Neil Turok
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2,693 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 22 Jun
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I think it's awesome.
No, no problem.
Anytime.
No, I would, you know, if you're interested in talking to my student, Sam, this guy, Sam Bateman, interesting example, because he came to Edinburgh.
He's from Ireland, where they teach a very mathematical-oriented physics course in Dublin, in Trinity College.
And he came to Edinburgh for a year to do a master's.
Just saying, I'm not sure I want to do this, but let me just have a look, which is the best attitude.
And so he did a little project with me.
It didn't particularly work out, but he sort of enjoyed it.
So at the end of the year, he said, I'm not sure I want to do a PhD, but yeah, let me try.
So I'm lucky for him.
He started doing a PhD with me and I gave him this impossible problem, you know, because I thought the sky could be interpreted as a four derivative theory.
Let's try to quantize for derivative theory.
Seriously.
Anybody else would tell you this is impossible.
You know, you're, you're just killing this guy's career.
And sure enough, sure enough, after four years.
we had made very modest progress, right?
We'd looked at Bender and Mannheim, and there's actually a whole literature, lots of people trying different directions, none of which really worked.
And then last September, when his funding had run out, okay, Sam says, I think I know how it works, you know, and indeed.
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