Neil Turok
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 22 Jun
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But, but yeah, but I think it's, so for me, simplicity leads to predictivity, you know, leads to understanding and that's a kind of virtuous cycle and we can never give up on that.
Um, and, uh, it's very easy to go off piste.
Okay.
Um, and convince yourself that, you know, what the, the, the, this crazy scenario is a logical consequence of your, of your theory.
Whereas in fact, you're blind, you you're blind to your own assumptions.
Um, that's, that's the biggest gripe I had, I have about, um,
contemporary popularity, you know, the most popular orthodoxies, both in particle physics, cosmology, and so on.
These orthodoxies are insufficiently self-critical and especially they tell young people it has to be this way.
Okay.
Uh, whereas I think it's much more valuable to tell young people, you know, we've reached this crazy conclusion.
Can you figure out a way out of it?
Um, and, and just be honest about the limitations and the unlikelihood of your framework actually, actually being valid.
I mean, I'm always open and encourage young people to criticize my framework as much as everyone else's.
If there's a real flaw, we should want to know as soon as possible.
But rather few people are thinking about the foundations, rather few people.
Too many people are just recycling orthodox ideas.
It's a wonderful field.
It's a miraculous field.
I mean, our predecessors did unbelievable things.
Dirac and Maxwell and Einstein and Newton, you know, these are, what they achieved is just, is still, the more we understand, the more miraculous it seems.
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