Neil Turok

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Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal · Neil Turok: A Route to Quantum Gravity (Without Strings) · 22 Jun 2026 podcast

Like I said, it's sort of too dominated by orthodoxy.

Well, you encounter it all the time.

I mean, people...

I mean, most often in referee reports.

So you submit a paper, and because the sheer volume of papers now being published means that any one paper can't get more than sort of five or ten minutes of a referee's time.

People are just drowning.

And so they have a quick look and they say, hey, I don't think this is consistent with

and they, you know, send it back and reject it.

So they're not really, I mean, there are some good referees, but by and large, and grants decided in a similar way, very rapidly, very superficial arguments.

And jobs, the worst thing.

I mean, you just ask any young person, any postdoc, who's getting offers, and the one getting the offer will be the one working on a,

popular paradigm.

And most of these paradigms have in the end not been successful.

So why are all the jobs in paradigms which haven't worked?

So then another side effect is that string theory has had big spin-off into maths departments.

So lots of maths departments have hired people to do string theory and

And those people in general don't care about observational predictions.

They're just interested in the formalism.

And so I'm happy for them that they've got jobs, but, you know, it's...

It's tended to sort of dilute the field.

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