00:01:28.140] there aren't three there are two
[00:01:30.119] generations plus an extra imposter
[00:01:32.100] generation which looks like a generation
[00:01:33.659] I mean I can get into these things and
[00:01:35.340] that should be a provocation somebody
[00:01:36.720] says let's call this guy up have him out
[00:01:38.520] and find figure out what he's talking
[00:01:39.659] about doesn't matter
[00:01:41.460] I don't think we're doing physics what
[00:01:44.880] do you think they're doing I think we
[00:01:47.040] are playing paintball rather than going
[00:01:49.560] to war and we're giving prizes for
[00:01:51.780] generals who've command the command the
[00:01:53.700] best paintball Army and then we're
[00:01:55.680] referencing everyone else who's actually
[00:01:57.780] trying to figure out how to fight
[00:02:00.299] to well have you submitted to the
[00:02:02.399] paintball competition
[00:02:04.020] it's like no I don't want to do
[00:02:06.060] paintball I understand that it keeps
[00:02:08.039] your skills up I understand that some of
[00:02:09.420] them are transferable
[00:02:11.039] but I I mean like you've been in street
[00:02:13.440] fights
[00:02:14.400] not since I was a teenagers yeah well I
[00:02:16.200] understand like I haven't been for a
[00:02:18.660] long time
[00:02:19.500] it's it's different than what you guys
[00:02:21.480] do in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu there's lots
[00:02:23.340] of stuff you're not allowed to do yeah
[00:02:25.260] right you're getting a street fight it's
[00:02:27.540] a completely different thing sure
[00:02:30.239] um what we're doing is not physics in
[00:02:32.819] the same sense
[00:02:34.440] so what they're doing is they're we're
[00:02:38.520] doing safe stuff yeah exactly they're
[00:02:40.620] exercising and and the exercises are
[00:02:42.540] keeping people limber they're keeping
[00:02:44.760] people in a fighting mentality it's not
[00:02:47.040] it's not that Brazilian Jiu Jitsu has
[00:02:48.540] nothing to do with fighting we've seen
[00:02:49.680] people use it in the street for sure
[00:02:51.120] right
[00:02:52.260] but small joint manipulation is part of
[00:02:55.200] Street Fighting eye gouging is part of
[00:02:57.120] street fight pulling a knife is part of
[00:02:58.800] street fighting these things are not
[00:03:00.840] part of any reputable gym that you might
[00:03:03.180] go to
[00:03:04.620] I want to do
[00:03:06.780] the thing that isn't paintball
[00:03:09.840] and I didn't want to do it up until
[00:03:11.819] recently because the danger of
[00:03:13.800] unleashing a neutrino a neutron in the
[00:03:16.260] world
[00:03:17.099] is so high now I realize I'm done with
[00:03:19.800] that you guys are willing to play
[00:03:21.180] footsies with Putin you're not going to
[00:03:23.459] survive you're not the responsible
[00:03:25.140] adults I thought you were like if if I
[00:03:28.620] unleash a neutron and it leads to some
[00:03:30.720] sort of proliferation of deadly
[00:03:32.040] technology it's on you it's not on me
[00:03:36.180] you're already taking risks that you
[00:03:37.920] shouldn't be taking
[00:03:39.900] so
[00:03:41.159] if
[00:03:42.900] you would think 90 sure that this is not
[00:03:46.739] coming from here you believe this
[00:03:48.299] because you don't think that the proper
[00:03:50.819] science in order to achieve these kind
[00:03:52.379] of results is being done by the people
[00:03:54.599] that you believe are capable of doing it
[00:03:56.819] that is correct I know that for example
[00:03:59.159] when I talk to Nema
[00:04:01.739] um or when I talked to Juan maldistena
[00:04:03.540] or when I've talked to Natty cyberg
[00:04:05.280] these people are absolutely brilliant
[00:04:07.560] and they don't know the answer unless
[00:04:09.599] they're the greatest actors I've ever
[00:04:11.040] seen so the most brilliant physicists
[00:04:13.739] are looking at these
[00:04:16.260] supposed videos what is the best thing
[00:04:19.160] that's the UFO stuff what are you
[00:04:21.540] talking about man they're not talking
[00:04:23.639] about things that can extend Einstein
[00:04:26.580] right they're my therefore to get back
[00:04:28.979] to your technology question might have
[00:04:31.080] engineering applications because it's
[00:04:33.120] the engineering applications that are
[00:04:34.919] terrifying right right the discovery of
[00:04:36.780] the neutron was one thing the teller
[00:04:38.460] ulam design was its weaponization
[00:04:41.460] so suddenly you know
[00:04:43.560] you can do the Tsar bomb or or Castle
[00:04:46.440] Bravo these unbelievable explosions
[00:04:49.320] which
[00:04:51.120] like the difference between
[00:04:53.520] there are several there were Civil War
[00:04:55.440] veterans who saw action in The Civil War
[00:04:57.720] who lived to see
[00:04:59.699] Ivy Mike in the Pacific
[00:05:02.340] so the Civil War was almost a
[00:05:04.320] thermonuclear war in terms of human
[00:05:06.840] scale it's not it's less than 100 years
[00:05:09.240] different
[00:05:12.000] people have forgotten how terrifying
[00:05:14.220] important wonderful
[00:05:16.040] jaw-dropping and awesome physics is
[00:05:18.120] because it hasn't done anything that
[00:05:19.860] completely screws your mind
[00:05:22.380] like Hiroshima or Nagasaki or Castle
[00:05:25.620] Bravo
[00:05:26.940] with Castle Bravo that was the test in
[00:05:29.699] the Pacific where we thought it was
[00:05:31.020] going to be like controlled in like or
[00:05:34.080] or it was starfish we did an atmospheric
[00:05:36.660] explosion over Hawaii and then the
[00:05:38.400] Russians like hold my beer
[00:05:41.720] yeah you know we remember I'm that guy
[00:05:45.600] five years ago who was saying we need
[00:05:47.820] above ground nuclear tests because all
[00:05:50.460] you people have lost your fear like yes
[00:05:52.919] Eric is crazy but he's correct what's
[00:05:56.220] this one
[00:05:57.660] that's Castle brother oh my God
[00:06:02.039] right like so they detonated in that
[00:06:04.800] facility and they expected it to be far
[00:06:06.840] smaller than it was you know they
[00:06:08.220] detonated in the Pacific right
[00:06:11.400] but it's right next to that facility
[00:06:13.199] that was in the video Yeah would that
[00:06:14.880] was that the facility that was initially
[00:06:16.800] filmed like what
[00:06:18.300] yeah what is this facility that's it was
[00:06:20.699] it you know what I forget atoll
[00:06:24.840] so like we just crazy how long ago that
[00:06:28.560] was and how close it was to the Civil
[00:06:30.240] War if you really put it in that context
[00:06:31.620] well that this is what I'm trying to say
[00:06:33.000] is
[00:06:34.440] what I'm trying to tell you look at that
[00:06:36.780] you
[00:06:38.759] that's so insane have you done this in
[00:06:41.160] Oculus no I have not I highly recommend
[00:06:43.919] if they're not going to let us do a nuke
[00:06:45.900] above ground so that we can save
[00:06:47.940] ourselves by fear
[00:06:51.660] all right this is really this is
[00:06:53.220] religious stuff yeah it is religious
[00:06:55.199] like we are we we have announced if
[00:06:58.380] somebody is listening to these tests
[00:07:00.600] that we did
[00:07:02.220] my belief is very shortly before you get
[00:07:05.400] the ability to Traverse the cosmos if
[00:07:08.039] that is possible if that is possible
[00:07:10.979] you let off in Nuke
[00:07:14.100] right it's like yeah it's like you know
[00:07:16.919] you've had kids there's some stuff that
[00:07:19.620] happens right before they figure out how
[00:07:20.940] to break out of the crib you know that's
[00:07:23.039] part of UFO focusing too fat man a
[00:07:26.220] little boy that's a big part of UFO that
[00:07:28.680] once they drop those that's when all the
[00:07:30.660] UFOs started appearing
[00:07:33.060] so the question is is
[00:07:34.919] you know
[00:07:36.780] the analogy I give so I talked to Avi
[00:07:39.539] about the following thing I am a fan of
[00:07:41.400] something I call the doubly scientific
[00:07:43.139] method
[00:07:44.699] the usual scientific method makes a
[00:07:47.160] hidden assumption that it never voices
[00:07:48.840] which is if we're going to study orcas
[00:07:51.180] we assume that we are smarter than orcas
[00:07:52.979] or if we're going to study cephalopods
[00:07:55.020] right
[00:07:56.160] like an octopus we think we're smarter
[00:07:59.460] and what do we do we disguise ourselves
[00:08:02.940] we create artificial environments we do
[00:08:05.220] all sorts of crazy things based on the
[00:08:07.380] fact that we're smarter than what we
[00:08:08.639] study from everything from rocks to
[00:08:10.740] orcas
[00:08:12.840] the doubly scientific method says okay
[00:08:15.479] assume that you're studying a rat in a
[00:08:17.460] maze but you yourself are the rat in
[00:08:19.440] somebody else's maze now you have to
[00:08:21.900] look up the intelligence scale not just
[00:08:24.660] down
[00:08:25.560] and in the doubly scientific method you
[00:08:27.660] have to assume that whatever is studying
[00:08:29.460] you is hiding from you the way you are
[00:08:31.680] hiding from your subjects so if you see
[00:08:33.959] somebody in a Duck Blind for example and
[00:08:35.580] he's studying ducks
[00:08:37.080] you understand that somebody may be
[00:08:39.360] hiding from you they might be able to
[00:08:41.099] use multiple dimensions of time they
[00:08:42.719] might be able to cloak themselves and
[00:08:44.159] disguise themselves or for example if
[00:08:46.140] you take microscopic UFOs
[00:08:49.140] um
[00:08:49.920] this GLA this cup has a radius of R and
[00:08:54.540] a circumference of 2 pi r
[00:08:56.700] disc that it spans is pi r squared in
[00:08:59.700] area but if you look at this cup it's
[00:09:01.680] much larger than pi r squared because we
[00:09:03.720] pushed it out you could have a sphere
[00:09:07.680] where if you could cheaply engineer
[00:09:09.839] space time not through the Einstein
[00:09:11.220] field equations but through the
[00:09:12.480] successor theory that recovers Einstein
[00:09:14.519] you could have an entire stadium inside
[00:09:17.640] of a tennis ball
[00:09:19.019] just the way this cup doesn't blow your
[00:09:21.420] mind until you realize that its area is
[00:09:23.279] much greater than pi r squared
[00:09:25.500] you could why look for a Giant floating
[00:09:28.320] thing in the sky if you could Bend space
[00:09:30.300] and time and you could play with the
[00:09:31.920] rulers the way I'm saying
[00:09:34.500] I would put this in a tiny little
[00:09:36.360] profile
[00:09:38.279] whoa
[00:09:39.680] so we're only looking at it in terms of
[00:09:43.140] our understanding of the distance
[00:09:46.080] between objects planets gravity we're
[00:09:49.740] looking at that all that stuff where if
[00:09:52.440] it didn't exist if somehow or another we
[00:09:55.140] lived in some contained environment we
[00:09:57.060] had no concept of space whatsoever and
[00:09:58.920] then we gained access to it we would be
[00:10:01.279] unbelievably overwhelmed if you lived in
[00:10:05.160] some sort of underground facility your
[00:10:06.720] entire life I love this and then one day
[00:10:08.399] you got a chance to go outside and see
[00:10:10.380] the Keck observatory in in Hawaii right
[00:10:12.899] in a clear night with no moon you would
[00:10:15.600] you would be overwhelmed you wouldn't be
[00:10:18.060] able to believe that the world was as
[00:10:20.519] big as it really was or that the
[00:10:21.779] Universe was as big as it was yeah it's
[00:10:23.880] an impedance mismatch if you watch
[00:10:25.680] meteor showers the way my family does
[00:10:28.560] um
[00:10:29.279] uh
[00:10:30.839] it's it's religious it's it's TR it's
[00:10:33.300] transformational it's transcendent
[00:10:35.399] the problem as you know from the default
[00:10:37.680] uh default mode Network right is that
[00:10:41.160] mostly what your brain is doing is not
[00:10:43.080] communicating information but screening
[00:10:46.140] right your eyes your fovea is precious
[00:10:48.480] because that's the thing that can
[00:10:49.560] resolve at very high levels but like I
[00:10:51.720] can barely see Jamie out of the corner
[00:10:53.700] of my eye because my peripheral vision
[00:10:55.440] can't be at the same level as my phobia
[00:10:57.240] I'd be overwhelmed right
[00:10:59.820] so we're talking about tapping in to a
[00:11:02.820] picture of the world that we are not our
[00:11:05.519] brain is not prepared for the idea the
[00:11:08.820] time is multi-dimensional that was the
[00:11:10.380] whole point of giving Lex another watch
[00:11:13.500] we don't have a way to think about I'll
[00:11:15.060] meet you at 5 15 and 12 30.
[00:11:18.420] according to two different scales of
[00:11:20.160] time
[00:11:21.000] or for example time and space if I'm
[00:11:23.279] correct the 14-dimensional manifold that
[00:11:25.980] has all the quantum going on on it is
[00:11:28.920] split probably seven and seven
[00:11:30.779] dimensions because we have six extra
[00:11:32.279] time dimensions and four extra space at
[00:11:34.560] add six to one and three to four and you
[00:11:36.899] get seven
[00:11:37.800] so space and time are
[00:11:40.079] interchangeable there's a duality
[00:11:42.300] between them all of this stuff
[00:11:44.760] is like you know okay it's how you hit
[00:11:47.279] on chicks in a bar hey let me tell you
[00:11:49.860] something about space and time you never
[00:11:51.540] thought about oh my God does that work
[00:11:53.459] what worked for me
[00:11:58.320] that's why I'm not in better shape so
[00:12:00.540] do you think now when you were talking
[00:12:02.640] about these people that want that keep
[00:12:04.680] Mañana in you and not giving you access
[00:12:08.579] to whatever they're talking about do you
[00:12:10.560] think they're talking about some sort of
[00:12:12.240] an engineering solution to this type of
[00:12:16.079] technology I argument anyone in Striking
[00:12:18.420] Distance
[00:12:19.260] in three years so how could they have
[00:12:21.839] something that you don't that's going to
[00:12:23.579] change your way of looking is it
[00:12:25.320] possible that you've missed something I
[00:12:27.959] can just be wrong
[00:12:29.279] first of all
[00:12:30.839] like this is my this is my life's work
[00:12:32.880] what's the way they phrase it to you
[00:12:35.160] which part the part about it changing
[00:12:37.800] the way you see the world
[00:12:39.660] Eric you know like I'll complain about
[00:12:42.600] data and like that's not the data we
[00:12:44.639] have what we've been showing the public
[00:12:46.200] is down sampled meaning it's it's
[00:12:48.540] fuzzier it's low resolution
[00:12:52.620] um like how clear is it as clear as you
[00:12:55.260] want how clear are you that there's
[00:12:57.300] something to see you can see it with
[00:12:59.700] your own eyes
[00:13:02.160] there's no question see if I was you
[00:13:04.260] know I just shut the [ __ ] up let them
[00:13:05.639] show me I'd be like let's go I'm not
[00:13:08.220] under any NDA I know but I'm saying I
[00:13:11.220] but you want to know yeah but I want to
[00:13:14.040] know in a different look my life's work
[00:13:15.839] is a is a theory it's one Theory my
[00:13:18.060] entire life is really about one Theory
[00:13:19.920] okay like I do this entertainment thing
[00:13:22.200] and I talk to people and all this stuff
[00:13:24.139] [ __ ] really what I am as an academic
[00:13:26.760] who realize that you can't do academics
[00:13:28.440] inside of the University system and
[00:13:30.060] watch it disintegrate into madness as we
[00:13:32.880] speak I figured this out a long time ago
[00:13:39.300] I want to know whether this is right or
[00:13:41.040] wrong so much better so much more that I
[00:13:43.380] want to know whether UFOs exist UFOs to
[00:13:45.600] me
[00:13:46.620] are an indication of whether I'm right
[00:13:48.420] or wrong
[00:13:49.980] you see it's data it's an input to me
[00:13:51.899] because so if you're right that means
[00:13:55.079] if we have a future it means we can
[00:13:57.000] leave not the planet but the solar
[00:13:58.860] system we can explore the cosmos are
[00:14:01.019] traversable
[00:14:02.519] if we can leave anything else can visit
[00:14:06.300] if you look at the entirety of the
[00:14:08.100] universe and you imagine that ultimately
[00:14:10.440] there are societies that destroy
[00:14:12.720] themselves because they get Atomic
[00:14:14.100] weapons before they figure out how to
[00:14:15.660] leave
[00:14:16.860] some societies are smarter than that and
[00:14:19.560] they'll be able to leave and and
[00:14:21.060] colonize the cosmos and for them not to
[00:14:23.700] be here would be Madness