Neil Turok
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2,693 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 22 Jun
Neil Turok’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He's extended his visits to December.
And so the three of us can work together.
But, you know, that's the way it should work.
All this chasing papers.
And Sam is this unworldly guy who,
who's only doing it, you know, because he likes doing it.
And in the process of, you know, it's kind of miraculous.
You discover a little thing you can do.
It's not so little.
He had to master covariant quantization of field theory.
The textbook of this was written by Bokolubov, the most recent one in the 80s.
Huge textbook, rigorous algebraic quantum field theory.
I guarantee you, 99.99999% of all practicing theorists have never even opened this book.
It's too heavy.
Sam learned how to quantize this four derivative theory from this and other books.
And for me, this is not my specialty.
I mean, I was much more applied in calculating
CMB and isotropy and things like in the cosmology.
I did work with Hawking, but I'm not a very sophisticated mathematician in any way.
Sam brought that and then we worked together.
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