#359 – Andrew Strominger: Black Holes, Quantum Gravity, and Theoretical Physics
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🗓️ 15 February 2023
⏱️ 145 minutes
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Andrew’s website: https://www.physics.harvard.edu/people/facpages/strominger
Andrew’s papers:
Soft Hair on Black Holes: https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.00921
Photon Rings Around Warped Black Holes: https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.01674
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:34) – Black holes
(11:37) – Albert Einstein
(31:05) – Quantum gravity
(35:17) – String theory
(46:05) – Holographic principle
(54:02) – De Sitter space
(59:14) – Speed of light
(1:06:02) – Black hole information paradox
(1:13:41) – Soft particles
(1:22:48) – Physics vs mathematics
(1:31:58) – Theory of everything
(1:47:20) – Time
(1:49:45) – Photon rings
(2:05:26) – Thought experiments
(2:13:47) – Aliens
(2:19:25) – Nuclear weapons
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation with Andrew Stromanger, theoretical physicist at Harvard, |
| 0:04.9 | whose research seeks to shed light on the unification of fundamental laws of nature, the origin of |
| 0:10.6 | the universe, and the quantum structure of black holes and event horizons. |
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| 0:39.6 | I try to make this interesting, but if you skip them, please do check out our sponsors. |
| 0:43.6 | I enjoy their stuff. |
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| 1:08.2 | Today is actually an example of a day where it's been a pretty rough one. |
| 1:13.5 | I didn't get much sleep tonight before I didn't get much sleep tonight at the do. |
| 1:17.2 | A bunch of really difficult work, especially programming work and then reviewing other |
| 1:21.5 | people's code, I also had to record a podcast and also had to socialize, which is another |
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