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

And we just thought this was the biggest joke.

Um, and it probably was.

Okay.

But then what happened is people started working on quantum foundations who actually were, um,

Yeah, a little bit more mathematical.

There was this prospect of quantum computing, which kind of focused the mind on what is really important.

So there was an idea of actually testing these ideas and designing experiments.

Like you mentioned, the guy at Toronto.

Oh, he's from Steinberg.

Steinberg, yeah.

And his advisor was Yakir Aronoff.

Oh, right, right.

So there were these ideas which were very much all about Gedanken experiments and can we prove the weirdness of quantum mechanics in various contexts.

And that was really fruitful.

So that's foundations, but with a very strong focus on actually seeing stuff and testing stuff.

And that's fruitful.

I love philosophy, but when it becomes pure philosophy with no implications for anything else, then it's less interesting.

I think the best philosophy is actually relevant philosophy in some way, telling us how to live our lives or how we shouldn't live our lives or

what the meaning of our lives are, why life is amazing, and philosophy is very good at challenging physics and saying you're not making sense.

It depends on the philosopher.

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