Neil Turok
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 22 Jun
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It's tough, because to do cosmology, you've got to essentially know all of physics, right?
All of physics is involved, and that's a big field.
So, and it's scary, and you've got to deal with...
And so I think there's a danger in philosophy is that you will end up just studying a little corner of some small aspect of physics, whereas the big questions about physics ultimately involve cosmology.
I think that's a very good point.
If somebody started a course in philosophy of cosmology, it probably attracts vast numbers of students.
Um, and, and yeah, it has so much to offer.
You have, uh, all kinds of wild ideas like the steady state theory, and then there's inflation and there's, you know, so, but most of all, we have these unbelievable observations.
We're seeing black holes merge.
And, you know, so we're, we're, we really are in a golden age for the field observationally.
and we're very poor in terms of the theoretical range of ideas to make sense of it all.
Universe is helping us because after all, it's really simple and it's basically fitting extremely simple ideas.
But where does that simplicity come from?
What are the principles governing it?
In fact, I learned an interesting proposal, which probably has some merit.
You can ask the question, why is the universe the way it is?
Why are the laws the way they are?
Maybe it's the minimum you need to produce complexity at this level.
So this can sound a little bit like the anthropic principle, but that's not what I'm saying.
It's something to do with human beings per se.
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