Is It Too Much to Ask That We Might Learn Something About Information in Black Hole?

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Is it too much to ask that we might learn something about quantum gravity by doing this? Like, are you going to address questions about black hoal information laws? So, i don't think that i personally can solve thoses, because a lot of other people have thought about themuh, more deeply than i have. And so whatan can we contribute? I i think we can talk to the people who've thought more deeply, right? Well, in our system, that has something to do with the fact that we work with little clouds of atoms that think a bit more semi classically. A, and so there's still, i mentioned, a lot of thiss about just

When it comes to thinking about quantum mechanics, there are levels. One level is shut-up-and-calculate: find a wave function, square it to get a probability. One level is foundational: dig deeply into the underlying ontology. But there’s a level in between, long neglected but recently coming to life. In this level you think about — or do experiments with — entangled quantum systems in the real world, putting entanglement to use. Monika Schleier-Smith is an experimental physicist specializing in cold atoms, which can be both entangled and manipulated. We discuss how to use such systems to study everything from metrology to quantum gravity.

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Monika Schleier-Smith received her Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is currently an Associate Professor of Physics at Stanford University. Among her awards are a MacArthur Fellowship, a Sloan Fellowship, and the I. I. Rabi Prize in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics from the American Physical Society.

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