Nobel Prizewinner Reinhard Genzel: The Monster Black Hole at the Heart of our Galaxy! β(#209)
Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
Brian Keating
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ποΈ 25 January 2022
β±οΈ 96 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We will not be able to send one of us into a, with a rocket into the center of the black hole and check out the singularity and then say, hey, it's actually not the plank things. |
| 0:20.0 | It's two times the plankling or something like this because we cannot send out any information. |
| 0:26.0 | I mean, so that's a real problem. |
| 0:28.0 | The other problem is so-called information paradox. |
| 0:31.0 | Far as the classical theory is concerned, if you throw in rocks, |
| 0:36.5 | refrigerators and a few cars and everything else into the black hole, the black hole will all forget that. |
| 0:46.0 | Hello to the Into the Impossible family, |
| 0:49.0 | another phenomenal episode awaits you with |
| 0:52.0 | Dr Reinhart Genssel, co-recipient of the |
| 0:54.6 | 2020 Nobel Prize for the physical discoveries that he and his colleagues |
| 0:59.0 | made at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy revealing a compact object. |
| 1:03.7 | The Nobel Committee didn't specify what kind of compact object that was, however we all kind of |
| 1:08.5 | suspect it's a massive, supermassive black hole, perhaps with the massive millions and millions times greater than our son. |
| 1:15.6 | He's a very, very open, vulnerable, honest, and hilarious individual who was destined perhaps if he didn't get more into physics |
| 1:23.6 | to become a great athlete and even participate in the German Olympic team |
| 1:28.5 | in the 1960s. So he would have won a golden medallion |
| 1:32.1 | perhaps no matter what he did in life, but today we're talking primarily about his work in astrophysics that garnered him, along with Andrea Gez, my colleague up at UCLA, who I still hope to get on the into the impossible |
| 1:43.2 | podcast please if you are listening out there Andrea I'd love to have you on but we |
| 1:48.0 | also get into the importance of mentorship of how he learned from really two men in his life, two father figures, one |
| 1:54.7 | his actual father Ludvig, who is a great physicist himself, you'll hear him |
| 1:58.0 | touchingly and lovingly talk about his late father. And also his ideological father, Charlie Towns, Nobel Laureate from UC Berkeley, who really |
| 2:06.7 | inspired this quest to look in the infrared to peer through the dust that conceals and |
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