Phymaths podcast # 71 || Dr. Tejinder Pal Sinha

DescriptionDr. Tejinder Pal Singh is a theoretical physicist at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Physics, working on the unification of interactions using trace dynamics and octonions. A list of his works is linked below.Some links1) His works: https://inspirehep.net/authors/988555?ui-citation-summary=true2) Link to the high-energy physics resources page on my website: https://hassaansaleem.com/graduate-level-theoretical-physics-resources-in-progress/Contact InfoMy website: hassaansaleem.comFollow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hassaan.3142/Join the WhatsApp channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va9DkjmAzNbs7IlGuv1Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Hassaan_PHYEmail Queries: greatestmight@gmail.comTime stamps(0:00) Intro of the guest(0:16) His current projects(3:37) Octonions(13:57) Spacetime being classical(17:38) Structure of the Lagrangian and Connes time(22:50) Calculating path integral(33:21) Why octonions?(35:43) Role of SU(2)(39:57) Electroweak scale as QG scale?(46:17) Top quark problem(50:18) Fine structure constant(1:00:11) RG flow of Fine structure constant(1:02:45) (People's question) Advice for students(1:10:22) Anthropic reasoning(1:14:21) (People's question) AI's impact(1:17:29) (People's question) TIFR theory group(1:33:42) (People's question) Relativistic collapse models(1:38:45) (People's question) Thanu Padmanabhan(1:40:43) (People's question) John Baez's work