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

You know, that's really sad.

If all the young people are working in a framework which doesn't make any testable predictions about the real world,

the whole goal of the field becomes lost.

So I think it's really important that people are pursuing different approaches.

They should be as simple as possible and as testable as possible, and we should try to rule them out as quickly as we can.

But what we've discovered in our work is this loophole.

It's a little loophole.

People had all been assuming any sensible quantum field theory must live in a Hilbert space, and it turns out that assumption's not correct.

You know, something as elementary as that, there may be other things.

And we need to know what they are, and we need to start pushing on those axioms to see if by varying them a little bit, we will find the right answer.

You know, what drives me is that the observations are so simple.

that for reasons we don't understand, the universe seems to be extremely simple in its laws on very tiny scales and on very large scales.

All the complexity is on human scales, right?

I mean, stars are quite simple and much simpler than people, right?

So the complexity...

Certainly, atoms are pretty simple, fully characterized an atom.

Then you get to materials, they're getting more complicated.

And then you get to bacteria, which are very complicated.

And you get living things.

And people, we're incredibly complicated.

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