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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And all it took is a slight tweak of the Born rule,

you know, which... And financial insecurity.

And financial insecurity, right?

He's relieved of that.

And the conviction that he's not going to get a job, okay, so, don't worry about it.

And suddenly it all clicks together, okay?

So...

Then what happens is, now, so this is a PhD student with no papers, right?

And that's my fault, because I set undoable problem.

But then somebody comes to visit Edinburgh, a guy called Raju Vinagopalan, who's probably the world-leading expert in nonlinear physics.

quantum field theory effects like QCD.

He's now director of the only funded accelerator in the world at Brookhaven.

So Raju comes and he's a very, very good quantum field theorist and he meets Sam and Sam is giving informal talks.

And Roger realizes, oh my God, there's something here.

Right.

And so next thing, Sam got offered the postdoc at the Simon Center in Stony Brook.

With zero papers.

Holy moly.

So that's where Sam's going.

But actually, Roger is having so much fun in Edinburgh.

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