Neil Turok: What If the Universe Creates Itself from Nothing?
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
Curt Jaimungal
4.6 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If you haven't watched Neil Turox lecture in rethinking the foundations of physics, the debut episode, |
| 0:05.7 | then click the link in the description before watching this Q&A. |
| 0:12.9 | What is your gripe with the multiverse concept? |
| 0:16.5 | And also, what do you make of the concept of a wave function of the universe? |
| 0:21.3 | Great. |
| 0:22.2 | Great questions. |
| 0:24.6 | To be honest, I'm a fairly open-minded person. |
| 0:28.7 | I'm not dogmatic about anything. |
| 0:32.8 | I think science is precisely about discovering what's true, you know, and the worst thing you can do is |
| 0:38.9 | bring too many preconceptions. As I said, my fundamental belief is that the universe teaches us |
| 0:46.0 | things. We need to be willing to learn. And you don't learn. If you come to something with a fixed |
| 0:52.4 | idea, you don't learn. So I am open-minded. I wrote a |
| 0:58.0 | paper with Stephen Hawking, essentially about the multiverse. Stephen liked the multiverse idea, |
| 1:05.0 | but... |
| 1:06.0 | Why? It's hard to ask him why. |
| 1:15.3 | I never really took to it, but as I say, I was sort of open-minded. |
| 1:24.9 | And it looked like, I mean, I was willing to explore string theory for as long as it looked like it was leading us in an interesting direction. |
| 1:31.0 | And string theory sort of indicated something like a multiverse, and so I thought, okay, well, |
| 1:32.1 | let's try it out, you know. |
| 1:39.8 | But my problem was that I am only interested in theoretical physics to the extent that it describes nature. |
| 1:41.8 | Okay. |
| 1:42.5 | That's the only reason I'm interested in it. |
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