Neil Turok
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 22 Jun
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At the time, everybody told them this was nonsense.
They said you're using classical notions in a quantum field theory, and it violates various assumptions.
One of the basic assumptions people had made in quantum field theory is called cluster decomposition.
It's basically that things which are at a distance are uncorrelated.
It's intuitive.
Why should this thing know about that?
Higgs' model absolutely violates this.
It says the vacuum is full of a condensate such that if I measure the value of the Higgs field over here, it's exactly the same as the value over there.
It's utterly correlated.
People were shocked.
It violated the basic assumptions, but ultimately turned out to be true.
Peter was a radical.
um, in his way.
Um, and, um, Peter would be the last person to defend the Higgs boson as being fundamental.
I mean, the thing that's stimulated is not fundamental.
The superconductor, the analog Higgs boson in a superconductor is not fundamental.
It's made out of electrons.
Okay.
So, um, now why would you question, uh,
Well, yeah, so the fact is that the Higgs theory he invented is not UV complete.
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