Neil Turok

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Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal · Neil Turok: A Route to Quantum Gravity (Without Strings) · 22 Jun 2026 podcast

And so I just redefined my inner product to put a minus one in front of those when I have two negative norm states.

What we've shown in our papers, this gets very interesting, is doing that is not covariant.

That is not consistent with space-time invariant.

You pick a particular frame and you work in that frame.

And so their procedure...

I believe will not give a consistent quantum field theory.

It'll break the basic symmetries in the theory.

So far, they've only really applied it in quantum mechanics, which is a lot easier than field theory.

Field theory, you've got to respect Lorentz symmetry, translation symmetry, and if you do a brute force change of the inner product, you will mess those up.

Um, so, so yeah, they, they, we're all circling around the same problem.

We claim that our resolution is, uh, is the only covariant one.

It's the only one that fully respects the symmetries of the theory.

So it's definitely preferred.

And we claim that if they did do more detailed calculations, they're going to discover problems.

Um, wouldn't be surprising.

They've only analyzed it at a very elementary level.

But no, Mannheim and Bender and us are often in discussion about these things.

And Mannheim even claims that this vile squared gravity can solve the dark matter puzzle, right?

So he claims it produces galaxy rotation curves without the need for dark matter and things like that.

So he's super ambitious with this program, as we are.

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