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“Weinstein says that Elon Musk is a very hard‑to‑read, mysterious person.” He gives an interview every other week, tweets all day long, details his goals and plans in excruciating detail, and has been pounding the same drum for two decades. The least mysterious person ever.
Physicist Eric Weinstein said, “Something about Elon is very, very strange.” He thinks Elon’s real space company isn’t SpaceX. Weinstein says that Elon Musk is a very hard‑to‑read, mysterious person, and people do not fully notice how strange his choices are. He said Elon often uses the motto “Ad Astra” (to the stars), but SpaceX uses normal chemical rockets, which can at best get us to places like the Moon and Mars, not truly “to the stars.” Weinstein finds it odd that someone who talks so much about reaching the stars is not visibly investing in new, deeper physics that might be needed for real interstellar travel, especially since Musk studied physics at university and once planned to go to graduate school in physics. For him, it is strange that Musk seems focused on space but does not show much interest in working directly with physicists. Weinstein then says that Elon’s “real” space company might not actually be SpaceX, but xAI, the company behind the AI system Grok. He points to Grok’s logo, which looks like a black‑hole‑type shape, and its slogan “to understand the universe,” and reads this as a clue that Grok is actually meant to do deep science, including physics. In his view, Elon has largely given up on today’s human scientific institutions because he thinks science as practiced in universities and big organizations has become corrupt, political, and full of groupthink. Source: TRS Podcast