The Enigma of Black Holes and the Pursuit of Knowledge

Rana Adhikari, winner of the 2019 New Horizons in Physics Breakthrough Prize, joins Aditya Agarwal to discuss his 'minus one' journey as an experimental physicist, the current state of LLMs, and the vision that led to the creation of India’s own LIGO facility.

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00:00 Trailer

01:03 Introduction

01:58 Figuring things out

07:30 Toughest lesson

12:27 Bad mentor

15:33 LIGO and Quantum Science

19:34 Intuition

26:01 LLMs

30:47 Learning the outcome = winning

35:07 Learnings from LIGO

43:43 Black hole myths

47:12 Outro