Neil Turok

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It's actually quite hard to figure out what they really are saying.

But, yeah, I'm not... I think, A, they're off point, and B, they don't know about our new stuff.

And when they do, I will be delighted to go and explain and have them try to poke holes in it.

But you know, trying to poke holes is good.

All criticism is welcome.

And that's how we make progress.

There is for sure an infinite class of higher derivative theories which will have the same property.

that when you take this broader picture of the Born rule, they will still be consistent.

So yeah, there's an infinite class of theories waiting to be explored and they will be renormalizable and they could be asymptotically free.

So all we've done is really the simplest one.

We've shown that quantum gravity itself, this quadratic gravity theory, includes one of these fields.

Now, as you know, from our earlier work, we needed 36 of them to cancel all of the divergences in the standard model.

So there was this kind of numerological miracle that if you take standard model fields and you compute the stress-energy tensor in the vacuum,

all of the infinities go away.

The standard model cancels against these other fields only if there are 36 of them, and only if there are three generations of elementary particles.

This is the simplest explanation for why there are three generations of elementary particles.

Our explanation involves these fields, the 36 of them.

Now, what I've just told you about with this quadratic gravity only has one of them, and we don't yet know how to square that.

What is it called?

Square the circle.

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