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222 | Andrew Strominger on Quantum Gravity and the Real World

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Is There a Way Through the Paradox?

Before my construction with Waffle, nobody even had the foregist idea how it could possibly be that you would have that number of gigabytes in a black hole. We're using string theory to analyze a prediction that is the same as we would ordinarily expect. But I invite all your listeners to go dig up that video. It's fascinating because I think that most people, even physicists, would have guessed that all the holographies going on at the event horizon of the black hole.

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