Neil Turok
Neil Turok
Neil Geoffrey Turokis a South African physicist, and the Director of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. His work has been in the area of mathematical physics and early universe physics, including the cosmological constant and a cyclic model for the universe...
NationalitySouth African
ProfessionPhysicist
Date of Birth11 June 1958
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It may be that we live in an endless universe, both in space and in time. And there've been Bangs in the past, and there will be Bangs in the future.
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Quantum physics forms the foundation of chemistry, explaining how molecules are held together. It describes how real solids and materials behave and how electricity is conducted through them... It enabled the development of transistors, integrated circuits, lasers, LEDs, digital cameras and all the modern gadgetry that surrounds us.
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If the universe sprung into existence and then expanded exponentially, you get gravitational waves traveling through space-time. These would fill the universe, a pattern of echoes of the inflation itself.
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Scientists cloister themselves away from the rest of society, happy just to receive their next grant. They lose their connection to a purpose.
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Quantum physics is one of the hardest things to understand intuitively, because essentially the whole point is that our classical picture is wrong,
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That's progress-when we prove things wrong.