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Black Holes, Quantum Gravity, and String Theory: From Theory to Observation
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- 1 0:00:00 - Introduction
- 2 0:00:41 - Welcome to Andy Strominger
- 3 0:02:23 - A Brief History of Black Hole Theory
- 4 0:09:23 - Strominger's reaction to seeing the first image of a black hole
- 5 0:11:12 - Puzzling over the mathematical questions at the center of a black hole
- 6 0:17:21 - Hawking's attempts to bring Quantum Physics into General Relativity
- 7 0:20:07 - Entropy Formula for a Black Hole
- 8 0:25:53 - Information Storage Principle on the surface area of a Black Hole
- 9 0:27:52 - Strominger and Cumrun Vafa's work with String Theory
- 10 0:37:55 - Black Hole Information Paradox
- 11 0:50:00 - Photon Orbits of Black Holes
- 12 1:00:51 - The Event Horizon Telescope
- 13 1:05:30 - Strominger's predictions
- 14 1:10:35 - Conformed Field Theory
- 15 1:18:47 - The Holographic Principle
- 16 1:26:06 - Soft Graviton Theorem
- 17 1:44:40 - Strominger's view of Quantum Measurement Problem
- 18 1:51:51 - What's the goal of Science?
- 19 1:57:55 - Conclusion
- 20 1:58:18 - Credits
