Talk:Neil Turok

Let me...
... write down the equation showed at TED
 * $$\Psi=\int\mathrm{e}^{{\frac{1}{h\!\!\bar{}}}\int[\frac{R}{16\pi G}-F^2+\bar{\psi}iD\!\!\!\!/\psi-\lambda\varphi\bar{\psi}\psi+|D\varphi|^2-V(\varphi)

]}$$ --kmath (talk) 02:08, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Potential Conflict of Interest
Hi all, I wish to notify other editors that I have offered to assist (Neil Turok) in editing his bio page. We have no personal connection before a few hours ago, when a friend recommended that I Google Dr. Turok, as we seemed to have interests in common. I am a lately retired physicist and astronomer who has been a Wikipedia editor for several years. I have a "lay physicist"'s interest in Turok's fields, though no claim to deep knowledge. I saw that he has very lately sought to edit his article, but been questioned on COI grounds. Anyhow, I hope that I may be useful to Wikipedia and Turok both, and perhaps learn a bit myself, and I declare that I have no personal interest beyond that just stated. I understand of course that the usual WP rules re neutrality, verifiability, and reliable sources must be satisfied. Wwheaton (talk) 04:34, 4 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi all, May I say I am very new to Wikipedia editing. Someone called my attention to the Wikipedia bio of me, and the flags saying it needed additional citations from reliable and independent sources. In my naivety, I then added some extra references and corrected my birthdate which was incorrect. Bill Wheaton kindly alerted me to possible COI issues and I am more than happy to refrain from making any further edits of this page. Could I ask that someone else looks at these flags asking for more reliable references? Many thanks, Neil. Neilturok (talk) 19:52, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
 * hello, for "reliable sources" as wikipedia defines them see WP:RS. in addition, your personal website can be used for non promotional / non controversial content about yourself. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom  20:11, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

Turok's M theory finished?
Turok appeared next to Paul Steinhardt in episode 4 of Through the Wormhole, where they said that their entire M theory about branes and cyclic cosmology would be finished once gravitational waves would be oberserved (which this article indirectly refers to by pointing towards the Planck space observatory, as they believed that if gravitational waves would exist, they would first be detected by the Planck satellite), as that event would prove correct their direct competitor, which is inflationary theory that they sought to disprove by means of M theory. This event now came in February, 2016, when LIGO announced that they had directly observed gravitational waves. The article here should be corrected accordingly to show that Turok and Steinhardt's M theory has been disproven. --79.242.222.168 (talk) 16:45, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

Turok's "equation of everything"
kmath's transcription seems to be from https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/all-known-physics-equation.228221/ which has errors. I've corrected them below:

The source material is Turok's talk "The Astonishing Simplicity of Everything", available on YouTube:

$$ \Psi\,=\,\int{e^{{\frac{i}{\hbar}} \int{(\frac{R}{16\pi{G}}\,-\,\frac{1}{4}\,F^2\,+\,\overline{\psi}i\not{D}\psi\,-\,\lambda\,H\overline{\psi}\psi\,+\,|DH|^2\,-\,V(H))}}} $$

--Pawalls (talk) 21:59, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

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