Newton had the impostor syndrome. He said, "You're kidding me, Newton?" He was like, "Cuz Newton was kind of a prick." Newton had a huge ego. He was not kind to his friends. He tortured people as the Master of the Mint, or he had them tortured. Tortured people. Yeah, he was physically tortured people. He was responsible. He was like the executive. He was responsible for the equivalent of the IRS in England, so people would cheat. They would scrape down pennies. They, that's right, read this. He was the Master of the Mint. It was called...

Yeah, that's right. I forgot about this. A list. He, he was an amazing guy, but he was kind of a prick, and he had impostor syndrome as well. So he had impostor syndrome. Now, who could he have impostor syndrome about, you might wonder? 

And if you read his writings, do you know what Isaac Newton, the creator of calculus, the, uh, first person to understand universal gravitation, discovered laws of optics, do you know what his biggest accomplishment according to him was? What? He died a virgin. Yeah, that was a weird...

One, right? Yeah, I was going to bring that up. He was celibate. You know why? Why? Because there's only one way that he could emulate his hero, his the person before whom he felt the impostor syndrome, and who was that? That was Jesus.

Christ. Oh, boy. So he wanted to be Christlike. He wanted to emulate Christ, and the only way he could do it, he couldn't like fast or I don't know, he couldn't baptize, walk on water. He couldn't turn water into wine. He couldn't turn...

loaves into fishes or whatever Jesus also did but he could die cell of it and that's who he had Impostors are you sure he just didn't was like an excuse for he didn't like sex I don't know I mean it sounds nutty because like how do you

figure that out when you're like 14 15 years old you know you're young and full of hormones and you've made this decision to be like Jesus yeah he sounds insane he definitely was he was not like you would want to hang out with G if you

meta want to hang out with him too yeah for a little bit just to see what it's like so when you win the Nobel Prize you go there and what is what is the Commandment about idol worship it's that you shall make no Guild golden Graven like engraved images so

who is that do you know who that is uh Albert Noble yeah it's Alfred Nobel that's right Alfred and you know he invented dynamite uh and he he also died he died never having been married I don't know if he was celibate or so he

was never married um but he uh he established his when you win it you literally the king of Sweden comes up to you and you must bow down to him and he puts the Gilded Graven image on your head so for all the you know trappings

all the 90% of National Academy members who do not believe actively profess a belief in God this can become at some level of religion and it's a kosher one it's okay to worship right well the unattainable for that that's maybe

perhaps attainable to a very select few is always the thing that people are chasing after, especially like high achievers. That's right, but many, many that I know that get there do have impostor syndrome, including MMA world champions. Like some of them they get

there, like, "This isn't real, this can't be real, I can't be the man." Because they've set this up their whole life, and also it's they look, you can get to the promised land, but you can't stay in it. How many baseball teams have won the, uh, World

Series year after year forever? I mean even the Yankees haven't done that, even the Yanks haven't done that, right? They're not mine, okay, fine. Um, but for me as a young kid, this is this is what I aspired to, and actually as an adult I wanted to win

this basically at all costs. This became my, but it was acceptable because people told me, you know, like, "If you discover these waves of gravity manifest in the cosmic background radiation that I study, you're guaranteed to win the Nobel Prize." And it became an obsession to me as well

as being scientifically interesting to be a part of. There are very few projects that are eligible to win a Nobel Prize, let alone that like can win it. But, but for me, it was kind of an added dimension that came with it. And that was, you know, like the normal kid might have it with

sports and her dad, or, or, or maybe the other way around with your when you're a dad, you might treat your kids like that. Like, "Oh, you think you could take me on or whatever." Like, um, and so for that, that was the main source of driving impetus.

for my personal quest to get this particular idol in my life that's wild are you aware of uh Ronald Mallett do you know who he is no he is uh I believe he's out of the University of Connecticut he studies time travel and

he became obsessed with time travel after his father died when he was a young boy cuz he felt like if he worked hard enough he could develop a time machine and go back and save his father it's w it's literally a Spider-Man origin story exactly this guy

has been dedicated his life to finding uh a working model of a time machine and I think uh was it uh Kurt Gödel like how do you say is gerle it's that weird how do you say it what girle ger it's like people that say van go and

then now it's really van Gogh excuse you um but he developed a working model but it it just required something like the size of the of the solar system no you're right I don't know how you know that but yeah he had a spiraling he had

a rotating cosmos where you could have what are called world lines you could have your just like you could walk around the surface of the Earth and if you go in the same direction eventually you'll come back to where you started in the if the universe was somehow rotating

in the way that he envisioned it you could have it end up on a on a time start where you began from the beginning yeah see that traveler life like Tim like Kurt Gödel's interesting because he he and Einstein were buddies um back at the

institute for advanced study like I don't know if you saw Oppenheimer but I haven't seen it yet oh you should see it I don't go to the movies I do go to the movies I saw Barbie yeah did your girls but everything's a goddamn culture

war I know that's what I love about astronomy no one ever freaking wakes up and says see that Comet over there I [ __ ] that's a republican there's there's there's a Democrat astro no SC it also it makes you're studying things

that are so immense and so spectacular that it makes all this stuff seem like nonsense this stuff that people fill their days up with complaining about but [ __ ] Barbie movie Jesus Christ

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