Quantum Gravity and Black Holes
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One of the most striking predictions of the general theory of relativity is the formation of…
Black hole and cosmological horizons -- from which nothing can escape according to…
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A sketch by Xi Dong of the cutting, warping and gluing procedure that he and his colleagues used to construct a hologram of a de Sitter universe.
The fabric of space and time is widely believed by physicists to be emergent, stitched out of quantum threads according to an unknown…

Douglas Stanford's work as a theoretical physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., has already revealed new…

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ER = EPR is a shorthand that joins two ideas proposed by Einstein in 1935. One involved the paradox implied by what he called “spooky action at a distance” between quantum particles (the EPR paradox, named for its authors, Einstein, Boris…
ER = EPR is a shorthand that joins two ideas proposed by Einstein in 1935. One involved the paradox implied by what he called “spooky action at a distance” between quantum particles (the EPR paradox, named for its authors, Einstein, Boris…
Brian Swingle of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics discusses the latest research in Black Hole complexity and computational power at the 2015 SITP Templeton Conference.
One of the most striking predictions of the general theory of relativity is the formation of black hole and cosmic horizons sequestering different regions of spacetime. In this talk we will overview recent theoretical and observational…
Professor Eva Silverstein of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics (SITP) discusses the physics of horizons, black holes, and string theory.
Black hole and cosmological horizons -- from which nothing can escape according to…
Black hole and cosmological horizons -- from which nothing can escape according to classical gravity -- play a crucial role in physics. They are central to our understanding of the origin of structure in the universe, but also lead to fascinating…
Black holes have the remarkable property of irreversibility: if you fall into a black hole you can't get out (classically). This immediately suggested a connection with the other famous irreversibility in physics: the law of increase of entropy.…
Black holes have the remarkable property of irreversibility: if you fall into a black hole you can't get out (classically). This immediately suggested a connection with the other famous irreversibility in physics: the law of increase of entropy.…

Computational Complexity meets Quantum Gravity.