Staring into a Black Hole
Deep Background with Noah Feldman
Pushkin Industries
4.4 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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The first-ever image of a black hole was a monumental scientific achievement. Harvard physicist Andrew Strominger talks about what the discovery means for the present and future.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:08.7 | It's hard to read the news these days without asking yourself, how did we get here? |
| 0:13.8 | Fiasco is a history podcast for the co-creators of Slow Burn. |
| 0:17.6 | In our first season, Bush v. Gore, we examine an unmistakable turning point in American politics, the 2000 election, which resulted in a high-stakes stalemate, ended with one of the most controversial rulings in Supreme Court history. So if you're trying to make sense at the present moment, check out Fiasco, Bush v. Gore. Listen on the Iart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:41.2 | From Pushkin Industries, this is Deep Background, the show where we explore the stories behind the stories in the news. |
| 0:48.4 | I'm Noah Feldman. |
| 0:52.6 | The world has recently been gripped by the extraordinary and extraordinarily beautiful |
| 0:58.0 | image of a black hole. |
| 1:02.0 | A thing which we know allows no information or light to escape, and of which we therefore, |
| 1:08.5 | strictly speaking, shouldn't have an image at all. To make sense of |
| 1:12.6 | this, at the level of logic, at the level of physics, and at the level of deeper meaning, |
| 1:18.1 | we're thrilled to have with us today, Andy Strominger, one of the leading theoretical physicists in the |
| 1:24.0 | world who's made fundamental contributions to quantum gravity theory, to string theory, |
| 1:29.3 | and has also worked extensively on black holes. |
| 1:32.2 | Don't take my word for it that Andy's the right person to talk to. |
| 1:34.8 | He's won every prize there is to win in the space of theoretical physics. |
| 1:39.3 | And Andy is also a director of the Center for Fundamental Laws of Nature at Harvard. |
| 1:44.8 | On top of that, he's also one of the co-directors of the Center for Fundamental Laws of Nature at Harvard. On top of that, |
| 1:49.9 | he's also one of the co-directors of the Black Hole Initiative here at Harvard University, |
| 1:53.6 | where I'm speaking to Andy today. Andy, thank you so much for coming and joining. |
| 1:55.0 | Great to be here, Noah. |
| 2:02.7 | So, Andy, let's just start with the image, which is a great headline grabber and something that is extraordinarily beautiful, but which, strictly speaking, isn't a classic photographic image, |
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