Neil Turok
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first heard Apr 2025
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It has a coupling in it, and if you go to high energies, it has all the wrong behavior.
It blows up.
at a finite energy scale.
It's called the Landau pole.
So we know the Higgs theory is not UV complete.
So now we have a scalar theory, which is UV complete.
It's highly suggestive that actually the Higgs boson is in some way a composite of this other scalar that is complete, or at least it's very worth exploring.
Yes, CPT symmetric universe.
Yeah, this is all the same thing.
Okay.
So what we realized in proposing the CPT symmetric universe and then exploring it, and I should just say the philosophy behind it was extreme minimalism.
What we've seen in the observations, both of the universe on large scales and in colliders on small scales is surprising economy and simplicity.
What we see is minimal.
We can use five parameters to describe everything on large scales, and then the standard model of particle physics is actually a very economical framework.
In both cases, there's no evidence for anything else.
The more we look, the less we find.
So that doesn't mean we should stop looking.
If we find something unexpected, it'll completely disprove our framework, which would be very welcome.
But I think that it's a sensible first starting point to see what's the minimal theory I can use and explain everything we see.
You know, of course that's the obvious thing to do, but strangely, that's not what people have been doing.
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