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Hassaan Saleem
Phymaths podcast # 71 || Dr. Tejinder Pal Singh
1 hour 44 minutes Posted May 4, 2026 at 5:35 am.
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: [email protected] stamps
Intro of the guest
His current projects
Octonions
Spacetime being classical
Structure of the Lagrangian and Connes time
Calculating path integral
Why octonions?
Role of SU(2)
Electroweak scale as QG scale?
Top quark problem
Fine structure constant
RG flow of Fine structure constant
(People's question) Advice for students
Anthropic reasoning
(People's question) AI's impact
(People's question) TIFR theory group
(People's question) Relativistic collapse models
(People's question) Thanu Padmanabhan
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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: [email protected] 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