Black Holes and Quantum Gravity

Andrew Strominger, renowned for his work on black holes, string theory, and quantum gravity, joins Brian Greene to describe his latest results and how some of them may be testable by future observations.

This program is part of the Big Ideas series, supported by the John Templeton Foundation.

Participant: Andrew Strominger
Moderator: Brian Greene

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

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