Neil Turok
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first heard Apr 2025
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Sure.
We don't yet know how to do that.
There's 36 in one argument, and there's one in the other one.
But at least these two things seem to be different sides or related.
When we get to study the tensor modes in gravity, this vial squared term, if we resolve it in the same way, maybe that will tell us why there are 36 of them, and maybe the 36 come out of gravity.
That's actually not, would not be that surprising.
There are formulations of gravity, which very naturally have 36 objects in them.
This is in loop corner gravity.
People are very familiar with this.
It's called BF theory.
And naturally it has 36 of these fields.
So, you know, the dream would be that that's somehow related, but we haven't made that work.
Yeah, we're all trying to do similar things.
Bender and Mannheim were also puzzled by these negative norm states, okay?
And Bender in particular...
has been very interested in studying quantum Hamiltonians, which are superficially unbounded below, but nevertheless have positive spectra.
Bounded above?
No, unbounded above.
So take a potential which is minus x to the fourth, and study it quantum mechanically.
So Bender will tell you that when you study it correctly,
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