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#359 – Andrew Strominger: Black Holes, Quantum Gravity, and Theoretical Physics

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Space Time and It's a Very Tough Business

The statement that you should always have the same give it the same kind of trajectories and kind of instructions, no matter the weather station. Yeah, there's some very delicate subtleties to that, which began to be noticed in the, in the 50s. When you have a space time with edges, it gets very tricky how you label the edges. And Einstein didn't didn't have it right. In fact, he had an earlier version of general relativity in 1914, which he was very excited about, which was wrong. It gave the wrong answer for bending light to the sun.

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