Neil Turok
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 22 Jun
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There are people like that, but there are a lot of very rigorous thinkers in philosophy.
And I think their skeptical turn of mind is extremely helpful.
um because then they will press you uh to say you know is what you're saying actually meaningful um so no i think it's very fruitful interactions but somehow the people who do make advances in physics i'm more concerned that kind of young people
questioning the axioms of physics and trying to vary them and explore to what extent we've argued ourselves into a corner.
Can we get out of the corner?
You know, those are the young people.
I think it's always true that the youngest people are going to be the most important for the future.
Yeah, I think that's true.
Funding should look at the underpopulated areas.
And in fact, that was the secret of Perimeter's success, is that when Perimeter started, nobody was supporting quantum foundations.
And Perimeter, the first director, Howard Burton, decided that that's an opportunity.
He recruited people working in quantum foundations like Lucien Hardy and Rob Spackens, and Perimeter cornered the market.
in quantum foundations, and people would come to visit, and it became a real hub for, which eventually turned out to be very fruitful.
So yeah, so I would agree with him on that.
But yeah, I would say more broadly, quantum mechanics isn't the only game in town.
Quantum mechanics is the non-relativistic version.
When you bring in relativity and quantum field theory and gravity,
That's where the power of physics really becomes extraordinary.
And in cosmology, it's more incredible than anywhere else.
So I think the quantum, the philosophers of quantum mechanics are only looking at a very limited corner.
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