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

We think his framework doesn't quite work.

He will undoubtedly think ours doesn't for some reason, but we discuss in a very collegial manner, and we're all after the same thing, which is a simpler explanation for the properties we see.

This is just how it works.

And it's healthy, right?

You welcome the criticism because often the critics will see something you've missed.

And if this theory is wrong, I'd rather know today.

than tomorrow because I don't want to waste my time on it if it's wrong.

If somebody points out a flaw, you should welcome that.

But of course, you try to see if it's real or have they made a mistake.

I think that in the early 20th century, 1910s, 1920s, when people were developing quantum mechanics and GR and all the foundations of modern physics,

There was this very intense debate.

You know, Einstein's theory of gravity wasn't the first one.

There was Nordstrom and there were very other people.

There was Whitehead as well.

Whitehead had the theory, exactly.

And they're all in, you know, in turmoil, criticizing each other like mad.

And the best theory survives.

So I very much hope we will go into a phase like that.

The field needs it desperately.

The orthodoxy, string theory has become an orthodoxy, which is terrible for the field, but it's an orthodoxy without any predictions.

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