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Clifford Johnson on making sense of black holes and movie plots

The Life Scientific

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A New Hollywood Superhero - Professor Weird

During the pandemic, there was an incredible breakthrough in string theory. That meant your PhD work from 30 years ago, suddenly now had new relevance. This now comes back to black holes and trying to understand them at the quantum level. Clifford Johnson: "There's a really big set of puzzles there"

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