Physicist Claims Sagrada Familia Is a Portal to Interstellar Space

Eric Weinstein calls for a return to dreaming to make the next big breakthrough in physics.

I drove up the beautiful winding coast from LA to San Francisco to attend a conference with some Silicon Valley bigwigs.

I, of course, am not a Silicon Valley bigwig. But my friend invited me along, and so we drove up together.

This is not an uncommon view along that road:

The mathematical physicist Eric Weinstein was scheduled to speak. He’s famous for, among other things, positing a new “theory of everything” with the goal of turning mainstream physics on its head, the way Einstein once did to Newtonian physics. That will be important to know once we start talking about the cathedral La Sagrada Familia and why he thinks it’s a portal to interstellar space.

At the conference, there was a problem with the microphones. Everyone was sitting around awkwardly, waiting for the issue to be resolved. Instead of twiddling his thumbs like the rest of us, Eric walked to the piano and improvised some jazzy numbers. Another…