Neil Turok
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 22 Jun
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they are obligated to go back and list very carefully what their assumptions were.
And as I mentioned, one of them is that quantum mechanics requires a Hilbert space, okay?
And I think our work shows that's not true.
And given that one of the assumptions, which they didn't even make explicit, has turned out to be possible to violate,
The whole story about a multiverse being mandatory, I think, is in doubt.
Now, I never liked the multiverse anyway, because I felt that if it really is true that that's the unique, consistent theory, you know, physics is over.
But that's just a prejudice on my part.
So, yeah, but I think the important point is we really have to look at your assumptions very carefully if it leads you to crazy conclusions.
I do regard many worlds as an equally crazy conclusion, which is just this enormous redundancy.
you've got a theoretical framework in which you have all these universes branching and running in parallel, and the branches get bigger and bigger.
And I strongly suspect this is completely ill-defined.
I mean, I don't think anybody claims, you know, when spaces become too infinite, you just can't do math on them, right?
It's not in control.
And it's always the same problem, is that there is no measure.
Um, and so when I tell you a funny story, when, when multiverse ideas first started getting popular in particle physics, I had a friend who knew now what's his name in the beautiful mind, the mathematician.
John Nash.
John Nash.
Okay.
So John Nash was obviously very brilliant.
foundational thinker about mathematics.
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