String theory
Subject in Physics
String theory has come up in 2 episodes across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Joe Rogan Experience. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Eric WeinsteinAmerican mathematician, former managing director of Thiel Capital and creator of Geometric Unity
Weinstein asserts that Michio Kaku is harming theoretical physics.
“Michio Kaku is doing a tremendous amount of damage to theoretical physics”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2503 - Eric Weinstein (May 21, 2026) · Listen from 5:33
Weinstein says string theory itself is harmless and the problem is the exclusion of all other approaches.
“It's not string theory itself that's the problem. String theory is harmless. It's just a bunch of equations”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2503 - Eric Weinstein (May 21, 2026) · Listen from 8:02
Weinstein argues that the period since 1984 has been an unprecedented intellectual collapse in physics.
“So from 1984 to the present, those 42 years, have been the greatest intellectual implosion, I think, that I know of, where people just got dumber”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2503 - Eric Weinstein (May 21, 2026) · Listen from 6:23
Coverage over time
Podcasts
- The Joe Rogan Experience · 2 episodes
Episodes
#2561 - LL Cool JThe Joe Rogan Experience · Oct 6, 2026 · 2 h 38 min
Joe Rogan and LL Cool J discuss the birth of hip-hop and Def Jam, discipline and mastery, martial arts, lost civilizations, time travel and artificial intelligence.
#2503 - Eric WeinsteinThe Joe Rogan Experience · May 21, 2026 · 2 h 60 min
Joe Rogan and mathematician Eric Weinstein discuss string theory's dominance in physics, Jeffrey Epstein as an intelligence construct, UFO secrecy, the El Paso airspace closure, and rock music's decline.