Colloquium "New Roles For Wormholes"
Prof. Douglas Stanford Department of Physics, Stanford University, California, USA
18 April 2021, 17:00
Free
Professor Douglas Stanford is a Guest Lecturer at the Emilio Segre Distinguished Lectures in Physics Endowed by Raymond and Beverly Sackler for the academic year 2020/2021
Abstract
A powerful idea in theoretical physics is the conjecture that (from a distance) black holes behave like ordinary quantum systems.
Thought of in this way, black holes display many deep quantum phenomena in simple but often surprising ways.
We will discuss recent work (involving wormholes) that gives new examples of this and also uncovers new puzzles.