Posted on 05/03/2026 12:52:13 PM PDT by Red Badger
I still remember fondly the time I got an A- on my 8th grade earth science paper. It was one of my proudest moments as a student.
Meanwhile, as MIT boasts, some folks are, well, a bit beyond that.
Physics is riddled with paradoxes: Think of how information leaks from supposedly inescapable black holes or how the conventional laws of physics break down at the quantum scale. Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski '13 believes that within these apparent contradictions, new discoveries await.
Ah yes, "how the conventional laws of physics break down at the quantum scale." I think about that often!
Well, apparently Ms. Pasterski thinks about it quite a bit. In fact, her entire life story seems to be just one long exercise of thinking.
Born in Chicago, some of Pasterski's earliest accomplishments include:
Building her own Zenith aircraft starting from age 12.
Attending the prestigious Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Holding an internship at the space tech company Blue Origin at age 16.
Working as an aeronautical engineer at Boeing Phantom Works by 18.
Not a bad rap sheet for someone under 20!
She subsequently attended MIT, during which she did work at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (no biggie). She eventually graduated from the prestigious institution with "a 5.0 grade point average." (I was not aware GPAs went that high.)
These days Pasterski's engaged in a little light research, nothing too strenuous:
She and her colleagues are working to unite general relativity, which describes gravity and the macroscopic world, with quantum mechanics, which describes the behavior of subatomic particles. It's a field of physics research known as quantum gravity.
If Pasterski helps solve this problem that has vexed scientists for decades, the result will be the holy grail of physics: a fundamental theory of nature that characterizes pretty much everything. One day there may be engineering applications. "If you understand how things work," she says, "you can do things with that knowledge." But she's in this to solve an existential puzzle — to reveal what she calls "the source code of the universe."
If all of this makes you feel rather small, don't worry: Pasterski "estimates there are probably only a couple of thousand people in the world with whom she can meaningfully converse about her work in physics." It's a small club!
She has pushed back against the moniker of "the New Einstein," however, stating that in her hunt for the universal source code she is just "happy to be a part of this legacy that our field is building."
Okay but we're still gonna call you Einstein, lady!
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IOW, five stars!
She and her colleagues are working to unite general relativity, which describes gravity and the macroscopic world, with quantum mechanics, which describes the behavior of subatomic particles. It's a field of physics research known as quantum gravity.
If Pasterski helps solve this problem that has vexed scientists for decades, the result will be the holy grail of physics: a fundamental theory of nature that characterizes pretty much everything. One day there may be engineering applications. "If you understand how things work," she says, "you can do things with that knowledge." But she's in this to solve an existential puzzle — to reveal what she calls "the source code of the universe."
Work smart, not hard. Quantum weirdness can be summed up as
"wysiwyg"
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As for the source code, here's what the Torah indicates, the first appearance of the sum of "the source code":
קוד המקור (461)
בראשית 1:30
ולכל חית הארץ ולכל עוף השמים ולכל רומש על הארץ אשר *בו נפש חיה* את כל ירק עשב לאכלה ויהי כן
Genesis 1:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life [בו נפש חיה, lit. in him is a living soul], I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
461 = Five stars! (חמישה כוכבים)... code for the best of the best of the best!
Yeah, but she called it "the source code of the universe."
Its sum appears in the next verse, in "pretty much everything":
קוד המקור של היקום (952)
בראשית 1:31
וירא אלהים *את כל אשר* עשה והנה טוב מאד ויהי ערב ויהי בקר יום הששי
Genesis 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
For those interested, take a look back at verse 30, to see what words flank the resulting phrase:
"אשר *בו נפש חיה* את כל"
They are the same words as the result in verse 31: asher (אשר), et (את), and kol (כל).
Sets and subsets, numerically speaking...
"אשר *בו נפש חיה* את כל"
is that
"the source code" that is within yet distinct from "the source code of the universe"
Now here's what happens when you join them together like they already are in verse 30:
461 + 952 = 1413
The sum appears again in verse 31, set and subset again, numerically as "the source code of the universe (952) inside "God made" (461), adding up to 1413:
בראשית 1:31
וירא *אלהים את כל אשר עשה* והנה טוב מאד ויהי ערב ויהי בקר יום הששי
"God (Elohim) everything that He made"
And now what do YOU see? Because wysiwyg...
With the keyboard set to Greek, wysiwyg produces
"ςυσιςυγ" = 1413
Funny how Google Translate squints and tries with odd entries like that. Google Translate sees a sissy.
I don't suppose anyone would accuse internet translators of having an appreciation for the sublime.
Why not in CAPS? Because the upper case W (shift-W) produces a diacritic with eyes, so the final sigmas (2 x 200) go away for a reduced total of 1013:
=
וְלֹא־אַסְתִּיר עוֹד פָּנַי מֵהֶם
Neither will I hide my face any more from them (Eze 39:29)
😉
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.
(ע 🍺)
Glad We cleared That Up !
Or...
Drinking again?
.
Most of these claims have been shown to be total B.S.
"A person who has not made his great contribution to science before the age of thirty will never do so."
-- Albert Einstein
Even using a line printer, it’ll take billions of years to print it all out.
Sheldon overlooks the fact that Lesley thinks Loop Quantum Gravity better unites quantum mechanics with general relativity than the String Theory.BBT S02E02.
Loop Quantum Gravity Vs String Theory | 2:38
Zarhejo | 20.3K subscribers | 1,638,626 views | October 11, 2008
The truth is Einstein would just be a little above average these days.
When i was eight that face creeped me out.
In case that's a serious question, I do not drink, or smoke anything or use illicit drugs or take regular Rxs for that matter.
Well, not that that is any of your business, but in any case,
I very much appreciate your illuminating response!
Rest assured, it is in C. None of those sissy languages.
I especially enjoyed the Bible’s treatise regarding molecules.
I may have gotten that wrong. He was invited to Harvard at age 6. He is a professor (at age 12). He has studied and spoken at Harvard. However, he may not have been a professor AT Harvard. But he’s still ‘The Math God’ and still consults at Harvard.
She obviously works hard, is pursuing purpose, and wants to contribute. All wonderful attributes. To me, trying to understand what she’s trying to understand is like trying to learn a little bit more about God’s works.
I Very Glad we Cleared That Up Too!
@grok how old was Einstein in is ‘golden year’?
Just plain source code (קוד מקור) is 456, the same as
“אמריקה היפה”
Ward had initially composed the song’s melody in 1882 to accompany lyrics to “Materna”, basis of the hymn, “O Mother dear, Jerusalem”, though the hymn was not first published until 1892.[3] The combination of Ward’s melody and Bates’s poem was first entitled “America the Beautiful” in 1910. The song is one of the most popular of the many American patriotic songs.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_the_Beautiful
The Hebrew side of the page is a bit more specific in some details, like
...ב-16 ביולי שבה לביתה בדרך ההפוכה
On July 16, she returned home the opposite way, and was exposed to new sights...
Kind of like you’d suspect.
And who would have written the source code of the universe?
AI ? NO
How about ‘Holy I’?
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